Sol Kage:I could upload a full Chapter once every week or two until it's caught up. I could then upload to here at the same time as SJ, or I could hold off until the newest chapter is completed and then upload it all at once, making it more episodic, which would give it a slightly different reading experience than if you read every page the moment it came out as we do on SJ.
Sol Kage:Over on SJ, we upload a page three times a week. I could upload a page a day on here, but I'm also considering a different option.
As another S.S. SmackJeeves passenger (reader class), I would like to give a heads up regarding your "debut" strategy a bit.
Because here, updating page-to-page V.S. in bulk does not only affect your readers;
it also affects your publicity.
As you might already know, the main exposure/discovery area on Comic Fury is the
Recently Updated page, i.e. the front page. But the important catch is: a comic would appear at the top of this space, when a
non-backdated page(s) (1) is published for public viewing, and the rate of appearance is
limited to once a day per comic*.
- If you are uploading in whole chapter, and set all the pages to appear
on the same date;
your comic will get on the front page only once per chapter.
- However if you are uploading in whole chapter, but set the release date of each page to appear
one page per day*;
your comic will get on the front page every day, even you uploaded the chapter -or even the whole archive- in bulk.
See the implications?
Since your comic is new here, using the latter update strategy would let other FuryTown-goers
discover your comic better while it's still in a debut stage. Manually uploading one page per day* also have a similar effect.
Once you caught up with all the archives and got all the readers you could; you might decide again whether to keep going page-to-page, or switch to bulk update for a more episodic experience.
Also, if you are targeting readers from
a particular time zone and knew which time your readers check your comic, setting each page to come out at a
specific daytime could improve your chance. If you choose to do this, make sure that you set your comic's time zone correctly (2), since it is separate from your personal Comic Fury time zone. (3)
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Live free, or die"
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*7-Dec-2019 Update: The limit on
Recently Updated appearance is
now officially once every 8 hour per comic, to give your a fair shot on all time zones. So now, if you would like to release your archive more than once per day, clock them in.
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(1) If you would really like to backdate pages to reflect their original release date, I would suggest that you do it after your entire archive caught up (or at least, 24 hours* after the page in question gone visible) to make a full use of this exposure opportunity.
(2) Accessible in your comic's
Webcomic Management > Info & Settings > Edit Settings page, under
Webcomic Administration Settings subsection.
(3) Accessible in your
Account Settings page.
