Trading links

Sharkfin · Post by **Sharkfin** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:42 am

I feel like I’ve been drawing long enough to start trading links with other webcomic artist’s sites. According to my “Summery by Month” chart, I averaged 4575 hits in the month of Jan.

Please give my comic a little look-see, and if you’re interested in trading links please hit me up.

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:51 am

I'll take a look. I don't "trade links" per se. If I like a comic enough to follow it regularly, I'll generally link it (for my own convenience, mainly) and hope for the same from others.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:47 pm

The stat you want to look at is visits, your unique hits in a day, not counting reloads and people who come back to the site later in the day and such. That gives you a more accurate idea of how many people visit your site. Also, someone more in the know than me will probably say this doesn't belong here.

Still, welcome aboard!

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:02 pm

My guess would be that this probably belongs in "Comic Pitching"

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:08 pm

If I were to venture a guess, I'd say so, too. However, I've been known to be wrong about such things.

Sharkfin · Post by **Sharkfin** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:27 pm

Ok here’s what my chart looks like. What should I be looking at?

I didn’t put this in “Comic Pitch” because I’m not pitching the comic, I’m trying to link it with other artist’s sites. Why does it matter so much where I put it? Can I be banded from the form for not putting it in the right place? Am I offending anyone? If so is there a way I can move the thread?

Moonshadow · Post by **Moonshadow** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:31 pm

If I'm remembering correctly, the field you want to look at is Visits, which logs unique visitors to your site, resetting each day.

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:32 pm

Offers of link trading is more of a "sales pitch" for your comic since the idea is links lead to visitors so I think this thread should go under "Comic Pitching."

(In the meantime, until someone with Moderator Powers comes along to move this) the relevant statistic is "visits." Somebody comes to your site, pokes around a bit, and then leaves. That's one visit (IIUC). "Hits" would include every time their browser made a request from your site during that visit.

Sharkfin · Post by **Sharkfin** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:48 pm

That puts a bit of a damper on my excitement. Only seven visitors in a month is certainly nothing to brag about. Knowing this I don’t think anyone will want to trade links now. I’m sorry to have bothered you guys. I’ll keep drawing and updating, and maybe one day I can try this again (under Comic Pitching the next time).

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:51 pm

Sharkfin wrote: I didn’t put this in “Comic Pitch” because I’m not pitching the comic, I’m trying to link it with other artist’s sites. Why does it matter so much where I put it? Can I be banded from the form for not putting it in the right place? Am I offending anyone? If so is there a way I can move the thread?

If it needs to be moved, one of the moderators or admins will do so. And nah, you won't be banned for putting it here if it doesn't go. We've just always had some controversy over what does and doesn't go here in GD is all. There's actually a thread about it here.

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:53 pm

Sharkfin wrote:That puts a bit of a damper on my excitement. Only seven visitors in a month is certainly nothing to brag about. Knowing this I don’t think anyone will want to trade links now. I’m sorry to have bothered you guys. I’ll keep drawing and updating, and maybe one day I can try this again (under Comic Pitching the next time).

That's seven hits a day. Your total for January (as of the time the stat was generated) was 218.

But, as I said, I'll take a look at your comic. If I like it and want to continue reading it, I'll link it. That, after all, is what I use my links page for--"one stop shopping" for comics I read (or have read). I find it more convenient than bookmarks.

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:21 pm

Sharkfin wrote:That puts a bit of a damper on my excitement. Only seven visitors in a month is certainly nothing to brag about. Knowing this I don’t think anyone will want to trade links now. I’m sorry to have bothered you guys.

Well really, links would help out there...the more people you have linked to you, the more readers you'll get...then eventually less popular comics will want to be linked on your site! And don't get too upset over the reader stats...it generally takes a long time to build up a decent readership...hang in there!

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:06 pm

Thing for you, Sharkfin, right now is that it's a little too early for "I'll link you if you link me" to be a very appealing offer. I'd suggest instead hanging around the forum with a link in your signature, and drawing stuff for other people whenever you can: fan art or guest comics. Do that and it's basically like getting links for free.

Robin Pierce · Post by **Robin Pierce** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:12 am

Moved to pitching.

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