What is your sub per day rate? :-) Likes per day?

@bulgariansumo Bulgariansumo
Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:47:38 +0000

@bulgariansumo wrote:

Oooh, mine are going to look kinda pitiful. I have been posting for about 163 days, so:
Likes: 0.39 per day
Subs: 0.09 per day

There's a combination of things going on here, some of it within my control. My updates are sporadic. If I hadn't uploaded every chapter daily, I might still have a backlog, but that's on me. I don't think I'm all that great at advertising outside of Tapas. One of my closest friends didn't realize I had an account here; I usually only advertise my Wattpad updates, and never more than once per chapter per site. I could probably stand to interact more with other people and their stories. My logo could also use some reworking. I edited my first chapter to start a little more strongly, but I don't know how much that helped.

There are also some things that are outside of my control. Novels do not get as much traffic as webcomics on here. The same friend I mentioned earlier was shocked to find out Tapas hosted novels. He's not the only one; a lot of Tapas readers don't realize novels exist on the site and wouldn't think to look for them. Some genres are also more popular than others. While sci-fi novels do way better than comedy or nonfiction (I've never seen so many stories with 0 likes), 2 likes within a week was able to get my story up to the top 5 most popular. If I'm not mistaken, it's still in the top 20. I could swap sci-fi with LGBT+ as my main genre, but I'm worried I'd stand out less.

A more detailed, current anime/manhwa-styled cover would probably help to attract more viewers than the weird 80s/90s anime fusion style I have going on, but I illustrate my stories. It would be weird if my cover looks one way and the illustrations look another.

I'm not aiming to get super popular, though more readers would be nice. If someone reading this is looking to get popular, take note of what I'm doing and don't make the same mistakes.