Musicians Make Sure You Can Be Found On Google Search As an indie artist you have to always think of new way to get your music to the world and reach other markets by going on tours, social media and more. It’s a lot of work to make it as an independent musician these days, but well worth it. It’s great you do all that, but there is one thing a lot of artist forgets and it is one of the most crucial things when it comes to branding yourself as a musician online.
Can you been found in Google search when someone types in your name? Let’s say this for example your do an A&R showcase for Grand Hustle Records and there are 30 acts, but you have a good performance and after the showcase the A&R comes up to you and says good performance and ask you for your group name again. You give it to them and they go home and type your group name in Googles search engine and some random artist or company pops ups.
You have to brand your artist or group name online just like you would offline. You need to make it easy for people to find you especially if you want to be discovered and book shows if they can’t find you how can they contact you. Hell you don’t know what opportunities you might have already possibly missed because people can’t find you online.
So, I know your thinking in your head dam what do I have to do to be found on Google. Well I’m going to tell you some things to think about and what you can do to get your artist name to the top of the search engines.
You are artist name. You have to think about it like this how many other musicians have the exact name as you? Probably a lot. In the online world your going to have to figure out a tag line or something you can add to your name so it standout and can be found online.
A lot of artist create custom hashtags, remove letters, add numbers or spell their name differently to make sure they’re name and brand standout online, remember you want to make it easy for people to find your music not some other artist when there using Google search engine. More info can get here @ Music Promotion