If you are a singer or a musician, you must start with a music blog. Some of you are probably already planning to start one. Well, it’s a great idea!
A music blog will widen your circle and also help you get more followers on Spotify. A music blog is the latest trend and will help you reach new heights with your music.
The main step to getting a successful music blog is to create content constantly about the topics of the music that you love. You must have a complete understanding or a very deep desire to learn about it, and the remaining will automatically follow.
In this article, we have discussed how to help you start a successful musician blog.
- Select your music niche
The foremost step to build a successful music blog is to decide the objective and know about the target audience. So first jot down ‘What will your blog focus on with regards to music?”, and “Which people are you targeting?” It would be best if you decided on these things. This will assist you in choosing the right content for your blog.
Selecting a niche for your blog is just deciding the main theme of your blog. For example, a music blog can never get successful without a niche. Choose a niche people are interested in.
Apart from the music genres like Jazz, Pop, Opera, Classical and more, you can also have a blog that is focused on musical instruments and accessories like speakers, headphones, etc.
There are several other genres that you can select from. But always keep in mind that, whichever genre you select, you should offer real information to the audience about it. It would be best to talk about something in your blog that is not being discussed in another music blog. This will make you different from the others.
- Select a platform to blog
After you have clarity about your blog’s niche, the next thing you have to do is select a platform for blogging. There are plenty of platforms present today, both paid and free.
Most of the new bloggers tend to choose a free blogging platform, but you have to keep in mind that these are not good for your blog’s growth. These sites will not let you customize and promote your blog the way paid sites would. This is why paid sites like WordPress are recommended. WordPress also provides ready-to-use themes. Select a suitable one.
- Think about a nice domain name
When deciding the name for your domain, you need to keep certain things in your mind. For example, what kind of music content you will publish and your potential audience. Other important factors that should be considered while deciding a domain name are:
- Select a name for your blog that ends in .com
- Leave some space so that you can expand the name as your music grows with time.
- Keep it catchy, short, and simple.
- Search online for Music Blog Name Ideas.
- Apply Alliteration as it sounds great and is easy to remember.
- Take the assistance of name generating applications.
- Blog Content Suggestions
Here are some suggestions on what type of content you can cover in your blog.
- Music tutorials
- Meaning of the lyrics
- Information about famous bands
- Best concert ground
- News about various music and artists
- About local artists
Once you have chosen the main point for your blog that matches your music interests and talent, you can research and make some blog topics for content, to begin with. Research on all the topics of your interests. As you will need to do plenty of writing, ensure that you like what you are doing. Another way out is to hire bloggers who can write for you.
- DIY blog tutorial
If you are not that tech-savvy and are apprehensive about whether you would be able to do everything all by yourself, don’t worry. Simply look for blog-making tutorials or to be specific ‘WordPress blog tutorials’; and you will find loads of videos on how to do it step-by-step. Also, learn about optimizing and marketing your blog to increase its popularity.
In today’s time, music is the one thing that almost everyone listens to in their leisure time. People are already interested in music, so you just need to do all things right starting from the word ‘Go’ to get visitors on your blog.
