The Mystery of Increasing Views Even After Stopping Daily Posts

In April of this year, I discussed my goals for the year with my team members at work.

They were more about personal goals than work-related ones.

The goal I set was as follows.

Achieve 300,000 views and 3,000 followers on note by the end of March 2025.

Unlike page views, note views are counted just by appearing on the screen without needing to click on the article, so it is just a reference metric, but I didn't know that at the time.

However, it serves as motivation, so I still check it occasionally.

And those views have actually exceeded 200,000!

While this view metric is motivating, to be honest, it is not reliable.

On note, views spike all at once when you post an article.

And it is common for them to stop being read by anyone as time passes.

I honestly felt, 'Isn't that sad!?', so I have recently been making efforts to get my past articles read as well.

While what I write here isn't everything, I continued with note for a year based on this way of thinking.February 2025. I have 2,500 followers, 350,000 annual views, and my paid notes are selling 40 copies every 10 days.I think this will be helpful for those who want to aim for monetization on note.

A metric for whether past articles are being read

I learned this from an article by Shichaoji-san🐤.

I would like you to read Shichaoji-san🐤's article for the detailed method, but if the aggregation period for the monthly views mentioned above is from September 6th to October 5th, try subtracting the views of articles posted between September 6th and October 5th from the total views of 35,295.

The idea is to check what this number turns out to be.

Please try calculating it once. What was your view count?

By the way, Shichaoji-san🐤 posted this article on August 28th.

At that time, I wrote something like this in the comments section.

Shichao-ojisan 🐤 writes harsh things in his articles, but he's actually kind 🤭

At the time, my monthly views, excluding posts from the last month, were 6,311, but recently they have exceeded 10,000 and reached 11,470 views!

What I did was simple; to put it coolly, I designed the navigation of my note. To put it uncoolly, I added links related to my articles.

Designing note navigation

First, in my case, there are three ways a first-time reader arrives at my articles.

Suppose a reader who arrives at my article thinks it's "interesting."

From here, it splits into two patterns.

(1) If they find me as a person interesting

In that case, they will likely jump to my self-introduction page.

What I need to do is this:

Enhance the self-introduction page.

I added links to my popular articles to my self-introduction page.

(2) If they find my way of thinking about the category of that article interesting, rather than me as a person overall

In my case, things like money-related topics or management.

In that case, I add related links in the middle or at the end of the article.

Has anyone noticed that I've recently been adding about four links to the end of my articles?

Surprisingly, these get read quite a bit.

This is basically all I do!

I realized that whether or not you do this makes a huge difference.

By the way, this was also written in a past article by Shichaoji-san.

Next is an accidental discovery.

Getting help from someone with a high reputation

I recently posted an article like this.

It was an article about an author I like, but it didn't get many likes on note.

I was a little depressed, but Shiromanju-san, whom I introduced, threw me a lifeline.

They reposted my X post.

Because Shiromanju-san reposted it, publishers and Shiromanju-san's followers also reposted it, and the number of views increased all at once.

The analytics for this post look like this.

To my surprise, the number of link clicks exceeded 70!

Along with that, the number of Amazon Associates link clicks reached about 40 in one day, and the book sold too!

They also made a post like this.

And on top of that, Shiromanju-san followed both my note and X!

Since they are an author I like, I am genuinely happy!

The Shiromanju-san effect is also appearing in Google searches.

As for Google, since note views increase at the time of posting, I think it's temporary, but I'm still happy about it.

I realized this fact through a combination of intentional strategy and accidental results.

It is not daily posting that is important, but how much effort you put into your content.

This is my post count since March.

I stopped daily posting in August.

Instead of posting daily, I focused on the navigation design I wrote about this time and the hashtags I mentioned previously.

What was the result?

For example, here is what my views looked like in July when I was still posting daily.

And here is what they looked like in September, when I stopped daily posting and started posting irregularly.

My views actually went up! (lol)

And finally, I reached the first page of Google search results for "FIRE Salaryman"!

I had been focusing on ranking high in Google searches for about three months—so-called SEO.

I finally made it to the first page for the search term "FIRE Salaryman"!

I can't even count how much time I spent to get here.

Reviewing past articles, fixing hashtags, and so on.

Three months ago, when I started focusing on Google search, I couldn't even find myself on the fifth page (lol).

When I think about it, if you swim in an ocean of information without being conscious of your destination, that's what happens (self-reflection...)

In conclusion

There are many ways to increase views, such as daily posting, collaborative magazines, and mutual following, but if you don't have those, you find other ways to innovate.

Perhaps it is precisely because there are constraints that we innovate.

It was an experience that made me think that the essence might be hidden within those very innovations!

I will continue to write articles if I have any insights on note!

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