How do you ACTUALLY get to the trending list?

[BearlyAlive]

Sacrificing the soul of your newborn at exactly 6:66

 

[Representing_Tromba]

have you upgraded your account?

There are upgrades?!?

Only premium users can get on trending.

This isn't RR!

 

[CharlesEBrown]

DM feet pics to the mods. That's it. Works 80% of the time.

The other 20% they already had those specific pics and suspend your account for a day.

Or so I've heard.

 

[AverageMaidLover]

Can a book without the trans/bl/gl stuff become big on this platform?

I'll just comment on this - my highest ranking on trending was #12 (at least that I've seen, I don't remember to check every day) was my straight, harem, fluffy, slice-of-life, smut series, which contains none of that, so you definitely can without.

My joke/not a joke answer is to write fanfiction since I feel like that gets outsized amounts of attention. My real answer is to release consistently every couple days as that seems to work the best (something I fail to do).

 

[Jocelyn_Uasal]

DM feet pics to the mods. That's it. Works 80% of the time.

brb about to have a best seller ???

 

[MajorKerina]

or write fanfiction with a lot of smut

 

[RiaCorvidiva]

Write what people want to read. I am doing well with the 'writing' part and far less well with the 'what people want to read' part. I've made top-100 a couple times, but never top 8/9.

 

[Corty]

By 5-star rating my novels and then I can make it happen for you. No cap, fr, fr.

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

A few questions -
What's the secret behind getting into the list?
What's the best time to post to gain the most views?
Can a book without the trans/bl/gl stuff become big on this platform?
I am doing better on RR even though according to me the competition there is much fierce.
Here's my novel, what am I doing wrong?

Personally, I don't understand why people seem to think that "trans/bl/gl" stuff is the way to get big on this site. I see many stories getting popular without LGBT+ themes on this site. So could someone explain this to me where this idea is coming from? Because there are many people on this site who are anti-trans/bl/gl stories (not me, I like that stuff, but there are plenty I know). So I guess, while I want answers to my questions as well, in answer to your question, those themes really aren't relevant, however much some joke.

Problems with your cover: Apparently, Tony put in a filter to make it so that overly sexy women stop boosting popularity for stories so much more than other, unique covers. I would recommend something unique and interesting that shows the ghoulishness, not the love interest.

Problems with your synopsis: "Also, the strongest Ghoul of the past era has taken him as a disciple." This sentence is way out of place for the structure you were building. It is such an aside, that it being tossed in like that made me chuckle (which is fine if you're going for a comedy, but it can put people off). I'd recommend just deleting it. But if you reeeally want to keep it, figure out how to mesh it together with one of the first three paragraphs.
Everything in bold, you don't need.
What to expect:

[- Unique Power System(s)

- Weak to strong to OP.

- 0 Confidence MC turns into a Cold and Calculating Anti-Hero.

- Only One Love Interest

- Climax which leaves more Questions than Answers (Will be Answered in upcoming stories set in the same verse)
***

The end of Part 1 of Vol 1 (Ch-25) is where I'd say the real story starts.

The end of Part 2 of Vol 1 is where the Protagonist would become cold and calculative.

The starting chapters will feel very Tokyo Ghoulish, and trust me that's intentional as I was heavily inspired by that, but please don't drop this until you reach further ahead in the story. This story shapes up the world I'm trying to create, filled with different factions, goals, and the threads of fate guiding them.

If you are giving this a chance then I'm very thankful.

***

I'll be uploading 5 chapters every week!
]

The parentheses are just not needed. No need to emphasize having a multitude of power systems more than having it already is.
People can already tell that it will be weak to strong to OP because the title and the first paragraphs of the synopsis have a very similar structure to other stories with a weak to strong to OP set up. Personally, I would just not write any of the stuff in brackets. It adds too much length for an SH synopsis (works in RR, but not in SH for some reason).

Another, HUGE problem with the synopsis is this: "As he delves deeper into the shadowy world of Ghouls, Poachers and Awakened, he learns something worse. The truth is—he's a Ghoul-Devourer, a rare being that must consume other Ghouls to survive." I ask you this: Are Ghouls terrible creatures normally? If so... then why is it worse than being a normal Ghoul? That makes no sense. It means that he no longer has to eat humans like he once was. That will definitely make people not want to read the story, because this contradiction sounds like the author trying to make what is actually a benefit sound like a disadvantage.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Personally, I don't understand why people seem to think that "trans/bl/gl" stuff is the way to get big on this site. I see many stories getting popular without LGBT+ themes on this site. So could someone explain this to me where this idea is coming from? Because there are many people on this site who are anti-trans/bl/gl stories (not me, I like that stuff, but there are plenty I know). So I guess, while I want answers to my questions as well, in answer to your question, those themes really aren't relevant, however much some joke.

Same reason why people think smut is the way to get big. ?‍ Straight smut is as popular as GL, or male to female GB + GL. I assume some people don't like the fact Smut and\or GL are popular, so they say it out of spite. Some heard it from others and didn't bother to fact check. Some of the oldies might say it as a joke. I don't know why the rest say it.

 

[ScarletWeeb]

Personally, I don't understand why people seem to think that "trans/bl/gl" stuff is the way to get big on this site. I see many stories getting popular without LGBT+ themes on this site. So could someone explain this to me where this idea is coming from? Because there are many people on this site who are anti-trans/bl/gl stories (not me, I like that stuff, but there are plenty I know). So I guess, while I want answers to my questions as well, in answer to your question, those themes really aren't relevant, however much some joke.

Problems with your cover: Apparently, Tony put in a filter to make it so that overly sexy women stop boosting popularity for stories so much more than other, unique covers. I would recommend something unique and interesting that shows the ghoulishness, not the love interest.

Problems with your synopsis: "Also, the strongest Ghoul of the past era has taken him as a disciple." This sentence is way out of place for the structure you were building. It is such an aside, that it being tossed in like that made me chuckle (which is fine if you're going for a comedy, but it can put people off). I'd recommend just deleting it. But if you reeeally want to keep it, figure out how to mesh it together with one of the first three paragraphs.
Everything in bold, you don't need.
What to expect:

[- Unique Power System(s)

- Weak to strong to OP.

- 0 Confidence MC turns into a Cold and Calculating Anti-Hero.

- Only One Love Interest

- Climax which leaves more Questions than Answers (Will be Answered in upcoming stories set in the same verse)
***

The end of Part 1 of Vol 1 (Ch-25) is where I'd say the real story starts.

The end of Part 2 of Vol 1 is where the Protagonist would become cold and calculative.

The starting chapters will feel very Tokyo Ghoulish, and trust me that's intentional as I was heavily inspired by that, but please don't drop this until you reach further ahead in the story. This story shapes up the world I'm trying to create, filled with different factions, goals, and the threads of fate guiding them.

If you are giving this a chance then I'm very thankful.

***

I'll be uploading 5 chapters every week!
]

The parentheses are just not needed. No need to emphasize having a multitude of power systems more than having it already is.
People can already tell that it will be weak to strong to OP because the title and the first paragraphs of the synopsis have a very similar structure to other stories with a weak to strong to OP set up. Personally, I would just not write any of the stuff in brackets. It adds too much length for an SH synopsis (works in RR, but not in SH for some reason).

Another, HUGE problem with the synopsis is this: "As he delves deeper into the shadowy world of Ghouls, Poachers and Awakened, he learns something worse. The truth is—he's a Ghoul-Devourer, a rare being that must consume other Ghouls to survive." I ask you this: Are Ghouls terrible creatures normally? If so... then why is it worse than being a normal Ghoul? That makes no sense. It means that he no longer has to eat humans like he once was. That will definitely make people not want to read the story, because this contradiction sounds like the author trying to make what is actually a benefit sound like a disadvantage.

Thanks man. You provided a lot of clarity.

 

[Nolff]

DM feet pics to the mods. That's it. Works 80% of the time.

There's a better way to do this.

Here:

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

Same reason why people think smut is the way to get big. ?‍ Straight smut is as popular as GL, or male to female GB + GL. I assume some people don't like the fact Smut and\or GL are popular, so they say it out of spite. Some heard it from others and didn't bother to fact check. Some of the oldies might say it as a joke. I don't know why the rest say it.

Thanks for the clarification! That makes a lot of sense. I wonder why the rest say it too, but I appreciate you clarifying why a lot of others say it! At least now I know why most people say it.

Thanks man. You provided a lot of clarity.

@ScarletWeeb My pleasure! Happy to help!

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Thanks for the clarification! That makes a lot of sense. I wonder why the rest say it too, but I appreciate you clarifying why a lot of others say it! At least now I know why most people say it.

Just in case. GL is popular here. GB is only popular if it's male to female. It is not the only way to get popular, but we must admit those genres are popular. There are 116 pages worth of GL novels, and a lot of them are very popular. GB is less popular on it's own, but still is doing fairly well if it's male to female. Female to male is pretty much dead. BL isn't popular, but has a separate small community, I think it is called BL palace.