Words

The number one way people find websites they've never heard of is through website search engines. Based on this, there's a simple fact about these sites that people often forget about: They are based on words, and thus, the more writing that you have on your website, the better chance your site will get picked up by the search engines for particular searches.

By now, you've probably run into some of the fake websites that are nothing more than advertisements for a product (usually gambling or online pharmacies). They actually pick up random content from sites all over the internet to make something that looks like a real website about a topic. They do come up in searches about the topics that they have on their site, even though they're trash.

You can harness this in a good way. Put as much appropriate word content on your site as possible. Write news stories about your band. Put up lyrics to all of your songs. Have a blog about your band's doings. The more words that you have on your site, the more traffic you'll get from search engines.

Also, there is a property called keywords that you can set on each page of your website. You should fill these out appropriately, and use them to help the search engines find your pages.

Pictures

Go and grab any newspaper or magazine. Or if you don't have one handy, just look at cnn.com right now and go to any news story. If you take a look at it closely, you'll see that they have pictures along with just about every single story.

For whatever story you have, it's good to intersperse it with graphics of some sort to break it up. Once we learned this technique, for all of the news stories on our website, and even on our FAQs, we always put images in between it to liven them up. It almost doesn't matter what the pictures are, although the better they are, the more effective the communication.

Break up the words with pictures, and break up the pictures with words!

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Words

The number one way people find websites they've never heard of is through website search engines. Based on this, there's a simple fact about these sites that people often forget about: They are based on words, and thus, the more writing that you have on your website, the better chance your site will get picked up by the search engines for particular searches.

By now, you've probably run into some of the fake websites that are nothing more than advertisements for a product (usually gambling or online pharmacies). They actually pick up random content from sites all over the internet to make something that looks like a real website about a topic. They do come up in searches about the topics that they have on their site, even though they're trash.

You can harness this in a good way. Put as much appropriate word content on your site as possible. Write news stories about your band. Put up lyrics to all of your songs. Have a blog about your band's doings. The more words that you have on your site, the more traffic you'll get from search engines.

Also, there is a property called keywords that you can set on each page of your website. You should fill these out appropriately, and use them to help the search engines find your pages.

Pictures

Go and grab any newspaper or magazine. Or if you don't have one handy, just look at cnn.com right now and go to any news story. If you take a look at it closely, you'll see that they have pictures along with just about every single story.

For whatever story you have, it's good to intersperse it with graphics of some sort to break it up. Once we learned this technique, for all of the news stories on our website, and even on our FAQs, we always put images in between it to liven them up. It almost doesn't matter what the pictures are, although the better they are, the more effective the communication.

Break up the words with pictures, and break up the pictures with words!

Next: Delivering Music from Your Website

Back to The Indie Band Survival Guide Ebook Home

Words

The number one way people find websites they've never heard of is through website search engines. Based on this, there's a simple fact about these sites that people often forget about: They are based on words, and thus, the more writing that you have on your website, the better chance your site will get picked up by the search engines for particular searches.

By now, you've probably run into some of the fake websites that are nothing more than advertisements for a product (usually gambling or online pharmacies). They actually pick up random content from sites all over the internet to make something that looks like a real website about a topic. They do come up in searches about the topics that they have on their site, even though they're trash.

You can harness this in a good way. Put as much appropriate word content on your site as possible. Write news stories about your band. Put up lyrics to all of your songs. Have a blog about your band's doings. The more words that you have on your site, the more traffic you'll get from search engines.

Also, there is a property called keywords that you can set on each page of your website. You should fill these out appropriately, and use them to help the search engines find your pages.

Pictures

Go and grab any newspaper or magazine. Or if you don't have one handy, just look at cnn.com right now and go to any news story. If you take a look at it closely, you'll see that they have pictures along with just about every single story.

For whatever story you have, it's good to intersperse it with graphics of some sort to break it up. Once we learned this technique, for all of the news stories on our website, and even on our FAQs, we always put images in between it to liven them up. It almost doesn't matter what the pictures are, although the better they are, the more effective the communication.

Break up the words with pictures, and break up the pictures with words!

Next: Delivering Music from Your Website

There are many techniques that you can use in order to try to improve your websites page rank in the search engines, and also to make your site more entertaining for people who visit. We share some ideas on those topics in this section.

Words

The number one way people find websites they've never heard of is through website search engines. Based on this, there's a simple fact about these sites that people often forget about: They are based on words, and thus, the more writing that you have on your website, the better chance your site will get picked up by the search engines for particular searches.

By now, you've probably run into some of the fake websites that are nothing more than advertisements for a product (usually gambling or online pharmacies). They actually pick up random content from sites all over the internet to make something that looks like a real website about a topic. They do come up in searches about the topics that they have on their site, even though they're trash.

You can harness this in a good way. Put as much appropriate word content on your site as possible. Write news stories about your band. Put up lyrics to all of your songs. Have a blog about your band's doings. The more words that you have on your site, the more traffic you'll get from search engines.

Also, there is a property called keywords that you can set on each page of your website. You should fill these out appropriately, and use them to help the search engines find your pages.

Pictures

Go and grab any newspaper or magazine. Or if you don't have one handy, just look at cnn.com right now and go to any news story. If you take a look at it closely, you'll see that they have pictures along with just about every single story.

For whatever story you have, it's good to intersperse it with graphics of some sort to break it up. Once we learned this technique, for all of the news stories on our website, and even on our FAQs, we always put images in between it to liven them up. It almost doesn't matter what the pictures are, although the better they are, the more effective the communication.

Break up the words with pictures, and break up the pictures with words!

Next: Delivering Music from Your Website

There are many techniques that you can use in order to try to improve your websites page rank in the search engines, and also to make your site more entertaining for people who visit. We share some ideas on those topics in this section.

Words

The number one way people find websites they've never heard of is through website search engines. Based on this, there's a simple fact about these sites that people often forget about: They are based on words, and thus, the more writing that you have on your website, the better chance your site will get picked up by the search engines for particular searches.

By now, you've probably run into some of the fake websites that are nothing more than advertisements for a product (usually gambling or online pharmacies.) They actually pick up random content from sites all over the internet to make something that looks like a real website about a topic. They do come up in searches about the topics that they have on their site, even though they're trash.

You can harness this in a good way. Put as much appropriate word content on your site as possible. Write news stories about your band. Put up lyrics to all of your songs. Have a blog about your band's doings. The more words that you have on your site, the more traffic you'll get from search engines.

Also, there is a property called keywords that you can set on each page of your website. You should fill these out appropriately, and use them to help the search engines find your pages.

Pictures

Go and grab any newspaper or magazine. Or if you don't have one handy, just look at cnn.com right now and go to any news story. If you take a look at it closely, you'll see that they have pictures along with just about every single story.

For whatever story you have, it's good to intersperse it with graphics of some sort to break it up. Once we learned this technique, for all of the news stories on our website, and even on our FAQs, we always put images in between it to liven them up. It almost doesn't matter what the pictures are, although the better they are, the more effective the communication.

Break up the words with pictures, and break up the pictures with words!

Next: Delivering Music from Your Website

There are many techniques that you can use in order to try to improve your websites page rank in the search engines, and also to make your site more entertaining for people who visit. We share some ideas on those topics in this section.

Words

The number one way people find websites they've never heard of is through website search engines. Based on this, there's a simple fact about these sites that people often forget about: They are based on words, and thus, the more writing that you have on your website, the better chance your site will get picked up by the search engines for particular searches.

By now, you've probably run into some of the fake websites that are nothing more than advertisements for a product (usually gambling or online pharmacies.) They actually pick up random content from sites all over the internet to make something that looks like a real website about a topic. They do come up in searches about the topics that they have on their site, even though they're trash.

You can harness this in a good way. Put as much appropriate word content on your site as possible. Write news stories about your band. Put up lyrics to all of your songs. Have a blog about your band's doings. The more words that you have on your site, the more traffic you'll get from search engines.

Also, there is a property called keywords that you can set on each page of your website. You should fill these out appropriately, and use them to help the search engines find your pages.

Pictures

Go and grab any newspaper or magazine. Or if you don't have one handy, just look at cnn.com right now and go to any news story. If you take a look at it closely, you'll see that they have pictures along with just about every single story.

For whatever story you have, it's good to intersperse it with graphics of some sort to break it up. Once we learned this technique, for all of the news stories on our website, and even on our FAQs, we always put images in between it to liven them up. It almost doesn't matter what the pictures are, although the better they are, the more effective the communication.

Break up the words with pictures, and break up the pictures with words!