Gaining more readers/audiences

[nahyesq]

Do research on what your target audience wants and give it to them. Post daily/weekly/in a timely manner so that your audience's attention doesn't wane. Communication here and there to update your audience on what is happening with the series.

I guess my target audience is the people who likes mystery and superpower/ability steal kind of stuff so that settles it. I've managed a schedule to post daily to my audiences to so that they can know when is the next update.

*pats*
Well, we have loads of factors, cover being one. Tags being another. Title is important, even title of the chapters, and also number them. Put the link of your chapter in your signature, use the story feedback often,and post ideally twice a week.

Take a look at the geographic information of your viewers and schedule the chapters according to them.

Be active on comment section, and announce your hiatus.

The synopsis is important as well,

And, well, just have fun

Covers good, Tags I'm not so sure since I have 0 experience on this kind of fanfic world soo idk which are best but i think i got the general idea of what the tags that are suitable for the fic, title chapters too i gave them number + title so the reader would know about it, I don't know a story feedback (what's that?) and as for posting, i can do once daily due to i have stockpilled them.

Having fun is the critical bit.

I say, being a but hypocritical in that I'm sad about low reader numbers in my own work :'( (I'm also strictly writing for me, and I am advertising as little as possible. It feels... icky.)

Make sure your work has forward trajectory, and know how to combat writers block if it creeps up on ya.

If you have a loyal readerbase (one who will keep reading with ya, even if they don't comment, but even better if they do!!), I feel that takes the edge off the sting of "why is nothing working?!"

You may, if you want, try a little trick of running a "popular"/"bait" title, and then advertise your other titles. Untested, so cannot speak for any effectiveness.

Review trades are another way of getting activity. Either include your work, or find someone who's also doing it. Just be prepared for criticism but usually people will be polite if you are with them :3

Of course i'm having fun, writing is like my daily thing now to the point i can't escape them but also enjoys them, of course there's a part when i'm burnt out and might take a day off or so but for now i'm in a good mood! I'm not sure if i knew how i got a readerbase but at long as the favorite number keeps going i think that might work to give "hey, it keeps growing so maybe this fic is interesting for anyone to read!". I don't know what could be considered as "popular", though i'm a bit stingy when it comes those long titles like "I'm reincarnated as an X but my Y is Z?!" cuz it doesn't feel right for me. Maybe like 3-4 words max for me. As for review trades, of course i'm ready for a critic but i just don't know where to look since i'm new xd

Unless your novel is on the front page, you won't get many views from the site itself.

Like people said above : your best bet is to put some key tags, those the most readers look for, and to post regularly.

I started my novel 6 days ago, when it was on the front page I had a lot of traffic for the first chapters and now almost nobody comes from the site anymore. Most of them come from the link I spread on different places after posting a chapter.

If you want a few numbers to see what I mean, yesterday I got 266 views from the links I posted and only 51 from the site. So, around 84% of my readers come from my activity anywhere else (discord servers, forum, bookmarks, etc.), and only 16% come from the site (tags, browsing, search bar etc.)

And if I count my own views when posting and editing chapters, it's closer to 90% / 10%

When your novel doesn't have a lot of visibility, you should try to focus on that 90% instead of relying on the site traffic and its 10%.

(unless you write a clickbait and super mainstream novel, which works as well but it all depends on if you write for your pleasure or just to get visibility)

That sound sucks if it doesn't get to the front page. I've put some tags on my fic but do i need to fill it to all 25 tags? and for post of course i can post once a day due to i have stockpilled it. Ahh i see, so the Lounge is one of the viable ways to get your fiction to be read by people if i wanted to get a little kick from it. Thank you!

 

[Agentt]

I guess my target audience is the people who likes mystery and superpower/ability steal kind of stuff so that settles it. I've managed a schedule to post daily to my audiences to so that they can know when is the next update.

Daily, hm, seems a bit tight, you can do like...alternative days,

Covers good, Tags I'm not so sure since I have 0 experience on this kind of fanfic world soo idk which are best but i think i got the general idea of what the tags that are suitable for the fic, title chapters too i gave them number + title so the reader would know about it, I don't know a story feedback (what's that?) and as for posting, i can do once daily due to i have stockpilled them.

Story feedback is to post your first chapter here, on the forrums, under the story feedback section, and ask what others think about it. You can also do it with even paragraphs you have doubts on, events etc.

Though, what I personally would recommend is, grab a person, be it an author who writes similar to you, a reader, or me. Or me, or well, you know. There are lots of options, like me. And me.

After you have chosen me, or any other person(such as me) form a private conversation with them and discuss your book.

The tags, since you have figured out ones for fan fiction, don't forget tags for characters. Such as polite protagonist, rude protagonist, dense protagonist, childhood friends, any mental disabilities, athletes, zombies, any fetish, etc.

course i'm having fun, writing is like my daily thing now to the point i can't escape them but also enjoys them, of course there's a part when i'm burnt out and might take a day off or so but for now i'm in a good mood! I'm not sure if i knew how i got a readerbase but at long as the favorite number keeps going i think that might work to give "hey, it keeps growing so maybe this fic is interesting for anyone to read!". I don't know what could be considered as "popular", though i'm a bit stingy when it comes those long titles like "I'm reincarnated as an X but my Y is Z?!" cuz it doesn't feel right for me. Maybe like 3-4 words max for me. As for review trades, of course i'm ready for a critic but i just don't know where to look since i'm new xd

Just take a look at your reader count. Big number goes bigger makes everyone happy.

sound sucks if it doesn't get to the front page. I've put some tags on my fic but do i need to fill it to all 25 tags? and for post of course i can post once a day due to i have stockpilled it. Ahh i see, so the Lounge is one of the viable ways to get your fiction to be read by people if i wanted to get a little kick from it. Thank you!

You don't need to do all the tags.

After your story gets approved, it will be on the first page for quite some time under the latest series section, which will tale like 12 hours to approve btw.
Use this opportunity and post loads of chapters at once.

After that, it's rng.

And do schedule chapters according to demographic audience

 

[NobleTalon]

I've put some tags on my fic but do i need to fill it to all 25 tags

I would highly recommend you to do so.

Don't hesitate to add some baits, such as isekai or romance for example.

 

[Psycholor]

I would highly recommend you to do so.

Don't hesitate to add some baits, such as isekai or romance for example.

This. My story has Slow Romance and Love Interest Falls in Love first tags. Neither of those will be relevant for at least another couple of months.

I already have people speculating on who the love interest is.