Royal Road Ads? (Patreon)
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There are two main types of ads I see on Royal Road. The first one is funny, and sometimes seems to have little to nothing to do with the story. Literally clickbait 😂 The second one has part of the cover or an image of an actual character, along with the title and author, and maybe the rating, a review, or the genre.
For the funny one, I have a comic panel I love that was made by Omny87, so I reached out to them on deviantart and they said I could use it as long as I gave them credit and put up a link to their Patreon, which I will gladly do :) Here it is:
This is particularly amusing to me because *spoiler* *spoiler* *spoiler*. Great, right? 🤣
The second (serious?) ad is both easier and harder. Here's what I have:
Is that enough? I'd love to put that it has 4.7 stars, but with only seven ratings, that seems a little misleading. Should I put in genre? Toss up "Progression" and "Xianxia" on the right? Would something else make you more likely to click it? My only review is really good if you read it, but only 3.5 stars (I'm hoping they're someone like my husband, who feels like 5 stars should be saved for Tolkien, and 4 stars would be Anne McCaffrey, so 3.5 stars is actually really awesome. This is the story I tell myself.)
Anyway... What do you think of these ads? Is there a good way to perk them up? Make them more clickety-clickable? Help!