Arkinslize If there are no updates every day, then 1-2 people leave the collections.
What is your collection to views ratio?
Arkinslize I can’t exactly help you there because my novels were before the time of New power stone rankings. So I’ve never experienced such a drop. But with that said, I have plenty of experience with not having any place of exposure with my novels.
Collections will grow slowly as you’ve seen. And updating daily will always help you keep these numbers either constant or growing. The best shot at getting back that exposure you had with the New ranking is to rank on another chart. This might take time. And some genres and lists are harder to rank on. Best rated is a pretty good place to start because you don’t need huge popularity or stats like with the overall or Popular lists, and there’s also trending too. Basically, you just have to work on a balance of releasing consistent content while encouraging readers to be active, ie reviews, comments, voting, etc so that you show up on these charts. The activity list is another possibility, but you’ll have to have very active readers for that. In short, you’ve now hit the grind period. Good luck!
Just write shorts if you want gorgeous numbers.
How do you like 35:1?
Helps that it's one chapter. Pop it and read it. Only two views.
Oh, obviously puny numbers of collections hide in that ratio. 58 to be more precise.
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Yeah i noticed this. I also receive notifs for 1 or 2 collections sometimes, but when i check the collection number is the same. Don't know if it's a bug or people dropping the story.
There's also a bug i'm quite upset about. When i'm searching my story manually, either by rating, popular or collections it doesn't appear where it should. Only the 'updated' function seems to work.
More than a month that my stories never moved up or down with these parameters. Always the same stories above and below me when some of them have been inactive for months.
Yeah, i will try to accumulate some chapters maybe to top the release ranking for a week/month. But it means this month will be boring as hell.
But if it's the same for everyone, i guess i shouldn't worry.
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26,400 views and 161 collections so 1:164 for me. Though, OP Paladin (abbreviation) dropped 8 days ago. I don't know what a good ratio is so can someone give me the ideal ratio?
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CautiousTitan It’s tricky to say what’s ideal because it’s based on a lot of dependents. In your case, I’d say that’s a very good ratio for a week old story. Perhaps are you on the power stone rankings for new stories? Because that amount of collections is above average and suggests increased exposure to people to become readers.
Anything less than 1:400 I’d consider fine for a new novel and under 1:200 as very good.
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Chryiss Ok. Thanks for the information. Webnovel doesn't seem to have info on it.
As it pertains to the New Power Rankings, I'm ranked #47 on the list as of right now so I don't know if the ratio will hold or rise as more people see it. I also don't know if my rank will fall or rise so I'll just monitor it for now.
I'll have to keep those two ratios in mind in the future. I guess I'll aim for <1:300 for the lifetime of the novel. It would be nice if Webnovel automatically placed the ratio in the dashboard for us. It seems like a solid data point to gauge the story. Other than Valid Reads of course.
As Chryiss said it depends mostly on exposure. When i was in the new ranking, i was earning 20 to 40 collections a day, since i'm not anymore 2-3, sometimes 0.
I also heard that people earned a lot of collections at once when their novels have been featured for a week. In the end average stories hundred of chapters long will earn tens/hundreds/thousands of collection in a day. So keep writing, that's all you can do.
For easy views and collections though, just add a R-18 tag. You'll be surprised..
Arkinslize Yeah. Just have to keep writing. Make the most of the ranking while I have it.
Working Hard, Smart, and Consistently will probably get me where I want to go.
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I have three novels.
Complete one. (With 3M views and 10k coll... 1:300?)
The other one is about 30k views or less with close to 453 colls.= 1:44 (good I guess?)
Don't know if it's good or not.
But you could check out my stories
"Hello, Mr Li" (completed)
"Beware: She's a devil" (WPC99 entry)
"My Crazy Housemate"
Heh, my novel, Rekka's Last Stand has 1 collection and ~150 views. So, 1:150 for me!
ReincarnatedSaint sorry for the late response. My understanding of how this works:
Take your book page views and divide it by the number of your total collections.
Example
- Views 10K
- Collection adds 100
10000/100= 100
The ratio would be 100:1
Loosely put, 100 views per collection add.
This was the best stat we had to determine read interest on our books before the dashboards (that's still wonky). Having said that, it didn't factor out scrapper bot views.
As Chryiss has mentioned before. The ideal ratio is anything under the hundreds. So a ratio of 1:50 is better than 1:500. Loosely speaking, it means for every 50 views of the book page, a peep has added the book to their library.
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1168.42: 1
4371.43: 1
4842.5: 1
2000: 1
713: 1
1123: 1
Does it mean it's time to wind up all these novels? Quickly finish the end or can I continue to write?
From what people have written here anything above 1000:1 is pretty poor performance as far as retention goes.
Yeah, that means I'm the king of piss poor performance :D
Given your numbers above, if the two stories with 4k+:1 have less than 100k views you're basically writing them only for yourself. Assuming you're actively writing more than one story (as in not yet finished), I'd personally axe those two in favour of the others. Possibly axe the 2000:1 as well.
The main reason I just laugh off 17000:1 (yep, seventeen thousand views per collection) is because I finished that story 2005, so it was only a matter of republishing it here.
StenDuring That is, at 4371.43: 1
4842.5: 1
better to finish them, and focus on those with more collections and views?
As previously mentioned here https://forum.webnovel.com/d/34886-how-long-does-it-take-to-reach-a-million-views-for-an-original-novel/34
that the main productivity is 3500 words per day, every day, for 1-2 months and also according to that list. Views easily gain 50k per month!
That is, the main thing is not even the story itself, but the ability to write a lot?
Well, I get it, thanks, your advice helped me. Now I will try to finish these stories and pay more attention to those stories where they read more and more subscriptions. I needed this advice! Respect!
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Sten, how have ya been?
Just fine. Hit 1M views on my main last weekend, so happy camper here.
StenDuring Congrats on the milestone.
Heh!
What do you like these numbers? 32:1
Obviously a one chapter short story with a low number of collections, but still :D
Ratio to date = 538:1
I think my contracted story has done its dash and died a slow death. The poor Sunflower has dried up with interest :laughing: Regardless, I'll have to finish by April to satisfy my own catalogue plans.
Kind of was expecting Sunflower to have a modest run, so it's cool.
It's had some cool readers who've supported its journey. That's my biggest win on this contract author stint. Sunflower readers have been awesome. Yep. You heard me. We have some excellent reader peeps here. Big up respect for all their comments and encouragement. I'd feel this contract experience would be a failure if I didn't receive the reader support it has received. Fingers crossed. I've never had reason to delete one review since everyone has been kind and constructive with feedback. Feeling blessed to be honest. And I hope I don't jinx myself. 
StenDuring Nice. Still, a good number despite the book being shorts.
Congrats, thats really cool man
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Veronica8 Cool thread. I'll give it a go, although my statistical maths is terrible.
Zaldizko has 12.1K views to 9 collections.
So ratio is 1344:1?
It's pretty small-time since it has only been live for a month. I'm open for some readers :smile:To My Sunflower has 6919 views to 25 collections. Only been live since writing prompt #46 two weeks back. Again open for some readers :wink:
Ratio is 276:1?I honestly don't know if these numbers are a good indication for this site or not. Probably not since it doesn't really generate too much activity. I can't complain since I've only been here a month. If Anything, the views are telling me my cover and blurb are drawing in the interest at least. I hope.
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Update on my book Rekka's Last Stand from a month ago!
It now has 39k views and 25 collections, so 1,560:1 compared to 150:1 from when I first started out.
Currently, my novel for the 104 WC has a ratio of 10.7k:14, or 764:1.
tbh, not sure if that's good or bad. I rarely check the ratios lol.
Went from a 1:400 to an almost 1:2000 Did nuffing, just continued the story ;__;
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Update on OP Paladin and the new novel OP Dungeon:
OP Paladin [193] (130k Views/672 Collections)
OP Dungeon[140] (41.5k Views/296 Collections)
They are both new so it should be interesting to see if they manage to stay below 1:200 or not.
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My Attack Stat is Negligible.... (219K Views/332 Collections) - 660:1
I didn't contract it and never bothered to promote. Writing it for fun and for people that like weird JP light novels so ¯\(ツ)/¯ .
I have just reached 1 million views on my main novel.
shoots confetti cannon
For some magical reason my slow AF slice of life has reached a million. Current stats are 1million/1686 soooo like 595:1
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To My Sunflower - 539:1
Not expecting much more readership with my story. Happy to write it off.
Although, this story is aligned to what we're experiencing with corov. I guess the hardships and having to be restricted on rations.
Heh!
Short story 31:1. Well, only one chapter, so basically no views. 2183 and 70 collections. But, hey, still looks good with that ratio :D
Main story trudges on at 1031:1. That's pretty awful I guess. Still, it's the one with over 1M views.
One finished story at an epic 19333:1. I have high hopes of seeing it break 20K views per collection ;)
Well, I've got ~ 1:150 on LFPW, so it's not too bad, but at the same time it's a new novel and has only 15k views, so I imagine it will go down a lot in the future...
Views: 2,420,000
Collection: 16,210
Ratio = 149.29
Still have a long way to go.
Quite pathetic, now that I think about it...not that I care. Just had some guy called Ariq demanding that I delete my story.
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I don't get how it is possible. You still have regularly new reviews and some power stones. 143 power stones shouldn't get you a ranking so low.
Even the worst stories should have a few collections each days if the visibility is good enough.
Ugh.. I'm seriously lacking collections. 751 for about 200k views. Let's see with the featuring next week if it gets better.
Arkinslize The truth is that I am an awful author, and most readers drop the story after voting for it because of disappointment or they realize my story is utter rubbish. Also, many of the reviews are negative, so...
And the top stories all have thousands of power stones, so I am nothing compared to them.
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I mean, some readers never remove webnovels from their library, whether they liked it or not.
If you repeat to every reader of yours how awful you and your story are, it's like unpromoting yourself.
Whatever you write, you should at the very least be your first fan and defend the good points of your novel. Writing 890k words needs some real commitment as bad as you think it is. Some great authors can't do as much.
Remove all your negatives author notes and fix what should really be fixed, or start anew. But 5 collections with 2M views, there's definitely an issue.
Just my opinion.