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Much in the way we outlined how venues can use Jazz Near You to list and promote their events, this week we'll turn our attention to the tools available to jazz musicians. All About Jazz is currently home to 144,837 musician pages. A musician's page is central to their presence at All About Jazz and it's the #1 place where our readers go to get more information about them.
Thousands of musicians have claimed, created and maintained their All About Jazz professional page. Keeping your pro page current requires an annual update mostly around the time of an album release or when you have a new bio or want to upload a new photo. We cover the creation and claiming of a musician page here.
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Thousands of musicians have claimed, created and maintained their All About Jazz professional page. Keeping your pro page current requires an annual update mostly around the time of an album release or when you have a new bio or want to upload a new photo. We cover the creation and claiming of a musician page here.
Why Your Pro Page Is Important
Readers click through to musician pages every day (from event pages, article pages, birthday pages, news announcements, album pages, etc.). If they encounter a blank page or an outdated page, they'll hit the back button (and that's not good for you or AAJ). A complete and current page will engage the reader: they'll read your bio, watch videos, view photos, check your discography, check your calendar, click on your links and so on. Speaking of links, here's why you want to add your website link to your AAJ musician page.Google Love
We've mentioned in the past that a musician's page is considered highly relevant by Google resulting in optimum search result placement. Here's an example...Tips
We recently published this page of tips for a standard musician page and this page of tips for a premium musician page. The premium service comes loaded with additional features and benefits including the auto-import of your Bandsintown events calendar.Start Here
If you are a jazz musician, we encourage you to bookmark All About Jazz's Musician Start Page. It includes essential links and will help you find your way at AAJ.Technical Update
We experienced a database hiccup the morning of October 8th which resulted in lost data between the times of 4AM (EDT) on the 7th to 2AM (EDT) on the 8th. If you placed an order, uploaded an event, submitted a news announcement, updated or added your musician page, etc, during this time, please do so again. Also, some of you had trouble accessing Jazz Near You when we migrated to our new servers. The problem has since been resolved.
Given these issues, I was reminded of the vital role Jazz Near You plays, especially after two musicians reached out to me with their comments less than an hour apart yesterday... "Jazz Near You matters. I get tourists who visit San Antonio who come out to my gigs because of "Jazz Near You" announcements. It's great. I LOVE it."
Noah Peterson, Saxophonist (San Antonio, TX)
"Thanks for getting the issue resolved. I've been getting more attendees who tell me they came out after they saw my date(s) on Jazz Near You."
Matt Richards, Guitarist (Philadelphia, PA)
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