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This guest post is written by Nick East, internet marketer and music industry insider out of the UK. If you would like to guest post on this blog check out the guidelines here.

Many musicians and music industry professionals are excited to move beyond their Myspace page and develop their own website, only to find that it gets lost in the missions of sites already out their on the web. Studies show that most people do not search beyond the first page of Google results when searching online. How can you learn to rank well so that your site gets more organic search traffic? The answer is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

A lot of SEO experts try and make SEO sound complicated. I do not believe it has to be; it is a vital part of digital music marketing. There are a couple of simple things you can do to have your website ranking well for your chosen keywords in the online music marketing niche.
• Well researched keywords – Google’s free Keyword Tool is excellent at researching keywords. Pick keywords that are related to your site content.
• Use the keywords correctly in your meta, description, and title tags
• Use your keywords in the text in the body of your site
• Backlinks to your website from relevant websites and good anchor text

Google is obsessed with relevancy and one of the main ways Google decides how relevant a website is by the quality of the links linking back to your site.

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The Mars Volta sibling band Zechs Marquise hits the road once again today, supporting RX Bandits on a lengthy North American tour. The El Paso quartet featuring Mars Volta multi-instrumentalist Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez and his bassist brother Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez has toured almost incessantly since the August 2009 release of its debut album Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare via the label of the pair’s elder hermano Omar’s Rodriguez Lopez Productions. See complete tour dates below.

In the limited time since its winter 2009 tour, Zechs Marquise has been hard at work recording its followup album in El Paso, TX. The yet-untitled disc is expected out in Fall 2010.

Click the links to check out MP3s for "Chase Scene" and "Sirenum Scopuli" from Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare.

Zechs Marquise formed in El Paso, Texas during the spring of 2003 when brothers Marfred and Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez came together with childhood friends Matthew Wilkson and Marcos Smith. The group soon named itself after a popular Japanese anime character and hit the studio to record its first album during the late summer months of 2004. That studio effort was later scrapped and in June 2006 the band instead released 34:26, a live improvised set that showed its great range of talents and influences. By fall of 2006, Zechs was touring the west coast consistently, sharing the stage with such eclectic acts as Daedelus, Busdriver, The Album Leaf, (DJ) Nobody, Daddy Kev, The Gaslamp Killer, and Totimoshi.

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San Francisco, CA- My PR Music Wire is looking for guest bloggers to write advice articles about the ins and outs of today’s music industry on their news blog, Freewire. My PR Music Wire is primarily looking for advice relating to music marketing, promotion, and public relations, but other topics will also be considered. President Meagan French says, “We love advice from people who have been through the experiences themselves, so if you’re a musician, publicist, promoter, journalist, or just someone who’s worked in the industry for a while, we’d love to hear from you!”

My PR Music Wire established itself a market leader by providing affordable press release distribution for publicists, musicians and the music industry since 2008.

To be considered for a guest blogger spot, writers can submit their articles to info@myprmusicwire.com. Article guidelines can be viewed at: http://www.myprmusicwire.com/v3/index.php?cID=56. In exchange for their much appreciated advice, writers can expect to have their articles aggregated across high-profile online platforms as well as two high-quality back links on Freewire.

Contact:
Meagan French
President, My PR Music Wire
http://www.myprmusicwire.com
info@myprmusicwire.com