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10:21 pm
August 11, 2011
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QuoteHello,
In this discussion forum I saw topics on twitter, facebook and youtube but nothing about Myspace. And I'll admit my focus on myspace has been barely any but I have heard that although some people think it is the old social media and forgotten there is still some good following you can build from myspace. does anyone have any particular steps that work for them? or things they do on myspace to gain some following, sell some music etc etc?
10:52 pm
June 10, 2011
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These are my observations:
I'm not sure how anything can be done with Myspace. The only thing that it was good for
(for me anyway) about a year ago was finding bands who were still using it to swap gigs
with. I haven't even used it for that in probably a year now. I will admit that I may simply
be ignorant, but I don't know of anyone that is successfully using Myspace to do anything.
I used to have a joke when looking at the number of friends a band had on Myspace, to divide
that number by 2 to get the actual number of fans. But since then, I don't believe this number
represents anything because any"thing" can be a "friend." This forum is focused on getting
real fans who really like your music and most importantly TAKE ACTION, and THAT
is what is valuable as an independent artist.
So, I think that if anyone does have a Myspace plan it will appear in here, but I think the fact
that no one has really mentioned it could be somewhat telling. Just my opinion.
11:34 pm
June 7, 2011
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I have a good friend who works at Myspace and I've talked to him about this. He points out that Myspace still gets a ton fo traffic so I don't doubt there is something there if you wanted to take the time to figure it out, but honestly I have moved on from MySpace for the time being. I haven't even logged in for over 6 months or so if I remember right.
I suppose the key would be to look for user patterns that allow you to isolate who is a current and active user (not just spam, but actual activity), and target them with some kind of automation software. But I'm just thinking out loud there.
I do know that Myspace is planning to try and stage a comeback as a site that caters specifically to musicians in the not too distant future. I don't know what will happen there, but it's something to watch for. My personal feeling is that it's a long shot and that at best it will just be another Reverbnation, but it remains to be seen.
But with all of that said, wherever there is traffic there is some potential.
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8:28 am
June 10, 2011
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John Oszajca said:
I have a good friend who works at Myspace and I've talked to him about this. He points out that Myspace still gets a ton fo traffic so I don't doubt there is something there if you wanted to take the time to figure it out, but honestly I have moved on from MySpace for the time being.
I have been advised by someone who knows to not completely abandon MySpace. I keep a page there but, like John, I rarely log in. Hey, I just got a couple cents from them for streaming media! I guess it's not costing me anything! 
7:16 pm
June 9, 2011
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One of things that is still potentially valuable about myspace is that if you already have an account with them that has been there for a few years, it may be ranking in the search engines for some things that are related to you. For instance if people search my name and my product together, my Myspace is on page one for the search.
This is important because people that search you by name and band (or song, album, etc) are likely further along the buying process and anything that grabs them out of the search engine can be funneled back to your squeeze page.
So no, you definitely don't want to cancel out something that is still potentially bringing you traffic… especially search engine traffic.
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5:30 pm
June 7, 2011
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That's a pretty good point Steve. I never thought of trying to create pages in Myspace for keywords. I'm wondering if you can get away with creating a page under the name, "relaxing song" or whatever and then just heavily push the squeeze page in the content. It's true that Myspace pages seem to rank pretty well. Interesting idea. There might be something in place to prohibit it. I'm surprised that this never became the rage like it did with squidoo and hubpages.
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