Other Useful Links for underground musicians and webmasters of underground music sites

The purpose of this links page is to give more resources to underground musicians and the webmasters or underground music sites.  Most of these sites will have at least something fairly valuable free. 

addme.com - submit to 34 search engines free, including the 7 big ones, make this your first stop when submitting to search engines

Angelfire - free homepages and email

CDBaby.net - all sorts of articles on promoting your music, etc. the musician's backdoor to CDBaby.com

www.folk.org - I didn't know where else to put this, but it's the folk alliance, so if you're a folk musician, check it out

garageband.com - helps promote independent musicians by having them review each other, and uploading mp3s, giving free artist websites, etc.  Please email me and let me know what your experiences are with garageband, if you have any.  I might release a new issue, with garageband being one of the focuses of it, and could use some information on the site. 

Geocities - free homepages and email

www.gogirlsmusic.com - I'm not a woman, so I don't have any experience with using the service, but I know many of my visitors are; just as, I'm not a folk musician, so I know nothing about folk.org, but I know many of my visitors are. 

Hotmail - web-based free email

Indie Contact Bible - great promotional tool, includes listings of thousands of radio stations.

http://www.indie-music.com - all sorts of resources there

IndieRec.com Provide record label type services for indie musicians (haven't thoroughly checked them out)

Musician's Atlas - use in conjunction with the indie bible, use the atlas to book the show, and the bible to promote it

SiteOwner.com - many free resources, including free check on search engine positioning, free submittal to 7 of the top search engines, analyzes efficiency of graphics on your website, etc.

Starpolish - articles to help musicians

Submit it - for a fee they submit your URL, but they also have other services, one of which is similar to webposition below

SwiftCD - custom CD, e-commerce company. 

 TAXI: The Independent A&R Vehicle connecting unsigned artists, bands and songwriters with major record labels, publishers, and film & TV music supervisors.

Tinfoil - this site helps unsigned bands get signed/noticed

Underground Beat - London based "underground music" scene

USA Songwriting Competition - The USA Songwriting Competition is the world's leading international songwriting contest, offering fifteen song categories. Winners will be selected by a Blue Ribbon judging committee consisting of music industry judges such as record labels ,publishers, producers and performing rights organizations. The site features monthly songwriter and artists spotlight as well as a Songwriter/Indie Artist resource and links page.

Web Position - has a free trial version which shows your search engine ranking in a handful of search engines.  The full version generates a report based on many more search engines.  I tried it a few years ago to promote Underground Music Monthly, and it definitely helped me increase my visitors.  I will likely use it again now that Underground Music Monthly has moved, and see if I can improve the ranking for MissionMan.net as well.

Web Promote - helpful articles for promoting your website

Web Site Garage - rates site in 7 categories and gives specific suggestions on how to improve your rating.   categories include load time, register it readiness (search engine readiness), link popularity, html design, dead links, browser compatability, and one other I can't remember right now

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