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Backlinks. If you're still on page 2/3 then your off-site SEO just isn't good enough yet.

I say focus on real people. How can you interact with real people in such a way that they want to visit your site and participate in some way. A big part of SEO these days is creating sites that real people visit.

I'm not really an expert in SEO, but you look at what the leaders did, and try to copy it. Look at their back links, look at the back links to those back links, and look at how they did it. I just did the search, and noticed two You Tube videos on the first page. My Facebook pages and You Tube videos are outranking my site for many of the same keywords, with less work in most cases. Social shares make good back links, and are important for a natural looking link profile, and they generate traffic at the same time, but sometimes it's easier to rank the social pages themselves. Take a look at a search on Lady Gaga, or Justin Bieber, or God. With all that competition, the social profile pages are right up the top of those searches.

People underestimate the importance of the URL in SEO. The domain name or subdomain. The text on the page, the subheadings, alt text on the photos, etc. Have you thought that because you make people pay to see the drum lessons, those pages aren't public on Google, and aren't pulling in traffic for other searches like parididdles, straight eight, etc. If you want my honest opinion, make a new site with an exact match domain name, or close match domain name for free online drum lessons, or some similar search with a high exact match search volume and low competition, and make your money from Adsense or affiliate marketing drum stuff through Amazon, and just keep publishing. I tried doing free video guitar lessons, but that had a lot of competition. If there really is low competition and high demand for online drum lessons then free will make you enough money, probably more than paid lessons.

A couple of weeks ago a guy with a guitar site was pretty much where you are. I wrote a fairly lengthy post to him. I've pasted it below. I think the difference between you and he is you seem to be into what you're doing while he openly admitted he wasn't. Just substitute drums for guitar and you might have some good ideas to run with.

What do the guitar sites making it have in common? I'd bet they've all built a community around their specialty. You mention awsome content. Do it. That's a great place to start. Then get some more awesome content from other writers. I'm talking about syndicated content. And then paste up some awesome videos by people making videos. And credit the producer.

You should also start going to some of the guitar authority sites and comment on posts. Of course, I'm talking relevant, valuable comments. Start building up your backlinks this way by commenting on the most exclusive sites out there.

And after you have all that going on, get started building a list with some type of guitar freebie. It might be something you put together. How about the top 10 rock guitars of all times, complete with pictures, descriptions and the guitar player most noted to have used that ax. That's just off the top of my head. You could probably come up with something better to use as a list building teaser.

It always comes back to awesome content. And regardless of what anyone says, you can use syndicated content without upsetting the search engines. Besides, when your goal is to create a community, your traffic starts to come from word of mouth and legitimate backlinks.

All of this represents work. But it's not hard and it doesn't take long before you've got a real following and people are comfortable buying stuff you recommend. Do this right and you can eventually make part of the site a membership deal. There are lots of possibilities. What I've described is a legit business model that lots of successful marketers use. There are many on this forum doing just that.

Here's another tip. You Tube videos are normally public, for anyone to embed. Change the title a bit, write some decent text under it, and there you go, the drummer from Dream Theater doing a free lesson on your site.

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Hey man since you're in music I have an idea I'd like to throw at you.

This is something that took me 12 years to learn so I consider it pretty valuable. In the music niche, one of the things I notice that has the HIGHEST UNFULLFILLED DEMAND are music sequencer projects.

I learned this by posting on music forums for years and years almost everyone on music forums, who uses music sequencers, WANTS professional project files made by professional artists.

I believe there is huge room to make money because the demand is EVERYWHERE. Its all over youtube, all over forums, in facebook music groups. People are ALWAYS asking for project files for sequencers.

They rarely get good ones and this is why I feel they're always looking for new ones.

My idea was this:

Contact a few professional artists in different niches, set up a site where they SELL their project files. We split commissions with the artists.

REALLY think about this or research it if you don't know what I'm talking about.
The most viral headline I ever wrote on a music forum was "Get Your Free Professional Trance FLP From DJ Philosophy", the thread blew up to 26 pages long on trance addict then moderators shut the thread down even though I had permission from the artist to post his work (I emailed him on youtube).

This was one of the most professional projects I ever got, and SO MANY PEOPLE wanted it that I got the idea of selling these files to other new artists. If I EVER got a hold of a sequencer file from say Sean Tyas, Andy Blueman, any professional artist in ANY niche, those files could be sold for lots of money.

I honestly believe almost no artists really realize this.

There IS a huge market for this stuff (to boot - certain famous music magazines have become so popular SOLEY FROM interviewing professional artists in the studio, which gives amateur/newbie artists a tiny glimpse of their project files - example: that ones from Future Music Magazine) . I've been looking for a partner for a while to get this set up because it would involve some pretty hard work. But I KNOW it would bank hard if it was done right.

It would involve finding the best artists we could in various niches, having them sign a contract to release 1 of their project files. In the contract we'd state what amount they are to recieve, and the fact they are signing way exclusive rights to their intellectual property (just 1 track - the point is they can sell these files for easily $20-$30 to newbie/amateur music artists along with selling their music somewhere like beatport for $2 a track to their fans. I know people are wiling to pay up to $40 as I already made a thread about this on various forums asking what people would pay. Certain people mentioned they would pay up to $100 for project files from Artists like Orjen Nilsen).

Considering how hard it is for these artists to profit off beatport, this would open up a totally new revenue stream that does not exist anywhere on the net. I could personally convert the project files into other sequencers that way we can open our reach).

This is something I've been dying to do, and will eventually be doing no matter what, so if you're interested just pm me.

-Red

ps. I know this is a bit off topic but I'm looking for JV's anyway I can get them. If you don't like me hijacking your thread like this I apologize. =]