Ooooh yeah I might look at advertising the comic when there's more pages, for now I'm using google's adsense for ads but if you could drop me the name of the service, I'll check it out!
ComicAd Network, it's really great. Replaced an old service called Project Wonderful that was also great but went outta business.
Hard to make a ton of cash, but you can funnel what you got right back into advertising your comic. Making ads is really easy and new sites are signing up daily. I suggest searching for comics similar to yours and tailoring your ads specifically to them, people WILL notice the extra effort (I've done this before with much success).
Yo, thanks! I'll check that out and hunt down webcomics that are like mine (I'm not so familiar with comics of this particular genre so that could be a while).
Other than that, are there any online catalogues/collections that can help people find it (and do these platforms typically require you to host your work on their platform)? Any groups/pages you know of that maintain catalogues of webcomics and share recommendations and such?
ComicAd lets you search by genre, including Slice of Life, so that'll be a good place for you to start!
Tapas, Webtoons, Tumblr, are all popular sites that people host comics on that have an algorithm that helps boost them organically. The Duck Webcomics and Smackjeeves are also free hosting sites, though they're falling out popularity. Personally, I host my comic on my own site, like yours, but also have a mirror on Taps and Webtoons. Mine is more successful on Tapas, Webtoons is better for mobile-style comics, so keep that in mind. Tapas has also had better revenue output, I'm at only 600 followers and made $50 this year. It won't pay the bills but it's nice pocket change, and I haven't made a cent from Webtoons yet. TBH I wouldn't waste your time on Webtoons unless you reformat it for mobile.
As for catalogs, there's TONS, but the ones I know I've gotten lots of readers from are TopWebcomics, Belfry Comics Index, Comic Rocket, and LGBT Webcomics on Tagpacker. There's some lists online, just spend a day adding your comic to everything you can find.
There's also some twitter accounts that'll retweet you any time you post about an update. I can't remember how I got them to follow me, I think they have a pinned thread where you link about your comic, then when they see it they'll follow you. It helps to hashtag your posts with "#webcomic" when you're first starting out, too. I suck at social media though so don't ask me for tips past that lol.
That's how I got started with growing my readership, but even if you do EVERYTHING right, it can be a slow process, so don't get discouraged! Doing crossovers with other webcomics is also a good publicity stunt, so hit me up if you wanna do something :)
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Ooh thank you! Advertising as in ads promoting your webcomic or ads that get displayed on your webcomic page?
4 years, 5 months ago
Both!
4 years, 5 months ago
Ooooh yeah I might look at advertising the comic when there's more pages, for now I'm using google's adsense for ads but if you could drop me the name of the service, I'll check it out!
4 years, 5 months ago
https://www.comicad.net/?r=28dc6L0K
ComicAd Network, it's really great. Replaced an old service called Project Wonderful that was also great but went outta business.
Hard to make a ton of cash, but you can funnel what you got right back into advertising your comic. Making ads is really easy and new sites are signing up daily. I suggest searching for comics similar to yours and tailoring your ads specifically to them, people WILL notice the extra effort (I've done this before with much success).
4 years, 5 months ago
Yo, thanks! I'll check that out and hunt down webcomics that are like mine (I'm not so familiar with comics of this particular genre so that could be a while).
Other than that, are there any online catalogues/collections that can help people find it (and do these platforms typically require you to host your work on their platform)? Any groups/pages you know of that maintain catalogues of webcomics and share recommendations and such?
4 years, 5 months ago
ComicAd lets you search by genre, including Slice of Life, so that'll be a good place for you to start!
Tapas, Webtoons, Tumblr, are all popular sites that people host comics on that have an algorithm that helps boost them organically. The Duck Webcomics and Smackjeeves are also free hosting sites, though they're falling out popularity. Personally, I host my comic on my own site, like yours, but also have a mirror on Taps and Webtoons. Mine is more successful on Tapas, Webtoons is better for mobile-style comics, so keep that in mind. Tapas has also had better revenue output, I'm at only 600 followers and made $50 this year. It won't pay the bills but it's nice pocket change, and I haven't made a cent from Webtoons yet. TBH I wouldn't waste your time on Webtoons unless you reformat it for mobile.
As for catalogs, there's TONS, but the ones I know I've gotten lots of readers from are TopWebcomics, Belfry Comics Index, Comic Rocket, and LGBT Webcomics on Tagpacker. There's some lists online, just spend a day adding your comic to everything you can find.
There's also some twitter accounts that'll retweet you any time you post about an update. I can't remember how I got them to follow me, I think they have a pinned thread where you link about your comic, then when they see it they'll follow you. It helps to hashtag your posts with "#webcomic" when you're first starting out, too. I suck at social media though so don't ask me for tips past that lol.
That's how I got started with growing my readership, but even if you do EVERYTHING right, it can be a slow process, so don't get discouraged! Doing crossovers with other webcomics is also a good publicity stunt, so hit me up if you wanna do something :)
4 years, 5 months ago