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It finally happened. Very, very finally. Two years after the last occurrence, I actually got at least one hit on every story on my account, and in fact it happened about ten days before the end of the month.
(I've only written another ten stories in the intervening period, but it's enough to make a big difference to the odds, apparently!)
I suspect the flush of attention was due to my posting in a new fandom and/or my taking part in a forum challenge, as I also had a noticeable bulge in the number of people visiting my author profile this month, presumably in order to see what else I'd written — and possibly due to a high number of visitors to my Rescue Raoul story collection as well. It's actually been getting quite a lot of traffic this year (sadly FFnet doesn't give you any idea which of your recommendations are being read, only the overall number of views), despite the fact that only four people are officially subscribed to receive updates, I haven't been posting anything in the POTO fandoms for months, and it is registered as a 'general' C2 community rather than showing up in the list of Phantom communities... so I'm not sure quite how people are finding it, unless it's people who have been looking at my profile for other reasons!
Oddly enough the one story that didn't get much attention this month was the Erik-centric "Annoyance", which usually does quite well. Of the 'usual suspects', "Lost and Found" managed a whole six visitors in place of its customary zero, amd somebody read all the way through "Paldit". The healthy-looking stats on the other B7 story, "Half a Savage", are misleading, alas; of the four visitors, nobody got beyond chapter 3.
The most successful stories were "All the Rules Rearranged", where eight people read it all the way through, and "Count Philippe", where — despite the usual massive drop-off after the bedroom chapter in this story, whether through outrage or satiation — eight readers likewise made it to the end. I have no idea what happened to the one-shot stories "Shall We Dance?", "An Unfair Advantage" and "Beyond the Abyss", which received a completely disproportionate bulge in page views (106 new views on a story that had been on the site for years? really?); I can't help a certain suspicion that someone left a browser tab open on them over repeated days throughout the month :-(
Other stories received a healthy 2–5 readers who made it to the end. "Water-horse", as usual, got a large number of hits on the first page but only one real reader, and the translation "Please Pretend" likewise had ten visitors to the first chapter but only one who read as far as the final chapters... and skipped most of the middle! "Blue Remembered Hills" got a handful of hits on the first chapter that were just enough to make up the nominal full slate of stories for this month, but that's not unusual; there are months where it gets no hits at all. A sad fate for a story that took so long to write and that was so ambitious in scope (and not a good portent for Arctic Raoul), but I'm afraid being a crossover really doesn't help.
(Looking back at previous postings, I note that "All the Rules Rearranged" appears consistently to have done unusually well across the years. I wonder what it is about that particular story?)
It finally happened. Very, very finally. Two years after the last occurrence, I actually got at least one hit on every story on my account, and in fact it happened about ten days before the end of the month.
(I've only written another ten stories in the intervening period, but it's enough to make a big difference to the odds, apparently!)
I suspect the flush of attention was due to my posting in a new fandom and/or my taking part in a forum challenge, as I also had a noticeable bulge in the number of people visiting my author profile this month, presumably in order to see what else I'd written — and possibly due to a high number of visitors to my Rescue Raoul story collection as well. It's actually been getting quite a lot of traffic this year (sadly FFnet doesn't give you any idea which of your recommendations are being read, only the overall number of views), despite the fact that only four people are officially subscribed to receive updates, I haven't been posting anything in the POTO fandoms for months, and it is registered as a 'general' C2 community rather than showing up in the list of Phantom communities... so I'm not sure quite how people are finding it, unless it's people who have been looking at my profile for other reasons!
Oddly enough the one story that didn't get much attention this month was the Erik-centric "Annoyance", which usually does quite well. Of the 'usual suspects', "Lost and Found" managed a whole six visitors in place of its customary zero, amd somebody read all the way through "Paldit". The healthy-looking stats on the other B7 story, "Half a Savage", are misleading, alas; of the four visitors, nobody got beyond chapter 3.
The most successful stories were "All the Rules Rearranged", where eight people read it all the way through, and "Count Philippe", where — despite the usual massive drop-off after the bedroom chapter in this story, whether through outrage or satiation — eight readers likewise made it to the end. I have no idea what happened to the one-shot stories "Shall We Dance?", "An Unfair Advantage" and "Beyond the Abyss", which received a completely disproportionate bulge in page views (106 new views on a story that had been on the site for years? really?); I can't help a certain suspicion that someone left a browser tab open on them over repeated days throughout the month :-(
Other stories received a healthy 2–5 readers who made it to the end. "Water-horse", as usual, got a large number of hits on the first page but only one real reader, and the translation "Please Pretend" likewise had ten visitors to the first chapter but only one who read as far as the final chapters... and skipped most of the middle! "Blue Remembered Hills" got a handful of hits on the first chapter that were just enough to make up the nominal full slate of stories for this month, but that's not unusual; there are months where it gets no hits at all. A sad fate for a story that took so long to write and that was so ambitious in scope (and not a good portent for Arctic Raoul), but I'm afraid being a crossover really doesn't help.
(Looking back at previous postings, I note that "All the Rules Rearranged" appears consistently to have done unusually well across the years. I wonder what it is about that particular story?)
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Date: 2019-07-05 02:05 am (UTC)So I suspect that may well be the reason why it's still getting extra traffic... and why people who are reading it are predisposed to continue through to an ending where the Phantom doesn't get Christine. Nothing like selling to a captive market!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Un7kg7WUno