5 Ways Increase Traffic To Your Music Myspace or Soundclick

A lot of people have trouble getting people to their music sites, even when their music may sound amazing. You must remember that no matter how great your music is, you won’t get traffic unless you market yourself.

Here are some really simple ways to increase your traffic significantly [...]

1. Use Youtube

   A great way to increase traffic is to post a sample(s) of your work on Youtube. Make sure you have chosen an appropriate title and keywords so people can find your video. The people who watch your video will most probably be part of your target audience because they searched for the keywords that brought your video up, or were looking at similar videos. Always leave a link to your page so that they could visit and hear your other work, or view your offers.

2. Post on Relevant Forums

   Forums are one of the best ways to increase traffic to your site. There are countless forums about hip hop, rap, producing, and just music in general, where you can post your work and discuss it with other people. You can also post your music for review on these forums - and they will usually give you an honest opinion about what they think of your work. You can also build relationships on these forums with other producers, or even build relationships with your target audience or clients.

3. Give Out Something for Free

   Who doesn’t want something for free? If you’ve got professional beats, and you occasionally give one out for free, people will come to your page and seize the opportunity. If you keep changing it up also, they will continue coming back to see what the new free beat is. They might hear your other tracks and buy some, or simply create publicity for you and raise your ranking. If you are an artist who doesn’t sell beats (raps or sings on your own tracks or others’) you can give something else out for free - for example a few shirts or a few tickets to your next gig.

4. Work With Other Artists

   If you want to get your beats or production heard, my advice is to find a local artist that has potential and to work with them. A lot of people do not like listening to just instrumentals, and usually like songs more when there are vocals on them as well. Put someone on a hot track, and then advertise that track somehow with both your names on it (perhaps with some of the methods above). People may hear it and think to themselves - “Wow the beat in this song is amazing, I wonder who made it”, or “This is how I want my tracks to sound, I better get in contact with who produced it”. Make sure they know you made the beat (have a link somewhere to your page), and make sure the track is great, or else it may end up hurting you.

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5. Add The Right Friends

   This is most applicable to myspace. Too many times people fall into the trap of friend blasting everyone and their mothers. The problem with blind friend blasting is that you may never reach your target audience. Also half of the people you add may be bots anyways. You need to target your demographic. When people like what they hear, they will come back for more. For example, if you make mainstream beats, add people who comment on mainstream artists myspace pages. You can go even further and add the people who comment on the artist’s pictures, because bots don’t do that- they usually just comment on the main page. Once you start finding your audience, they will start finding you - people will like what they hear and tell their friends.

I hope these tips will help you get more people to your music pages. These are only 5 ideas, and there are defnately so many more methods to increase traffic. If you have more suggestions please add them as comments to help others.