Make it beautiful: customize a block of links in VKontakte groups

Hello, friends! We have already looked at how to make a link using the word VKontakte, but if you want users to pay attention to the publication you added, then let’s figure out how to make a link from an image or photograph. Such a note is more likely to attract people's attention, and accordingly, more users will click on it.

An entry with a link can be made separately in your profile, separately in a group. If you want, you can add a post to your page, and then share it with subscribers of your group; you can also send a post as a personal message to the selected user.

Let's look at everything in more detail.

How to make a picture a VKontakte link

Updated – August 29, 2021 at 20:29
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Many users are interested in how to make a picture a VKontakte link . Why is this necessary? At least to advertise your resource (external site) or community.

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It looks like this: a post has been published in the group, in which a picture is attached, when clicked on, the user is taken to another page.

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How to make a picture a VKontakte link

This method works in posts and comments (in private messages, for some reason it doesn’t work):

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1. We go to the bitly.com service, where we paste a link to an external site/internal VKontakte page and copy the shortened link:

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2. Create a post on the page/group and insert a shortened link into it.

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3. Click on the camera icon “Select your illustration”.

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4. Upload an image larger than 537×240:

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5. Select the area that will be used to illustrate the link and save the changes:

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6. We make our adjustments to the entry and send it:

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Now, if someone clicks on the picture, they will be taken to the specified page:

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Here is an interesting secret on VKontakte, the existence of which you might not know.

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Since you can’t do this in a personal message, you can publish such a post on your wall and then share it with a friend:

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By the way, don’t forget that you can make a VKontakte link with text or an emoticon to a community or personal page.

To the VKontakte page

For example, let's redirect to the discussion. For this:

1. Copy the entire browser string;

   

2. Go to Google URL Shortener. It is needed to shorten long URLs. Paste the copied link from step 1 into the special field and confirm the action. The service will soon display the result.

   

3. Open your VKontakte profile. Insert a short link on the site wall as a new post. After a few seconds, you will see an additional field that will allow you to attach an image to your post.

   

4. Choose a suitable photo. Upload a photo from your computer and crop it to the desired size.

   

5. All that remains is to confirm all actions and save the recording. When clicking on it, the user will be transferred to the specified page. On the wall in VK it will look like this:

The method is easy to use and attracts the attention of page guests. It will help improve traffic indicators and increase the likelihood of clicking on a link.

How to make a link from a VKontakte image

Hello, friends! We have already looked at how to make a link using the word VKontakte, but if you want users to pay attention to the publication you added, then let’s figure out how to make a link from an image or photograph. Such a note is more likely to attract people's attention, and accordingly, more users will click on it.

An entry with a link can be made separately in your profile, separately in a group. If you want, you can add a post to your page, and then share it with subscribers of your group; you can also send a post as a personal message to the selected user.

Let's look at everything in more detail.

How to put links in VKontakte posts

The ability to put VK links is useful in many cases, for example:

1. Put a beautiful link to promote your community
2. Write at the end of the advertising post “read more...”
3. If you contact a person in this way, your entry will appear in the “Responses” section - this way you can draw attention to your advertising.

There is one small limitation: you can only insert internal links as text (to a user page, group, application, event). But for external ones there are also ways to make the link more beautiful or hide it with text/picture.

1. Use an asterisk - *

This method only works for those groups and people that you have joined or are friends with. Then just press * and without a space, start typing the name or name of the community/event. A list will appear from which you can select the desired option with the mouse.

2. Wiki markup

The second way to make a VKontakte link using a word is related to wiki markup. It is suitable for those friends and groups with whom you have no connection. But it won't make things too difficult, just use the formula:

[id123456|Anna Aprelskaya] – the first digits are the id from the user’s page, you can see it in the address bar. Using direct flash, indicate the word you want to use as an anchor.

In the same way, a link is made in VKontakte posts to a group/public/meeting.

Go to the page and in the address bar look at the designation (group - club, public page - public, event - event) and community id:

[club123456|Link text] [public123456|Link text] [event123456|Link text]

Or there is another spelling option: the @ sign without a space indicates the community and its id.

@club123456 (Link text) @public123456 (Link text) @event123456 (Link text)

If instead of id there is another word (for example, https://vk.com/web_bissnes), take the last part and substitute it into the first part of our “formula”: @web_bissnes (Link text).

But such methods will not work on external links; for this, use other methods:

Making a clickable image using a standard link

You can make a picture clickable on VKontakte in a slightly different way. To do this, we need a URL like this:

https://vk.com/share.php?url=Link&title=Title&image=Link to picture&noparse=true&description=Description

You need to paste it into the address bar of your browser (as shown in the picture below), replacing the words “Link”, “Title”, “Link to picture”, “Description” with your data.

Let's start with the word "Link". Instead, you need to insert the address of the site to which the image will link.

For example, I will refer to the Yandex search page. I open it in the browser, copy everything from the address bar and paste it instead of the word “Link”.

Next comes the “Title”. This is the caption that will be displayed directly next to the picture or below it. I’ll write it like this: Yandex search start page. If you want, you can make a picture without a title - remove the word “Title” and do not write anything in its place.

Now let’s replace the word “Link to picture”. Find the image you want on the Internet and copy its address from your browser's address bar. Paste the copied line into our original URL instead of the words “Link to picture”.

If the URL for the image you have chosen is too long, you can make it short. We wrote about this in detail in the article: how to make a short link on VKontakte.

You can either replace the word “Description” by adding your own text, or write nothing, as is the case with the title. I'll add the text: Click on the image.

As a result, I got this link. I have highlighted all the replaced words in bold:

https://vk.com/share.php?url= https://yandex.ua/ &title= Yandex search start page &image= https://yandex.ua/images/search?text=yandex&img_url=https%3A% 2F%2Fchelovek-zakon.ru%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F04%2FDochka_yandeksa_v_SHvejtsarii.gif&pos=0&rpt=simage &noparse=true&description= Click on the picture .

Paste the URL you made into the address bar of your browser and press “Enter.” A page will open as shown in the screenshot below. Here you need to use a marker to choose how to publish the post: on your page, in your group, or send it as a private message. After that, click on the “Submit” button.

How to copy a link to VK from a computer

If a person wants to share some information from the Internet, then he needs to know how to copy the address of this page. A link is a unique set of symbols that leads to specific information on the World Wide Web. The VK website belongs to the same category, therefore it provides the opportunity to share music, a public post or a photo through a short URL. To do this, you only need access to the Internet and any of the following browsers:

• Chrome from Google;
• Yandex browser;
• Opera;
• Edge from Microsoft;
• FireFox.

To your profile

Each page on a social network has its own unique ID or letter signature. In one of the updates, the administration allowed turning a numeric address into meaningful words. One option is to write to the person what appears in the address bar of the browser after vk.com/. There is an easier way to copy the link to your profile from VK:

1. Launch any browser, open your page.
2. At the top of Internet Explorer, in the address bar, select all content.
3. Right-click and select “Copy”. You can use the combination ctrl+C for.
4. Next, open a communication window (mail, contact, Skype, etc.) and paste the link.

To post

Groups and public pages often post interesting news and materials that they would like to share with friends. In addition to the usual repost to your page, you can send an active link to this post. This will allow you to send it by mail or other messenger. To do this, you need to copy the link address using the following algorithm:

1. Open VK through a browser.
2. Go to the group or public page with the required post.
3. Under the title of the post there is a hyperlink in the form of the date of publication, click on it.
4. The post will open in the additional interface.
5. Copy the link from the address bar and send it through a program convenient for you.

On the picture

VK users post a lot of photos every day, and some of them deserve the special attention of your friends. There are 2 ways to copy a link to a photo. The first one is done like this:

1. Open the photo album with the desired photo.
2. Click it, then find the “Open original” hyperlink below the photo.
3. The image will appear in a new tab in full size. Click on it with the right mouse button.
4. Select "Copy URL".
5. Send it in a convenient way using ctrl+V.

Second option:

1. Open the image.
2. Next, you need to copy the content from the browser's address bar.
3. Paste it into a message to the right person.

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To music

You can send a song to another VK user through the functionality of the service itself. If your friend is not registered on VK, you will have to make an effort to copy the link to the music. Follow the following algorithm:

1. Open the page with the audio recording through your browser.
2. Next, you need to right-click and select the option to view the source code of the page. In the Opera browser, the line is called “View element code”, Edge – “Check element”, Yandex Browser – “Examine element”, Chrome – “View code”.
3. An additional menu will appear on the right or bottom; you need to select the panel tab called “Network”.
4. Start the required audio recording.
5. In the “Network” field, press the Ctrl+F button combination. An additional search bar will appear on the content page.
6. Enter “mp3”, the line of code that is a link to the song will be highlighted.
7. All you have to do is copy the address of the audio recording and send it to the right person. To do this, right-click on the highlighted line, point to “Copy” and click “Copylinkaffress”.

VK group link

Links to public pages have the same appearance as to a personal profile. The VK address is written, and then the digital ID or letter name of the group. The algorithm for copying a link is as follows:

1. Open your browser and go to the group you are interested in.
2. At the top of Internet Explorer, copy the content from the address bar.
3. Paste using ctrl+v and send in a way convenient for you.

How to make a picture a link on your computer

Detailed instructions for the full version:

Open your VK page and wall and create a new post.

Create a new post on VK. Copy the address of the link we need and paste it into the free field. Paste the link into a new post

Click on the camera icon.

Window for selecting a file to upload to VK. Select any picture that meets the size conditions.

Selecting the image display area

• Click save.
• Delete the original link as shown in the screenshot.

  
  Removing a link from a VK post

• Save and send it to your wall.

This picture will be the active link that all your friends will see in their news.

Bright pictures in posts help promote the VKontakte group.

To a third party site

Let's look at how to add a VKontakte post image with an embedded link to an external resource. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open a notepad and type in the following:

1. Decide on the resource to which you will link. In our case, let's take National Geographic. Copy the address and paste it into the template.

   

2. Select a suitable image from Google Images. After that, open it in full size and copy the address. Paste it into notepad.

   

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3. Come up with a title and description. If there are spaces between words, then put %20 instead. In this case, these are, respectively: National Geographic and Beautiful corners of the planet.
4. We insert records from the blanks into the formula:

How to make a picture a link using a template

There is another way to turn an image into a hyperlink; it is faster, but more complicated than the previous one.

To do this, we will take a special hyperlink template:

https://vk.com/share.php?url= Link &title= Your title &image= Link to your picture &noparse=true&description= Your description

Now let's figure out why this is needed.

We take a link to any image from Yandex or Google and paste it into this template.

Copy the link to the image from Yandex

How photos work in VK

As you could replace, the link to the photo photo52708106_359542386
consists of two parts:
(user id)_(some unknown number)
. How is the second part formed?

Alas, after spending two hours experimenting, I still didn’t understand this. In 2012, at HighLoad++, Oleg Illarionov said a few words about how they store photos, about horizontal sharding and random selection of a server for uploading, but this information did not give me anything, since there is no connection between the server id and the photo id. It is clear that there is some kind of global counter, but there is some other logic there... Because if the second number were formed using ordinary auto-increment, then the values ​​of photo IDs would have long ago reached huge values ​​(for Facebook, for example, at the moment it is ~ 700 trillion), but for Vkontakte this value is only ~400 million (although, judging by statistics, every day

users upload more than 30 million photos).
Those. It is clear that this figure is not unique, but at the same time it is not random. I wrote a script that went through the photographs of “old” users and, using the data obtained, made a graph of how much this figure changed every year
:

It can be seen that the values ​​fluctuate depending on some factors (number of servers or new logic?). But the point is that they are small enough (especially in the last 2-3 years) and it is very easy to calculate the id range for the desired time period. That is, to find out direct links to a user’s photos, say, from last year, you need to try to bookmark only 30 million (from _320000000 to _350000000) different variations of links! Below I have described a brute force technique that allowed me to do this in a matter of minutes.

Adding a photo link to a publication

You can insert a link as a picture in any publication on your profile or group wall. This is done as follows:

• Click on the “Select file” button. The image must be larger than 537x240 px, and also have a jpg, png, gif format.

• A Windows Explorer window will appear, where you need to go to the folder with the picture.
• Double-click on the photo and wait for it to be uploaded to the social network server.

• Select display area. In most cases, it will not be possible to display the entire image, this is due to the difference in aspect ratio.
• Click “Save Changes”.

• All that remains is to publish the entry. You can optionally add a description at the top.

Mission accomplished. The publication will display a picture, after clicking on which a link will open.

Adding a photo link to a wiki page

When creating wiki pages, you can also use this function. Although in this case the algorithm will be different:

• Go to the group where you want to create a wiki article.
• Open the "Latest News" tab.
• Click on the “Edit” button.

• The toolbar will appear. Find the camera icon on it and click on it.

• Select a photo from those already uploaded to your page, then click “Attach” or add a new one from your computer’s memory (the insertion will happen automatically).

• When the picture appears on the page, you need to click on it. If text code is displayed, it means that wiki markup mode is enabled and you need to switch to the visual editor to simplify the task. This is done by clicking on the icon in the upper right corner of the toolbar.

• In the pop-up window, enter the following data: Text – the words entered here will be displayed when you hover over the photo (can be left blank).
• Link – a link is inserted into this field to which you want to redirect the user after clicking.
• Size – the desired size of the image. To avoid distortions, you should activate the “Maintain proportions” option.

Mission accomplished. All that remains is to add text to the page, if required, and save it.

Reference. You can only create a wiki page directly in groups. There is no access to this section on public pages. To bypass the ban, you must use a link like: https://vk.com/pages?act=edit&o >

Following the recommendations specified in the article, you will be able to create a link in the form of a photograph, both on the wall and inside the wiki page. Both options are easy to learn and accessible to any social network user. By presenting a link in this form, it is easy to attract the attention of other VK participants and achieve an increase in the number of transitions.