How Your Comic Shop Beats Amazon at the One Thing They Can Never Offer
You can’t compete with Amazon on price. Here’s what you compete on instead — and why local comic shops that understand this are the ones that keep growing.
Why Your Record Store Website Gets No Traffic — And What to Do About It
You built the website. You put in the hours. And yet traffic is basically zero. Here are the 7 most common reasons record store websites get no organic traffic — and how to fix each one.
What Every Comic Shop Website Needs (And Most Are Missing)
Most comic shop websites were built to check a box. Here are the 7 things that separate a website that works from one that quietly costs you customers every day.
How to Rank #1 for “Comic Shop Near Me”: The 5 Factors That Actually Matter
Google’s Map Pack has three slots. Here’s exactly what determines who gets in — and what comic shop owners can do to rank at the top.
Local SEO for Record Stores: How to Get Found by Vinyl Lovers in Your City
Vinyl sales have grown for 17 consecutive years — but if your record store isn’t showing up on Google, you’re missing the customers who are actively looking for you.
How to Get Your Comic Shop on Google: A Step-by-Step Local SEO Guide
If someone searches “comic shop near me” right now, does your store show up? Here’s the step-by-step local SEO playbook for comic book shops.
5 Website Mistakes That Are Costing Your Shop Customers
The same five website problems show up on almost every indie retail site I look at. Here’s what they are, why they matter, and exactly how to fix them — no agency required.
The Complete Guide to Getting Your Record Store Found Online
If you run a record store, you already know the magic of what you do. You curate. You dig. You know the difference between an original pressing and a reissue before most people can read the label. But here’s the problem: Google doesn’t know any of that — and if Google doesn’t know it, neither […]
I Checked 200 Comic Book Store Websites — Almost None of Them Show Up on Google
I’m a comic dealer. I order from Lunar every Monday. A few months ago I got curious and started checking comic shop websites across the country — just pulling them up, looking at how they showed up on Google, seeing what a customer would actually find if they searched. I checked around 200 shops. Almost […]