Build your website. The easiest way to build a music website is to host it on a social network, but if you are HTML-savvy and have a website builder or HTML editor, you can design your own website for uploading on your own server. If you use your own server, you will probably have to pay for web hostin, unless you choose a free host that places its own ads on your site. While social networking music sites are the easiest to make, a hosted website on your own domain with your own advertising will end up more profitable for you if your website becomes popular.
Choose which hosting service or social network you'd like to post your music on. Social networks are an important component of music promotion for any artist in any stage of his career.
ArtistServer.com is a music social networking community that offers limited accounts for free. ArtistServer is a simple start to getting your music website online because you can choose which intellectual property rights to reserve, control whether the song can be downloaded and specify what permissions you grant to people who download your music. ArtistServer.com offers a limited account for free, and it has a paid service that has more space and page features that are not available on the limited version.
If ArtistServer.com is not for you, there are a multitude of other music-friendly social networks, such as MySpace and Facebook, that allow you to set up an artist page for free. You can use these social networks (see Resources) to track the number of fans of your music and to keep your fans informed of important updates such as tour information or new music.
Get a domain name to redirect to your site. Regardless of whether you choose to host your site on a social network for free or to pay for your own hosting, a properly chosen domain name will increase your search traffic and make it easy for your music fans to find you. A good domain name will include your band or artist name in the domain itself so it can be easily indexed by Google.
Get your website some links. Users will not be able to find your website unless it is linked from other sites on the web. If you are hosting your music page on a social networking site, the best way to get links to your content is to befriend other members of the social network. If you chose to host your own site, you can use Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter and other networks to get links to your site, or you can ask a friend with a website to link to you. Links are important because they raise the value and search ranking of your website in Google and other search engines.