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tjbehe

Date:

September 19th, 2007 12:55 PM

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A Few Ways to Promote your Comic?

Bulletin:

Over the past few months I've spent some time checking out different methods to promote CONTRABAND.

I've read quite a few cool articles from very clever web-savvy folks out there and gathered together a list of stuff that works (certainly in varying degrees):

1. Post Your Sample for Free:
- DrunkDuck (attracts younger manga-manic audience and has great page and stats functionality)
- ComicSpace.com (the full comic market pros/newbies and improving functionality)
- Smackjeeves (newer but over 5k webcomics although tough to do community contact)
- 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 Comic Ranking/Listing/Voting Sites
- TopWebcomics
- BuzzComix
- Thewebcomiclist
- Webcomics Super 100
- Killboredom
- digitalstrips
- ohnorobot
- comicnation
- comicalert
- webbedcomics.com

4. Plug Away on Forums and Community Group Rooms
- the webcomiclist
- topwebcomics
- comicgenesis
- comicbloc
- digitalwebbing
- buzzcomix.net
- Buzzcomics.com (France)

5. Do a Bunch of Other Traditional Web Stuff?
- Link exchanges
- Browser Fav's (ie...StumbleUpon)
- 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 what's working for you as I'm always curious to hear the latest promo schemes folks are trying out there....

Cheers, TJ

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