I refuse to drown, I refuse to become overwhelmed

Yes, Yes, Yes I know It's been a while since you guys heard from me but I've been working on a master plan. Yep! I said it, a master plan. Nah, I've working alot trying to stack this money because we all know that money makes the world go round. I'm pretty sure thats one of the reasons why all of us are here trying to make our websites hit the roof like Facebook.

I've been doing a little research and I even started taking SEO classes (which are free by the way) I haven't dove into my lessons yet but I'm well on my way. The one thing that I have learned over the past few days is that I'm going to need to focus most of my energy on Content. The web is pretty much based around content so now we need to focus on building great content, like Andrew Boon stated in my comments.

Since my genre is music, I have a broad range of things that I can talk about but the question is what the hell do I talk about? Where do I focus most of my attention on? I have a rather shaky idea on what it is that I need to write on but I'm not all that sure about it. I'm starting to get to the point where I'm just going to have to jump in the water and teach myself how to swim along the way. If I plan on surviving then the last thing I need to be is scared.

The thing that I have that most people DON'T have is the love for what I'm doing. I love music and I love the site that I've built.I've built my site based on personal beliefs and a deep love for music. So there is passion behind everything that I'm doing, I just don't want that passion to over ride the mission.

So with that being said...............

I've taken the time to check out my running competition and I've noticed that there are things that I'm going to need on my site to keep up with the ones who are already ahead of me. Yes, they have been on the web way longer than I have but at the same time it's all about innovation.

I'm also trying to depict how I'm going to get members to my site. Part of me says that I need to focus my attention on certain people. I need to roll out personal invitations and build off of that. Once the site gets going then I can slowly begin to open it up to others. I guess I'm starting to get into the whole marketing realm of things. I'm really not interested in having just ANYONE on my site. Just as I want quality music, I want quality members to give it to me. So where do I get these quality members/artist from? Ooooh the thing that we are faced with

Lets take it back to link building....

So here is my take on link building. Since I'm pretty much nobody and nobody knows me, more than likely no one is going to link to my content. (no time soon) So I'm trying to learn this whole link buidling matter. I'm assuming that when I create content for my site, I choose certain keywords and I link to relevant sites pertaining to that keyword. It has to be that cut and dry right? Isn't that giving other people traffic though? I thought the objective was to get traffic?  From what I'm reading having links throughout your site is whats going to get your site indexed. I was thinking to myself that if I linked keywords with pages in within my site that would count as well. This whole link building thing is killing. Link building and content is the thing that I'm most juggling right now. I completly killed my content just so I could start over.......I started creating articles pertaining to the music business and networking. I found a niche to talk about and thats the niche that I'm going to focus on. I figure if I pinpoint my content then I will have a better chance at getting noticed. I'm not trying to get irrelevant traffic. I could care less about it, I want traffic that is going to generate sign ups. So everything that I create needs to send musicians to my site........I'm all over the place right now, I need to take a break.

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