Do you guys get more viewers than subscribers?

[ueae6e82a0c88426]

ive done some strips for the past days and i havent gotten a new fan.....only viewers....you can check it

[Agentzap]

First off, nice name! (How do you memorize that? I respect you!)

Yes, I do get more viewers over subscribers. Quite positive 99.99% of all series does. Except maybe that one series one person viewed and subscribed. I wouldn't worry about it, it's natural. I don't know if Tapastic counts viewers w/o an account, but they probably do.

It's kind of hard to tell how good/bad a comic is solely on one picture/link/thumbnail alone. If the user decides to check it out and doesn't enjoy what they see, they turn around. And you get stuck with a viewer. Just a viewer.

EDIT: Also, it's just a few days. Give it some time

[AnnaLandin]

Yes. It's normal to have quite a large disparity between the number of views and the number of subscribers you have. This partly comes from people reading the comic and then deciding not to subscribe, but it ALSO comes from your subscribers reading a bunch of your comics at once.

For example, Grassblades has 26000+ views, and just over 500 subscribers. If I assume that my 500 subscribers have all read the 35 pages of Grassblades that are posted, that amounts to 17500 of those views. The remaining views can be accounted for by those who decided not to subscribe, as well as people who have re-read parts of, or all of, the comic.

[igneriss]

Yes! My series has 150 subscriber and about 18k views. I tell myself that's because there are people who read it, but don't have tapastic account cx

[dplandscape]

Yes, probably 100 view to every 1 subscriber

[keii4ii]

I tell myself that's because there are people who read it, but don't have tapastic account cx

It's also because one person can view the comic multiple times, especially if you have a lot of episodes.
I also wonder if Tapastic re-counts the same person's view on the same episode if they come back to it after X number of days?

you can check it

Psst, Tapastic forum does not automatically put a link to your comic even if your comic is on Tapastic. For a little more visibility, why not manually add a link to your comic on your forum profile?

[GFalconDX]

Yeah, that's definitely true. So far, my webcomic has 606 views and 12 subscribers. But then again, it's probably because I've only been on Tapastic for 2 months so far.

[Redthic]

I'm pretty new here but I've pretty much noticed this trend as well. Not everyone is going to subscribe but they will still look at your stuff.

My series has a few subscribers but more views. Maybe people are just checking it out? Maybe they'll subscribe later when it gets going more. Maybe they just didn't care for it. You just don't know and honestly you might go mad pondering it.

Give it some time and I'm sure you'll get some.

Could you link me though? I'd love to check out your work.

[ueae6e82a0c88426]

http://tapastic.com/episode/163374?comment_id=815024

[keii4ii]

No, I mean adding the link to your PROFILE, not just this thread. Click on your user icon at the upper right corner of the screen in the forums, and in the dropdown menu, click on "Preferences." That will take you to your forum profile edit screen. Once you're there, put the link to your comic in the "About Me" section.

[starvebeast]

Yeah, agree with the above. About 100 views per subscriber seems about right. But then there are great (in my opinion anyway) comics that have TONS of views and not as many subscribers. Like: @aarondconti's Clockwork Hersey.

http://tapastic.com/episode/88083

Not sure what the key is to getting more subscribers other than having a great opening. Most comics have their views frontloaded, it seems.

Best of luck!

Danny
Starve the Beast
http://tapastic.com/series/StarveBeast

[allenthomas]

Yeah it is a pretty common thing. Right now my comic Shadosassins has about 60,000 views and I don't even have 45 subscribers yet. I've seen some pages where people have 1.5 million views and like 150 subscribers, so yeah number discrepancy is bound to happen.

[Silerna]

I only get viewers as well, well that satisfy me enough. I promote and share my butt off but doesn't work, even my improvement has quite increased when you look at the pages.
Share on as many social media as you can, like facebook,tumblr etc. Even if it doesn't help , ppl somehow see the posts
Friendly Neighbours: 1226 views^^, 10 subs.

[GenderFluid]

Yes usually. But I found that views are still goo because then people are still seeing your stuff.

[nobody]

I think everyone gets more views than subscribers Perfectly normal!

[bsienk90]

Oh totalllyyyyyyyy
I have, like, 40X more views then subscribers XD. So basically for just about every 40 views I get 1 subscriber out of it. If this was a math problem of course.

you're comic is cute btw.

Oh PPPPFFTT and you are only here since May 2015! give yourself time.

[Dranif]

Yes. I end up having to just simply ignore the number of views, as the out-of-whack views-to-subscribers ratio always triggers me to have self defeating thoughts, even though if you think about it, the more readers you have, the more views are likely to increase.
As in, if you have like (in a miracle situation, if you have had this happen I'm jealous of you.) 200 subscribers and only one page, each new page gets 200 views on top of all the random passerby views.