Sometimes people forget that not all computers are made equal. Many people have to wait several seconds or minutes for a flash banner to load. But, how do I put music on my website? is a question that is asked by a lot of website entrepreneurs. The short answer is that putting music on a website is very easy. It's just a matter of embedding a music file on a website using html code that is free and available on the internet. If a person wants, they can also add other bells and whistles with the code.

Sometimes people forget that not all computers are made equal. Many people have to wait several seconds or minutes for a flash banner to load. But, how do I put music on my website? is a question that is asked by a lot of website entrepreneurs. The short answer is that putting music on a website is very easy. It's just a matter of embedding a music file on a website using html code that is free and available on the internet. If a person wants, they can also add other bells and whistles with the code.

There are also internet businesses that, for a fee, will provide a person with the html code to copy and paste onto their website if they don't want to do it themselves. Some of these businesses will send updates of code to change music on a regular basis. Which can also be done for free by typing in the correct html code.

Before adding music to a website it is important to think about some of the issues that can affect an internet business when music is added. The most important first step for adding music to a website is to be sure that the music that is being played is not copyrighted. If it is, then an individual wants to get permission from the group or singer before they add it to their site.

Another consideration is that if the music file is over 45KB most people will not wait for the music to load. Not everyone has a fast system, these people are also customers. They will exit the website before the music has finished downloading and a potential customer is lost.

Unless a website is targeting a niche market that listens to the same song, by the same singer, it is likely that some potential customers will hate the music and leave the website without browsing or purchasing anything. Music is very subjective and very personal. A good analogy is assuming that everyone who wears blue jeans loves country music. How many potential customers will a website lose doing that?

One last consideration has to do with driving traffic. The goal of a growing business is to drive traffic "to" the site. If a person has an interesting site there are going to be individuals who are surfing the web at work and will look for that website. People aren't supposed to do that, but they do. So they land on a website that someone told them was great and some song starts going off as soon as they open the site. The music on the site has alerted everyone within earshot, including the boss that "somebody" is doing something they aren't supposed to be doing. As with any type of aversion therapy, the website has caused embarrassment or a bad experience and that person will not visit the site again.

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