To Do: Promotion/Linkages

The main goal of the website is to make Robert Christgau's writings more widely known, more broadly available, and more easily accessible. Hopefully, this will result in more books sold, more articles commissioned, and perhaps other interesting opportunities.

Directories/Search Engines

We should be listed in all major web directories and indexed by all major search engines.

Not Done:

• DirectHit: Wants meta description, initial keywords list.
• Looksmart: Wants $149 for "Basic Submit," $299 for "Express Submit."
• Lycos: Steered me to Looksmart (q.v.).
• Teoma: No submit URL service.

• All the Web: Submitted URL (2001-12-12).
• AltaVista: Submitted URL (2001-12-12).
• DMOZ (Open Directory Project): Submitted site (2001-12-12) under category Arts/Music/Reviews. Title: Robert Christgau. Description: Writings about rock and roll, popular and semipopular music, and popular culture, including Christgau's Consumer Guide to more than 10,000 records.
• Excite: Submitted URL (2001-12-12) under category Entertainment.
• Google: Submitted URL (2001-12-11).
• HotBot: Submitted URL (2001-12-12).
• Search Hippo: Submitted URL (2001-12-12). Keywords: music reviews, rock critics, rock and roll.
• Yahoo: Submitted site (2001-12-12) under category Entertainment/Music/Reviews. Description similar to DMOZ.

External Links

Mostly looking for music/critic web pages that contain links lists. Some places:

• RockCritics.Com: already do.
• Rock & Rap Confidential: links page (wrote them, they didn't bite).

Setting Up External Links

We'd like to encourage other people to link to this website. The simplest way would be to add the following HTML to your website:

  <a href="http://www.robertchristgau.com/">
  Robert Christgau's Web Site</a>

If you have an interest in a particular artist (let's use Arto Lindsay as an example), you might link to a particular CG page:

  <a href="http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php&name=arto+lindsay">
  Robert Christgau on Arto Lindsay</a>

To add a form to your website to look up an artist CG:

  <form method=get action="http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php">
  Enter name: <input type=text name=name>
  <input type=submit></form>

We'd also like for you to bookmark the website. One neat trick here would be to create a bookmark and specify the URL as the following Javascript:

  javascript:void(q=prompt('Enter artist:',''));
  if(q)location.href='http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name='+escape(q)