I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but bear with me here. I was wondering, since all of you guys are so nice in helping newbians like moi, I'm trying to figure out how to get an audience for my comic. I've been doing it for 3 years now but can't seem to get past the friends and family only audience that I keep. I think my art is acceptable and my stories are enjoyable, but I don't know how to get people to come (to my site.) So if anyone has some suggestions, please, I would love to hear them.
Oh, here is my site if you were wondering. http://zorroandester.keenspace.com
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This should be in the Help or Tips & Techniques section...
Anyways...
-Read the Help and Tips & Techniques sections of the forums.
-Make a Newsbox (Those rectangular images/ads of other peoples comics you see) You'll find the info on how in the Help section.
-Once you have 30 comics, make a post in the Comic Pitching section.
-Link other people's comics (if they don't mind) and see if they'll link yours.
Hope this helps.
Anyways...
-Read the Help and Tips & Techniques sections of the forums.
-Make a Newsbox (Those rectangular images/ads of other peoples comics you see) You'll find the info on how in the Help section.
-Once you have 30 comics, make a post in the Comic Pitching section.
-Link other people's comics (if they don't mind) and see if they'll link yours.
Hope this helps.
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Make friends outside of your normal circle (like become aquainted with a few forums.) Put your link in your sig.
Get youself on The Webcomics List.
Other than that, I dunno.
Get youself on The Webcomics List.
Other than that, I dunno.
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Draw fanart and guest comics for other people, and they'll link you back.
Make people like you, and they'll link you.
Make people like you, and they'll link you.
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"1.Scan in high res 2.tweak with curves,levels or something to clean up the scan (or use channel mixer to remove blue pencil lines) 3.Add colour using a layer set to multiply. 4.Add wordbubbles and text as vector shapes. 5. Merge all layers. 6.resize to the web size. 7. Export/Save for Web" that's all I know about webcomicking.
"1.Scan in high res 2.tweak with curves,levels or something to clean up the scan (or use channel mixer to remove blue pencil lines) 3.Add colour using a layer set to multiply. 4.Add wordbubbles and text as vector shapes. 5. Merge all layers. 6.resize to the web size. 7. Export/Save for Web" that's all I know about webcomicking.
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Things you can do to get readers:
-Buy adspace. Comixpedia sells it cheap. Something Positive and Ghastly's Comic sells it.
-Do stuff where other comic creators can notice you, because most of them like to link to stuff and often. There are comic jams, keenspace events, etc. Or give 'em fanart (if they're the sort of person who puts up fanart, not everyone has time).
-Suggest your comic to comixpedia for a review. Just send em (click on staff to see who to send it to) a short email saying you have a 3 year old webcomic and what it's about. They do reviews usually by their monthly theme, so you may have to wait until an appropriate time, but they will appreciate the suggestion. Or I will pants them all.
Things you can do to keep readers:
-Make a reader's guide for your comic. 3 years is a lot of strips, and your early ones fall into the stereotypical "Hey, this is a comic!" intro. If you can write up something summing up your earlier comics and then heads stright into better stuff, you're more likely to keep people around who do show up. I really liked your art when I first saw your page, but going back to the first comic is a big jump back to bland. So shove readers towards the good stuff. I mean, the latest comic is hilarious and I love your style, so I'm sure people would be all over the comic. That's not holding you back, it's the first three comics.
- Keep it up!
-Megs
-Buy adspace. Comixpedia sells it cheap. Something Positive and Ghastly's Comic sells it.
-Do stuff where other comic creators can notice you, because most of them like to link to stuff and often. There are comic jams, keenspace events, etc. Or give 'em fanart (if they're the sort of person who puts up fanart, not everyone has time).
-Suggest your comic to comixpedia for a review. Just send em (click on staff to see who to send it to) a short email saying you have a 3 year old webcomic and what it's about. They do reviews usually by their monthly theme, so you may have to wait until an appropriate time, but they will appreciate the suggestion. Or I will pants them all.
Things you can do to keep readers:
-Make a reader's guide for your comic. 3 years is a lot of strips, and your early ones fall into the stereotypical "Hey, this is a comic!" intro. If you can write up something summing up your earlier comics and then heads stright into better stuff, you're more likely to keep people around who do show up. I really liked your art when I first saw your page, but going back to the first comic is a big jump back to bland. So shove readers towards the good stuff. I mean, the latest comic is hilarious and I love your style, so I'm sure people would be all over the comic. That's not holding you back, it's the first three comics.
- Keep it up!
-Megs
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3 words. Times Square Billboard.
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Flash a sig/comic banner on gogaia.com or gaiaonline.com (I forget which it was) And post in the forums. It's insanely popular and overcrowded with people. And when you flash your sig, people get curious and click, especially if your banner is eye-catching.
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Except hosting anything but comics goes against the Keenspace TOS.Jackhass wrote:How does any website get popular on the web?
Start offering porn, free MP3s or uhhh...more porn.
You could promise and not deliver, I suppose...just not host the actual content.
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Without meaning to toot my own horn too much here...
If you really think you have something worth promoting, advertising is the best way to promote it, especially advertising on a webcomic since you know the people reading it like webcomics.
People who have advertised on my site have received thousands of new readers to their sites and hundreds of thousands of new pageviews. When Krazy Krow bought his first ad on my site he told me during that ad run his stats showed his pageviews jumped by over 200,000 and he picked up over 10,000 new uniques.
That's pretty good, especially since most webcomics will never have more than 1000 regular readers.
Something Positive and Sexy Losers both offer affordable advertising rates as well.
There are plenty of other things you can do that will slowly build up traffic but if you've been at it for over three years you might not want to wait another three years to finally break the 100K regular readers mark. Advertising will get you the readers and it will get you them fast.
However, no promotional method can keep you readers. I can bring thousands of new eyes to a person's work, but if it's not any good they won't stay. Only you can keep them there once they get there which is why I always stress don't promote your work until you've got something that is truly worthy of being promoted.
If you really think you have something worth promoting, advertising is the best way to promote it, especially advertising on a webcomic since you know the people reading it like webcomics.
People who have advertised on my site have received thousands of new readers to their sites and hundreds of thousands of new pageviews. When Krazy Krow bought his first ad on my site he told me during that ad run his stats showed his pageviews jumped by over 200,000 and he picked up over 10,000 new uniques.
That's pretty good, especially since most webcomics will never have more than 1000 regular readers.
Something Positive and Sexy Losers both offer affordable advertising rates as well.
There are plenty of other things you can do that will slowly build up traffic but if you've been at it for over three years you might not want to wait another three years to finally break the 100K regular readers mark. Advertising will get you the readers and it will get you them fast.
However, no promotional method can keep you readers. I can bring thousands of new eyes to a person's work, but if it's not any good they won't stay. Only you can keep them there once they get there which is why I always stress don't promote your work until you've got something that is truly worthy of being promoted.
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ZorroandEster
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Wow youse guys replied fast. Thanks for all your tips and ideas and help and all of it. I'm sorry I posted this in the wrong place. I am gonna try my hardest to get more of an audience, and I appriciate all your help. Yeah. Well, except the billboard idea. That's a bit much, even for me.
Aight, thanks.
Aight, thanks.
