Organic promotion - real fans

[martin@rootjazz]

How to organically promote your Soundcloud Account using the best Soundcloud Bot.

For Real followers / views, you need to interact with other accounts.

This can be done by:
1) Follow and unfollow
2) Search and Favourite (and unfav)
3) Search and comment
4) Search and play other tracks (to a less extent)

When you interact with other users, they receive a notification. Most users will then come and check out your profile / listen to your tracks / like your tracks / comment on your tracks / send you a message / follow you.

How successful this is depends on how targeted the user is to your music. If you make techno yet interact with a commerical pop artist, you have a less chance they are interested in your music / profile than if they are also a techno artist or a similar style (trance /drum n bass/ electro).

Also, the quality of your music matters. If your music is of a high quality, more people will like it / listen to it / comment. If it is bad, they will not.

Do be aware commenting is restricted so do not go crazy with PMs or track comments. Better to highly targeted users / tracks to comment on than to dump than anywhere. Use the SCRAPE tab and FILTER tab to target better your demographic. Some users report good results targeting NEW tracks uploaded in the last week. As the artist is actively checking for feedback, so get in there early

Another great method for getting really interaction is SHARING. Each track can be shared 75 times on a free account. So you can share your track to 75 groups at any one time. If you select 75 highly targeted groups to share to (using the Groups stats on the GROUPS tab), you can get a list of groups that has lots of active members!!!. No point sharing your track to a group with just 3 members. Use this functionality / statistics provided by the Soundcloud Manager.

Now you have your list of 75 groups. You want to share the track to the group for just 1 day. After this one day, the track will be Unshared from the group and RESHARED. This means your track will appear at the to position of the group, more likely to be viewed / listened to by group members.

[martin@rootjazz]

Also are there any other strategies that can be deployed using this bot to gain organic followers.

I totally agree with you, your aim should be to gain REAL followers / likes / fans. Some people seem to number focused, i MUST have 20k followers and 200 likes a day etc. Yes boosting your stats has it's place. It is good to make sure your tracks have at least 1000 plays, 40+ likes, 20+ comments, but that is it, they do not need 100k plays etc. Just a visual indicator that this track is listened to and liked is enough.

To gain real followers / likes etc
* follow / unfollow (the best)
* search and like other tracks
* search and listen to tracks
* use fake accounts to gain followers then repost your track
* search and comment on tracks
* send PMs

Soundcloud is strict about MESSAGING. You will hit limits very quickly. So do NOT blanket send 100s of messages, you will get a temp ban (24 / 48 hours one week).

Then track comments, but you can send many of these, just not 1000s. Again all you get is temp bans

So rather than aiming to follow 10k users, you need to be more targeted. Many users are not active on soundcloud, many are fake accounts. So SCM makes use of many search options such as
* is user online
* when track was upload (last hour, last day, last week etc)
* users who uploaded tracks (last hour, last day, last week etc)

You can then use the FILTER options, to filter tracks / users by number of plays / tracks / tags / likes etc etc

So you can be sure that the users you are interacting with are active on the site.

Also, if you are searching and liking tracks uploaded in teh last hour, make sure select the button to play the track first. Then you can repeat this action every hour. If a user sees someone has listened and liked their track and they only uploaded it in the last hour, they will probably check out who that person.

Similar for track commenting on newly uploaded tracks. Make sure you utilise spintax {nice track|like it|good composition|sweet ideas} etc etc