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# Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/five_mistakes_b/
- Published: 2006-06-19T12:07:00.000Z
- Updated: 2006-06-19T12:07:00.000Z
- Description: Too much Flash – Okay, I get it. You’re creative. Awesome. But you’re totally wasting my morning as I helplessly wait for your designer’s dancing sausages to finish loading. Crappy. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/06/five_mistakes_b.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Marketing, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

1. **Too much Flash –** Okay, I get it. You’re *creative*. Awesome. But you’re totally wasting my morning as I helplessly wait for your designer’s dancing sausages to finish loading.
2. **Crappy or non-existent mp3 metadata –** Posting an MP3 without metadata is like Safeway ordering the hair-netted sample lady not to tell hungry customers which aisle those nummy [![Generic_headphone_computer_6](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/generic_headphone_computer_6.gif "Generic_headphone_computer_6")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/generic%5Fheadphone%5Fcomputer%5F6.gif?ref=hypebot.com) chicken fingers are in.
3. **Too artsy, too fartsy –** Don’t be cute with the design, section naming, or navigation. Don’t make your visitors solve a Rubik’s cube to pull up your lyrics page.
4. **No Search –** Chances are good that fans coming to your site arrive with something extremely specific in mind—often a fragment of lyric or the name of one obscure song. If your site contains more than a handful of pages, provide a clearly labeled search box.
5. **One Way Communication (served one way) –** Your fans are not empty vessels or just (ugh) a *street team*; they have things to say too…Read your email, and *answer* it.

Excerpted from the wonderful personal productivity and life hack blog

43 Folders

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