Publisher Update: Changes to Genre Feature

michaelson 2013-09-26 02:23:38 UTC #1

Hi there,

Tapastic has grown a considerable amount in these past few months in both publishers and readership. As such, we'd like to increase the discoverability of content and make sure that readers are getting to content that caters to their tastes.

Genre selection is a feature that we've had many internal discussions about alongside frequent feedback from publishers. We've decided to set the maximum number of genres for any one particular series to three.

We feel that this change is a necessary first step to ensuring that your series gets in front of the right readers. This increases discoverability and also increases the effectiveness of the genre tab. If you feel that three genres is simply not enough, then please feel free to utilize our tag system which can be used in conjunction with our new and improved search engine.

The effective date for these changes is Tuesday, October 1st.

After the effective date, we'll be going through our entire library of content and manually changing the genres of any series that still exceeds the three genre limit. However, we want to remind everyone that you can still change the genres freely at any time.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns, then feel free to e-mail me back or join the discussion on our forums.

*All the best,
-Michael from Team Tapastic*

Andrej 2013-09-26 02:49:32 UTC #2

Just curious here (namely for those who don't get to read this and end up wondering what happened post-October 1st):

After the effective date, we'll be going through our entire library of content and manually changing the genres of any series that still exceeds the three genre limit.

Will you select the three (or just the one, since it's the minimum) most fitting for the comic as it is to date, or the result will be randomized from whatever genre they originally chose?

michaelson 2013-09-26 03:10:51 UTC #3

We'll be reducing it to three based on a selection from the five that they've chosen.

Thanks for asking that, I should have clarified on that point

jordan 2013-09-26 12:04:09 UTC #4

love this! Thanks! Very good idea and I cant wait to get more readers.

carlymizzou 2013-09-28 05:27:34 UTC #5

Yeah I think it's great to cap it off, don't want peeps clicking everything and spammin'!

One improvement/enhancement I'd like in that realm is maybe an deeper explanation on how keywords factor how your comic is "distributed" though the site. Also, I check the front page frequently and I notice I never seem in any of the streams, like updated today even though I know I did!

More genres is a cool upgrade, but a quick doc about how the current SEO structure works within the site and ways you can leverage to maximize views would be cool too!