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LackOfGrace:
Hi!

Long time lurker here.

My girlfriend published her webcomic last week.
www.opalond.com

We are having trouble getting pageviews.
How would you promote a webcomic?
What kind of traffic should we expect?
Any other tips from the creative people here?

cesium133:
There are various webcomics websites that you can add your comic to or mention it at if you haven't already, such as The Webcomic List, Just the First Frame, and Oh No Robot. If you're willing to deal with dickheads, you can post your comic at Reddit. If you are willing to put some money into promoting your comic, you can advertise via Project Wonderful.

As for what you should expect in terms of pageviews... good luck. It's very hard to get anywhere with webcomics. Jeph Jacques got where is he because he was incredibly lucky. I've been doing my webcomic for a year, and admittedly I haven't promoted it aggressively. I get about 10 unique visitors per update. You can probably do much better than that, but chances are you're not going to earn a living from doing a webcomic anytime soon. I don't intend to discourage you; if you like doing your comic keep at it.

LackOfGrace:
Thanks for the input.

We are currently trying to push through social networks ( Facebook )
The problem is that we are isolating ourselves to our country ( Sweden ) when the larger market (i believe) is situated in the US
Are there any larger groups or forums for comic artists that you know of, just so we could start getting people from other countries?

Project Wonderful looks nice, going to look closer on that after work.

cesium133:
Now that you mention Facebook, I remembered about Webcomic Underdogs. It's a group of comic artists on Facebook that talk about various ways to promote comics.

LackOfGrace:
Awesome, ill be sure to tell her to join the underdogs group.

You have a link to your comic by the way?

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