In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a music website with WordPress. At the end of the lesson you’ll be able to create your own music website and make money online from it.
A music website is a website that users can listen to musics. They can even download the music for free or with a 
token.
Music website are very popular on the internet. This is because a lot of people love music. It could be either audio clips or music video clips.
A typical example of music websites are Naijaloaded, NotJustOk, TooXclusive and more. They make a lot of money from their music websites.
How to Make a Music Website with WordPress.
WordPress is one of the most popular content management system (CMS) on the web. It’s a software you can use to build astonishing websites and blogs. WordPress has a lot of plugins and integration to satisfy your needs anytime.
In this guide, I’ll show you how to create your own music website with WordPress even if you don’t have any web design skills.
Things you’ll need to create your own music website with WordPress.
1. A domain name: this will be your music website address that your users will type on a web browser to enter your site. It’s should be short, easy to pronounce and remember. You’ll buy a domain name at the rare below $15. But you’ll get it for free when you buy web hosting with Bluehost.
2. We Hosting: You’ll need to buy a high quality web hosting package. I recommend Bluehost. You need high quality web hosting package to withstand your music uploads.
Remember, each song is at least 3-6MB. So you may need to buy to bigger bandwidths web hosting to withstand the capacity. At a start, you can buy Virtual Private Server and latter upgrade to dedicated server once you begin to have high traffic. Remember, people loves music so you’ll definitely have huge amount of traffic on yoursite.
3. Music web design templates: after buy the web hosting with a free domain name, the next thing you’ll need is a decent music WordPress theme. You can find a couple of good music website themes at Themeforest.
That’s the best place to buy high quality premium WordPress themes. Their prices ranges from $30-70 each. It’s even cheaper because you may not afford a cost of paying a web developer to build html music website for you from scratch. WordPress has made it easier.
The next thing… Install WordPress and Theme on your web hosting package
Now that you have the basic things needed, proceed to install WordPress software on your hosting package. WordPress Installation is very easy and it takes about 2 minutes. Most webs hosting companies lik Bluehost one-click install for WordPress.
After that..
Install your nice music website template you bought from Themeforest and you are ready to upload your musics.
4. Music Clips: You’ll need some music clips to upload on your music website. To get the music clips make sure you take permission from appropriate artists or marketers to avoid copyright infringement. It’s good if you are a music producer because you will have so many clips to upload. You can also collaborate with upcoming artists to get clips for your site.
How to Make Money from Music Download Website
Music websites have huge monetization potential. You will make your users to watch or listen to the music directly on your site. So your music website will work like radio or TV. The more time your users spend on your site, the more money you’ll make.
Music download websites make money from so many sources.
2. Sponsored music listing
3. Music sales
4. Advertising
5. Affiliate commissions
6. Membership fee
That’s it…
Tips to succeed in Music Website
To make your music website to be popular, you’ll need to promote it. Use social media networks like Facebook, instagram, Twitter , YouTube and others.
You may also need to invest a little on paid advertising like Google AdWord, Facebook ads, Twitter ads and so on.
That’s it on how to create your own music website with WordPress. It’s simple if you follow my guide well.
Just start it and tell us how it goes. Do you have questions? If yes, let me hear from you in the comments section below.
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Hello sir, thanks allot for the information. I register my domain name with simple different (simdif) and they give me some benefit , but now I want to link it with Google adsenc but I could not get through. please can you direct me on how to do it.
thanks.
Hello Bolaji, read here on how to make money with AdSense
Great post for all lovers of music who want to make money online. But what about starting an inspirational blog? hope to hear from you.
Inspirational blogs are also good especially if you publish what your users really want to read. Success!
I have been trying to get my own web, but I couldn’t get it through. At times I land myself on an unknown destination, then I gat to abolish the track I follow. Pls coach me out abeg of u
Follow my step-by-step guide here or you hire me to create it for you. Success!