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 bạn want to add some content to your yêu thích spots. The vast majority of the stuff on fanpop is in the form of đường dẫn which point to content in other places, whether they are articles, galleries, videos, games, hoặc any other sort of content bạn can find online.

Check before bạn add!
Any time that bạn are about to add content to Fanpop, bạn 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 bạn if bạn attempt to đệ trình the exact same url as already exists in a spot, but your check needs to be thêm thorough than that. If, for instance, bạn want to link to a video of đàn ghi ta, guitar legend link performing on stage in New York, bạn need to do a tìm kiếm such as "link". If bạn get no matching results, you're probably safe. But if bạn get a match within the same spot, bạn 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 video of the same thing are OK (say, screen recordings of different people fighting the same boss battle in a video game); bạn 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 bạn from the inevitable người hâm mộ complaints that bạn 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 đường dẫn on the site: bạn can "add video" hoặc "add link". Regardless of which type of link bạn 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, bạn are presented with a form to fill out with information about the link. First is the link name, where bạn should put as descriptive a name as bạn can generate for the content bạn are adding.

tiếp theo is the actual URL for the content. Once bạn paste hoặc type in that URL, the system will do a simple check to a) make sure that the url is valid, and b) that the url 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 tiếp theo have the option of checking a box (multipart video) to specify that bạn are linking to a video in multiple parts. Some video sites put restrictions on how long their video can be, so longer pieces tend to be chẻ, phân chia, split into many different video which, when watched in the correct sequence, nearly recreate the original piece. The multipart video feature allows bạn to link to all the parts of such a video with one form, rather than creating many đường dẫn (one for each such part). Observant fanpop users can still find multiple, separate but related video đường dẫn 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 bạn provide a detailed mô tả 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 mô tả for all of their links.

Finally, after the mô tả comes the keywords field. The những từ khóa are very important - these determine whether your link will be found in a site tìm kiếm hoặc not, as the những từ khóa are được trao priority in searches over words in the description. So, if bạn have những từ khóa that match a fan's tìm kiếm terms, your link will appear in the tìm kiếm results before đường dẫn that have matches to the tìm kiếm terms in the description. bạn may enter up to ten words hoặc phrases (each one in the danh sách should be separated bởi a comma) in the những từ khóa field. It's better to have thêm những từ khóa than fewer, as những từ khóa are so vital for tìm kiếm 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. bạn will either get an error message describing a problem and what bạn need to do to solve it, hoặc confirmation that your link has been đã đệ trình successfully.

Now, for a brief mô tả of the two methods:

Adding links: the Basic Method
The basic method is to find content that bạn like on a web site, copy the url for that content into your computer's clipboard, then go to a separate web browser window hoặc tab to load the desired spot on fanpop (if bạn didn't have it up already) and submitting the form to add the link. The advantage of this method is that bạn have a window open on fanpop separate from the window bạn are using to browse the rest of the web, so that it's easy to do the searches bạn need to do to avoid duplicating đường dẫn without disrupting whatever else you're doing online. The disadvantage is that this method is thêm 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 bạn have the bookmarklet in your browser, any page that bạn load in your browser window can be added as a link bởi clicking the toolbar button "Add to Fanpop". The only difference is that bạn have to select the spot to which bạn want to add the link from a pull-down menu...and this menu only includes spots of which bạn are already a fan! This method has the advantage of speed, but the disadvantage that it disrupts the flow of what bạn were doing in the first place and can be a mess when bạn try to navigate through your history hoặc use the browser's back button. Also, bạn have to already be a người hâm mộ of the particular spot to which bạn wish to add a link before bạn 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 thêm regularly).

Adding đường dẫn to your profile
If bạn wish to chỉnh sửa your thông tin các nhân to danh sách one hoặc thêm đường dẫn under such headings as "Favorite TV Show," "Favorite Musician," "Favorite Movie," hoặc "Favorite Book," go to your thông tin các nhân first.
Then click "Edit Profile."
In the resulting page, you'll see many form fields to edit. The section bạn 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 hoặc đường dẫn bạn 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 chỉnh sửa thông tin các nhân page to save your changes.
That's it!


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

* link

* 1: link

* 2: link.

* 3: link

* 4: Picks: this is the generic name both for the phiếu bầu các câu hỏi that bạn see on the site and for the các câu trả lời bạn can pick to that question. Papa has created a link.

* 5: link

* 6:
link

* 7: link

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