I am planning to build a site about rap music, but there are some points that not clear. You know, there is pretty much rap singers around, and my plan is making some mini fan site for rap music singers. For example, i will add news about rap music, but also create some seperate pages for popular rap singers for using as fan pages. So here come question, Should i make a rap music site, put news about rap music, and also create some pages for most popular rap singers named x y z w. So when fan of x singer search about it, he can find the site, also other singers' fans can find the page at same method. So totally there will be more traffic but it will be for all of those singers' fan pages. OR Should i just make a fan site for only rap singer x, so only visitors looking for fan pages about x can find the site. It will be less traffic than first one but there will be a main topic for the site not like the first option. I guess first option means more traffic but i don't really know if fans will come to my site instead of going to those singers other fan sites, because probably at search results other fan sites will get better ranking because of the relevance of content. But problem for second option is, if i want to make fan site for only singer x, probably there will be other fan sites for the same singer which will cause me not get much of traffic. I hope i could explained my question, thanks for all comments.
I like the first option. You can create a site that's for all rap music in general, and write about it. Then you can have separate pages for your favorite and the most popular rap artists. Any people visiting the site might be interested in that, and then fans of those certain particular rap artists arriving from search engines would like it as well. You have much more options with choice one.
thanks for comments So i guess i will stick to my first idea, i will make a website, giving information about rap singers, information about their albums etc. and i am planning to add a community forum so their fans can tell ideas and opinions about singers. Probably i will use Vbulletin as community software and i will stick to some free gallery script for adding galleries. What should i use for main skeleton of the site? Something seo friendly, so i guess options are Joomla and what else? I thought giving a chance to mediawiki for main skeleton of the site but i never used it before so i don`t know how good is it. And second question, should i use the content management system as skeleton of the site (showing news at the mainpage, artist and album information bla bla) or should i use the forum as skeleton of the site? I will just use a content management for displaying some news at the mainpage than i will add the artist information, album information and others to forums as new threads? Which one sounds better?
I like the idea of using Joomla as the main skeleton of the site where you'd feature X, Y, Z singers. The forum would be a secondary site where members discuss any relevant stuff including issues raised by the featured articles. The main Joomla site would, through a module, display the main hot points of discussion in the forum. In addition to the main Joomla site and the secondary forum, I would then have dedicated individual Squidoo lenses for for each rap artist. Remember, it is very easy to include a YouTube video in a lens. Each lens must link to the main site, but the main site must not link to the lens. This will ensure you are not penalized by the search engines. Because Squidoo has such a high ranking, your one way links from the lenses will do well in the search engines. Any X, or Y, or Z singer will eventually bring up a Squidoo lens, which will, in turn direct the visitor to your main site where they may later click on a link that will take them to the forum to discuss. Each time you edit a lens, you 'digg' it. Digg allows you to 'blog this'. To use this feature, you will need to set up a free blog for each singer with providers such as Blogger or WordPress. The 'digg' blog will be an outline of the lens. Each blog will simply point to your lens. So your 'digg' blog points to your lens, your lens points to your Joomla site, your Joomla site points to your forum. Best of luck, solavar
a social network for rappers? damn man... how do people read my mind? if you need help on it anyway, count me in...