MOG.COM
“Mog” is referring to a “music blog”. This site exists for people to blog about and share music they like. You can create an account on this site, and blog about your music and other music similar to yours. You can upload images and even songs. Other people can subscribe to your mog and you can subscribe to theirs. I have barely done anything on this site personally, but it’s on my list, and well worth getting into. Also, I have not yet figured out where they draw their music files from, because some songs come ready for listening, and others do not have any play function. I believe they link to some other source to determine which songs have the play function. If you figure it out, let me know.
DISCOGS.COM
Discogs is a community-built database of music information. A site with discographies of all labels, all artists, all cross-referenced. You can personally submit all of the credits for your CD and also, if you like, sell your CD through their site, though I’m not sure that gets much traffic. It’s just another place to have information about your music show up in search results. You do have to meet a certain level of “street cred” in order to have your info be accepted, like it must be nationally available for purchase or something of that nature. But check it out and add yourself to the system if you can.
[Hi all, Ellen here. I've decided to take a very long handout that I created for my college students and break it down into a series of blogs. This is a summary of what I know about promoting yourself and your music online. If you or someone you know is a self released artist who doesn't necessarily have a plan of action after the CDs are manufactured, subscribe to this blog and read the series. I'm breaking it down into bite sized portions. ]
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