Does SEO work for Webcomics?

Below is an article that shows how SEO works for webcomics…
http://warofwinds.com/winged-wolf-studio/does-webcomic-seo-work/

This article shows clearly how using these tools has given War of Wind new readers.




SEO Basics Part 2: SEO for Webcomics?

Simply put SEO tools help people find your product or service. However, the industry of web comics may not have a need for SEO. After researching SEO and hearing about Matthew Inman’s use of SEO in relation to webcomics from Webcomics Weekly, I was wondering if SEO has actually impacted the webcomics industry. The answer seems to be a yes and no depending on the intent of use.

Yes it has because SEO is about a person finding something new and related to a organic search. Three years ago I was looking for “adult sci-fi webcomic”, and never found “Curvy”. Now, Curvy a “Erotic Adult Sci-Fi Adventure Comic”, pops up as three on my organic search on Google. This is important because I never heard of this comic before than, and it fits exactly what I wanted to read at that time. I had discovered the comic on another website hub for webcomics before it’s ranking got higher on Google.

No it hasn’t because it seems readers have to type in a specific title to sometimes find it. Meaning most times because “Curvy” did not appear in the first two to three pages of my search, I had to type the title itself, which sadly still made the webcomic appear fifth on the listings at the time. This means that as long as there are other ways to get the word out (i.e. conventions, online hubs, articles, podcasts, forums, etc ), new readers don’t necessarily need SEO help to find new webcomics to read.



Moreover, SEO in the purest sense would not make sense with simple keyword searchs such as “Webcomic” because their are just so many webcomics out there.
However, “Sci-Fi Rock and Roll Webcomics “ could favor the creator who has the only “Sci-Fi Rock and Roll Webcomic”. The difference in SEO use stems from good and bad practices.

Bad SEO

Simply put, for a creator to say they have a “Erotic Sci-Fi Comic” when in fact the webcomic is a “family oriented strip with unicorns”. Meaning if “Unicorn Love MadeUp Example” posed itself as adult entertainment, and it is not; it will not retain the readers it attracts.

Over use of meta-tags is another example because people could put unrelated keywords just to get more hits on their site.

Although his action can be considered tactical, Oatmeal webcartoonist, Matthew Inman, falls under spamming for his manipulation of SEO (http://www.seobook.com/to-google-you-are-a-spammer).



Good SEO
Seems to be using long keywords such as “Rat Monster Webcomics” which Ironically brought me to Doug TenNapel’s (Creator of Earth Worm Jim) new web comic “Rat Fist” which I had no clue existed before this assignment. This means that creators should use these phrases based on descriptions of their webcomic to attract the readers they want.


However, I first found “Rat Fist” from my organic search on Google lead me to a back link on www.fuelyourillustration.com.




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