How essential are the tags?

[Aaky]

I'm coming from Wattpad, wondering how much of an impact good tags have on story success. I'd be interested to hear how people use them here.

I couldn't be bothered to read the other comments. But as an author with a bunch of +500 reader novels, and +100k views in one. I can tell you that tags are like 70% of what makes or breaks your book.

The content of your book could be shit, and the cover could be badly put together. But people see a tag they like? That is a guarantee reader who puts your work in their reading list WITHOUT EVEN READING CHAPTER 1.

 

[CadmarLegend]

I couldn't be bothered to read the other comments. But as an author with a bunch of +500 reader novels, and +100k views in one. I can tell you that tags are like 70% of what makes or breaks your book.

The content of your book could be shit, and the cover could be badly put together. But people see a tag they like? That is a guarantee reader who puts your work in their reading list WITHOUT EVEN READING CHAPTER 1.

Yup

 

[AliceShiki]

The content of your book could be shit, and the cover could be badly put together. But people see a tag they like? That is a guarantee reader who puts your work in their reading list WITHOUT EVEN READING CHAPTER 1.

Well, that's kinda normal... I mean, a lot of people use the Reading List as a way of keeping track of "Novels that look like they are interesting, but I don't have time to check it out right now, so I'll do so later."

I mean, I have hundreds of novels in my NU reading list that fit this criteria... >.>

 

[CadmarLegend]

Well, that's kinda normal... I mean, a lot of people use the Reading List as a way of keeping track of "Novels that look like they are interesting, but I don't have time to check it out right now, so I'll do so later."

I mean, I have hundreds of novels in my NU reading list that fit this criteria... >.>

*Looks away silently*

 

[CadmarLegend]

Yeah, I'm awfully confused why making tags isn't allowed. The current tags are heavily skewed towards certain genres.

Yup. It's kinda difficult if you want to have a "new" type of novel, but you can't.