Places to advertise a comic?

Q_Slash · Post by **Q_Slash** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:49 am

On the 23rd, an old webcomic database called SplurdLink was ressurected as SplurdNet and it's always open for more comics to be submitted. If you used to have a comic in SplurdLink, feel free to reregister and reactivate your comic.

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:15 am

sorcery101 wrote:I have advertised on Misfile, Dominic Deegan, BadBlood, the Noob, and i'm currently advertising on Comedity. With the exception of Bad Blood, they are all work very well given their prices.

I've been meaning to try "the noob" and never really heard anything about "misfile". I wish I said something about bad blood, as I've heard from several people the ad price/actual people showing up wasn't worth it.

You may wish to give inverloch a try. I've been told comics that do well on fantasy sites do well there too.

Q_Slash · Post by **Q_Slash** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:17 am

TdotOdot2k wrote:
sorcery101 wrote:You may wish to give inverloch a try. I've been told comics that do well on fantasy sites do well there too.

Inverloch is my highest hit refferal site. We've reciprical a link exchange, It's great and dear and awesome.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:57 am

I've been doing advertising for a few months, paying REAL close attention to the kind of traffic I got from them. As I don't exactly have a lot of money, I decided which ones were good advertisers and which ones weren't. I figured that it'd be good advertising if the number of visits a day came close to the amount of money I paid for the thing.

Webcomic List (the update place, not the defunct listing site) 'Bout fifteen new visits a day, maybe two with more than five page views (those are the people most likely to come back)

Onlinecomics.net is OK. Oddly, their cheaper advertising is the more effective. Six dollars a week.

No Need for Bushido simply ROCKS as an advertiser. The peak was defenately nice, and when it wore off I had 20+ more daily visitors than I did before I ran the ad.

Buzzcomix has two different ad forms, a banner ad and a tower ad. The banner ad is better than the tower ad, because the banner ad is on the vote entry pages as well as the site pages itself, which means in reality, it's on more pages.

I bout about a month's worth of BadBlood's cheaper banner ads. defenately not worth the price of admission.

Oh, and to the people who suggest link exchanges with Inverloch...how does one go about doing one of those?

CW

Q_Slash · Post by **Q_Slash** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:01 am

christwriter wrote:Oh, and to the people who suggest link exchanges with Inverloch...how does one go about doing one of those?

I just emailed her politely, asking if she'd be interested in a link exchange, then I discribed my comic (Elven Lacryment), the premis, and directed her to the link where my bannres were. I asked her then, to reply with a yes or a no should she be interested, and she was.

Picatrix · Post by **Picatrix** » Thu May 25, 2006 12:16 pm

MixedMyth wrote:Chris and I are actually considering out opptions, too. Blank Label does advertising, as does No Need for Bushido, Alpha Shade, Red String, Comixpedia, Top Webcomics, and Falcon Twin.

I advertised on Red String recently and had very nice results, especially for the low cost of the ad. Also, I didn't experience much of a dip when the ad ended, so most of them must be coming back (although, to be fair, my comic is also a romance-genre manga-style comic so our target audience is pretty similar)

I've also tried onlinecomics.net, which was alright. Nothing staggering, but alright.

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:22 pm

Red String, eh? I'll have to try that. Not super heavy into any romance yet, but I'm only just finishing year 1 now, so I get to explore in year 2. :3

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Thu May 25, 2006 2:54 pm

Maybe you can pay someone 25 grand to tattoo your URL on their forehead.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:38 pm

...and then pay them another twenty-five grand to do something like try to steal the crown jewels.

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:16 pm

And then kill them and take back your fifty grand, dammit!

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:07 pm

Kat North wrote:And then kill them and take back your fifty grand, dammit!

Kinda defeats the purpose of the whole tattoo thing =/ Although, you could always look into bidding on a tombstone...

Bekka · Post by **Bekka** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:58 am

I recently bought ad space from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (http://www.smbc-comics.com/) to see how it would work out and I'm getting lots of hits from the link. He's not greedy and you can use a fairly large image.
Otherwise the only other time I bought ad space was from Comixpedia - and if I got a single hit from them, it didn't register in my referrals list.

From personal experience on readership retention when I was linked on some site that brought me big hit spikes, I think that no more than 10% of the clickers generally become readers. It may not sound like much, but it all adds up.

Netpoet · Post by **Netpoet** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:37 am

TTG's never used any advertising at all, with the sole exception being from when I was writing reviews for Comixpedia and had a banner rotating there. However, that only brought in about 20-30 visitors extra a month, so I'm not sure how effective it really way.

Honestly, I'd think that the best advertising would be from banners and links from other online comics. My HIGHEST referral right now is from Darken, hands down.

I'll probably start to advertise once TTG has finished chapter one. You know... sometime in 2008. :p Until then, our hits have steadily increased every month anyway, and Michelle and I are both estatic about that.

>Net

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Fri May 26, 2006 6:09 am

Speaking of advertising...

On May 22nd, someone posted about my comic on their livejournal. Then someone else posted it on their own. Those two LJ links have given me about two dozen hits in the past week.

I feel all tingly. My comic is about memes, and I'm on the verge of becoming one. I want to go 'squeeee'.

Paid advertising may be the most efficient way of getting eyeballs, but nothing feels as good as unsolicited word of mouth!

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Fri May 26, 2006 8:25 am

netpoet wrote: I'll probably start to advertise once TTG has finished chapter one. You know... sometime in 2008. :p
>Net

If you alternated drawing pages with Michelle, you'd get there in half the time!

Netpoet · Post by **Netpoet** » Fri May 26, 2006 8:51 am

LibertyCabbage wrote:If you alternated drawing pages with Michelle, you'd get there in half the time!

Yep.. and we'd lose 2/3 of our readerbase! Yay! :p I'm no artist. You can see the extent of my artwork in my siggie, with my little triangle man. I ain't stupid. :p

>Net

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Sun May 28, 2006 2:00 am

Thanks everyone! (Esp. Remus) I'll have to do the actual updating after the cookout now, though.

- Joel Fagin

Sly Eagle · Post by **Sly Eagle** » Mon May 29, 2006 8:46 am

TWC offers using one of your characters for their voting confirmation page (you get a 100x100 character portrait with the character's name, and you match up the name with the button to prove you're a human being). When a vote is confirmed by your character, your link is provided. I participated in April, but not this month, and my between-updates traffic dropped significantly. Definitely renewing in June!

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