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| From | "Sarah Hutchinson" <sarah77@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Office again - unGoogleable |
| Date | Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:04:18 -0400 |
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I've worked in web for about 10 years now, and while not foolproof, there
are a lot of techniques to ensure that bands with common word names do get
better placement in search engines. It doesn't happen overnight, but if you
keep at it, you can beat out the porn sites and stud farms and get better
placement by using various marketing and programming techniques.
- Sarah
On 8/28/07, Phil Gill <mu51cal@philgill.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Tell me about it Bruce. My old 1970s Prog Rock band has just put a
> MySpace together because this year, 30 years on, we secured a deal on
> an old album.
>
> The band name was great in 1976, but if we'd had any premonition of the
> Internet at all 30 years ago, we wouldn't have been called Stallion.
>
> Google throws up 6,760,000 hits for "Stallion" and, as you might
> expect, primarily lists stud farms, vibrators and gay porn sites. D'oh!
>
> If anyone's interested in mid 70s Brit Prog Rock, the MySpace is:
>
> http://myspace.com/stallionuk
>
> Phil.
>
> On 28 Aug 2007, at 17:17, Bruce Brodeen wrote:
>
> > Amen, Stewart.
> >
> > I tell bands this all the time......all the time.
> >
> > It's CRUCIAL for them to REALLY think about the name of a band - and
> > the
> > title of their album. They both need to be optimizable( new word!) for
> > search engines, always.
> >
> > It's blows me away how supposedly well-managed large indie acts, let
> > alone
> > major label ones so this all too often against their better good
> > judgement.
> >
> > If a generic band name, well, the album title *has to be* a unique
> > sounding
> > phrase that will connect w/ the band name.
> >
> > Another band we have on the Not Lame site, is this great classic old
> > school
> > power pop band made up of a bunch of kids who are a Beatle cover
> > tribute
> > band(called Backbeat) and the non-Beatle band is named: Story.
> >
> > And the album is self-titled.
> > 'nuf sed.
> >
> > Bruce
> > @ Not Lame
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: <audities-owner@smoe.org>
> >> Reply-To: <audities@smoe.org>
> >> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:00:16 -0400
> >> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> >> Subject: audities-digest V5 #526 (13 msgs)
> >>
> >>
> >> As I said in my AMG bio on them a few months back, these guys are just
> >> about the most unGoogleable band this side of The The.
> >>
> >> S
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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