How long did it take for your comic to get popular?

Leujin · Post by **Leujin** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:48 am

Lunar wrote:I have enough visits so that I know I can't be responsible for all of them, as of right now that's good enough for me.

hear hear!

Jameslong · Post by **Jameslong** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:44 am

spqrblues wrote:
jameslong wrote:i'm going the right direction, at least...
You mentioned in your news notes that you're going to a convention soon. I bet you see a spike in visits after that, so then it'll just be a matter of keeping people coming back. I recommend having a strip with naked ninja gamer furry chicks the day after the convention.

Now THAT would bring in the niche market I'm looking for.

Fabio Ciccone · Post by **Fabio Ciccone** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:02 pm

I guess I'm getting pretty known down here in Brazil, but I have a looong road to walk after I have the same around the world.

Just keep movin' forward

Webkilla · Post by **Webkilla** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:36 pm

i get an avg. of 100 unique hits a day - have been getting that quite steadily for about half a year now...

hmm - getting some hot hot linkage?

*starts scribling fanart for shameless plugage*

Pattyannboyd · Post by **Pattyannboyd** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:19 pm

april is my best month so far, averaging 88 visits a day (about 1997 hits a day) Considering I've only had the site up for about 8 months, I think it's doing well.
*laughing* I know I want my comic to be more popular, but I think it would require a site that wasn't ugly. I wish I knew some decent HTML to pretty things up.

Shishio · Post by **Shishio** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:03 am

The Neko wrote:By the standards of what I consider "popular", I never reached it.

As for getting 200-500 hits a day, I had that within two to three weeks. As for that many visits, I have been having 533 a day on average for awhile now.

I doubt I have that many readers though. I believe the vast majority of visitors to my site are spambots, (Just look at how many comments there are on the first strip.) and some readers check the site more than once a week, not to mention all the times I visit my site.

Jekkal · Post by **Jekkal** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:17 am

spqrblues wrote:
jameslong wrote:i'm going the right direction, at least...
You mentioned in your news notes that you're going to a convention soon. I bet you see a spike in visits after that, so then it'll just be a matter of keeping people coming back. I recommend having a strip with naked ninja gamer furry chicks the day after the convention.

Furry - Check
Chicks - Check
Ninja - Working on it
Gamer - Eh, relative term here . . .
Naked - We can find a way . . .

JTigerclaw · Post by **JTigerclaw** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:22 pm

jekkal wrote:Naked - We can find a way . . .

There's always a way.

Especially in furry comics. >,>

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:28 pm

Let's see..... nearly two years on the site, and six years on the comic itself. I have 30 visits a day to show for that.

Can I make a prediction about how long it'll be until I'm popular?

Oh, I'm so sad.

Ataraxia · Post by **Ataraxia** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:49 pm

Robbie wrote:Can I make a prediction about how long it'll be until I'm popular?

I believe it's been said before in this thread, but to become popular you have to do some work on promotion. Get your name out there. Splash your links across the internet.

In other words, try to have one of your images stolen by Todd Goldman.
Alternatively you could go with the furry naked ninja gamer chicks. That's probably better.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:50 pm

Actually, Todd already has girls throwing rocks at Robbie's characters.

Jekkal · Post by **Jekkal** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:38 pm

JTigerclaw wrote:
jekkal wrote:Naked - We can find a way . . .
There's always a way.

Especially in furry comics. >,>

You're not kidding either. >_>

Moder · Post by **Moder** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:43 am

I´m getting 180 visits/day now.

It Isnt much, but It seems to keep growing I guess (It went from 0 to 100 in an year and from 100 to 180 in the last 4 months).

I do get fan mail from time to time.

But I do think 180 is too much (considering I rarely have time to advertise It). Half of that is probably bots and 1/4 is probably repeated visitors. It´s hard to tell...

Actually I dont trust these numbers. I still get curious sometimes to know *for certain* how many readers I have. I guess the only way to be sure would be to register readers in a newsletter (I know not all my readers would register, but the ones that did would most certanly be reders...).

But then having a newsletter/regsitering system is probably very hard and time consuming.

In this thread I heard about a "unique visitors" number.. Does this exist? Is It in the Stats? Is It "better" than "Visits"?

Geekblather · Post by **Geekblather** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:19 am

Hm. It took- about four months for me to go from an average of 177 and 305 visits a day. This month the average is holding pretty strong at about 480 (although I'd be really excited to break the 500 average!)

Here's hoping. I'm also joining a comic collective, along with Red String, Ugly Girl, and Penny and Aggie (and a few others I think) hopefully that will help too

Being a part of a group like that makes me feel like a real cartoonist.

Frankodragon · Post by **Frankodragon** » Sun May 20, 2007 7:15 pm

I don't get many hits either---about 8 according to the data--and even for two comics on CG. I read somewhere that you gotta post comments on other ppl's work instead of going nuts trying to advertise your comic.

Razumi · Post by **Razumi** » Sun May 20, 2007 10:39 pm

My comic's based off Gaia online, so people from there oozed right in. My partner and I were kind of awestruck to see something like 300+ at average in the beginning. (And, man...that's a lot for doodle sketches spawned from boredom.) It was just in my signature and we didn't talk much about the comic. Currently, we've gotten pretty tired of Gaia, though, so our direction is starting to change. We get about 10-30 at average now along with the "Raz, stop having a life and draw!!!" e-mails. **Shrugs** We're thinking of making a different comic while giving the current one a rest or just update it on rare occasions if Gaia happens to do something that catches our attention.

The new comic would be coloured and we'll be taking it more seriously. Already have some things set up along with some pages already completed and a more mature looking website design finished other than some of the artwork that needs to be done. I think I'll finish at least 20 pages first before we dare do anything like advertising or even hosting the stuff. Hopefully things'll go well in terms of time, though.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Mon May 21, 2007 12:37 am

JTigerclaw wrote:
jekkal wrote:Naked - We can find a way . . .
There's always a way.

Oh yeah, you're one to ta-... oh went back in your archives, fine, there's SOME nudity.

Humbug · Post by **Humbug** » Mon May 21, 2007 1:21 am

My stats went up really slowly in the 2 and a half years I've been working on the comic, and my daily average has been stuck at 450-600 readers for the past few months. I don't think I'm gonna get any more than that. Ah well.

Tyras · Post by **Tyras** » Mon May 21, 2007 4:27 am

Nothing brings your readers in faster than implied pedophilia relations.
Just saying.

I hit my one-year anniversary in a month or two and I get about 700 hits on updated days.
Or visits. Or views. Whatever the important one is.

Geekblather · Post by **Geekblather** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:12 am

Humbug wrote:My stats went up really slowly in the 2 and a half years I've been working on the comic, and my daily average has been stuck at 450-600 readers for the past few months. I don't think I'm gonna get any more than that. Ah well.

You deserve more readers than that!
I told my mom to check you out, after she saw the FCBD book.

She's a good promoter.