{"id":5076,"date":"2011-10-03T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T22:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:56:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:56:38","slug":"did-you-think-about-google-search-results-when-selecting-your-band-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/did-you-think-about-google-search-results-when-selecting-your-band-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Think About Google Search Results When Selecting Your Band Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OhThe article below about the band Oh No Fiasco<\/a> and their experience with changing their band name because of poor search results is an important read for other bands. In the age of the internet you now NEED to consider your band name search results when picking the name. If you can’t be found on Google you pretty much don’t exist.<\/p>\n

I encountered this problem first hand a few weeks ago. While at the Driven Music Conference I saw a band I really liked called Kids. When I got home I immediately hit Google to look for them. As I started to type Kids I\u00a0 knew the search results would not help. Then I thought maybe if I type Kids Music… lol, yeah that is not going to help either. Can you guess what their domain is? www.LongLivedTheKids.com. I only found it because I came across an ad for the band in the conference program. Without that ad I would have never found them. Lost fan connection.<\/p>\n

If you have a name that is not found, has a poor domain name, you should think about changing your name now, before things get too far along. If I was in the Kids I would be changing my name now.<\/p>\n

If you can’t come up with a band name that has a clear and easy domain available and will allow you to be returned with decent search results, pick another name.<\/p>\n

KNOXVILLE \u2014 The membership of the band The Few had no idea when they chose the band’s name in 2009 that it was so ingrained as the moniker for the Marines that the band The Few was almost invisible on the Web.<\/p>\n

“We were basically unfindable,” says vocalist Lindsey Stamey.<\/p>\n

“Search for The Few and you’d get the Marines; search iTunes and it would be two other bands that broke up 10 years ago,” says bassist Thomas Boyd. “We knew we were going to have to change eventually, so better now than 10 years from now. It’s impossible not to find us now.”<\/p>\n

Sitting in the Downtown Grill and Brewery on Gay Street, Stamey and Boyd say it was a tough decision to change the group’s name to Oh No Fiasco.<\/p>\n

“I almost cried when we conceded it,” says Stamey.<\/p>\n

via Oh No Fiasco stays faithful to the musical fight \u00bb Knoxville.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The article below about the band Oh No Fiasco and their experience with changing their band name because of poor search results is an important read for other bands. In the age of the internet you now NEED to consider your band name search results when picking the name. If you can’t be found on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,12],"tags":[307,836,1118,1119,500],"class_list":["post-5076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-music-marketing-2","tag-domain","tag-driven","tag-kids","tag-oh-no-fiasco","tag-search-results"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11603,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions\/11603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}