One of the benefits of publishing comics on Substack is its powerful SEO capabilities. Since comics are image-based, they’ve traditionally missed out on such opportunities, and this platform nicely compensates for those deficiencies. The only problem is that most of us are ignoring this step entirely.

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Is your schedule killing your chances of success? Maintaining a rigid schedule could actually hurt your webcomic more than it’s helping. I’ll talk about why that is — and how to position your comic for greater success in a social-media-dominated publishing system.

One of my oldest axioms is that “social media is social.” In other words, social media rewards participation. Substack’s “Recommendations” feature is a surprisingly powerful promotional tool, and if you’re like most of us, you’re missing out on its full potential by refusing to participate.