Wayrift Fantasy RPG Manga Webcomic

Just so I don’t get too far behind, I wanted to feature another October Fan Corner Update! This time, we have poetry as well as artwork!

 New Writing 

Poem: Father (Ben and Aiden) by Elystriana

New Art

Ashes

Zeb Feather by Ashes

Dreigiau Feather by Ashes

Illinia 

Shirtless Aiden by Illinia

Maracate

Kudako with Flute by Maracate

Kudako & Sarafina by Maracate

Thanks to everyone for your wonderful submissions!

What Your Favorite Webcomic Artists Would Like You To Know!

There have been a lot of questions and thoughts about how folks can support Wayrift today. So I decided to put together a quick post of information about what you can do, at no cost to you but a few moments of time, to help spread the word. I also wanted to give some information on what ads are and why they’re important to sites such as Wayrift and other webcomics.

What is this Project Wonderful thing and how does it work? 

Project Wonderful is an advertising network commonly used by webcomics.

Ads are purchased through a bidding system. The webcomic artist sets their lowest bidding price for spots on the page (Wayrift always starts out for free), and other users in the ad network (often other webcomics) bid on the space. They keep the space for as long as someone doesn’t outbid them with a higher price. The idea is to provide an ad spot that will cause competitive bidding so that the price for the spot will go up, thus making profit from the ad.

The price goes higher based on two main factors:

• How much traffic the site gets each day — this includes how many actual visitors and how many pages each visitor views. So when you’re reading through the archives for the millionth time, you’re boosting our page views to our ads for the day.
• How many times visitors click on the ad. This is important because the point of placing an add is for other people to click on it. If no one ever clicks on the ad, it’s pointless for the bidder to keep placing that ad on the page. This causes the price to drop. : <

Note: Money made from ads on the Wayrift site stay in the Project Wonderful account. All earning are put right back into bidding on spots on other sites and advertising. We don’t make a profit off the site or anyone’s traffic/clicks.

So now that you know this…

How to Support Wayrift Through Ads and Social Networks (And Your Other Favorite Sites) 

Here’s a list of things you can do to support Wayrift and your favorite comics!

• Disable ad blockers for the Wayrift domain. Ad blockers remove the ads, but they also block your visit from the ad network. That means your visits don’t count at all. : <
• Click on ads!
• Don’t over-click on ads. Once a day per ad is good. Any more and it’ll look like spam to the network. We don’t get penalized for that with Project Wonderful, but it’s really not worth the effort. Some ad networks, such as Google, will disable accounts if they feel the visitors are spamming the site ads.
• Vote each day on the topsites buttons listed in the sidebar. 
• Join the Facebook group and “Like” update posts. 
• Re-tweet update tweets on Twitter and re-blog update blogs on Tumblr if you’re a part of ether network.
• Use the share buttons under each post. While Twitter and Facebook are most popular, you can also use services such as Digg and Reddit, too!
• Add to the TV Tropes page! Believe it or not, this does get us traffic!

Also, if anyone wants to take a crack at it, we have a totally undeveloped wiki entry at the Comixpedia site. : < If you’re a wiki lover, we could use some help getting that off the ground! It would be a neat community project. *nudge nudge*

That’s all I can think of at the moment. I’ll add to this later if I come up with something. Any questions you have, feel free to comment and I’ll answer them!

So I’m in a puzzlement.

I noticed that we started getting new traffic to Wayrift from the webcomic, True Magic. I went to investigate why. It appears that someone very awesome has purchased advertising space for Wayrift on the site!

Edit 10-1-11: This was confirmed — I  have received an email today from the creator of True Magic about gift ad space.

Since neither Syn nor I was aware of this, that can only point to some kind soul in our community who has generously not only donated to the True Magic webcomic, but to our own through advertising space (which we very much need, in hopes to get new readers). I’m not asking anyone to step forward — as whoever has done this did so on their own and anonymously. But I did want to send a thanks to whoever was involved in this.

Thank you for your generosity, support and for helping to spread the word about Wayrift! It really means a lot to us, more than I can say! Due to the nature of our content, we decide long ago to never ask for monetary support for anything that we do — just seeing your comments, fan work, attendance in LiveStream chats and spreading the word to other potential readers has always been reward enough for us! So, something like this blows me away.

Thanks again, most sincerely! *Luv*