How to Advertise a Webcomic

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Consider your potential audience.

   This will allow you to effectively use paid advertising to its maximum potential.
   
   What is the age range of potential readers? What are their financial and economic backgrounds? What kind of social groups do they belong to?
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   Step 2: List your webcomic with as many search engines as possible

   ,, For example, if your comic is about a group of people living in university halls of residence then chat on university forums.
   
   Add your comic to your signature. , Create a group on Facebook and invite all of your friends to join it.
   
   You can also message them asking them to have a quick look at the website.
   
   You can also use Twitter to let people know whenever a new comic has been posted. ,, Make sure the buttons are obvious and easy to use.
   
   Look at PK Comic's button layout for a good example of clean button layout. , It takes a little effort to place free ads but spending half an hour a day advertising on the free sites can easily give you a dozen new readers a day who will go on to tell friends and family about your comic.
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   Step 3: you can pay for website listing services and optimization services to do this for you.

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   Step 4: List your webcomic with specialist webcomic sites

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   Step 5: such as: The Belfry WebComics Index The Webcomic List

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   Step 6: Chat with people on relevant forums

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   Step 7: such as other webcomic forums and sites dedicated to the theme of your webcomic.

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   Step 8: Use social networking to advertise to friends and family.

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   Step 9: Subscribe to referral sites like Stumbleupon and like your comic.

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    Step 10: Add RSS feeds and Addthis to your comic to help people to return to the comic and share it with friends.

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    Step 11: Sign up as an advertiser on sites like Project Wonderful.

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