This is just a short post to run through a few essential things that any band or artist must be doing on myspace, as you will have probably noticed it is no use just building your page and sitting back waiting to be discovered. If you are lucky you may get 3 or 4 people a day finding you by accident.
The biggest mistake that most bands make is building a myspace page and making that their band website, myspace should only be part of your online presence to keep in touch with fans and post gig news etc. make sure you have an official band website and make sure that your myspace page links to it and vice versa. Do not just rely on myspace!
The next thing to do is get involved, there is no shortcut to getting lots of traffic visiting your page, start some myspace groups, post on the forums, leave comments on other bands pages that you like. I will warn you now that it is very time consuming. On my own myspace page at one point I was spending 3 or 4 hours a night on the forums and building contacts and I was getting maybe 200 to 300 hundred visits a day to my page, but if I took a couple of days off and was not active I saw this number drop off to about 20 to 30 visits a day!
The next tip is something I have mentioned in another post, give your music away! let people download your songs off myspace and if fans want to use your music on their profile let them. The more people spreading the word the better.
