This section of my Fanpop User's Guide covers links, the lifeblood of Fanpop, and was last substantively edited on 4 June 2013.

So, you've registered on the site and now Ты want to add some content to your Избранное spots. The vast majority of the stuff on Fanpop is in the form of Ссылки which point to content in other places, whether they are articles, galleries, videos, games, или any other sort of content Ты can find online.

Check before Ты add!
Any time that Ты are about to add content to Fanpop, Ты should check first to make sure that the content isn't already linked from the site (at least not in the same spot). The web site will tell Ты if Ты attempt to Отправить the exact same Ссылка as already exists in a spot, but your check needs to be еще thorough than that. If, for instance, Ты want to link to a video of гитара legend link performing on stage in New York, Ты need to do a Поиск such as "link". If Ты get no matching results, you're probably safe. But if Ты get a match within the same spot, Ты need to check it to make sure it isn't the same video from a different source. Not to harp on videos, because the same thing is possible with images. Just to be clear, different Видео of the same thing are OK (say, screen recordings of different people fighting the same boss battle in a video game); Ты just really want to avoid duplicating the exact same video of the same thing (say, linked from YouTube when a link to the same video on Guba is already present), which is really easy to do in video-heavy spots such as the link and link spots. A simple check should suffice, and helps to protect Ты from the inevitable Фан complaints that Ты have duplicated content that would come up otherwise. Once you've done this check, you're ready to add a link.

Adding a link
There are two specialized buttons to add different kinds of Ссылки on the site: Ты can "add video" или "add link". Regardless of which type of link Ты wish to add, there are really just two ways to add a link to a spot on fanpop, what I think of as the basic method and the advanced method. The differences are minor; ultimately, Ты are presented with a form to fill out with information about the link. First is the link name, where Ты should put as descriptive a name as Ты can generate for the content Ты are adding.

Далее is the actual URL for the content. Once Ты paste или type in that URL, the system will do a simple check to a) make sure that the Ссылка is valid, and b) that the Ссылка doesn't exactly match an existing link in the same spot.

If you're submitting a video link (or if you're using the advanced method, below), you'll Далее have the option of checking a box (multipart video) to specify that Ты are linking to a video in multiple parts. Some video sites put restrictions on how long their Видео can be, so longer pieces tend to be трещина, сплит into many different Видео which, when watched in the correct sequence, nearly recreate the original piece. The multipart video feature allows Ты to link to all the parts of such a video with one form, rather than creating many Ссылки (one for each such part). Observant Fanpop users can still find multiple, separate but related video Ссылки on the site which were uploaded long before the multipart video feature was implemented.

After the multipart video feature (if present) is the text box for the description of the link: here's where Ты provide a detailed Описание of what the link is. While it isn't required, this field is your opportunity to provide helpful information to the other fans, and also to "sell" your link - inclining other people to click on it to see what it is after they've found your link. Everyone is strongly encouraged to provide a detailed Описание for all of their links.

Finally, after the Описание comes the keywords field. The Ключевые слова are very important - these determine whether your link will be found in a site Поиск или not, as the Ключевые слова are дана priority in searches over words in the description. So, if Ты have Ключевые слова that match a fan's Поиск terms, your link will appear in the Поиск results before Ссылки that have matches to the Поиск terms in the description. Ты may enter up to ten words или phrases (each one in the Список should be separated by a comma) in the Ключевые слова field. It's better to have еще Ключевые слова than fewer, as Ключевые слова are so vital for Поиск to work in finding your content.

When you've finished entering information into all of these fields, click the "submit" button to add your link. Ты will either get an error message describing a problem and what Ты need to do to solve it, или confirmation that your link has been Отправлено successfully.

Now, for a brief Описание of the two methods:

Adding links: the Basic Method
The basic method is to find content that Ты like on a web site, copy the Ссылка for that content into your computer's clipboard, then go to a separate web browser window или tab to load the desired spot on Fanpop (if Ты didn't have it up already) and submitting the form to add the link. The advantage of this method is that Ты have a window open on Fanpop separate from the window Ты are using to browse the rest of the web, so that it's easy to do the searches Ты need to do to avoid duplicating Ссылки without disrupting whatever else you're doing online. The disadvantage is that this method is еще time-consuming.

Adding links: the Advanced Method
The advanced method is to use the "Add to Fanpop" bookmarklet (link) to jump to Fanpop and add a link from your current browser window. Simply put, once Ты have the bookmarklet in your browser, any page that Ты load in your browser window can be added as a link by clicking the toolbar button "Add to Fanpop". The only difference is that Ты have to select the spot to which Ты want to add the link from a pull-down menu...and this menu only includes spots of which Ты are already a fan! This method has the advantage of speed, but the disadvantage that it disrupts the flow of what Ты were doing in the first place and can be a mess when Ты try to navigate through your history или use the browser's back button. Also, Ты have to already be a Фан of the particular spot to which Ты wish to add a link before Ты may use this feature.

Myself, while I mostly take the time to use the basic method, I have the "Add to Fanpop" bookmarklet on all my browsers and use it with some frequency on my 'higher volume' spots (that is, the spots to which I add content еще regularly).

Adding Ссылки to your profile
If Ты wish to Редактировать your Профиль to Список one или еще Ссылки under such headings as "Favorite TV Show," "Favorite Musician," "Favorite Movie," или "Favorite Book," go to your Профиль first.
Then click "Edit Profile."
In the resulting page, you'll see many form fields to edit. The section Ты want is section 2, called "2. Fun Stuff About You." Each of the items (favorite book, TV show, film and musician) is listed in a separate field. Put the link или Ссылки Ты want to add using the text formatting link in the section "Inserting Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)," with a comma separating each one.
Once you've done all the edits, make sure to click the "Submit" button on your Редактировать Профиль page to save your changes.
That's it!


Here's Ссылки to other parts of the guide for your quick reference:

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* 1: link

* 2: link.

* 3: link

* 4: Picks: this is the generic name both for the Опрос Вопросы that Ты see on the site and for the Ответы Ты can pick to that question. Papa has created a link.

* 5: link

* 6:
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* 7: link

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