Reverbnation Missing Rank

chart rank hyphen - reverbnation?

A while ago Audio Life that manages the  sales of reverbnation artists stopped accepting my Visa Debit Card and insisted that they have never accepted them and have only accepted Credit Cards
I have TWO invoices that Dispute that, but apparently no one cares because im wrong : /

To rub salt in the wound i woke today to find i am no longer within ANY chart

I Was Number 1 Liverpool
I Was Number 1 UK
I Was Number 1 Globally

My chart listing is now just a  - Sign/Symbol

(now if i hadn't noticed this i would of NOT been notified!!!!!!!!!)

i asked on their support forum and my post was closed and i received an email stating this

Thanks for the email. It appears that your account has been flagged by our system due to song plays or fan growth that it has deemed ‘suspicious’ (may have been created in an automated way or through a paid 3rd party site). Your account will not appear on any ReverbNation charts for 31 days following the most recent ‘suspicious’ activity. Stats found to be fraudulent may be removed during this time. Please note this suspension period from the charts does not hamper your daily use of ReverbNation or your ability to access and promote your music/content. Your account will return to the charts automatically without any action on your part should no violations regarding the terms and conditions of ReverbNation turn up. If you feel that this was done in error, please complete the appeals form via the link pasted below so that your appeal may be considered. If your appeal is accepted, your account will return to the charts sometime before the 31 days is up.

***PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT CUSTOMER SUPPORT ABOUT THE STATUS OF YOUR APPEAL, AS THAT IS A SEPARATE DEPARTMENT. FOLLOWING UP WITH CUSTOMER SUPPORT AUTOMATICALLY NULLIFIES YOUR APPEAL, AND YOU MUST WAIT THE FULL 31 DAYS.***

Appeals form can be found here:

Firstly i never sent an Email..
Secondly i can't afford 3rd party services
Third... did they not realize that reaching number ONE in the world would Increase Traffic
(ive been featured on other blogs, ive promoted with a Music Give Away)
thats besides the fact my music is prity dam good considering my equipment....

Now.... if i am to understand this right, i need to STOP promoting my music, i need to DISABLE my widget, because clearly my .NET tutorial made my blog to popular and in turn my widget received to many song plays...

I need to beg all these RAP STARS to STOP ADDING ME TO THEIR FANS LIST
And although i WAS number 1 in the world i need to STOP getting fans...

I have roughly 6530 twitter followers
Scammers have 50,000+

I have roughly 1240 FB Page Likes
Scammers have 50,000+

I have roughly 29,000 YouTube Subscribers
Scammers have 400,000+

I have roughly 6000 mySpace Followers
Scammers have 50,000+

My stats are stable


So a lesson here i am seeing is if an artist stuck at number 2 has some funding
RATHER THAN RISK HIS OWN ACCOUNT
all's THEY have to do is spend a few dollars to buy you some fans on a site and BANG
their number 1... and your gone...

Interesting and clearly ANOTHER NAIL into my dealings with reverb nation

I have a meeting friday to talk about funding and possibly going self employed

being number ONE in my Home Town would of helped
being number ONE in my Home Country would of helped
being number ONE in the Whole World would of REALLY HELPED

and being their with BASIC STATS would of also been honest

but i have just learn't today that ANYONE can get you thrown out the charts for a mere $2.99 a month
(that's about £1.52 a month to keep your rivals at bay) by simply backing their rivals account instead of their own account

doesn't this also mean i can no longer work on my own blog because MY pc is accessing the blogs widget?

see when people start googling  "Reverbnation Missing Rank" or "Rank Now A Hyphen"
that will affect my reverb stats while you guys are reading this   to which WTF is the correct way to get publicity and stats besides by helping OTHERS,  rather than paying for fake ones    : /



JANUARY 2013

FEBRUARY 2013

Begs the question, if im number 1 in the world.. and actually miles ahead of anyone else
why ide actually need more fans.... to which this is how it looks now that i am essentially Invisible

To Which... MARCH 2013...

Older Stats

Here is a random reason why stats get elevated all on their own...

When you watch "most" of my music videos, you'll notice im normaly Featured in YELLOW at the top with TWO of my other  music videos...
using google spider to enhance your Coverage is bog standard marketing....
I don't pay anyone to get featured...


IMPORTANT UPDATED INFO ABOUT PROBLEMS ON REVERBNATION

HERE:
Reverb Stat System Failure

Reverbnation Missing Rank

How To Get Access To Multimedia Resources For Free

How To Get Access To Multimedia Resources For Free?

If your a singer or a band you need Photos, you need a Music Video, you need a graphics wizz to put an album cover together.  Normally this would cost a fair bit of money & as you no thats not easy unless your already earning money.  So how can you get Promotional Photos done for free or a music video made or even free album covers?

Let alone maybe find a writer who can enhance your work, or even another singer....

There is a lot of websites that allow people to offer their skills & the majority of them charge a fee, then you also have to pay the person as well.

have you ever gone to http://www.skillpages.com  ??
Im unemployed my self & its a website recommended by the likes of Ingeus and Reed.

Imagine a photographer, hes looking for work, hes got a CV, but not much practical experience is listed on it, and what about his portfolio, remember that's a collection of totally RANDOM photos.

A lot of people on skill pages are willing to work for FREE, just for the experience and some collaboration work.  I signed up and ticked the right boxes for me & had a few offers, 1 of which was a guy looking for 24 composers... I thought this is going to sound prity unique with 24 composers doing 24 tracks, this was also a paid opportunity (an option to sell my music, or maintain rights to it & if it took off i would own partial (c) oddly it turned out to be a musical) so you never really no what opportunity's will come your way.

The way it works is you can sit their looking for people your self, or you can post an opportunity & people who have ticked the right boxes will be notified about the opertunity.
The only thing you need to do is find someone close enough so no real travel costs are incurred & they gets their shots for a portfolio & you get yours for your promoting or for use on an album cover.

Remember theirs an incentive for them, after all unless you pay them, then they own the photos (so an agreement to see them and delete what you want before they leave would be advised) as when you make it big... thier sitting on some rare original photos that they own (rather them not be embarrassing shots lmao)

Video editing's the same deal, even graphic designers (once you have photos) can easily put an album cover work together (Album ArtWork By... and hes now got an album cover design to add to his c.v) that's something he can print & box and show as an example of his work.

The concept of this is who ever you work with, you are both vital to each others careers & futures, neither of you is the lesser or the better, you are from 2 walks of life, with 2 interests that come together in the form of multimedia promotion & Genuine Experience that you can show.

If your getting a gig filmed, the "Location" you use may even pay travel if the video guy plugs the location in some way within the music video (again its how far you in go in the media industry that reflects on what they did & it's worth in the future if you make it big)

or what if they make it big.. suddenly their you are (this guys earlier works before he was famous)  which = unexpected publicity & free promotion.

The rule here is CREDIT where CREDIT is due...

Take the music video idea, here is ONE totally crazy scenario... let the lad film it & edit it, you could even let him put it on "his" youtube and you Link it to your own playlist and profile. that way any add revenue from google adsence goes to him for making it  (this also gives "the maker" an incentive to get people to watch it) so their going to promote it anyway they can to get traffic to it. that's one way to make it a "Paid Opportunity, yet cost you nothing" and applicants require a youtube channel with an adsence account :)

suddenly this video editor is considering becoming a promoter.. which is a good idea really if he can make videos & work with you, then hes got an eye for promotion.. not just a snarling fool on the phone arguing with printers, but actually their overseeing it & changing it after each print (because hes got the hands on skills) not just a suit, a mouth and a phone hes never off lol

As a composer & a song writer im prity good, as a vocalist i am not that good and it takes me a lot of layering to achieve the right sound. When i have enough songs i like together i will be looking at certain people on reverbnation to perform them, but i will also be looking on skill pages (so i can layer certain sections with a number of vocalists who are mostly unheard & amazing talent waiting to be spotted)

Another rule here is your talent & your skills are two separate entity's & trading has been around since the dawn of time. trade a skill for a talent or vice versa.

People are out their looking for something to work on, people are out their looking for help on something they are working on... Look at all the video bans on youtube due to people using (c) music

why not sell tracks with the ability to earn off them & allow people to use it & again google adsence can claim revenue from adds on the videos that hold your music. "Sentric" offer that service of collecting royalties & a few other companies do to (just watch what you agrea to with online contracts) and warn people to only use "your music" because 2 (c) claims in 1 video normally gets a video blocked over the advert dispute.

STOP looking for that record deal...
do you want a studio taking a cut?
do you want the manager taking a cut?
then the tax man taking a cut?

these so called Commercial Overheads of advertising and publicity can all be done by you
(read my boosting reverb song plays and youtube views blog posts)
you can cut out a lot of the middle men and slowly build your own infrastructure online (which you basically own)

when a label comes looking... your less work than they thought you'd be, even though they approached you anyway.. having an online fan base already built up on the backbone of working with others means your already networked to, so finding support bands for gigs would also be easier to.
internet stats are all well & good, but its Design and Graphics that catches the eye.... Not everyone has their speakers on when surfing...

Hows this for Random thinking?
 Opportunity's were you never even meet each other in person? lol
Some kid might design you a forum and a website....  if you do the music for his
"Web Design Promo Video" which he gets someone else to make for plugging his work by also making a site for them or even just setting up a blog or FB page because you can't  lol

for him its a 10 min job to build a forum with custom graphics or set up a blog.....
for you its a ten min job to put a piece of music together for a promo video...
now switch roles for a moment.....

hes out their.. shes out their... your out their..

has your band got any really good photos?
have you got any music or movie based photos in your portfolio?
do you want to be in a youtube video series that someones making?
do you want to make a movie but need actors and composers & writers?  <----- i love that one

the Yellow Pages offers a lot of skills for a fee...
skillpages offers a lot of skills & TALENT for FREE

even people only looking for "Paid" opportunity may dive on your idea if you approach them directly with a message & they really like the idea

Skillpages is currently one of the lost treasures of the Internet that no one seams to no about...

Here is how my Photography page looks their
http://www.skillpages.com/s/CAvT4yIx/EeKLZdx2T6LWyg2

My composer skill page
http://www.skillpages.com/s/L1m4hyIxEeK/LZdx2T6LWyg2

My Video editing skill page
http://www.skillpages.com/s/VDfz4y/IxEeKLZdx2T6LWyg2

you can list up to 5 skills in total on one account & you can upload files
you can also send files back & forth within pm messages, so you can work on the site without having to even share contact details until you've heard them or what ever :)

Ignore these "we will promote you"  you can promote your self best with the right pictures & artwork, you can find writers and what ever you need.....

How To Increase & Boost Song Plays On Reverbnation

How To Increase & Boost Song Plays Hits On Reverbnation?

BE SURE TO READ ALL OF THIS, TO AVOID CHART ISSUES

Ok this subject gets researched a lot on google by many people....
And the majority fall into the usual trap of trying to boost plays using software
(which is normally just a Virus or a scam that kills your pc)

Reverbnation gives you EVERYTHING you need to Boost Song Plays
(and it doesn't fall under the PAY & UPGRADE section neither so anyone can do this for free)

so you can do this to boost song plays on your blog, facebook, twitter or a web site..

Widgets are you biggest asset, yet most people don't even understand how they work, Which is the BEST one to use..  OR how to make the most out of them

So i am going to show you. You need a Facebook page, profile, or a blogspot, MySpace...  or site of your choice to implement your widget on
 (the blog I am using here is blogspot which is part of Google)
 So if you have a YouTube account already..
then you can easily have a blog using the same email with no need to sign up at blogspot.
Also having a blog to get your work into the Google web spider is always handy right?  and a blogs a good way to get an RSS FEED, which you can also add to reverbnation under the Blog URL options

Ber in mind when you want to spread the word about an upload, then sharing your post on a variety of sites (Fb, Blog, Myspace, Twitter)  gets you more up the Google chain with the web spider, putting you higher up the Google Search page.  Try Googling   TheWraith517    see?  youtube & blogspot dominate the page

Between YouTube & BlogSpot  (they have Google dominated because their semi owned by Google, so Google give their OWN sites priority traffic)  IE  You Need a YouTube & A Blog to get better web spider coverage, over other random sites like amazon and eBay for example who normally get priority at the TOP of the Google page

So i recommend you create a blog, just click join at the top of this page, use your YouTube email address to save having to register, pick a simple blog template & activate the blog  (I will show you how to edit the blog further down this post) for now my concern is getting your Reverbnation widget code set correctly and getting YOU to make the most of it.

 Don't skip any of this because you will just make the same mistakes this ideot made here below

 

^^ How NOT To Generate Web Traffic ^^
And that's his whole tutorial "This is all you have to do"   ?

Theirs a lot of things people don't realize about Reverb and how it works, but that guy made a blog post (just like Ive done here) yet I am offering you ACTUAL information, That Retard just used it as a ploy to get you to open his page... yet the way he set it up he got NOTHING from you opening that page
I got at least 4 song plays by YOU visiting here and you will be rewarded for that by this tutorial guide  :)

So here is were INFORMATION is Power
(even if that same said smuck above HAD of Enabled AutoPlay)
He would of still got Nothing from anyone opening the page.. why?
Well... Reverbnation requires HALF a song play or More... To Count As a Play Stat

IE:  someone needs to listen to 51% of your Track, so even with AutoPlay he's still screwed his chance with such a pathetic post.. because it doesn't take the length of a RAP to realize that's trashy information & shut the page... (whether his song was playing or not LOLSZZ)

If you PAGE/BLOG has Interesting Information your whole songs will be heard, if you use the RANDOM option on the widget, you will get a random amount of plays on a mixture of your tracks (this is risky depending on the length of your tracks & the captivation gathered from the page they are looking at)
So  using  SHUFFLE is not always recommended...  Clearly though (unless your names G MAC E) AutoPlay has to be on, otherwise your Never going to get song plays... unless someone clicks PLAY

First I recommend the Reverbnation Pro Player (which is a free Widget)
Q) why not the reverbnation HTML5 player?
A) Not every PC currently out their supports HTML5 playback on their browsers...
This is the first Massive mistake people make, they also assume the pro player costs just because of the word PRO  (this is not the case & you SHOULD use the pro player) at least until April 2014 when they kill off Windows XP.  Until then a LOT of your traffic is windows xp users and windows 2000 users who manipulated xp updates for their own os....

So you go to the Control Room on Reverb  (new or old layout)
SELECT     TOOLS

Select Widgets

USE  THE  PRO  PLAYER

 

Once Picked CLICK CUSTOMIZE

Now you have to choose if you will use the "Shuffle" option, its not really recommended unless you have it on a site with regular traffic and the pages don't change every time they click to navigate somewhere on the site.

 

Make sure when you choose your 2 Options that one of them is AutoPlay, or your wasting time

 

 As a sound engineer so I am lucky because I don't just compose music, I also make Sound Effects

These are clearly SHORT and play within a few seconds....

WARNING!!!

If you record a Blank short piece of audio and try using that  

(when you delete that, it also removes all views/plays that file gained towards your stats...)

So what ever is at the top of your Song list needs to be short, yet objective towards your work...

So your then prompted with the following screen to PLACE your Widget

Now on your BLOG  or your MySpace Page you have the Opportunity to EMBED the code...

Clearly you can make a Blog/MySpace post using it  

(but its only when a user reads that blog/myspace post it'll get played right?)

Clearly you want this to start playing what ever blog post your visitor arrives at right?  

so you need to put this code down the SIDE of your blog, rather than just a simple blog post  ;)

So you click on the Blog Dashboard (Design, top right of your blog)

which then looks like this (when you select LAYOUT)

Then You Click Add A "Gadget"

here you get a list of optional stuff, wich is shown down the SIDE of your blog, 
or at the top or the bottom of your blog

The one you want is the HTML Type Boxes, Such As This One...

Add this one to your blog and MOVE it were you want on the page, you can see were i placed mine further up and I called it   "My Full Track Player"    You paste the Reverbnation code in that box (on the EDIT it option)   and give the Box a Name,  like mines my full track player...

So now when anyone reads ANY of your blog posts, it will Boost your reverbnation song plays...

MySpace?
On myspage when you edit your profile you have Marqe & Moduls, one of the Modules is a HTML box you can add, wich again can be at the top, bottom or SIDE of your myspace page  & you simply Name the HTML box and paste the Reverbnation code into the box...

Just Remember... some sites the embedded code is different
IE, clicking the Blogger, or myspace button ON REVERB  (Before you copy the code)
sometimes changes it to the code you need....

Final Notes...
It may help to actually add your other web addresses down the Top Right side of your blog (like i have) this helps again intergrate your OTHER web sites by getting in on the google spider web effect, You can also edit your Youtube Channel page & add actual LINKS down the side to, further boosting the spider net & pushing you higher up the Google search

 

Thanks for Reading & Listening .. 

If you want to Add me on Reverbnation I have a few profiles for different genres 

Singer Song Writer Profile = http://www.reverbnation.com/thewraith517

Composer Profile = http://www.reverbnation.com/youknowthescore

Airwolf Game Score Profile = http://www.reverbnation.com/AWMScore

Comedy Profile = http://www.reverbnation.com/therealkirbylala

I might even fan you back if your any good....

Remember, how ever much you spend on a Domain Name & Web Space.. you Still have to send traffic that way for it to work, and when you stop paying your site vanishes...so why not use a FREE blog, a myspace, a youtube.  Just a simple blog post about your favorite football team, or photos you've taken in some film location, all brings in traffic to the blog post that showed up on a google search. Or a Tutorial on how to do something (which is what Ive done here) A helpful blog post isn't really spam when it helps or informs others, Its contributing to the Internet, rather than masses of pathetic spammy blog posts about here's my new RAP  check it  WORD UP Yo My N*g**r....

I had FOUR sound effects at the top of the playlist
(that's besides the music you listened to while reading my informative tutorial guide)

If you want to Boost your YouTube Video views & Subscibers, READ THIS ONE
http://thewraith517.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/how-to-boost-increase-video-views-on.html


Think im wrong?....   ask your self... This question....
how many times have you looked for something on google and landed on blogspot page?

theres a couple of adverts at the bottom of the blog for boosting stats on social networks
1 is called "vagex" which is a system used to boost youtube, likes, subs, views & comments
and one is "addmefast" which does all the youtube stuff as well as twitter & fb page likes
their both free to use (but you can also buy points to)
Basically what i do is log on to addmefast each day & watch 10 vids for 30 seconds each (i get 9 points per video)
and the 100 daily bonus points for the 10 views, but you can watch as many as u want
then i use them credits on the site and input a video link and allocate how many points per like (bearing in mind to get a like, you also get the video view) so i can get at least 20 video views & likes a day, or 20 subscribers
for vagex i only use that if im leaving the pc on over night rendering a video or downloading a movie, vagex logs into a bs youtube account i made and it gets 1 point for viewing, 1 for like, 1 for sub and 1 for comment (comments are automated, hence using it on a bs account) and again the points can be allocated to send traffic to the site
I figure if the pc is on doing one job, it can do that in the back ground to lol
this stuff is basically what them companies do that offer to promote you for a fee & it may seam a little immoral, but remember your part of the media industry & its all about hype & statistics. adderdemon.com can also be used to boost your myspace friends list to, you just log into myspace, copy the user id, add it to adderdemon & then click add friends, it opens 5 myspace popups (requests) once they load you close em and click add freinds again, you can add about 30 to 50 people a day.. again more stat building.
ber in mind nothing ive said or advised here to you will actually cost you anything (besides your time, or one of your groopies time) lol
 
It is sad that in todays world its all about stats (just to rise high enough to be seen & heard)
but information truly is power lol

WARNING:
If you push your reverbnation statistics to much their filters will remove you from the charts for 30 days (so don't push it via reverb to much) bounce myspace profiles & youtube to increase fan counts more than anything else