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I am a musician and I own my personal domain and plan to use it to promote myself, where I'm playing, who I'm playing with, qualifications, etc....
I bought another doma
Hi Earnie,
The beauty about internet marketing is that there is no one right way to structure your websites.
So, my personal recommendation is to keep each website separate as different brands. The beginner guitar domain is not about you. Nor should it be. This is about people who want to learn how to play the blues on the guitar. This is a great niche BTW. Keep this site about what people need to know with this particular interest.
Your personal website is about you. You can always extend this to other topics besides your music. Just life remedies in general. You may find that your personal domain website is slower to get organic SEO traffic unless you drive traffic from promoting it at your gigs, social media, etc. The reason is that most people may not search for you unless you promote yourself personally. Like talk to people one on one. Or have your name promoted at local places you play at. And your topics could be varied without a clear focus.
So your "plan" could look like this:
1. Start with your beginner guitar website. Build that out. Spend all of your time on this. Put the effort here because you are solving a real need for people. Create solutions. Get traffic. Help people. Build steady traffic. Generate consistent commissions. Will take time so invest in this.
2. At some point, build out your personal website. When appropriate link your personal website to beginner site. Your own websites can certainly feed off of each other. But only in ways that makes sense for each brand.
The main tip is: Focus on one site at a time.
1 article is not going to get you rankings. 10 articles may not be enough either, depending on how competitive this niche is. Build out content for one focus for a while. Many members here say it takes 50 - 100 articles.
I am speaking from experience. I started with my personal domain first. But struggled to map out a clear content plan for months because it doesn't really have a clear focus. It is about me and I am all over the place. (e.g. digital marketing, craft beers, travel, animal lover, graphic design, self-defense, product management, etc.) See what I mean?!
Now, I'm building out an affiliate marketing website and my personal website is just sitting there. My affiliate site building is going super well because it has a clear focus. It has a very clear audience of people to talk to. I have content plan for months! That's how I know I am on the right track. And I'm staying focused until I can get this one site off the ground.
Whatever you do, it needs to be your decision because you need to own it. Every day from here on out. But I can totally relate to your dilemma.
Sorry for the book. Hope this helps.
:) Kim Wolfe
PS. Here is a great post from Kyle about your situation. You can always extend your guitar blues site to other topics. Even under that one domain name. Check out how http://golfballs.com did exactly this... Succeeding With Golf Balls, Scaling With Shoes!
Hmmm...well maybe my url is too narrow and the site should not focus on one style but instead be about beginner bass guitar.
That sounds good too. Is blues a popular music style? Meaning are people searching to learn how to play blues with bass guitar or just the bass guitar? The latter does sound like a really good idea for authority site (how to play different styles of music with the bass guitar). You could always have style categories like blues, jazz, rock, whatever. It is up to you. Whatever you do, just pick it and go with it. You will learn most from your actions.
I honestly feel like both of those could be on one page. If its the same type of music as you play.
I don't focus on blues in my playing but use the music to get beginners going quickly and the skills they learn transfer over to most western music. If I identified as a blues bassist only I could see combining it. Thanks for your response it gave me something to think about.
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How do I structure my websites?
I am a musician and I own my personal domain and plan to use it to promote myself, where I'm playing, who I'm playing with, qualifications, etc....
I bought another doma
Hi Ernie! ... Super question! ...
... Kim's got great suggestions there already ...
... remember that the most successful sites (people) help others find solutions to their needs, issues, problems ...
... beginner guitarists have a whole host of challenges that you could address and help them with to success! ...
... we all need to remind ourselves that we need to be happy with what we're doing, especially with blogging as the challenge here is we need to write extensively & deeply over a lengthy period of time to gain internet traffic organically ....
... therefore, do what keeps your own interest going at a steady, sure pace!
hope this helps you a wee bit in your considerations ...
... love music, all the best, cheerio... :)
Thanks! I'm thinking of having the sites separate and not narrowing down the tutorial site to a specific genre but instead having sections or courses.
Thing is it is already being done. There is a guy with a site that he has built into a 7 figure business, of which I am a member of haha, with a blues course, and a jazz course, and a lot of other courses.
you're most welcome! ... of course, it's your biz to manage to success! keep moving onward ... cheerio... :)
hey hey Kim! ... you've got some really superb answers for members here -- all noted! ... cheerio... :)
Hi Earnie,
The beauty about internet marketing is that there is no one right way to structure your websites.
So, my personal recommendation is to keep each website separate as different brands. The beginner guitar domain is not about you. Nor should it be. This is about people who want to learn how to play the blues on the guitar. This is a great niche BTW. Keep this site about what people need to know with this particular interest.
Your personal website is about you. You can always extend this to other topics besides your music. Just life remedies in general. You may find that your personal domain website is slower to get organic SEO traffic unless you drive traffic from promoting it at your gigs, social media, etc. The reason is that most people may not search for you unless you promote yourself personally. Like talk to people one on one. Or have your name promoted at local places you play at. And your topics could be varied without a clear focus.
So your "plan" could look like this:
1. Start with your beginner guitar website. Build that out. Spend all of your time on this. Put the effort here because you are solving a real need for people. Create solutions. Get traffic. Help people. Build steady traffic. Generate consistent commissions. Will take time so invest in this.
2. At some point, build out your personal website. When appropriate link your personal website to beginner site. Your own websites can certainly feed off of each other. But only in ways that makes sense for each brand.
The main tip is: Focus on one site at a time.
1 article is not going to get you rankings. 10 articles may not be enough either, depending on how competitive this niche is. Build out content for one focus for a while. Many members here say it takes 50 - 100 articles.
I am speaking from experience. I started with my personal domain first. But struggled to map out a clear content plan for months because it doesn't really have a clear focus. It is about me and I am all over the place. (e.g. digital marketing, craft beers, travel, animal lover, graphic design, self-defense, product management, etc.) See what I mean?!
Now, I'm building out an affiliate marketing website and my personal website is just sitting there. My affiliate site building is going super well because it has a clear focus. It has a very clear audience of people to talk to. I have content plan for months! That's how I know I am on the right track. And I'm staying focused until I can get this one site off the ground.
Whatever you do, it needs to be your decision because you need to own it. Every day from here on out. But I can totally relate to your dilemma.
Sorry for the book. Hope this helps.
:) Kim Wolfe
PS. Here is a great post from Kyle about your situation. You can always extend your guitar blues site to other topics. Even under that one domain name. Check out how http://golfballs.com did exactly this... Succeeding With Golf Balls, Scaling With Shoes!
Hmmm...well maybe my url is too narrow and the site should not focus on one style but instead be about beginner bass guitar.
That sounds good too. Is blues a popular music style? Meaning are people searching to learn how to play blues with bass guitar or just the bass guitar? The latter does sound like a really good idea for authority site (how to play different styles of music with the bass guitar). You could always have style categories like blues, jazz, rock, whatever. It is up to you. Whatever you do, just pick it and go with it. You will learn most from your actions.
I honestly feel like both of those could be on one page. If its the same type of music as you play.
I don't focus on blues in my playing but use the music to get beginners going quickly and the skills they learn transfer over to most western music. If I identified as a blues bassist only I could see combining it. Thanks for your response it gave me something to think about.
See more comments
Hi Ernie! ... Super question! ...
... Kim's got great suggestions there already ...
... remember that the most successful sites (people) help others find solutions to their needs, issues, problems ...
... beginner guitarists have a whole host of challenges that you could address and help them with to success! ...
... we all need to remind ourselves that we need to be happy with what we're doing, especially with blogging as the challenge here is we need to write extensively & deeply over a lengthy period of time to gain internet traffic organically ....
... therefore, do what keeps your own interest going at a steady, sure pace!
hope this helps you a wee bit in your considerations ...
... love music, all the best, cheerio... :)
YES Keisha! Appreciate your positive and go get 'em attitude.
Thanks! I'm thinking of having the sites separate and not narrowing down the tutorial site to a specific genre but instead having sections or courses.
Thing is it is already being done. There is a guy with a site that he has built into a 7 figure business, of which I am a member of haha, with a blues course, and a jazz course, and a lot of other courses.
you're most welcome! ... of course, it's your biz to manage to success! keep moving onward ... cheerio... :)
hey hey Kim! ... you've got some really superb answers for members here -- all noted! ... cheerio... :)
Ditto!