How Many Comments Do You Have on Your MySpace Page?

And how many of their comments are useful?

Comments that go further than saying "U rock" or "Just spreading some love."

Relevant comments show the poster has looked at your page properly and/or listened to the music and given you some feedback.

What roughly is the percentage of comments to the number of friends you have on My Space?

If the percentage is low then you may need to do some work to make the Comments tool an effective promotion tool.

Reasons for low volume of comments.

1. Friends on your page are there mostly to make up the numbers so have no incentive to ever look at your page and probably don't have the slightest interest in your page (nor often do you have any interest in their page).
2. You don't post comments on Friends' pages so they feel no obligation to post on your page.
3. You post comments on their page but they can't be bothered to hit the "Comment Back" button for a quick reply. (Bad move, see below for why.)

What To Do

Post as many comments on your friends' pages as time allows
and make the comments friendly and personal and in the case of other bands, that you like their music, that is if you do!

It is protocol on My Space to comment back immediately to other peeps comments (unless theirs are replies to your comments), the only exception being those that are blatantly promoting themselves. Nothing wrong in using Comments as a promo tool but far more effective if the promo is at the end as a sort of "By the was we're playing at xyz" etc.

Friendly and genuinely interested comments will be read by others who will
think, "at last someone who's not just posting to promote themselves."

Try it and watch the number of comments especially useful and genuine ones rise.

The Legendary Frank

My Space http://www.myspace.com/competeyetworktogether

Comments

[Egg Splore]

Truth be told.
Why should I care when nobody else cares?

Maybe the math is important. Only an example. Deep Purple then may have been one out of 20 very popular bands having 10 mio. fans. John Doe & his Electric Band today is one in 10 mio. having 20 real fans and 2000 other artists trying to promote themselves on his page via comments/friendship.

i had maybe 20 artists/ band to adore then. People to adore 10 mio. need to be produced. this is the real purpose of myspace. get laid.

[Frank Wood]

I agree.

However putting comments on other people's pages (not other musicians' pages) does help to draw attention to your band especially if your comments show that you've read the other person's page.

Myspace is now just interested in promoting mainstream bands and couldn't give a toss about indie bands. The only use it has is for unsigned bands to at least have some sort of profile there which they can augment through well written and well placed comments.

That was the intention of my blog to point that out.

Frank