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LINKEDMUSICIANS SEARCH RANKINGS AND AI BRAND MENTIONS AND HOW YOU CAN HELP THEM IMPROVE. 

The two extensive Cakewalk Forums threads I created with curated lists of free sample libraries that I started in 2022 achieved top 5 rankings at Google for US searches for free sample libraries, free sample instruments, free kontakt libraries, free kontakt instruments and similar searches (I removed both lists from Cakewalk Forums before my departure to move them to this site). But it can easily take a couple of years before Google bothers to crawl and index a new website, especially if Google thinks the site isn’t very unique. I really didn’t have high hopes that Google would rank this site very high during its first year. I was expected it to take as long as 2, or even 3 years before the site really started to rank well. Unfortunately, there’s really no easy way to let Google know that you’re the same guy who created top rated content one another site unless it knows you as the exact same author, which is not really possible on a forum like Cakewalk Forum. If this site featured my writing on marketing and branding strategy under my full real name (I use my pseudonym from my musician days on this site), it would help the rankings, but as I don’t have credibility as an author on the topic of music, it wouldn’t mean more than Google can discern that I am a credible author.

So I did some things to try to single to Google that the lists on this site were done by the same guy that did them at Cakewalk Forums, and I think the message was received. The list made it to page 4 in a short time on the above-mentioned searches, and is presently on page 2. This is due to many factors, some of which include incoming links from related websites Google finds credible, and links and mentions in related social media groups and forums. Consequently, when you share links to the page in other music-related forums and sites or in social media groups on the big social media vehciles (Facebook, X, Instagram, BlueSky, etc.), it conveys to Google that this site’s content is valuable to people and the rank can rise. Now, Google has used AI and is savvy enough to recognize that people try to game the system, so any search engine optimization experts reading can tell you that there are many more factos, but those incoming links from credible, related sites really help out a great deal.

I also did some things to help LinkedMusicians get mentioned in AI, and they also turned out much better than I expected.

From my search engine ranking reports:

Keyword Position

“free kontakt libraries”
CURRENT POSITION: 11
PRIOR POSITION: 24

“free kontakt instruments”
CURRENT POSITION: 14
PRIOR POSITION: 18

*This comes from a report for the US only.

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