free music promotion

How to get reviewed on free music blogs.

To find relevant blogs to send your music to, try searching artist interview on Google for reviews for free of albums you know of. Here are some searches you can try:

“album name” + “review”
“artist name” + “album review”
“genre” blogs
Find local free music blogger reviewss using “music blog [city name]”
Playing around with the search terms you enter in artist interview on Google is a good way to find blogs in your niche that review new music for free.

You can also find outreach opportunities with HypeMachine, a music blog aggregator.

With HypeMachine, simply type an artist or song to find blogs that have written reviews for free about or mentioned them.

By searching artists that play music similar to yours, you can find relevant blogs to start building relationships with and pitching later on.

2. Find more opportunities from lists
Most of the referral traffic to our website comes from list posts. Lists can be a great way to get people to check out your music, and are, in some cases, more likely than reviews for free to refer your music to new people on a consistent basis.

You can find list posts on artist interview on Google with some of the following search terms:

“10 bands you should check out”
“list of bands from [city]”
“5 songs with awesome guitar solos”
“5 songs with beautiful melodies”
There are many types of list posts that may work for your music, but the above examples can get you started. Be sure to search for lists that are relevant to your music. Once you find a post that lists music similar to yours, simply reach out to the author of the post with an email to see if they’d be interested in adding your music to the list.

Here’s a sample email you can use when reaching out that’s worked well for me when reaching out to free music blogger reviewss about getting added to lists:

Hey [Name],

I was on the search for new music when I came across this article: [Link to post]. Great stuff!

Actually, a lot of the [Artists/Songs/Albums] you mentioned sound very similar to our music. Check it out: [URL]

Thought our music might make a nice addition to the list.

Either way, keep up the awesome work!

Cheers,

[Signature]

Getting added to just one list that gets a good amount of traffic can provide a huge, consistent boost to your fanbase.

3. Speed up your search by having artist interview on Google show more results
By default, artist interview on Google shows 10 results per page. Getting free music blogger reviewss to review your album is a numbers game, so you want to reach out to as many free music blogger reviewss as possible.

To speed up your search is, set artist interview on Google to show 100 results per page instead of 10. Here’s how you do that:

After searching for something, click the settings gear.
artist interview on Google-search-settings

Change “Results per page” to 100, and click save.

Now instead of seeing 10 results, you’ll see 100, which will save you time clicking through artist interview on Google’s pages to find more free music blogs.

4. Measure blog popularity
In order to make the free music blogger reviews outreach worth your time, you want to reach out to blogs with a good following.

A good way to identify websites with a good sized following is by looking at their domain authority. Domain authority measures the popularity of a website when compared to other websites by looking at things like how many links point to the website, and how high the pages on that website show up in artist interview on Google searches.

You can measure this directly in artist interview on Google using MozBar. It will change your artist interview on Google search results so they look like this in your browser:

moz-bar

The bar marked DA under each of the links in artist interview on Google shows the domain authority of the website. The more filled up the bar is, the more likely the website is to have a strong following. Reaching out to free music blogs with a DA over 20 would be most worth your time.

MozBar will also show you how popular a particular website is on the website itself. The bar hangs from the top of your browser with the stats of the website you’re currently visiting, like this:

moz-bar-top

This can be helpful in identifying the popularity of a blog that you found from a source other than artist interview on Google.

5. Write short emails.
Your pitch to the free music blogger reviews needs to be short and easy to skim. Make paragraphs really short, and let them know why you’re contacting them quickly.