Social Media: adding Backlinks to promote Hive

This post is inspired by @sidwrites post on the use of Backlinks to help attract new people to Hive, and to help build this community. If you haven't come across Sid yet, his blog is well worth checking out and is full of useful tips to help you, the writer/blogger, to get the most out of Hive.

This post is also inspired by the work of @nathanmars who essentially preaches the idea that if we want this Hive community to grow, then we need to take responsibility for it, and do what we can to promote it.

Now there are several reasons why you using this site. Some of you are here for the community and to talk to, and share information with, like-minded people. And some of you are here for the money (no shame in that, most of us would probably like some more money if we can get it).

To improve both of these, the answer is the same: we need more people to join us. We all have a variety of Social Media accounts, and simply by placing 'LINKS' on our profiles or in the bio we can 'Link Back' to out profiles on Hive. This way we can help connect more people to this Hive blockchain.

Earlier today I went through some of the accounts I use and added links to my blog here on Hive. And while I do that, it is an opportunity to link to the other social accounts I have which focus on music.

https://www.instagram.com/blackmetaltape/

First up is instagram. I only set this up earlier this year, and in the space of 6 weeks with very little actual engagement from me apart from uploading my images of Black Metal tapes, I am close to 500 followers. I though I would have a similar engaement here when I set up this @earthsea account, but no. I think that's partly because it is harder to search for content (tags) here, and also there are much fewer people using this platform.

I have tried searching for communities but that depends on users actually adding them to the community in the first place.

https://bandcamp.com/dan_newton

Next up is Bandcamp. I flippin' love Bandcamp!

I use it to keep up to date with new releases from small Music Labels and Distros, and you can actually support the band. After bandcamp takes their fee, you can be confident that the rest of the money will actually go to the band. There is all sorts of music on here (not just metal) but most are small or unsigned independent artists. They may not be popular in the mainstream, but the music will always be interesting, and there are a number of gems hidden there.

You have the options of buying physical media (CD, tape, Vinyl or t-shirts etc) depending on what the artist has for sale, and for each physical copy sold you will be sent a digital copy as well. Or you can just buy the digital album if you prefer. And if that wasn't enough you can stream the music so you can try before you buy.

A fantastic site (and much better than 'spotify' which I refuse to use on principle!)

https://www.discogs.com/user/thedragonwarrior

The final social music site I will share is Discogs

This is an excellent site which can be used as:

• a reference source to find out which artist released what album and when
• a marketplace (like ebay) where you can buy and sell items in your collection
• a place to keep a catalogue of what is in your collection

I regularly forget which albums I own, and which I still need to complete the sets of certain bands, so the 3rd option is the main reason I use this site.

https://www.discogs.com/user/thedragonwarrior

There you go. A brief overview to some of the other social media sites I use relating to music, and in line with @sidwrites excellent article HERE, all of them now link back to my profile here on Hive and @peakd

I hope you found this interesting, and if you have social media pages/profiles focused on music then feel free to share the links to it in the comments below.