Trending Troubles

Conqueror_Quack

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Does anyone have any advice on how to break into trending? My numbers are, not to brag, pretty great, but I've never made it to the front page and at this point have no idea why. For reference, over the last month I've gone from ~400 views a day to ~1200.

Story in question: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1667726/amaranthine/
No one knows the secret of Trending because tony keeps it a secret so nobody games the system. Though I remember some people talking about how reader interaction might be one of the factors for getting into that list.
 

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No one knows the secret of Trending because tony keeps it a secret so nobody games the system. Though I remember some people talking about how reader interaction might be one of the factors for getting into that list.
Thanks, I kinda thought that was the case, but a couple days ago I had one of my all time highs *and* was #1 for activity on the site. It truly is a mystery....
 

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Does anyone have any advice on how to break into trending? My numbers are, not to brag, pretty great, but I've never made it to the front page and at this point have no idea why. For reference, over the last month I've gone from ~400 views a day to ~1200.

Story in question: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1667726/amaranthine/

Like Quack said, we have no idea the actual metrics.


I seem to get there when I get a ton of favourite clicks and comments, and people adding me to their readers' list, at the same time as the views.

I am guessing you need to have a certain amount of all of them to break into the trending, not to mention you need to outperform other webnovels.
 

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Like Quack said, we have no idea the actual metrics.


I seem to get there when I get a ton of favourite clicks and comments, and people adding me to their readers' list, at the same time as the views.

I am guessing you need to have a certain amount of all of them to break into the trending, not to mention you need to outperform other webnovels.
Hmm, guess my successes are just never lining up. Thanks for the insight!
 
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Damn you got a lot of views.I'm new and I barely have views 😑

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I could have sworn I saw your book trend a couple of times. Also how much of it is smut? Novels with a substantial amount of smut are removed (even manually) from trending.
 

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I could have sworn I saw your book trend a couple of times. Also how much of it is smut? Novels with a substantial amount of smut are removed (even manually) from trending.
They do? Since when? Who said it? Cause I have a hard time believing it was Tony
 

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They do? Since when? Who said it? Cause I have a hard time believing it was Tony
I’ve noticed this over the past year or so. Stories that are porn without a plot (not stories tagged as smut, because those can have a majority of plot with only occasional smut) are prohibited. The algorithm may put them on trending, but hours later they are removed and never appear on trending again, even if they rank high on the activity list. An example is that free-use story.
P.S. As someone who got into the top 9 simply because of smut removal, I know.
 

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I could have sworn I saw your book trend a couple of times. Also how much of it is smut? Novels with a substantial amount of smut are removed (even manually) from trending.
10-15% waaaaaaay less than some of ny buddies like Suki at The Chimera Summoner, so ik I'm good there. I think the highest I've ever ranked is 29? But never front page, though my numbers consistently outpace at least *some* of the folks in the top 10 each day.
Why did I read your name as a gay lord of tinder
Cause I write dickgirl protags? It's a fair assesment, if wrong lol
 
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