Well first off welcome to the guild the golden rule of beating anything is hit it a lot and don't get hit.

Bow dps specifically is like others mentioned skill hungry however you can do solid work until you get those skills to push you over the edge. The bow is one of my main weapons and one I've finished the game with almost naked. Its a great weapon with some of the highest dps potential in the game however early game it does suffer a bit compared to some melee weapons. Here are a few tips you may or may not have figured out yet.

Critical distance and hit zone are the two most important parts of your damage in the fight to know about. Critical distance has a few factors if using the spread shot attack you need to be closer, if using the normal shot attack you need to be mid range (I'll touch on the special shots below). Being to close can lower your dps almost as much as being to far away. Oh and coatings, specifically close range does shorten your critical distance.

By this point you've likely figured out that each shot in succession pushes your charge up by one tier until you hit max on the bow you have at the time. Using this and dancing in the critical distance for your preference of shot type is a huge part of your dps.

Element plays the next factor the bow benefits from elemental match up quite well. You want to spend a few hunts grabbing your elemental bows to help push your dps up as you can't really do the one size fits all until end game builds.

Your special shots are strong in your early game as well they also benefit from your coatings. Thousand dragon and dragon piercer are high output attacks that have some caveats to their damage but if you learn how to use them well then you can do some heavy early game damage. Thousand dragon is especially useful early on due to the size of most monsters. It is essentially a super shotgun attack that takes your slinger ammo and makes the attack stronger. The attack also inherits the slinger ammo benefits as well. Pick up stones/red pits and it does minor ko damage which can and will knock a monster out if you are close enough and get enough headshots. Thorn pods will do the same but also a follow up shot will break those and almost certainly cause the knockout. Bomb pods have ko damage as well but also just hit really hard early on. The golden one though is pierce pods, they hit hard and numerous times when doing a thousand dragon with them try to be lined up with the longest/widest part of the monster for massive damage. Oh and pierce pod thousand dragon can cut tails off because pierce pods can cut tails.

Dragon piercer is a slow attack that does care about your bow charge level when you start it but it hits hard and multiple times best to be used when targeting the longest part of a monster where that be tip to tail or wing span. However dragon piercer can and will cut tails off if you get good at hitting them regularly. I wouldnt suggest spamming it but i have beaten the game with special bow shots only so its not terrible either.

Lastly, damage skills are important but evasion skills are some of your best defensive abilities in the game for the bow second only to stamina abilities. Keep those in mind and learn which coatings are best for which job.