Promoting Webcomics?

krf asks: "Have any other Slashdot readers ever tried to get a webcomic off the ground? What promotional tricks have you used? I've been doing my strip for a couple of months now. Traffic is good, but not great. I think that most of my visitors are friends or people who heard of the site via word-of-mouth. I'm looking for ways to bring the strip to a larger audience. I've submitted links to most of the big webcomics pages, but a lot of the 'top 100'ish lists seem pretty tacky - kind of like linking pyramid schemes. I've paid for some very targeted advertising, but not many people click on ads any more. I've even tried getting in to local print outlets, with very limited success. I enjoy writing and drawing the strip, but it's always nice to know that other people are reading it. I'd appreciate any advice Slashdot readers might have to offer."

Comments

3 steps.

[aixou]

Step 1: Get it posted on Slashdot.

Step 2: ????

Step 3: Profit!!

Re:3 steps.

[aixou]

I've thought about it, and I think it would have been better if you'd gone for a main page story. There's still time. Next time you see a news story about Torvalds or the like, check to see if its on slashdot and if it's not, submit a summary within which is a reference to your webcomic. It could be like this: "It seems that Torvalds and McVoy are at again. With a heated exchange between the two documented on the LKML[link], many kernel hackers are wondering what the future holds concerning linux source code management. This flamewar has permeated all facets of the Open Source world, and I've even documented it in my webcomic[link]."

Cha-ching. You might want to be a little more subtle about it (and lengthen the summary with some quotes), and you'll obviously have to create a comic related to the news story you post, but you should get an order of magnitude higher click-thrus than you'll get with something on the ask.slashdot page alone.

Shameless Plug... it's not mine :'(

[Anonymous Coward]

Dudley's Dungeon, a NetHack webcomic, now bound to get millions of visitors!!!

Ask Slashdot: Postmodern Edition

[torinth]

Dear Slashdot,

I'm having a hard time bring traffic to my website. I know that getting a link posted on another high-traffic website would be a boon, but haven't figured out how to get it to happen. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Re:Comic

[jonabbey]

I like it. The jellyfish just wants to be loved and swim with other living things, but when his dream comes true, the juxtaposition between the jellyfish's naive understanding of the world and the painful experience of the human who stepped on him illuminates an absurdity that we can appreciate, but which does not penetrate the jellyfish's joyful nature and appreciation of life.

What's not to get?

Re:Yeah, see if you can get Slashdot to do a story

[Anonymous Coward]

Twice...

2 steps

[n9hmg]

1. Purchase a list of email addresses
2. email them all explaining how wonderful your product is
3. 
   Works every time.

Re:Nothing to worry about

[moonbender]

Hey man I'd love to read your comic... Please post an URL!