Information On Joining The MEtaphoric Community Music Blog:
FOR MUSIC LOVERS ONLY.
Do you love to share your opinion on music? Do you post about music on your Last.FM journal on a music forum or on your personal blog wishing that more people would read what you post? Here’s your chance to write about the music you love (and hate) and have a lot of people read what you write. If you write interesting blog posts, people will read them.
Signup to the Community and then send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with a sample of your music writing. If it seems like you’re a good fit for the blog then you will be sent login information so that you’ll be able to post on the site along with all of the guidelines for posting on the site. As you can probably tell from the site, our standards aren’t that high. But you have to be able to write at least somewhat coherently.
Common types of blog posts: Album Reviews, Song Reviews, Show Reviews, & Music News along with “Features” which are basically anything else. Any sort of “editorial” you want to do about anything related to music can work here.
The blog is focused mainly on classic rock, indie rock, and electronic music. But we don’t have a hard and fast rule about what you can write about and what you can’t write about.
Guidelines For Contributers:
Categories: Pick just one category per blog post. Some posts may fit into multiple categories, just choose the one that fits best.
Tags: Having a whole lot of random tags confuses the system so the rules are pretty strict on this. Keep it to just artist/band names and years.
Content: The big thing is paragraph breaks. Use ‘em. Huge blocks of text are very difficult to read on blogs. If you see your paragraphs are more than 7 or 8 lines long, break them up (4 or 5 lines usually works best.) On blogs, you don’t use a paragraph indention - instead you use a blank space.
Links: Don’t join this site just to link back to your own site, that’s not acceptable. For the most part we don’t really want external links unless they are really relevant to what you’re posting. And if you do link to other sites we want them to be authority sites (such as Last.FM)
Album Reviews: We allow for multiple people to write a review for the same album. In fact that’s perfectly fine. We think it’s interesting to see different perspectives on the same album.
Making Your Posts Popular: We definitely encourage you to do everything you can to make your posts popular. What do we mean by that? Well it’s a good idea to social bookmark your posts (you can bookmark other people’s posts too if you want to be extra cool.) It’s also a great idea to link to your blog posts (or your author name which has all of the blog posts you’ve written) from any other websites you may be on (perhaps as your signature on a forum?)
Making Money Posting About Music On Music By Day
We use AdSense sharing but I’ve found that to be a bit of a waste of time as AdSense just doesn’t add up very quickly at all.
As of right now there’s no policy of paying money for posting on this site. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make any money - it just means we haven’t quite decided how we want to go about doing it. There will likely be “bonus payments” sent out to people who write a lot of high quality blog posts (which get a lot of visitors - this is why you should help make your blog posts popular.) You will need a PayPal account to get paid.
We don’t want to advertise that you can make money posting blog posts here, because we don’t want people who are doing it for money. We want people who really want to share their love of music with other people. And then if you make money doing it, that’s a bonus.