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I got a little behind in this, so I’ll wrap the last few months into one installment. This will my last installment as I expect the rest of the year will just be a slooooow climb.
Month Three
The big highlight was that Google finally gave the site a pagerank. I don’t really pay that much attention to it but at least having one makes the site bonafide. At least in my eyes.
Month Four
I starting submitting to webcomic directories and trying to get some various other links. Of the webcomic directories I would say Belfry Webcomics provided the best traffic as they showcase you on their homepage if you’re accepted.
Month Five
I started to get some decent traffic, mainly from StumbleUpon and Reddit. It really varied depending on how the community like the particular webcomic. I could have a day with a hundred visitors or over a thousand.
All in all some nice traffic boosts but I neeed to diversy my traffic soources, maybe do some link exchanges with comics I like or write more articles so that google can find my site easier.
Hanging around some of the webcomic community sites would probably be good also but at present I don’t have the time to be an earnest member of one of those site. I’d have to sacrifice some of my obsessively checking reddit time to make this happen and I just can’t do it ;)
Conclusion
Social media can provide a lot of good traffic but unless you’re cartoon goes viral, it’ll be pretty up and down. It’s worthwhile to concentrate on developing your search traffic also.
A lot of people use the ComicPress WordPress theme which allows you to have blog entries right below the cartoon. I chose not to do it because I really wanted to showcase the cartoon in a very minimal framework but I might have to re-consider this decision at some future point.
It also provides a way for people to directly interact with you through the comments section which can be a good way to build your audience. Anyways, check out the ComicPress theme if you’re thinking of starting a webcomic. If you have little technical knowledge, it’ll be a lot easier than most other paths to getting your stuff online.
General Semichaotic Info | June 8th, 2010
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