For the first month of Minimum Comics, most of the page-views came from my friends on Facebook. That was great, because those are the people I'm writing the comics for (besides myself, I mean.) After posting to Reddit a couple of times, I noticed that Reddit was generating a huge number of page-views, relative to Facebook. As a result, listing the comic on Reddit become part of my daily comic posting habit.
Reddit is a tricky beast to make work for you, without gaming it (and beyond what I describe here, I'm not willing to game it.) Essentially I post the comic with some sort of descriptive subject on Reddit: Comics each day. If that starts generating traffic, that's all I'll do. If the comic is immediately voted down into Reddit oblivion AND I think it's a good comic, I'll re-post the comic to Reddit: Webcomics with the simple title "Minimum Comics: [name]". Reddit: Comics is more big-time and if I get a few early up-votes there I'm sure to get a big response, but that's somewhat uncommon. Reddit: Webcomics is more like the minor leagues, so it's easier to get up-votes but the response is less intense than what I'd get from a successful Reddit: Comics entry.
Lately, neither is working for me. I'm not sure if it's the quality of the comics or perhaps I've just got a bad rep with Redditors and they vote me down so fast nobody ever gets to see the comics. Today's comic, Guilt, is a little unusual but still funny (I think). It was voted down in just a few minutes on Comics and when I reposted to Webcomics, it was voted down right away again. I can't tell if the comics are bad or I have an enemy on Reddit or perhaps just bad luck.
I like the enemy theory.
-Adam!!!
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