Your title screenshot and sometimes description have to work together to tell the story of why you are posting this to a giant community. Here are some examples of hooks that work on imgur:ĭoing something totally counter to societal norms You can’t just post a random game screenshot with the title of your game and expect it to go viral. The trick to a viral imgur post is to hit the right tone and subject matter for the imgur audience. With that pre-amble over, let’s look at how to get your game to be on the front page of imgur. Just keep in mind this strategy is not a guarantee. I will discuss what to do if it doesn’t work. There are a hundred little factors that could mean your post doesn’t go viral. Every day is like starting out with 0 following and nobody will remember you exist a day later.Īlso, despite this strategy working for me any many others, I have had a lot of posts go nowhere. This all contributes to the fact that imgur is like the Groundhog Day of social media. If someone likes your post you have no way to contact them again when your game is on sale. You can’t upload a custom profile picture - you have to pick from a couple dozen pre-made icons. (In fact you can only follow someone from the mobile device). For instance imgur has a way to follow other imgurians but nobody really uses it. Imgur is terrible for making people fall in love with you. My choice is an email lists because it works the best, but other options are Steam wishlisting, Joining a Discord, following you on social media. You need to figure out another marketing platform that will move them from interested down to actually buying your game. Imgur can only get someone from "Unaware" to interested. (If this doesn’t make sense or you have never heard of the marketing funnel, please read this article I wrote all about the funnel.) Understanding the funnel is the core to understanding how to do marketing. imgur is just once piece in your overall marketing strategy. You are not going to sell 1,000,000 copies even If you stay on the front page of imgur for a week. The best you can do is get people who don’t know you exist into people who are merely aware of your game. imgur is a top of the funnel marketing tactic. So as a big thank you please follow him on Twitter and his associate who co-developed this strategy and wishlist his game (it comes out October 17th) as a big thank you So here goes.īefore I blow your mind with this strategy let me bring some reality here first. I asked Adrian and thankfully he said it was ok to share this. I thought I would pay it forward and share it with the greater indie game community. It has worked for me at least 3 times earning me over 374,000 total views. This strategy was invented by Adrian Kaiser and his expert marketing team. For now. A few months ago I learned this strategy from a secret Google document that was being passed around by a couple top-tier games marketing people in private forums. There are very few places left where a non-curated feed is still possible. Algorithmic based feeds and paid advertising on Facebook and Twitter has made organic traffic almost impossible now. Organic traffic is hard to come by these days. It was just me uploading some pictures and writing a little bit about my game. And best yet I didn’t have to spend anything to “boost my post” or convince some features editor to write about it, or pay an influencer. Making an exception for also seemed to help.Almost 150,000 views, hundreds of comments, all looking at me and my game. Thanks for everyone who helped in this thread, and especially to Mhill2029 who pointed me to the Firefox content area, where I made the allowance for i. I made an exception in firefox and my firewall for i. and now all the images are working. PS: This is the only seemingly appropriate category I could find for this.įirefox wasnt allowing imgurs subsidary off site redirector through. I cant view things at my favorite sites (Even !) because of this. I have heard something about changing my hosts file or something of that extent but i am unsure about what to do exactly.Īny help with this would be GREATLY appreciated as imgur is becoming one of the most popular image sharing sites around. Even they are externally linked, say, in a blog or something, they just simply do not load. The website loads, I can direct myself around it etc. Okay, so for the longest time I have been having an issue with the site.
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