Getting hits?

Allanah · Post by **Allanah** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 4:39 am

I get like three visitors a day. I'm really shy, and I don't think my kind of comic appeals to many people, although the ones it does apply to like it alot. If you like shojo and those kind of movies that make you laugh, but then bring you to tears is what my comic is. Starts out fast, but plummets to a slower, indepth story.

So I don't want to complain for lack of visitors.
I'm just grateful that only coming here got me a few more visitors. ^^

Thanks

TrevorIsSmall · Post by **TrevorIsSmall** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 7:05 am

My comic gets ten trillion hits a day. I don't know why.

ZOMBIE USER 7833 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 7833** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 7:38 am

Yeah, chatting on Trillian and telling your friends who use it to go to your site is a good way to get hits. I'd think you'd be able to get more than 10 that way, though.

TrevorIsSmall · Post by **TrevorIsSmall** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 7:40 am

Very funny, buddy. My comic gets 10,000,000,000,000 hits a day. Not really. More like 33. But 33 is close to 10,000,000,000,000. Isn't it?

ZOMBIE USER 7833 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 7833** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 7:42 am

It's closer than, say... 32, or 31. But not really, no.

Ratbert · Post by **Ratbert** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 9:59 am

The most visits I ever got in a day was 25...and I'm quite proud of that, too. It seems as slow it's slowly getting popular, which is awesome.

Wiebe · Post by **Wiebe** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 10:11 am

Mine is slowly becoming confusing.

Sidwood · Post by **Sidwood** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 11:41 am

I'm currently on pace to get 654 vists this month, an increase of more than 100 over last month. I've been around since March...back then, I was getting squat. Just keep it up.

"People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom..."

Twentyfour · Post by **Twentyfour** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 12:27 pm

My visits have doubled this month, I think I'm gonna end up with somewhere between 750-850.. not bad for a second month eh? well.. I hope so.... Then again, I whore myself off like no-ones business

JoshGuy · Post by **JoshGuy** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 2:45 pm

I get about 2,000 unique visits a day.

I don't know how.

Wiebe · Post by **Wiebe** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 11:57 am

That's a lot of visits.

Themoch · Post by **Themoch** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 12:09 pm

it would seem when you stop posting in forums... and do not keep up with weekly additions to your comic... that the amount of people who vist drop...

ZOMBIE USER 8124 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8124** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 2:12 pm

I get about 800 something unique visits a month, but my hit counter seems to skyrocket nicely, boosting my ego even though it's all lies. (LIES! >_<) But 800-something unique visits a month is <i>nothing to sneeze at</i>.
Advertising in the right places seems to be the key to success. Advertising wherever you can is good too. I seemed to take this path:

*At first, my comic was hosted on geocities, and I signed up for their free directory listings. I began to get a few tenative visitors.
*I did a fan comic for a comic that I really liked. (This got me quite a few hits)
*I discovered Keenspace and signed up with them.
*I got on as many genre dropdowns as my comic would be allowed on. My visits went up a little.
*I signed up for the (now defunct) Keenspace Top 99. This got me a few visits.
*I signed up at http://ocad.syste.ms (online comic and artist's directory) This got me some more visits.
*I did fancomics for some keenspace comics.
*I create fun little extras for my visitors (like a personality quiz, "pet" software for my characters, icons, etc.)
*I started a link exchange, and kept my links to comics I enjoy updated.
*I waited patiently and plugged along at my once a week schedule (I update every Saturday)
*Signed up for the new Keeenspace Super 100. (lots of visits, for some reason)
*Soon, I guess word got around and some of the bigger keenspace comics started linking me! I got a link from a keenspot comic too! (Exploitation Now) but they were from sort of the same genre as me. ^^;

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Other things that work are-
*Putting your url in your sigline
*Being active on the forums and including your url in that sigline as well.
*Getting friends webpages to link you.
*Get indexed on Yahoo. It's free.

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I've learned in the past almost-a-year in doing my comic that you really can't ask for links. You have to get your butt out there, and wait for it. But if you have a good story, decent art (well drawn stick figures count as decent art), a non-confusing page layout, and a timely update schedule, then people will love you for it. Also, I've noticed that of the people who post in the keenspace forums here, about 90% of them have terriffic comics. Coincidence? It also helps (when you're part of a community like keenspace/spot) to get to "know your neighbors" because confidence is a big part of weither people will read your comic, or ignore it all together. and then you also have a lot of friendly people to talk to during those off-hours about wierd things. (I know I do.) ^_^

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Twentyfour · Post by **Twentyfour** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 2:38 pm

Yanagi-San wrote:*I signed up at http://ocad.syste.ms (online comic and artist's directory) This got me some more visits.

... I thought that place only took in anime type comics.. well.. that's about 99.9% of their content(as far as I've seen)

Yananananana NAGI....san wrote:Also, I've noticed that of the people who post in the keenspace forums here, about 90% of them have terriffic comics

SWEET!!! I have a 90% chance of being terrific!

Anyway, it's cool that you wrote up something like this! Gives people a good idea of what to do when startin out.. then again it doesn't hurt to have your comic have the word "sex" in the title

Chascraw4d · Post by **Chascraw4d** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 2:42 pm

themoch wrote:it would seem when you stop posting in forums... and do not keep up with weekly additions to your comic... that the amount of people who vist drop...

Promotion is an ongoing thing. The best promotional tactics involve two things:

1 ) Attracting new readers to your comic.

2 ) Getting current readers to keep reading.

Posting in forums with a link to your comic in your sig helps with number 1. Maintaining your update schedule helps with number 2.

ZOMBIE USER 8124 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8124** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 4:33 pm

TwentyFour Wrote:
... I thought that place only took in anime type comics.. well.. that's about 99.9% of their content(as far as I've seen)

That's true, but they still take in non-anime comics, so it's a good place to get listed.

And having the word "sex" in the title often scares away people, much to my non-surprise. That's why I frequently call it "PSC". ^_^

ZOMBIE USER 11441 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 11441** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 10:17 pm

It seems that I am my own top referrer, I guess that's because I just found out about forums today.

Fil3r · Post by **Fil3r** » Wed Aug 21, 2002 12:00 am

allanah wrote:I get like three visitors a day.

Pretty much more than me. :\

Scrubbo · Post by **Scrubbo** » Wed Aug 21, 2002 12:18 am

One of these days... I'll promote my comic. One of these days..... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!

AND THEN I WILL RULE THE WORLD!

^_^

Jouni · Post by **Jouni** » Wed Aug 21, 2002 1:11 am

I've been getting around 14 visits a day, or so does the Keenspace's logs say. My own tracker says a little less...

But, yay, I'm soon going to get Vegetarinat T-shirts done, so real life advertising can begin. Maybe that will rise the counters.

And I'll try that online comic and artist directory -thingy too. (http://www.onlinecomics.com is also a good place to submit your comic... )

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