One Million Views

[SimonDoom]

Today, my story Late Night On The Loveseat With Mom reached one million views. It reached that mark just under four years after publication, having been published on May 10, 2017.

It’s not my best story, and it’s not my personal favorite, but it’s by far my most read. It was my 12th story, published about six months after I began publishing stories at Literotica.

I owe this goofy little story a lot for whatever success I’ve had at this Site. It still gets over 500 views per day, 4 years after publication, and it’s currently sitting at number 83 on the all-time most-favorited story list. There is no question that it generates extra views for my other stories, and it therefore generates more favorites, followers, and comments as well. It never won any contests, and its current score – 4.57 – won’t put it on any toplists. But it still gets read, and readers still like it. That matters a lot more to me than a numerical score.

So, today I offer thanks to this story for letting my sex-addled brain stumble across it and publish it to the world.

 

[KeithD]

Congrats. I suppose I'll go look through my view counts. Well, maybe not.

 

[RejectReality]

Congratulations

I think I have one edging up on half that — after a decade. LOL

 

[HeyAll]

Congrats. I always find it interesting how some stories have more luck than others. I also think being on the Top List on views adds to it because people must be checking that list.

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

Respect - I'm just shy of 900k views for 47 published stories!

 

[SimonDoom]

Congrats. I always find it interesting how some stories have more luck than others. I also think being on the Top List on views adds to it because people must be checking that list.

It's an eternal puzzle. I feel like I've written better stories than that one since then, but none have come even close to getting as many views. I wrote that story with the deliberate intention of trying to get as many views as possible, and the strategy worked, but I haven't quite duplicated it since.

It's obvious that people check out the toplists. The stories at the top of the most-viewed toplists continue to get many views even though they are old and don't necessarily have high scores.

Another, possibly overlooked, source of getting views is getting enough favorites that your story starts to show up on "similar story" lists at the end of other stories. My story appears on the similar stories lists of a number of other similar mom-son incest stories, and I'm convinced that's why it gets so many views.

 

[AlphaLyon]

Today, my story Late Night On The Loveseat With Mom reached one million views. It reached that mark just under four years after publication, having been published on May 10, 2017.

Damn! Quite a milestone! My most read is just short of 10k. I've got a long way to go, but this is awesome for you! Congrats!

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Well done, sir!

 

[Scareltt]

Congratulations!

Today, my story Late Night On The Loveseat With Mom reached one million views. It reached that mark just under four years after publication, having been published on May 10, 2017.

It’s not my best story, and it’s not my personal favorite, but it’s by far my most read. It was my 12th story, published about six months after I began publishing stories at Literotica.

I owe this goofy little story a lot for whatever success I’ve had at this Site. It still gets over 500 views per day, 4 years after publication, and it’s currently sitting at number 83 on the all-time most-favorited story list. There is no question that it generates extra views for my other stories, and it therefore generates more favorites, followers, and comments as well. It never won any contests, and its current score – 4.57 – won’t put it on any toplists. But it still gets read, and readers still like it. That matters a lot more to me than a numerical score.

So, today I offer thanks to this story for letting my sex-addled brain stumble across it and publish it to the world.

It’s probably an amazing feeling knowing 1 million (doctor Evil voice) people have read your work.

 

[SimonDoom]

It’s probably an amazing feeling knowing 1 million (doctor Evil voice) people have read your work.

Well, to be fair, that's just the number of people that have clicked on it. I'm sure many who clicked on it didn't finish reading it.

But if even 10% read it the whole way through, that's still 100,000 people that read the story.

As of November 2016 I had never written any fiction at all as an adult. When I started publishing stories here I had no idea what to expect. So, the idea of 100,000 people around the world reading my story is pretty cool.

 

[astushkin]

Kudos! Super impressive!

 

[lovecraft68]

Congrats! Its hard to believe when you think about it, one million...imagine if you got just pennies on a click?

I took a quick look, I have two over that number, and neither in incest which is suprising.

After School Special in mature has 1.7 million views, but that's from 2012

That's what Friends are for has 2.09 million, and its in first time and from 2014.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

! Woo hoo congrats, Simon! That is awesome!!

 

[Paul_Chance]

Congratulations!

 

[Comshaw]

Today, my story Late Night On The Loveseat With Mom reached one million views. It reached that mark just under four years after publication, having been published on May 10, 2017.

It’s not my best story, and it’s not my personal favorite, but it’s by far my most read. It was my 12th story, published about six months after I began publishing stories at Literotica.

I owe this goofy little story a lot for whatever success I’ve had at this Site. It still gets over 500 views per day, 4 years after publication, and it’s currently sitting at number 83 on the all-time most-favorited story list. There is no question that it generates extra views for my other stories, and it therefore generates more favorites, followers, and comments as well. It never won any contests, and its current score – 4.57 – won’t put it on any toplists. But it still gets read, and readers still like it. That matters a lot more to me than a numerical score.

So, today I offer thanks to this story for letting my sex-addled brain stumble across it and publish it to the world.

HUMBUG! I'm green with jealousy! Actually, congratulations are in order. That is a spectacular feat.

Comshaw

 

[AlinaX]

Wow, I'm impressed. Getting to 100k is a rare achievement; 1M is phenomenonal.

 

[8letters]

Congrats!

My most viewed story ("My European Summer Vacation") is also my highest rated story. It was a contest winner.

But "My Lingerie-Loving Sister Moves In" and "My Sister Set Me Up on a Blind Date" have far more votes and favorites than "My European Summer Vacation" despite having less than 2/3's the views that "My European Summer Vacation" has.

 

[Omenainen]

Congratulations! That is a lot. Just think how many orgasms that has to be. I still think it would be interesting to have an orgasm-counter, although there would be no way to make it be accurate. Actually, that would make for a good sci-fi story, or maybe humor

 

[gordo12]

It's an eternal puzzle. I feel like I've written better stories than that one since then, but none have come even close to getting as many views. I wrote that story with the deliberate intention of trying to get as many views as possible, and the strategy worked, but I haven't quite duplicated it since.

There was something about that story...and I don't often read Incest. You need to figure it out and bottle it.

In the meantime, congrats, that's a hell of a number!

 

[SimonDoom]

There was something about that story...and I don't often read Incest. You need to figure it out and bottle it.

That's the thing. It's almost impossible to do that.

My follow up story to that one has a significantly higher score. But it has less than one-quarter the views and favorites. Go figure.

 

[Rustyoznail]

That's mind (and other things) blowing.

 

[RejectReality]

That's the thing. It's almost impossible to do that.

My follow up story to that one has a significantly higher score. But it has less than one-quarter the views and favorites. Go figure.

I had a follow-up planned to "You Serious?" that was already in production when I released the story.

That story went off the chain so significantly that I stopped working on the sequel. I'm afraid I'd end up diluting whatever I captured in the original by trying to follow it up, even though I had some fun and interesting concepts for it.

I may end up eventually posting it on my website like I did for the follow-up to "One Incredible Costume" that had a similarly meteoric trajectory.