Nov18

The neverending question, where are you getting your readers?

by Phil (Frumph) on November 18th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Posted In: Blog

Early this morning I had a very interesting conversation.   A comic author asked me where was I getting my readers.  The answer was more simple then I thought it would be, it was from search engines; people searching for something I had posted about; either a tutorial or informational guide.

On an average all of my different websites gets around 450,000 hits daily.   On the car shop site its about 90% of the 300k+ hits daily I get come from search engines from people searching for information regarding posts that I made concerning car repair.

This is just an observation, there needs to be some serious look at your site and it’s content.     I am a firm believer that if along with your comic you post information and things that you are interested in; either tutorials or observations, that you would get a boost in hits from search engines from people looking for that type of content.

Information that is NOT relevant and specific to your comic, multiple diverse posts.

On the frumph.net sites though my hits are quite a bit lower (uh, yeah QUITE a bit) – this is what google analyticator reports in the dashboard.

  1. frumph – 49 Visits
  2. comicpress child themes – 31 Visits
  3. noblogredirect – 31 Visits
  4. comicpress – 27 Visits
  5. comicpress easel avatar mod – 27 Visits

Basically this is telling me that people are searching for “me” cool!  also about child themes and the avatar mod for comicpress/easel and my post about the noblogredirect post I made.

… Now to explain why I am bringing this up.   I have said this on several occasions that comic readers and advertising tends to be in-bred within the community itself, people trying to ‘snag’ readers from other authors and so forth, generally using Project Wonderful to do this.    There’s really nothing wrong with that and its a decent idea to do.   Cross promoting has its place.

Should you stop there?  No.

What I am thinking is that if people do searches for content that you have posted about  in your blog post area they can go “oh hey, there’s a comic here too”.    This will gather some more people into hitting your site (ad revenue ftw, more readers).

What does google analytics report are the top search results for people hitting your site?   Are they relevant to your comic or something you did thats ‘not comic based’ information in one of your posts?

Should we continue to do this?  I think so, what do you think?

- Phil

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Nov01

Feed your Family; Feed the World – Webcomics: What’s Cooking?

by Phil (Frumph) on November 1st, 2010 at 1:00 am
Posted In: Blog

What started out as a simple idea of doing a cookbook based around webcomic characters has blossomed into a full fledged campaign to help raise money for the hungry in North America. “Webcomics: What’s Cooking?” is that cookbook that will feature dozens and dozens of recipes from popular webcomic creators showcasing a variety of recipes from Breakfast to Dinner and a few things in between!

The cookbook will feature a full page, custom created comic from each participating artist along side a favorite dish or beverage.

From Alien Cupcakes to Alamo Queso to Chicago style Deep Dish Pizza to Oreo Truffles, you are sure to find a dish that will satisfy your hunger.

The concept behind the cookbook is “Feed Your Family, Feed the World”. You purchase the cookbook and receive all these wonderful recipes to create for your family or friends and the proceeds from the project go to Canadian and American National Food Banks to help feed those in need. You couldn’t ask for a better combination. Satisfy your hunger and those in need as well.

The book will be available in time to celebrate the Holiday season. With the help of sponsors and your pre-orders, the proceeds of this not-for-profit cookbook will bring thousands of needy individuals and families a good meal and more, hope.

Pre-Order your 90+ page, full color cookbook for $20 – here:http://tgtmedia.com/preorder and have it in time for the holiday season!

The webcomic community have really gotten behind this cookbook to help these National Food Banks; Not only with their amazing recipes, but also their creative talent in showing that can have fun as artists and bringing their individually unique creative styles.

All it takes is one click and you’ve made a difference. This is a great gift for the holiday season for those that love to cook and kid friendly as well.; Feed your family and one in need.

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Oct05

WordPress can be hacked, is not secure; guilt by association.

by Phil (Frumph) on October 5th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Posted In: Wordpress

It is true that WordPress developers strive to find and plug any leaks with the WordPress “Core”.  Unfortunately the problem really isn’t with the latest release of WordPress; the problem is with any tertiary add-on or component that is used in conjunction with WordPress.   Themes and Plugins are the biggest downfall of WordPress’s security.

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Sep17

Introducing Comic Easel

by Phil (Frumph) on September 17th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Posted In: Comic Easel

I broke the news (broke it?, more like I distributed the news) at this year’s Intervention Con about the future of ComicPress 3.0.

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Aug20

WCP Collective Ads widget, Revived

by Phil (Frumph) on August 20th, 2010 at 7:53 am
Posted In: WebComic Planet

For Comic Author’s only:

Just email me a 160x300px advertisement for your book or item for sale with the link that it goes to and I will add it to the widget.   The widget will be available to be downloaded and updated by the WordPress repository.  Each person who has an ad for their warez will also need to have the plugin added to their site.

When new people are added to the widget or changes to the images are made, I will update the widget with the WordPress repository and the people who use the widget will see the update in their dashboard and can update it with all the new info inside of it, so that new info can be kept up to date and advertisements can be up to date.

Rules: You can submit (1) advertisement via the widget, it HAS to be for book or item sales, not an advertisement for your website.  The image is 160×300 half-skyscraper.  The link MUST go to the place where people can purchase the book.  The advertisements HAS to be G rated visually, and if the book is rated PG-13 or higher then it HAS to say it on the advertisement.  Those who partake in using this widget to advertise their books must also use their widget on their site as well.

I’ll post the link to get the widget soon as I’m done writing it, feel free to start sending me submissions to ad to the list.

I am hard coding the images and the links into the widget, this way everything stays localized and would not be prone to connection issues or extra bandwidth problems.

- Phil

.wcp_collective_ads_widget .wcp-ad {
	text-align: center;
}

.wcp_collective_ads_widget img {
	margin: 0 auto;
	border: solid 1px: #000;
	-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #333;
	-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #333;
	box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #333;
}

This plugin is available here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wcp-collective-ads-widget/

You can also go to your plugins -> add new and search for WCP then install and activate.

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