Music To My Search Engines
March 12th, 2008When my husband and I came up with the band name The Alltunators, SEO wasn’t high on our list of considerations I’ll admit. But once I got our myspace page set up and registered the url www.alltunators.com, it quickly became clear that nobody else within reach of Google has come up with that name before. So it’s turned into an interesting live experiment in SEO – and I do like experiments!
A search for “Alltunators” yields 46 results, which all relate to us except listing number 45 entitled “Tuna fish – cooking 101″ and listing number 46, which is a french domain registration site.
A strong 30% of the results come directly from myspace, facebook, ilike or linkedin. Myspace is definitely out ahead, but we’ve been on the site over a year and the others for only a few months. The rest of the results are from a mix of event listing sites, venue sites or blogs.
There are downsides to an unusual brand, for sure. Venues sometimes misspell our name, or stumble over pronunciation (saying it like the engine part is fine with us), but there’s clearly some value to being unique – 95% domination of Google results seems pretty good to me!
I’ll be monitoring how linking from the Indigio blog affects our results. Meanwhile, just posted more dates to our calendar – we’re playing the Mercury Cafe Tuesday April 1st, 8pm, and Ziggies Saloon Sunday April 13th, 2-5pm. We can report that the new owners at Ziggies are making the freshest, most delicious margaritas in town (well I haven’t tried Ronnie’s yet, but these were pretty great!)
Listen to tunes and find upcoming show info at www.alltunators.com, myspace and facebook.
One Response to “Music To My Search Engines”
By Tom Whittaker on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
You should offer tuna recipes on your site also. It will be a good secondary business if the music does not take off.