It’s no secret. I hate those “Top-XX” list sites that require you to put their buttons on your site, beg readers to vote and send traffic to their site in return for a questionable amount of traffic. I think it identifies your comic as low-rent and, more importantly, I think it’s distracting you (and your readers) from taking adavntage of some seriously powerful social networking entities (Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, etc.) that are readily available and widely in use.

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We all obsess over our Web stats — even though we know we shouldn’t. But paying a little healthy attention to your Web stats is actually a good way to gauge your progress and tweak your site’s performance. The trick here is not to get hung up on the numbers, but to pay attention instead to trends.

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