Many VK users almost dream of thousands of subscribers. As a rule, stars, various models, politicians, etc. have a huge number of subscribers. Is it possible to get people to subscribe to your page themselves?
If you want people to subscribe to you, you need to offer something in return. For example, you can be a popular person, and not necessarily in real life - just being popular on the Internet is enough.
How to achieve this? There are different ways. Someone becomes a video blogger, someone starts singing, others become famous personalities in certain circles... In general, the main thing here is to shine. It’s difficult, but take the same video bloggers - many of them are so popular that today they are even invited to television, although some of them have never even promoted their own channels on YouTube.
However, there is an easier way. Start posting interesting photos on your page. So, if you have a model appearance, the number of subscribers will increase every day. And this applies not only to girls, but also to guys.
In a word, try it, offer something new or funny and people will be drawn to you.
Now let's talk a little about something else. To get people to follow you, you need to add a “Follow” button to your page instead of an “Add as friend” button. Our website already knows how to do this, so let us briefly remind you that you need to go to the settings on your page, select the “Privacy” tab and in the “What friend requests are notified about” section, select “From friends of friends”.
After this, a “Subscribe” button will appear on your page.
Reason 1: Server failures
The main reason for most malfunctions of the site in question is software errors and glitches, and, as a rule, affects all users at once. You can check such problems on a third-party, but quite reliable resource, Downdetector, using the link below. Please note that you should look not only at the general status, but also at the live comments of users who encountered errors in VK.
Go to VKontakte on the Downdetector website
You won’t be able to fix such problems on your own, and therefore the only available option is to wait. In addition, if the situation does not improve over time, you should contact technical support.
Why can't I invite a friend?
Well, now let's look at the reasons why you may not be able to invite friends to the group. Firstly, if you want to immediately invite all the friends from your list, you won’t be able to do this. You have the opportunity to add no more than 40 users per day.
Secondly, after sending the application, a window may appear with the message: “The user has prohibited inviting himself to communities.” Therefore, nothing will work here either.
Thirdly, if by clicking on the “You are subscribed” button, the required item is not in the drop-down menu, it means that this is not an “Open Group”, but a “Public Page”. You cannot invite people to the public pages you are subscribed to.
If you are a creator or administrator, there is also no item for inviting friends in the list. Then you need to make an “Open Group” from the “Public Page”.
To do this, go to the main page and click on the three vertical dots under the avatar. In the drop-down menu you will see the “Transfer to group” item, click on it. That's it, now this is not a public page, but a regular group to which you can invite friends.
I think everything worked out, and now your community has a little more subscribers.
Reason 2: Outdated browser version
If you prefer to update programs on your computer yourself, including software for surfing the Internet, the browser itself may well be the reason why your friends list is not working properly. In this case, first try replacing the browser with any other one we present in a separate section of the site.
The best browsers for your computer
If all VKontakte sections are displayed correctly in another program, you will need to update your browser to the latest current version according to the following instructions.
Read more: How to update the browser on your computer
Reason 3: Virus infection
A problem that is primarily relevant for a computer with opening individual sections, as well as the site itself as a whole, may be the presence of malware. To search for and remove such software, you must use any antivirus or online service that provides similar tools.
Read more: Checking your PC for viruses without an antivirus The best antivirus programs
When faced with the problems under consideration, when visiting the VK website, also be sure to check the address bar yourself. This is necessary so as not to accidentally open one of the fake mirrors that exactly copy the design of the social network.
Reason 5: Page privacy settings
The only reason that is not related to problems on the VKontakte website or the software version is the profile privacy settings, which make it possible to hide every person in the friends list. This in turn may lead to the fact that there will be no “Friends” block on the page of the person you are visiting.
Only the page owner can disable the option in the “Settings” section on the “Privacy” tab.
Causes, solution to the problem
Limit per day - 50 friends
There is a limit on the number of friend requests that can be sent per day - this is 50 requests. That is, if you added 50 people as friends—more precisely, sent 50 applications—today you won’t be able to send any more. The VK website will say: “Unfortunately, you cannot add more friends in one day. Please try tomorrow." It doesn’t matter whether you send an application or someone adds to you. The total number is calculated. Try adding the person you want as a friend at this time tomorrow.
Normal people don't add so many people as friends. After all, our social circle usually consists of several dozen people; maybe a hundred or a little more, but not a thousand or ten thousand. Therefore, if you add everyone as a friend, think about whether it’s worth doing this? The system already suspects that you are going to invite them en masse to the group or send out advertisements. Your page may simply be blocked for suspicious activity.
A little trick: if you add friends via phone, try doing it through a browser, in the full version of VK. Maybe this way you can get around the daily limit.
If you just want to have a lot of friends on VK (more than someone else), believe me, no one cares about it. And most of these “friends” won’t even know who you are. Anyone can add 10 thousand of the same fools as friends, for whom only the number matters. Therefore, it is better to add as friends only those who are actually your friends in real life. It will be more convenient for you, for example, to open a personal message or an album with photos only for friends. How to hide your page, photo, close your personal message from strangers, we explain here: How to hide your page on VK.
Look at the list of contacts on your phone - how many of these people can you call your friends?
Quantity limit - a total of 10,000 friends and submitted applications
Another limitation is the maximum number of friends. They cannot be added ad infinitum. "Error. Unfortunately, you cannot add more than 10,000 friends” (and in the mobile application - simply “Access Error”) - this is the message you receive when you try to add more. This number includes sent friend requests. That is, a situation may arise when you have less than ten thousand friends, but you still cannot add anyone - this means that someone did not respond to your application (did not add), and you remained just a subscriber. It happens that a person has 1,000 friends and 9,000 applications, and he cannot add anyone! These submitted applications remain there until you cancel them. Only after this, when the sum of your friends and submitted applications is less than the 10,000 limit, will you be able to add someone again.
To see your outgoing friend requests, click on this link: My outgoing friend requests. Unfollow people you don't need using the Unfollow button.
Once again, pay attention to the fact that people who add a lot of friends arouse suspicion from the VK administration, and their pages may be blocked. According to VK rules, personal pages can only be used for non-commercial purposes (that is, you cannot advertise your business on them). For commerce, you should create a group or public.
There is no Add Friend button, there is only a Subscribe button
Some people, whom many people want to add as friends, specifically change their setting, which is called Which friend requests are notified about. Usually it says From everyone, but they put From friends of friends. That is, if you want to add such a person as a friend, but you are not a friend of any of his friends, then you will not see the Add Friend button at all, but only Subscribe. He won't even receive a notification. There's nothing you can do about it. The man specifically set up his VK so that strangers would bother him less. But, of course, you can just be a subscriber.
I add him as a friend, but he is not added
The person is not added as a friend immediately. You click Add as a friend and become his subscriber. He gets a notification: “Such and such a person wants to add you as a friend.” When (and if) he sees this, he will confirm that you are friends if he wants. And only then will this person appear as your friend. If he doesn’t want to, he won’t confirm it. This is his personal business.
In the event that your future friend does not see the friend request, tell him to click (in his VK) on Friends and then on Friend Requests. Then he will see the application from you, and he will only need to click Add as a friend - then you will become friends on VK. See where it is located at your place, using this link: My incoming friend requests - your future friend should open the same thing, but at his place.
If the person does not reciprocate, you will remain as his subscriber. To unsubscribe, you will need to cancel your friend request, as written above.
I click Add as friend and nothing happens
These are problems with your browser, Internet connection or the computer itself (tablet, phone). Start with the browser: delete temporary files or reinstall it, install a new version. Your best bet is to try a different browser.
And if you can’t be added as a friend in the VK app on your phone (you click Add as a friend and there’s no reaction), then it’s a problem with the app, the connection, or the phone. First, uninstall the application and install it again - this may solve the problem.
Contacting support
As a final step, if the previously presented methods do not resolve the problem, you can contact VKontakte support. For this purpose, the website provides a separate “Help” page with already prepared answers and the ability to create a new request. We reviewed this section in more detail in a separate article.
Read more: How to write to VK technical support
After reading the recommendations presented above, you will be able to solve any problems with the “Friends” section, regardless of the version of the social network you are using.
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How to make a snippet in a VK group
In my opinion, a snippet is considered an interesting option for a button; when creating advertisements, you are not required to create a banner measuring 537*240 and use only 220 characters in the description. Here you can already upload a banner with your own dimensions and use a large text canvas. Now I’ll tell you how to make a snippet for advertising on VKontakte. By the way, the snippet looks like this, very soon you will be able to make the same one.
A snippet is a button that is located under your main banner; you don’t need to try to fit small details there, they will be hard to see. I usually put a button “more details, read, find out, sign up, buy” or something similar. These images should have dimensions of 537 * 240. Below in the article I have posted ready-made snippets, if you cannot work in Photoshop, then just copy them.
Creation and size of a snippet for a VK post
And now about how to make a VK snippet. In order to make this type of post, when selecting options, you need to select “universal entry”
As I already said in the text, you are not limited by size and can, if you wish, put a lot of information there, you just need it to be interesting, otherwise they won’t read it. After you have prepared the text, you can upload your advertising banner.
After this you need to insert the snippet, to do this, click on the “button”
Select an image to be used as a snippet and upload it. Next, everything is as usual, click on “create” and create your advertising campaign. Everything is outrageously simple.
And one more important point...
Test two options (especially if you drive traffic to the site)
1) Standard, where the image is 537*240 in size, the entire image is clickable (if you don’t use the button, then you can add a lot of text and they may blur it out by clicking on the show button)
2) Option with a snippet.
Be sure to include UTM tags. Why do you need to do this? In addition to knowing which ad brings better traffic, you can track bounce rates.
If a person is on a mobile phone, then he can simply accidentally click on such an image (I’m talking about the first option now) and leave the site, in this case there may be more transitions and a lot more failures, but we preferably need targeted visitors so that Get more leads using less money.
According to the 2nd option, there will be no such error... The person here is already purposefully pressing the button.
Do you understand? those. You may mistakenly leave a more clickable ad from which there will be much less targeted visitors and disable a less clickable ad from which only targeted traffic will come. But in the end, in terms of the number of attracted leads, option 2 may win. This is such bullshit.
But I could be wrong, I’ll tell you only one thing, test and analyze.
