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Most of the traffic to lyric sites originate from long-tail search keywords (414 million global broad match monthly searches for lyrics). Your site has no Googlebot crawlable data, barring you from participating in a share of the long-tail search volume.

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That's okay, for now this just exists as a solution to the problem that no lyric sites exist which are not aggressively bad. Though, we might contend that a large amount of traffic comes from the long-tail search because there is no site worth going to - ie it doesn't matter which lyric site I use, so I might as well just google it.

I really like the site. One feature I would like to see implemented would be comments on each individual song. That's one of the main reasons I look up the lyrics, too see what the song means to other people.

I like your site a lot, but am wondering when you get hit for being various kinds of scrapers.

I wish you well, I am so glad to find that others hate lyrics sites as much as I do. And yet, I am often searching for lyrics (when I don't have Soundhound near me.)

I am able to use Google's Personal Blocklist to block out the worst of the worst sites. That leaves me with a pretty good solution.

http://lystener.com/ exists.

There must be a reason why these clean lyrics sites aren't more prominent.

There's also http://www.darklyrics.com/ but only for metal.

http://www.instalyrics.com exists

As does http://rapgenius.com for hip hop

I built my own at http://new.songvoodoo.com as well, so other sites do exist

Thanks for mentioning Lystener! I think it's because lyric sites aren't sticky. You're there for a song, and you're gone again. Lystener switches that around, kind of, but you still need the initial urge to look up a song lyric.

That, and I do a terrible job of promoting it.

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