Gourmet_DAO

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.

Chryiss

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.

      5 days later

      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?

        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.

            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.

                CautiousTitan

                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..

                    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.

                          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?

                            Gourmet_DAO

                            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!

                                    16 days later

                                    Veronica8

                                    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. 😖

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