Hi Joice !

The importance of having your own website to promote you and/or your services can not be overstated in any promotional effort. Every primary layout for a good business plan I have ever seen, has had having your own website right up in the top 2 or 3 steps.

Linking and cross linking both play major factors in how quickly your site comes up in the search results.

One of the things I learned very quickly when I first started, was that because my site was new, and had very little traffic, and very little history, for Google and the other search engines to process and evaluate, it wouldn't matter if I had the best SEO in the world,I wasn't going to make that top 10 on the first page. It was a problem that only time could fix. However, I discovered a work around.

One of them was cross linking, but cross linking can take shape, and have an effect and cause, in many ways. By signing up on the real popular music sites, when people ran a search for my name, or my genre of music, the really big hitters would come up in relationship to my name. Like " www.SoundClick.com - " Billy Darnell is a singer song writer that has worked many years perfecting...." an excerpt from my bio there. Thus allowing me a presence on the very first page of most searches in relation to my name. It's a little gimmick that can get you a lot of mileage when it comes to exposure.

Thanks for pointing that out Joice.

Billy Darnell

http://www.billydarnell.com

http://www.songwriterservices.biz