By Jack Houman


You don't need to be a technical genius to build a good music information website. And you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars to have it look professional. All that you really need is a work ethic and a willingness to learn, and you're on the path to success. Read on for some helpful tips on how to build and operate a successful website yourself.

For your site to come up on search engines, you have to link your music information website to sites that are relevant to your niche. The more websites that are linked back to yours, the more reliable it will look and that's what search engines base their results on. Also, the amount of traffic can get your rankings up for search engines. One way of encouraging more traffic is to encourage visitors to bookmark your music site to keep coming back.

Many blogs are experimenting with subscription models on their sites as additional revenue stream. They make most of their content available for free, but longer pieces are behind a membership wall, and require a subscription for visitors to access. The most successful sites never charge more than $20 a year for this feature.

Keep open spaces on your music information website so that it doesn't look too congested. Visitors like a simple website and yours should give them what they want. If you have made use of certain widgets which are not being used then get rid of them.

Let your music information website be added to all of the main web directories. This way, traffic will be directly engendered from directories only and it will also help in increasing the popularity of your link. Thus, it helps you in winning on Google for gaining more and more visitors.

Have the theme of the music information website the same throughout your pages. It may be tempting to liven things up with all sorts of color and images to make your site stand out, but that only confuses the user and will make it unable for them to focus on what they came for in the first place. Keep it simple so that they can concentrate on the more important parts of your website.

Your music information website should be designed in such a way that as soon as a visitor lands on your page, he should see the information that he is looking for. But if your page contains useless information, the visitor is most likely to veer away from your site to some other site. The products you have to offer should be displayed prominently to the viewer.

Full page ads, or 'splash' pages, used to be everywhere on the internet. Then they started to get annoying and unpopular. Now they're out of style and there's a reason for it. No one wants to get hit over the head to buy a product or 'click on this to check out what you're missing' ads. Put them on your home page so that you allow your user to have the option to view it or not.




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