Who are the subscribers in Contact on the page?
Previously, in order to somehow contact an interesting person, the user could only send him a friend request. If this application was rejected, communication became impossible. As far as everyone knows, many celebrities from the world of sports, show business, cinema and other public spheres have accounts on VK. Many people are interested in following their lives, looking at photos, commenting on news, etc. At the same time, this person cannot add as friends everyone who wants to watch his content. That is why the “subscriber” status appeared in VK.
Who are VKontakte subscribers on the page of an individual or an entire public? Essentially, these are observers who see posts and photos of someone they follow in their news feeds. Let's find out what a subscriber in VKontakte means and what actions he can perform on his idol's page:
- Send private messages;
- See the news;
- Like, leave comments, repost;
- View the wall (if the user did not manage to close it);
- See lists of friends and groups (if they are open);
- View photos.
At the same time, the subscriber’s capabilities are limited by privacy settings, which, in turn, allow a person’s friends much more. To explain in simple words, even if you managed to follow a person, you are still a stranger to him. He won't even receive an add request, just a notification that you were able to subscribe. A subscriber is an outside guest of the page who sees your news in his feed. He has as many opportunities to contact you as any person from VK who is not your friend.
What are YouTube buttons and which ones are useful?
The treasured inscriptions that appear in squares and frames on the video are called annotations.
Annotations are a type of YouTube marketing tool. They encourage your viewers to take certain actions on the channel, which naturally increases their number and increases the percentage of their activity.
There are several types of buttons:
The shape resembles a dialog box (like in comics), you can insert a link into it.
It differs from the previous version only in shape, changes color slightly when hovering the cursor and also implies a link.
Necessary for highlighting any element in the video. When you hover your cursor over it, you can expect the brightness of the hue of the borders of this annotation to change.
This is just text that you can insert at any time on your video. Very convenient for long videos where you need to identify parts and do simple navigation.
Like a frame, it is necessary to highlight any detail, but unlike it, it has a magical function: when you move the mouse cursor over the label area, text appears there, which attracts the attention of viewers. Nowadays you won’t get burned for such miracles, so use them if you want to play interactively with the viewer.
How to become a subscriber of an individual on VK
We found out what subscribers are on VKontakte, but we explained it using the example of celebrity profiles. You may have the impression that in VK subscriptions exist on the same principle as, for example, in Instagram. This is not entirely true. Subscriptions here are interesting not only to famous people, but also to ordinary users. You can get here by accident and not even know it.
So, how to subscribe or how people get into the category of subscribers, let's find out.
If the friend request was rejected
If you offer a person friendship, he has the right to disagree. In this case, he will have to press the “Keep as subscribers” button. Thus, you will automatically migrate the list of its observers. You won't know about this unless you go to his profile and see that the friend request was not satisfied.
Subscribing to a profile is impossible if you are blacklisted there.
If you have been removed from the list of friends on VK
After being removed from the list of friends, the user automatically becomes a subscriber. The condition applies if it was he who submitted the friend request. Otherwise, to follow, submit the friend request again and wait until the person selects “Keep as followers” (“Reject request”). Although, of course, a person can always take the simple route and simply delete the application.
We told you how to become a subscriber on VKontakte if you can’t add yourself as a friend. Let’s summarize once again what needs to be done both on the computer and on the phone:
- Go to the person’s page on VK;
- Press the “Add as friends” button;
- You are waiting for an answer. Even if the request is accepted, you will become a friend, and this is even cooler.
To see who you managed to follow, do the following:
- Go to your VK profile;
- Go to the "Friends" section;
- On the right there is a subsection “Applications”;
- You need Outbox.
- These are the people you managed to subscribe to, willingly or unwillingly.
Please note that if you do not add a person as a friend, but leave him as a subscriber, he cannot be included in your list of important friends.
Through the “Subscribe” button instead of “Add as friend”
If a person has set the “Subscribe” button through the settings, anyone can click on it and easily become his subscriber.
How to make a “Subscribe” button on VKontakte, let’s study the instructions:
- Go to your VK profile and find the small avatar at the top right of the screen;
- Select “Settings”;
- You need the “Privacy” block;
- Scroll the page to the “Contact me” item;
- Find the field “What applications are notified about”;
- Select "Friends of Friends";
- Ready.
Now all users who do not have common contacts with you will see a “Follow” button on your page instead of the “Add as a friend” button. If there are common pages, then a person will be able to send a friend request.
- The following actions can also be performed from a mobile phone:
- Launch the application and click on the three bars to go to the menu;
- Click on the gear icon in the top right;
- Then everything is the same: the “Privacy” item, etc.
Adding a profile to bookmarks
If you add an interesting account to your bookmarks and set up notifications about new posts, all the news from this person will be in your feed. This is the same as if you managed to subscribe.
So, to subscribe via bookmarks, do the following:
- Go to the person's page;
- There are three dots next to the “Add Friend” button, click;
- Select “Save to bookmarks”;
- Click on the three dots again and select the “Notify about posts” command. And if suddenly notifications stop coming, check your profile settings;
- Ready. Now you can look at your bookmarks at any time and don’t have to waste time searching for a page.
Why are buttons with annotations needed: a few secrets for which we won’t get jailed
You can use these gifts of the YouTube gods for the following purposes:
We can’t help but mention the benefits of using various types of buttons for selling videos. After all, their main goal is to attract the attention of potential buyers to the product and direct viewers to the page of an online store or catalog, where they can find out more detailed information about it and purchase.
Place a large (within reason) button with the annotation “Buy” on your sales video and do not forget to insert a link leading to the required resource. In this way, you can promote various courses, books, video tutorials and much more.
Don’t make mistakes and don’t forget to duplicate the link with the transition under the video. After all, viewers watching your channel from mobile devices will not see the annotations, but is this a reason to refuse them to buy your product?
In fact, the annotation has only three global goals: to attract subscribers, help you with competent linking, and bring traffic to third-party resources.
Well, they can also decorate a creation captured on camera, amuse and entertain subscribers, both potential and devoted fans of your creativity or business.
How to subscribe to a community
We told you how to subscribe to an individual person’s page in Contact, then we will find out how to subscribe to a group or public page:
- Go to the community you like;
- Find the “Join Group” button on the right side of the central page;
- That's all, you have managed to subscribe to updates from this community;
- If this is not a group, but a public page, instead of the “Join” button you will see “Subscribe”.
- Feel free to press and it’s done.
Well, we have found out what it means to subscribe in VKontakte - to become an observer, to show one-sided interest in a page. For you, this status means absolutely nothing, except that you are not a full-fledged friend of a person.
On the other hand, for promoting a page, the number of subscribers is very important - after all, the more there are, the more popular the profile. The sooner it will be possible to monetize it and attract advertisers. Well, that's all, the material has come to an end. Now you know how to subscribe to the page of a person or group you are interested in. Don't lose important contacts and stay up to date with all their updates!
Other points
Perhaps there are those who are thinking about how to join a blocked VK group. This is impossible to do because the content is closed. And the public page itself is no longer active. Naturally, it is impossible to become a member of such a community.
There is another side to this issue. It happens that the public administrator himself banned a participant for some reason of his own. It is no longer possible to view community news, new or old content again. You can try to write to the moderator and overcome differences.
If it doesn’t work, then all you have to do is use another page. Ask someone close to you and view what you are interested in through another user. Another way is to register a new profile.
As you can see, you shouldn’t have any difficulties joining almost any group on VK. A small problem may arise with a closed community, but that’s why they are closed, so as not to let all outsiders into their ranks.
Working with the library
$vk = new vk_api(vk_key, version_api) — bot initialization. Parameters: community key (vk_key), API version (version_api).
sendMessage(id, text) - function for sending messages to the user. Parameters: user id(id), message text(text).
sendImage(id, patch) - function for sending images. Parameters: user id(id), path to image(patch).
sendButton(id, text, buttons, one_time) - function for sending a message with buttons. Parameters: user id(id), message text(cannot be empty)(text), array with buttons(buttons), optional parameter one_time, false by default, if set to true, then after pressing any button the keyboard will hide.
request(method, array_arguments) is a universal function for working with methods. Parameters: method - name of the method from the official api, array_arguments - array of parameters.
sendOK() — Beta function. Used instead of echo “ok”, it helps in cases where the script takes a long time to run and the bot starts repeating messages several times. IMPORTANT: if you use this function, you will not see error output. When debugging, replace it with echo “ok”
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