niharikabhol I second this. I can’t think of any way except contests, and without contests it’s much more difficult. Connections don’t seem to help here that much either, meaning—If you’re friends with popular authors, it doesn’t mean that your book will get a huge boost (at least that I’ve seen; I don’t know firsthand, so I’m presuming).

We should have better recommendations or discovery features for authors onsite rather than the forums.

      500,400 views with 1188 collections.
      My ration is 421:1

      I just hope to get featured at this point.. hehehe... I'm hoping for more promotions to increase my collections :(

      Chryiss I've pretty much pitched my case for a better Search Function somewhere else in this forum.

      If WN can spend some money on Content AI in their search function (using metadata mapping), they will be leaps ahead of the game. User Content and AI intuitive features is the big push for Social Marketing right now. Now is the time for Webnovel to gain a leg up in this area.

      They need to fix their Search function for greater and better ease of story discovery, otherwise, they'll be left behind. I can already see, based on feel of their site, Wattpad is pushing for this opportunity. Inkitt isn't far behind. Neither of them have a model to go off yet, so it's experimental.

      Ugh! that's my old job talk rambles. I think I just aged myself 10 years with this crappy spiel. :penguin:

        niharikabhol Same, I "disconnected" basically after high school, so I've lost keeping up connections with hundreds of people. In college, most of the people I meet are "business" connections on LinkedIn. XD

            505,800 views with 1198 collections.
            My ration is 422:1

            I just hope to get featured at this point.. hehehe... I'm hoping for more promotions to increase my collections :(

            I have 2,740 something views and 8 collections, which gives a ratio of approx 350:1 for a new novel, with like just 9 chapters.
            I do not know how these statistics work...It that good for a rookie?

              Funny thing I noticed recently after I updated some of my stories. Except for MWTL, I've lost a few collections for my tree and BTS story. With the latter, I gain some and then lose a couple, but I'm baffled by the former since I updated twice with nice long updates after a month. I guess they didn't like the two chapters? XD

                Chryiss Reader trends can be unpredictable sometimes, since readers themselves can be that way.

                Then there's technical glitches that see books readded. I've had to do that with some of the books I read when the sync goes out of order.

                I'm going to track my stats monthly as this would give me a better indication of reader interest. At the moment, I haven't introduced any new content, so most of my book counts haven't moved. To be expected.

                I'm fretting over the increase of interest in To Like A Man. Surely people can see this is a dropped book and I've even advertised it as such, why so many new adds? This is my fastest mover (which isn't a lot btw).

                  And here I come to drop my collection to views ratio.

                  Currently I have 1026 collections with 13 chapters. I´m quite satisfied because I have started this novel about ten days ago.

                  102000 views and 1026 collections= 99.4 ratio. I´m really happy with that.

                    GreatSage_Master1 I know the reason why your ratio is very good.
                    When you write popular fan fiction, you gather tons of exposer and fan base, example Broly The Saiyan of Legend got 3 million views with over 7k collections.
                    If the author transition into original authentic novels, they will gain tons of views and collections easily with the existing fan base.
                    The same thing can be applied to you.
                    You already got a very popular fan fiction with over a million views, with that existing fan base, It's not surprising you got a very good ratio with little chapters.
                    It's a very smart way of advertisement.

                        Enlightened_Being Oof. That makes sense. Maybe I should've waited to upload my serious work of fiction to Webnovel after creating my fan fiction. XD Of course, I wouldn't know that the contest would be held and that the fan fic would be popular. But in that hypothetical, at least I would have had more prewritten chapters to update more than once a week by that time. Meh, we'll see if I ever make another fiction on WN that this strategy works for me and this particular fandom lol.

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