RockDex Review and Contest

*Contest update, Jimmy from Music Arsenal has just upped the ante and is throwing in a Free Year of their Pro Subscription. Read about what that entails here!! Thanks Jimmy!*

*Contest info at the end of the post!*

RockDex looks and feels really cool and sleek. It’s made by the MusicArsenal Team so you can understand that it’s a cool product with indie bands in mind. Essentially what RockDex does is shows you how good or bad your buzz is online. It does this by looking at play counts, comments, social networks, charts and other little online do-dads to come up with a ranking for your band.

Depending on how good, or bad, your band ranks it offers tips, articles and guides to boosting your rankings.

The idea is awesome, the rankings are a pretty good assessment and the sites they recommend for advice are pretty top notch and informative.  The lacking information is what they found out about you online and an easy way to access that data.

Let’s go over their break down:

Social Buzz - This is taken from Twitter and Blip.fm. If your fans are tweeting about you and sharing your songs on Twitter, you get a hot score. To find out if your fans are talking about you, use Twitter Search. To get your fans to talk about you on Twitter you need to call that action and make it easy for fans to Tweet about you. Find Tweet this song buttons online and integrate with Blip.fm or Twisten to boost your presence.

Social Media - In this portion they look at YouTube, Flickr on “other” social media sites. Without knowing their exact criteria, my suggestion would be to begin getting social. Start Digging your stories, comment on other blogs and start getting reviews from great music bloggers. Don’t forget to post your media on YouTube, Flickr and other video sharing sites. A great place to automate your videos is TubeMogul.

Fans - These gauge this stat from sites similar to iLike and Last.fm as well as Event site, Eventful. We all know that Myspace friends are inflated and hold no true value anymore, but fans on these services are much tougher to “game” and generally represent fans that really want your music. I love the concept and hope to see more musicians using these services to really increase their fan base.

Listens - Plays are coming from Myspace, Last.fm and other sites that feature your music and have play counts. They go above and beyond on this ranking as they factor in week-by-week plays to gain consistency levels. Good work RockDex.

Overall the serivce has some cool features and hopefully in future realms you will be able to download the data and learn from what you are currently doing and also perform searches for similar bands to go and mirror what they are doing, much like an internet marketing campaign.

*RockDex Contest*

Bands, post a link to your score in the comments and the highest score will win a 1 year free Rock Stars Pro membership,  a 1 year  Pro Membership to Music Arsenal and a Gen-Y Rock Stars T-Shirt from Audiolife! Contest will end on Friday, March 13th at 7pm EST.

-Greg Rollett