Where most articles go wrong with any kind of MySpace tips is that they don’t mention that there are many different accounts for you to join. Two of them are a musician account and a user account. If you are a musician you need the musician account. I may sound smart, but if you don’t, then you don’t have access to 3 extra MP3s to show off… which is a lot.

In any case. Let’s continue with these MySpace tips:

Myspace tips: 1. Using games, flashy stuff, and large files will drive people away, mainly due to MySpace’s slow loading time. If you have to use graphics, don’t let MySpace host them for you, load them using your own bandwidth this way images and larger files will load a bit faster.

Remember these few words for any site:

short, clean, clear

See if you can come up with an identity for your site, certain colors, etc. The best sites are the ones you can navigate easily and find what you’re looking for quickly. To get the friend, it must be as clear as day for him to sign up.

MySpace tips: 2. How many people are registered on MySpace? 106 million… so, of them will become your friends? It’s not the answer and the main reason is that not everyone likes your music. So we have to find

Downloaders and like-minded friends

To do this, MySpace has given us some tools. The first is the search engine. Click the drop down bar to reveal: blogs, musical interests, etc. You can then search for artists similar to you.

If you look below, the networking affiliation allows you to get in touch with record companies and people in the industry (make sure the “field” is about music).

MySpace tips: 3. To get more friends, go to an artist of a similar genre, look at their list of friend comments, and then click view all. Now if your initial search was correct, then these like minded friends could easily like your music. Plus, these friends are active Spacers and fans of the artist (latest comments at the top of the page). Just be sure to contact the friend with the most responsible feedback.

MySpace tips: 4. Sometimes though you don’t want a friend who is 3000 miles away, especially if you want to play. When doing a general search, you can find people who are close to your hometown by doing a postal search or a county search. This has great possibilities, since when you start playing, these people are more likely to come to your place.

Also increase your zip search for the surrounding areas. When you have a concert ready, post on your forum a month before, a week and then a day… just to give everyone enough time.

MySpace Tips: 5 MySpace has grown thanks to the interaction between friends, a kind of pimp blog. So we must also interact. This is the time consuming part and it is also the best way to network. What you need to do is go through your friends’ homepages and leave a comment by clicking the Add Comment link at the bottom of the page.

Now, as we’ve seen with the send a message weapon, adding a comment can be done right or wrong.

Wrong Way (but you see this 80% of the time…it doesn’t work!)
1.=”you’re great”!
2.=”see my music at http://www.myspace.com/artist”

right way
wow what a good song [name] it is. I specifically like the middle part with the drum solo. Also, where did you get that big bottom?