Sep 18th

Music Publicity Blog Case Study - Entry #10 - Final

And this music publicity blog case study using Thirty Day Challenge methods is officially concluded!
My main take away lesson echoes what Ed Dale said in the Thirty Day Challenge: Market research is where 95% of internet marketing mistakes are made. My addendum to that lesson is: check out the competition.
So what’s next for this music [...]

Sep 18th

Music Publicity Blog Case Study - Entry #9

Today’s current statistics for musicpublicityblog.com:
* Google Page Rank: #44 out of 35,200 competing pages for exact match
* Number of visitors yesterday September 17, 2008: 9
* Affiliate Sales: $0
Without a big story to StumbleUpon, musicpublicityblog.com only pulled 9 visitors to the site yesterday. I’d been feeling like I had been dragging my feet regarding the testing [...]

Sep 17th

Music Publicity Blog Case Study - Entry #8

Today’s current statistics for musicpublicityblog.com:
* Google Page Rank: #42 out of 35,200 competing pages for exact match
* Number of visitors yesterday September 16, 2008: 151
* Affiliate Sales: $0
Interesting results we have here at the music publicity blog!
My page ranking went down 2 points, [...]

Sep 15th

Music Publicity Blog Case Study - Entry #6

Today’s current statistics for musicpublicityblog.com:

Google Page Rank: #44 out of 35,000 competing pages for exact match

Number of visitors yesterday September 14, 2008: 6

Affiliate Sales: $0

Today was a light day for this music publicity blog, as my focus was overhauling my music newsletter system. Having a working newsletter is also important for your music publicity campaign, and [...]

Sep 14th

Music Publicity Blog Case Study - Entry #5

Today’s current statistics for musicpublicityblog.com:

Google Page Rank: #43 out of 34,900 competing pages for exact match

Number of visitors yesterday September 13, 2008: 6

Affiliate Sales: $0

Although I didn’t do any search engine optimization tasks for this music publicity blog this weekend, it’s interesting to note two things: 1) The number of competing website for the keyword “music publicity” went from [...]

Sep 13th

Music Publicity Blog Case Study - Entry #4

Today’s current statistics for musicpublicityblog.com:

Google Page Rank: #46 out of 35,000 competing pages for exact match

Number of visitors yesterday, September 12, 2008: 7

Affiliate Sales: $0

It’s the weekend, and I’ll bounce back on Monday. I didn’t do anything to the site, and I’ve slipped down further in page ranking for the term “music publicity”. This does make [...]

Sep 12th

In Music Publicity, Timing is Everything!

After posting my Music Publicity blog case study, I visited Pandora.com’s blog, and what do you know?
Folks from the Pandora team will be having an NYC Meet Up on Sept 24th. From Pandora’s Founder Tim Westergren’s blog:
We are having a Pandora meet-up at the Chelsea Cinemas in New York. Hope to see you there–excited to [...]

Sep 12th

Music Publicity Blog Case Study - Entry #3

Today was a was a light day at musicpublicityblog.com, since I traveled from NYC to Ithaca, NY this morning.
However, one thing I did do today was mail a new CD to Pandora.com so my CD Supernova can get added to their database. Pandora users can enter the name of their favorite song or artist and [...]

Sep 10th

Music Publicity and The Maximum Edge

While creating this music publicity blog during the Thirty Day Challenge, I learned that Ed Dale & Co’s internet marketing strategy is a specific testing process called “Maximum Edge”.
In an ideal Thirty Day Challenge world you’d want to create the following content for each of your chosen keywords:

YourPhrase.com Domain
YourPhrase Blog
YourPhrase Articles
YourPhrase Web 2.0 sites (Squidoo, [...]

Sep 10th

Music Publicity Blog Case Study - Entry #1

This music publicity blog here at musicpublicityblog.com has been debugged for unwanted links, and I’m up to speed on the tutorial videos. So let’s begin!

Here are the current statistics for musicpublicityblog.com:

Google Page Rank: #40 out of 35,000 competing pages for exact match

If the average Googler sees 10 results to a page, then musicpublicityblog.com appears as [...]

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