Top 5 Ways to Promote your Comic Online?

[tjbehe]

(I think this belongs here actually!)

Been hacking away at some promotion of this comic we have coming out...

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Seems no matter how popular or good your "web-product is", to get into the "thousand-plus-daily-readers" region, you will need to provide some paying promotion to attract new users and remind readers you're still going strong. But here are a few things to try anyway...

1. Post Your Sample for Free:

- DrunkDuck (attracts younger manga-mainc audience and has great stats functionality)
- ComicSpace.com (the full comic market pros/newbies and improving functionality)
- Comicgenesis (slightly older but great customisation and Keenspot places the best stuff)
- Deviantart (slightly limited functionality but strong archive of high quality work)
- OnlineComics.net (one of the largest collections online)
- WebcomicNation (smaller but strong older quality webcomics)
- Clickwheel (growing collections and great viral site)


2. Buy Some Banner/Button Ads

- Project Wonderful (still around 1-2 cents per click-thru/1000 page views)
- Google Adwords (about 5-10 times more expensive than PW)
- Overture (again, way more expensive)


3. Stick your Site on Webcomic Ranking & Listing Sites

- TopWebcomics
- BuzzComix
- Thewebcomiclist
- Webcomics Super 100
- Killboredom
- digitalstrips
- ohnorobot
- comicnation
- comicalert
- webbedcomics.com


4. Plug Away on Forums and Group postings

- the webcomiclist
- topwebcomics
- comicgenesis
- onlinecomics.net
- comicbloc
- digitalwebbing
- buzzcomix.net
- Buzzcomics.com (France)


5. Do a Bunch of Other Traditional Web Stuff?

- Link exchanges
- Banner exchange programs
- Online Press Releases
- Ezine Newsletter (opt-in email)
- Free Business Directories listing
- Free newsletter adverts
- Search engine optimization
- RSS Feeds
- Prize and Competitions

Let me know your thoughts and check out our sample when you get a chance!

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[mr nix]

very smart. I wish I had a webcomic to pitch, though:huhu: