Is it true that reviews help a novel to reach Trending? What else helps?

[FallenMoon3]

I've been writing here for over a month and I don't understand how this system works. My best position in the ranking was 260, I think it was after a reader favorited many of my chapters.

 

[theInmara]

We don't know how trending works, but ranking within a given tag works purely on total views.

Good reviews might get you more views for a given book.

Beyond that, someone else will have to asnwer.

 

[DeepWater]

I've been writing here for over a month and I don't understand how this system works. My best position in the ranking was 260, I think it was after a reader favorited many of my chapters.

I think it's safe to assume some kind of points system is used. Views probably give you one point each, then favorites, comments, and reviews give you a lot more. None of this is confirmed though, just speculation.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

You need to give my story a one-star rating.

 

[melchi]

You need to give my story a one-star rating.

110% of forum users agree this is true.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Whats the criteria for reaching trending? Or rising

Likes, views or interaction with the stories?

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How to get to trending list!

So I've noticed from looking at the novel on trending list, and view it's statistics, for your novel to get on trending list, you either have to reach 2500 views threshold or have a somewhat upward trend on your view stats, is my assumptions right?.

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How do you ACTUALLY get to the trending list?

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...

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I know trending is supposed to be random but...

This can't be a coincidence. The only time my dear novels have ever appeared on it is when I constantly upload (a chapter a day). I think... if we form a group of powerful individuals, we can come together and battle this mighty system!! We can't let ourselves be ruled by these EVIL COMPUTER...

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How can I get my novel back on trending

I have been posting for a year now on Scribblehub. My novel - When I Got Reincarnated As A Spider With My Goddess In the start often my novel would appear in the trending. But past two months it hasn't even been for a single time on trending. I haven't lost on any reader count, in fact they...

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[Dieter]

no one knows the secret formula

 

[expentio]

Personally, I find that having a lot of comments works.
Usually two days (seems like a processing period) after I had a relevant increase in traffic, I got into trending.
Of course, I can't tell how true that is, but I had for example a longer discussion between two of my readers that increased my usual 10 comments per chapter to 36.
Two days later: Trending!
So I'd say, it happens if your story suddenly gets more attention + processing time.
I even think it can work with a double chapter post if both are getting their attention from the audience. At least, that was what happened to me once.
It might also depend on your usual average of traffic and might have different benchmarks to hit to trigger trending, depending on if you usually have many or few views.
For a new story, getting a few hundred views during the starting phase, while having enough chapters to be clicked, works as well. At least new stories of popular authors who have no trouble finding their audience through a settled fanbase can be quite certain to get into the upper reaches of the trending list when they're getting started. After this, it's a bit of its own dynamic for some time, as bring in trending with a new story guarantees more traffic the next day, which gets you into trending, repeat, repeat...
Though one shouldn't forget that one is in competition with all the other stories. So if many others fulfill those criterias as well one wouldn't get as high.

 

[Anonjohn20]

I've been writing here for over a month and I don't understand how this system works. My best position in the ranking was 260, I think it was after a reader favorited many of my chapters.

Trending might be random. lol

I once saw a story with 12 chapters that hadn't been updated in a month somehow reach trending.

You need to give my story a one-star rating.

110% of forum users agree this is true.

Well, now I don't wanna do it!

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I've been writing here for over a month and I don't understand how this system works. My best position in the ranking was 260, I think it was after a reader favorited many of my chapters.

One of my stories hit trending for about four hours. I have no clue why, nor why it fell off of trending so quickly either.