How popular is popular?

Deathbringer · Post by **Deathbringer** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 1:17 am

Last time i checked i had 106 hits since december 21!------------------

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Toddandpenguin · Post by **Toddandpenguin** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 1:33 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Leviathan:
Well to me, popularity is the quality of the fans and not the quanity, (That sounds cheezy huh? Well bear with me.) 
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I know what you mean about quality of fans! I have a huge following among department store Santas who like when kids pee on them.Kinda scary, eh? I am also big among people who have no computers, and break into other people's houses to go online.
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PDI · Post by **PDI** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 1:46 am

Sure you can, just ask ...uh, Gav I think... Not a difficult process, I'm led to believe.I make currently an avg of 500/day. This is an almost 200/day increase over last month. I consider this very good numbers...it's amazing to me that so many people are reading the strip.Money someday...at this rate...say, 7 months from now.------------------
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Reinder · Post by **Reinder** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 2:15 am

Nate. Nate is your man.I've got my own domain at the Space, and it's dead easy. Ask Nate, and when he gives you the word, change the DNS settings at your Name service provider to the ones he gives you.------------------
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Screwball McGoo [gDC] · Tue Jan 09, 2001 7:23 am

Once again, pageviews are important and not hits.------------------
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Steve Emond · Post by **Steve Emond** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 7:42 am

Oh... my bad... well, Scott's one of the good fans anyway, always willing to help out others. Even a small number of hits a day are good compared to noone seeing your work. That's what I keep telling myself. I'll get them hooked in yet! Just wait til next month when Steverino goes naked! ~Steve------------------
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Tyler Martin · Post by **Tyler Martin** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 8:11 am

I'm a cheerleading chick, I'm popular.Steverino, your comic is excellent quality. I will put a link to it when I redo my links page. I like the professional drawing style and use of photos for backgrounds, I've thought a lot about doing that sort of thing, I've done it a little in my own strip but it's a little harder to find images for than yours. Also thought of doing something like that for another project, taking the background pictures with a digital camera.Back on topic... Tang mentioned popular by who we should call popular and popular by who makes money off keenspace ads.The two are kinda different. Keenspace already says they will pay you when you reach 50,000 pageviews. So, 50,000 pageviews=popular by that standard. I suppose the bigger your archive the more it can help because new readers browsing through it will give you lots of views. This along with unique visitors helps. I think I get a 5 to 1 ratio or so, 5 pageviews for every visitor, it could be better but I my archive is still small and I'll assume some are regular readers only reading the page with today's comic so only giving me one pageview. As far as popularity in the way of visitors/pageviews, that would just be measuring the different sites together, meaning you would need everyone's stats. It would be fun to browse that list, see where everyone stands... and often say "I just don't get it."Tyler Martin
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Seven3 · Post by **Seven3** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 8:39 am

Ugh, no thanks. We've had that sort of list/thread before, and while it's a good ego boost to those at the top, for those who pour their heart and soul into their comic and get only a tenth of the page views, it's depressing.It's not for the stats that I do it, it's for that one e-mail of forum posting that says 'Hey, I like that.'------------------
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Damonk13 · Post by **Damonk13** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 9:04 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by tang:
tang.keenspace.com only got 15000 page views a month. It is about 1/3 of tangcomic.com
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Wow. Considering that you are a weekly comic, that means you have something in the neighborhood of 10000+ readers? <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/eek.gif">impressive, tang.as for moving to keenspace, i noticed that you are already mirroring your site here now, which means you have an account, right?i can't see why you couldn't transfer all your files over... i'm sure the bigwigs will have no problems with that? <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">heck, with those numbers, they might want to put you up on Keenspot instead!BTW -- it's nice to have you in the community, Tang!------------------
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OK.
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Steve Emond · Post by **Steve Emond** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 9:38 am

These threads are soooo depressing. And thanks Scott, I get a bunch of hits every day from the PDI links page!~A sad Steve
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Damonk13 · Post by **Damonk13** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 10:00 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Steve Emond:
These threads are soooo depressing. And thanks Scott, I get a bunch of hits every day from the PDI links page!~A sad Steve<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>i do too, and i don't want to depress you further steve, but i think that's because he's "borrowing" our link images rather than have them saved on his own site, thus resulting in a hit whenever *anyone* looks at the links page, regardless of whether or not someone actually clicks to your site... <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/eek.gif">still, i'm happy because he's got me there in the first place! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">------------------
"Woohoo! I FINALLY thought of a witty qu~~
DAMMIT. I can't remember what it was now...
But, man. It was witty. Whoo.
Honest.
...
...
OK.
So I got nothing."
--damonk13
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Gravity · Post by **Gravity** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 10:27 am

My strip just started on the 1st and I am averaging about 500 page views a day, which I consider an awesome start. I also have an e-mail subscriber list of like 238. Of which I'm trying to get more regular visitors ot stop by the site. I just added a cool new script that will allow readers to make Gravity their homepage simply by clicking on a link. It's a good way to hook in regular folks.-------------------
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Yahtzee · Post by **Yahtzee** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 10:55 am

I wish I knew how to find out how many hits my site's been getting ... could someone please tell me?

Yahtzee · Post by **Yahtzee** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 11:00 am

Never mind, I just found out ... and it appears I'm getting about 150 hits a day. Is that good?

Leviathan · Post by **Leviathan** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 12:14 pm

Well to me, popularity is the quality of the fans and not the quanity, (That sounds cheezy huh? Well bear with me.) When I get alot of hits I admit I do a little jig but nothing compares to someone e-mailing you and saying: "Hey this is cool keep workin hard,"but then agian popularity is just a pleasant side effect of what we love to do.------------------
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Reinder · Post by **Reinder** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 12:33 pm

Unique visitors are not used to determine who gets the beer money. Pageviews are. According to Teri Crosby, 50,000 pageviews/month will get you in the paid category.I say beer money, but you'd have to drink the cheap stuff, because payments are very low. If you want to be paid, find a supplementary business model (selling T-Shirts, or an Amazon bookstore, or something along those lines.)Your visitor stats are important, but only as a way to gauge your reach, and the size of your loyal audience. The numbers should be steady, and show growth, but in your analysis, you'd have to take out the spikes that occur just after a promotion, or any random spikes.------------------
Reinder Dijkhuis
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PDI · Post by **PDI** » Tue Jan 09, 2001 12:52 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Steve Emond:
These threads are soooo depressing. And thanks Scott, I get a bunch of hits every day from the PDI links page!~A sad Steve
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>It is statistically likely that you and Damonk get a few click-throughs from my links page. My own at the very least. I keep that page in large part because it helps me remember the increasingly cumbersome list of comics I've fallen in love with. There are still a couple I've "discovered" but can't remember how to find again. Without that page I'd probably be able to remember three comics at most. I'm an airhead in the mornign, when I read comics.
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Maboo · Post by **Maboo** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 6:36 am

My average as of last month was 400/day (which has been slowly but surely increasing however, I am at 425/day average so far THIS month but I won't know exact numbers till March when I get home and can access my logs! Bugger the University firewall! You can FTP but you can't access your logs? EAGH! EARGH! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/mad.gif"> )Mab------------------
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Maboo · Post by **Maboo** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 6:50 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Maboo:
Bugger the University firewall! You can FTP but you can't access your logs? EAGH! EARGH! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/mad.gif"> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Oh and did I mention that you can't FREAKING MANUALLY UPDATE EITHER??? You have to load your main page HTML and comics in advance, and they update the next day at update time, which is great, but any other pages WON'T update... so you have to wait till you get home or access to a separate computer off the Uni network to do those....The server just doesn't know how to handle the login credentials for the members.keenspace.com account, you can FTP from it but... you can't access your members account. I HATE it. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/mad.gif"> Fast downloads, super cable modem, but crap at handling password-accessed pages like members.keenspace.com
Mab

Damonk13 · Post by **Damonk13** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 7:38 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Maboo:
My average as of last month was 400/day (which has been slowly but surely increasing however, I am at 425/day average so far THIS month
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>pages or visits?either way, congrates, mab -- that's cool! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">------------------
"Woohoo! I FINALLY thought of a witty qu~~
DAMMIT. I can't remember what it was now...
But, man. It was witty. Whoo.
Honest.
...
...
OK.
So I got nothing."
--damonk13
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