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seo for the music industry.

Studio Raine is an SEO and AI search agency for the music industry. we get record labels, music companies and the executives who run them found on Google. we rebuild what Google reads on your site, line up your business profile and listings, set the facts Google keeps on your name, and measure every change in your own Search Console. it is the same work Google's AI answers and ChatGPT read from.

every fix traces to the search engine's own published guidance, linked. the ten fixes for one site are $25,000, once, published. 14 client properties are live and linked from the STUDIORAINE homepage.

Ty Weathers's live site, built by Studio RaineBrad Cox Productions's live site, built by Studio RaineGreat Scott P.R.oductions's live site, built by Studio Raine

Our clients' panels.

DJ Flipstar and Ty Weathers have panels on Google now, redrawn here from the live results. Brad Cox, Suzi, Knice and Rick Scott are the finished look, drawn from each one's draft article.

DJ Flipstar's panel, live on Google, redrawn from the live result.

what we do for music.

eight jobs, in the order they move a music business up in search. each one is something Google, Bing or OpenAI documents itself, and the report shows which ones your site is missing before you pay for anything.

a site google can read

for every music business with a website.

most music sites are photos, players and embeds with almost no words on them. Google ranks text it can read, so every main page gets a real heading, plain sentences and real links, rendered on the server and fast on a phone.

  • pages rendered on the server, fast on a phone
  • a real heading and plain sentences on every main page
  • one address per page, broken pages fixed or redirected
  • a sitemap with the real date each page changed

titles in the buyer's words

for every page that should be found.

every page hands a search engine two lines: a title and a description. they become the headline and the sentence under it in a result. we write each one in the words your buyers actually type, and you approve every one.

  • a title and a description on every page
  • the heading, the title and the description saying the same thing
  • the city in plain text wherever you serve one

local search for the company

for labels, management and live companies with an office, a room or a venue.

search for a label or a music company in a city and Google shows a map with three businesses near the top. ChatGPT pulls the same listings into its own answers. that box reads the Google Business Profile, so we set it up properly and line the same facts up everywhere else people look.

  • the Google Business Profile: categories, services, hours, photos
  • Bing Places and Apple Business to match
  • the same name and phone number on every listing

structured data

for every page with something to say.

a short block of code on each page that tells machines what the page is in their own language: this is a label, a studio, an artist, a show, a release. Google uses it to understand the page and the business behind it.

  • Organization or LocalBusiness for the company
  • MusicGroup and Person for the artists
  • Event for shows, Product and Offer for what you sell

the facts google keeps on you

for record labels, label owners and music executives.

Google keeps a record of who you are. that record fills the knowledge panel beside your name and it is what the AI answers repeat. we find what it holds, correct what is wrong and connect your official profiles to it.

  • what Google holds on your name, written down
  • your site, streaming and social profiles connected to it
  • Wikidata and MusicBrainz where they apply

roster and release pages

for record labels, publishers and managers.

people search for the artist and the record, not the label. a page for every artist and every release, with the credits and the identifiers on it, gives Google something to rank for every name on the roster and every title in the catalog.

  • a page per artist and per release
  • credits, ISRC and UPC on the release page
  • the whole roster reachable from one place

ready for AI answers

for every music business that wants to be named.

Google says its AI answers rest on the same signals as search, and ChatGPT and Copilot read the web through their own crawlers. we make sure each one can reach you and finds the answer written out on the page. the full service is AI search optimization.

  • Googlebot, Bingbot and OAI-SearchBot let in
  • answers written out on the page, never hidden in tabs
  • Bing told about every change the day it ships, through IndexNow

measured where you can see it

for every client, from the first week.

Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools are set up in your name, so the searches you show up for and the clicks they send are numbers you read yourself, every month.

  • Google Search Console in your name
  • Bing Webmaster Tools in your name
  • the numbers before the work, written down, to measure against

built this way, live.

client sites we built and this site itself. open any of them and look at the titles, the structured data and the speed on your phone.

STUDIORAINE

this site, run the way this page describes.

  • structured data on every page.
  • Bing told about every changed page on every push, through IndexNow.
  • a Google Business Profile, and sitemaps that carry each page's real change date.

live:studioraine.art

Great Scott P.R.oductions's live site, built by Studio Raine

Great Scott P.R.oductions

a music PR firm's site, rebuilt on its own domain.

  • 263 pages, 247 of them press releases with a page each.
  • six publicist questions answered on their own pages.

live:greatscottpr.com

read the case study
Ty Weathers's live site, built by Studio Raine

Ty Weathers

a record producer's site on his own domain.

  • a 2,041 word credits page.
  • fourteen of his profiles, Wikidata among them, linked to one person.

live:tyweathers.com

read the case study
DJ Flipstar's live site, built by Studio Raine

DJ Flipstar

a DJ's site on his own domain: the site, his credits and his EPK.

  • 29 tracks and mixes listed in structured data.
  • twelve of his profiles, Power 105.1 among them, linked to him.

live:djflipstar.com

read the case study
Burn County's live site, built by Studio Raine

Burn County

one operator, three properties, one build.

  • the studio, the music brand and the marketing arm, each on its own site.
  • one storefront and one customer list under all three.
  • the catalog behind it carries nine Billboard top tens and an RIAA gold record, the client's credits.

live:burncounty.comburncountymusicburncountymedia

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Jake Angel's live site, built by Studio Raine

Jake Angel

a producer's beat store on his own domain.

  • a 592-beat catalog moved off BeatStars onto his own domain.
  • every sale writes and stamps its own licence agreement.
  • beat previews play on every product page before anyone buys.

live:jakeangelbeats

read the case study
DJ Los Live's live site, built by Studio Raine

DJ Los Live

a DJ's site on his own domain, one page that takes the bookings.

  • fourteen rooms he has played, named on the page.
  • seven dated moments, each linked to his own post.

live:djloslive.com

read the case study
Traphouse Studios's live site, built by Studio Raine

Traphouse Studios

a 24-hour studio taking paid session bookings on its own domain.

  • the studio's hours and location in structured data.
  • a credits page listing 15 artists.

live:traphousestudios.com

read the case study

how it runs.

  1. the report, before we talk

    a private page about your business: what Google and the AI tools say about you today, your site's numbers, and the fixes in order, every claim linked to the official guide it comes from. we build it before the first call.
  2. the scope

    the ten fixes for one act or one room, including the site rebuild and the Google profile, are the published package on the AI search page: $25,000, once. everything else on this page, and any label, roster or company with several sites, goes into a written scope that lists every property, every job and the number before anything starts.
  3. the fixes

    we do the work on the site and the listings. you approve every word before it goes live, and every account is opened in your name.
  4. measured monthly

    Search Console and Bing show the searches and the clicks. Google's own guide says a change can take from a few hours to several months to show in search, so we read the numbers every month against the ones we wrote down on day one.

who it is for.

music PR and marketing agencies
found when an artist searches for a publicist: the price, the founder, the specialism and the answers written out.
record labels
a roster and a catalog that should come up for every artist name and every title.
label owners and music executives
your own name first when someone searches it, with a people panel and the facts right.
management companies
every artist you manage found by name, and the company named when someone asks who manages them.
touring companies and heritage acts
found for the shows and the private bookings, and the act named in AI answers.
recording studios
the room found for its city, its hours and its bookings, with the credits written out where a crawler can read them.
booking agencies, promoters and festivals
every act you book and every show found when people ask what is on.
music-tech companies
named when the industry asks AI who builds what you build.

not a fit if

  • you want links bought in bulk or a page made for every keyword. Google's spam policies treat both as spam, and they can take a site out of results.
  • you want paid ads managed. this is organic search: the results nobody pays for.
  • the site cannot be changed. most of this work is on the site itself, and the web development page covers a rebuild.

the work it connects to.

AI search
the same base, plus what ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude and Perplexity each read.
web development
a site built for search from the first line of code.
custom software
label platforms, stores, licensing, catalog and royalty tools.
knowledge panels
the box Google shows beside your name.
label websites
a roster platform with a page for every artist and release.
music executives
your own name on Google and in AI answers: the Music Industry Authority Package, one price, end to end.
case studies
the builds, with the figures each client publishes.
for agencies
the same search work for your clients, under your name.

the studio already builds and publishes for

  • Traphouse
  • Knice On the Sonics
  • Isolation

who does the work.

John Raine, founder of Studio Raine

Studio Raine was founded by John Raine, an A&R and a musician who records as Raine, with released records and a working catalog on the music side. the studio is in New York City and works for labels, studios, producers, engineers and artists everywhere.

more about the studio

questions.

who does SEO for the music industry?

studios and agencies that specialise in music, and Studio Raine is one: SEO for record labels, label owners, artist managers and music executives, done together with the AI search and the website work it depends on. we're based in New York and work everywhere. the firms ChatGPT named for it, side by side with Studio Raine.

who does personal branding and SEO for music executives and managers?

for your own name rather than your business, Studio Raine sells one package: the Music Industry Authority Package, for label owners, producers, and managers. your official site, your biography, the facts Google reads, a knowledge panel on your name and the AI answer about you, end to end, at one published price, with an assessment first.

what does SEO for a music business cost?

SEO is from $10,000 a month, six months minimum, for one company. AI search for the company is $25,000, once: the AI search package, the site rebuilt and the Google profile included. a group with several companies is quoted per company in writing, before anything starts.

is SEO different from AI search optimization?

the base is the same. Google says its AI answers rest on the same signals as search, so a site Google can read and trust is the base for both. AI search adds what each assistant reads on its own: crawler access for ChatGPT and Bing, answers written out on the page, and a record of what each one says about you.

how long does SEO take to work?

the fixes take days. Google's own guide says a change can take from a few hours to several months to show in search, so we write down your numbers on day one and read them in Search Console every month.

do you do SEO for record labels?

yes. the label's own name is rarely what people search, so we build a page for every artist and every release, with credits and identifiers on each, link the whole roster from one place, and correct and connect the facts Google keeps on each artist.

do you do SEO for recording studios?

yes. to Google a studio is a local business, so it gets the Google Business Profile done properly, the hours and the location in structured data, the credits page written as text, and session bookings on its own domain. Traphouse Studios and Knice On The Sonics are built this way: the case studies.

do you do local SEO for a label's office or a company's venue?

yes. we set up the Google Business Profile properly, match it on Bing Places and Apple Business, keep the same name and phone everywhere, put the city in plain text on the site, and add the structured data that says what the company is and where it is.

do you buy links?

no. Google's spam policies treat bought links as link spam. we build links from the listings, profiles and partner pages that already know you, pointing at the right page.

who is behind Studio Raine?

John Raine founded Studio Raine. he's an A&R and a working musician himself: he records as Raine and has his own records out. the studio is in New York City and works for labels, studios, producers, engineers and artists everywhere.

see what google says about you.

text the name of the business and the city. we send back what Google and the AI tools say about you today, and the fixes in order.