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Twitter – A Threat to Your SEO Score?

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Twitter - Evil Bird

The RMR crew already had a few run-ins with the folks over at Twitter. But it was mostly about minor stuff. Concerns about the makeup of their website, the Dorsey-man’s frightening gobbledygook and what have you. But by and large, the site worked well at a reasonably reliable level and sported a stout following of the rock and metal community. And that’s also the only reason why the RMR Social Media folks even bothered with a heavily censured, low-value messaging app mainly populated by elitists, politicians, colorful celebrities, miscellaneous artists, and misguided government bodies.

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Main Metal Music Styles @ RockmusicRaider

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Heavy Metal Music Symbol Pic

Long gone are times when we split everything between Hard Rock and its younger sibling Heavy Metal. Being a metalhead really meant you went to a Heavy Metal concert and bought comfortable vinyl in a music store. Straightforward bands like Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Krokus, Metallica, or Black Sabbath played, and you knew them all.

Since then, people developed this inbred and somewhat insane need to give a new name to every friggin’ undercurrent of the metal universe. This annoying temptation to put everything into little boxes is called Divide Et Impera (divide and conquer). Or in other words: If … [...] Click to raid more!

WordPress Categorization: Magic Potion or Devil’s Curse?

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Example of categorization

WordPress is, without doubt, the main CMS1 on today’s internet networks. As of November 2022, some 43%2 of all sites globally use this system to build their pages and drive revenue. It is – after all – one of the most versatile systems on the market today and getting better with every new revision. On top of that, the .org version is free, so what else are you waiting for? But nothing is as easy as it seems, of course.

One of the pillars of this CMS is the use of taxonomies and you’ll find two general … [...] Click to raid more!

Music ‘Zines and Indie Promo Submissions. Slam dunk or no-go?

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Old-school music store - Indie Promo Submissions

Music Marketing works both ways. Bands should excel at it when launching a record – and the RMR crew wrote about this often thorny issue pretty extensively already. It is after all the lifeblood running through the veins of that music business of theirs. And this is exactly what it truly is, a business. It needs to be managed, cajoled, and strategically administered. Apart from letting your artistic creativity run free, of course. Not an easy job description at best, and it is thus understandable that not many are really good at every facet of it.

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