Starting to click!
January 27th, 2006So I decided that this year will be the year that this comic will finally become popular. It’s one of those things that you wake up in the morning and decide — you’re going to ditch the retainer, quit the marching band and the chess club, and start nailing cheerleaders.
So I started advertising. Took out an ad on Comixpedia, as Xaviar Xerexes has been a longtime supporter of my strip, and that resulted in a trickle of people over to my site. Then I shelled out a little more money and bought four days on Something Positive and whoah, Jesus… over a thousand people clicked on my ad the first day. I don’t know what kind of numbers a popular webcomic draws, but a thousand people who clicked on the ad! I mean, I never click on ads. Never even occurs to me. So many comic sites are so laden with ads — hell, sometimes I think DJ Coffman is about to enter Yirmumah! in the Daytona 500 — they don’t even register with me. Apparently that’s not the case with everyone, and thank God.
Now all I have to do is create comics of high enough quality that people will want to keep coming back.
Yeah, right. All I’ve really set myself up to do is make an ass of myself more publicly.
I’m boned.
January 30th, 2006 at 1:44 am
Hey, cheers from an S*P fan. I don’t always click on the links, but this one looked good and I’ve read the whole archive now, soooo fair enough! Not that its my favourite (would prolly have to be freefall in all honesty) but a good comic and not at the bottom of the heap either!
S*P gets around 317,000 unique hits a month, penny arcade… well god only knows. But less popular but still popular comics get considerably less than 150,000 unique a month and thats all I can remember at this time of morning….
January 30th, 2006 at 8:30 am
Well, I’ve got a ways to go before I get up even close to 150,000 visitors a month. I wonder if these guys are using the same stats as I am.
At any rate, I’m starting to see some of the reasons the bigger guys are so popular — they have lots of people linking to them. A few links to ML have cropped up since people started checking out the S*P ad, which is just dandy!
January 31st, 2006 at 5:26 am
Yeah, I saw the ad on S*P and clicked on it, and I don’t do that with most of the ads. Your comic looked funny, and lo and behold, it was! I’ve now read the archives (yeah, I was drunk…) and they made me laugh. Keep them coming, so at least something will be.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:33 am
I’m also not sure where to draw the line of “popular” and “not popular”….
January 31st, 2006 at 11:38 am
Another visitor from S*P. And I ususally don’t click on links, but I have a special love of monkeys (strictly platonic) so your ad grabbed my attention. I’ve read the archives and have added your strip to the collection of comics that I check daily (about 15 in total). Keep up the good work. You’ve got a very nice drawing style and some pretty decent storylines and characters.
I look forward to great things from you. (No pressure).
February 1st, 2006 at 2:52 am
Really digging the color so far, Brad. It really spruces up the comic, cleans up the line art, and generally makes everything about one million per cent better. Next challenge: more legible text.
February 1st, 2006 at 3:51 am
The text isn’t legible? What’s wrong with it?
February 1st, 2006 at 4:56 am
no, far from boned. keep up the good work. i’ll keep reading and enjoying.
February 1st, 2006 at 6:42 pm
It’s not that it isn’t legible, per se. It’s just very small and doesn’t seem to “fit” with the comic. I can’t really explain it.
Honestly, I don’t think anybody else would complain about it but me.