Getting found

Hype Display has public directories for DJs, venues, promoters and events, open decks nights included. Getting listed takes one thing: a page with something on it. A custom handle is not part of the test.

The directories

  • DJs — searchable by genre, city and distance.
  • Venues — rooms that book DJs.
  • Promoters — the crews and collectives that run nights.
  • Open decks — nights people can sign up to play, with a page for each city.
  • DJ events — lineup events posted by venues, promoters and DJs, with a page for each city.

The city pages are the ones that bring people in. Each city we cover has two: one for open decks nights, at hypedisplay.com/open-decks/your-city, and one for DJ events, at hypedisplay.com/events/your-city. They link to each other. Someone searching for open decks or DJ events in their city lands on one of them, and what is on it is the reason they make an account.

What gets you listed

Your DJ, venue and promoter handles are separate names, and each one owns its own web addresses. Claiming one comes with any paid plan; without one, your public profile, directory listing and QR code all still work from permanent addresses of their own — the handle only puts your name in the address. Handles and addresses.

As a DJ: put something on the page — a DJ name, plus at least one of a bio, a city, or a genre. Publishing is already on; the content is the part that is up to you. An empty page stays reachable by link and out of the directory, because a listing with nothing on it wastes the click.

As a venue: the same rule for your room — a venue name, plus at least one of a description, a city, or a genre. Venue pages are public by default; unlisted still works by link while staying out of search, which is the right setting while you are still filling the page in.

As a promoter: the same rule for your crew — a name, plus at least one of a description, a home city, or a genre. An empty page stays reachable by link but out of the directory.

For an event: publish it, and leave it listed. That goes for a night with a slot grid and for an event with a lineup you set.

Publish an event and leave it listed, and it gets a page of its own at a permanent address. It shows on your public page and your city’s page while it is upcoming, and stays up as a recap for a while afterwards. Unlisted keeps it to the link. What publishing does.

Turning up higher

  • Fill the page in. Sparse pages rank badly and convert worse.
  • Set your city. Most searches are local, and a missing city excludes you from all of them.
  • Pick genres you would actually be booked for rather than everything.
  • Add photos and mixes. They are what makes someone stay once they arrive.
Search takes time. A new page will not appear in Google the same week. The directories on the site itself are immediate, and in the early days they are where your traffic comes from.

Pages that are never indexed

Some pages are deliberately kept out of search, whatever your settings say:

  • Roster invitation links. They are a standing invitation, not a listing.
  • Anything inside your dashboard.
  • Unlisted and private venue pages.
  • Unlisted events, and any event still in draft.
  • Events at a venue with no street address, and events whose host page is empty.
  • A city’s open decks page, until that city has an introduction and a night on record.
  • A city’s DJ events page, until that city has an introduction and a few upcoming events.

They still show a proper preview when someone pastes one into a chat. Showing a preview and turning up in search are different things.

What this is not

The directories are not a ranking or a chart. There is no score, no featured placement to buy, and no paid position. A complete page beats an incomplete one, and that is the whole mechanism.

Last updated 2026-09-11