fanpop Article: One-Fan Spots

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posted by Cinders

Just a few of the hundreds

After creating my link spot and noting the severe lack of members, curiosity got me to searching for spots on fanpop that only had a single member (generally, their creator).

I came across spots that were months old and still only had a single member such as Chel's link spot, harold's link spot, or berly's link spot. And I thought to myself, these spots were created to meet other fãs and yet there appeared to be no other fãs of these topics on all of fanpop? Ridiculous! Or... maybe it's true.

Some of the one-fan spots seemed very obscure (to me, at least), so it's quite possible that there just simply aren't that many folks on fanpop who are fãs of these things.

This made me sad and happy at the same time. Sad because of the fact that it's hard to meet fãs with that interest, but happy because in a way I think it makes these spots special, these one-fan spots, and I wanted to celebrate them, to salute them, if you will. Because their creators obviously cared enough to take time out of their dia to make the ícones or banners and add content to a spot that no one looks at. If you ask me, that is serious dedication. Now, it goes without saying that most of these spots have unrated content, so if you're a crazy rating fiend (kathiria, maybeastarbucks), then you might wanna check these spots out. Or not. But you can at least appreciate them in all of their uniqueness.

At the time this artigo was written, there were exactly 482 spots under "Pending Spots" that had just one fan. This artigo is for you Valente souls who contribute to these lonely spot islands, adrift in the fanpop sea. We salute you!

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chel1395 Great article! I've been inspired to go out and check out some of these spots. It's not as sad when a spot has two fans, right? ;D

amazondebs horay for unknown spots! i created the motas spot (my other internet addiction) and the ed byrne spot and was saddened to find little interest in them but this has cheered me up significantly

Cinders Seven ratings in ten minutes? We really do have some ratings fiends out there. Rock on! Thanks you three, and all you raters. You go for it, chel. It's kinda fun, browsing all these spots.

goalstopper great article, i agree it does take a lot of dedication. I shall look soon to see if i can join these one fan spots.

harold As someone who's created many spots, I can say that the one-fan state is pretty typical, particularly when the spot creator doesn't add a lot of initial content. In general, there's two ways to advertise your spot to other fans of the same topic: 1) Make the spot so that it will appear on search engines. To do this, you have to add soapbox articles, links and videos that are all three graced with adequate keywords. If you don't put the spot name in as one of your keywords, it's not going to show up in the search results of other fans' searches nearly as well or as often. Most of the fans of a given topic are going to not already be Fanpop users (just statistically speaking), so making sure you have plenty of adequately keyworded content is key to bringing them in to the spot. 2) Make the spot so it will appear on Fanpop's top page, in case other fans of the topic ARE already on the site. This is a much lesser consideration, but still a valid one. In addition, having content appear on Fanpop's top page creates the possibility of creating new fans of the topic. Of course, it's much more likely that you will grab random users who don't have any particular interest in the topic but who want to add a bunch of random content to your spot...and that's OK, too. It seems to me that the most effective ways to get the spot to appear on the top page are posting images, creating picks and posting to the spot's forum (in that order). Doing all three of these things consistently will eventually grab other Fanpop users' attention. I note that all three of the spots you have specifically called out - including my tribute spot for Ms. Curfman - have not really done these things (aside from images). (Note: I made some edits in the above text to fix typographical errors.)

DarkSarcasm Okay, maybe someone can explain this to me - why the frick is there almost an entire page with 0 fans? Does someone just create a spot and un-fan it, or what? What would the point of that be? O.o BTW, great article, Cinders. =P

em_em Inspired by this I went to have a look at some of these one fan spots and seriously there are loads. Some I can see why, they seem sorta obscure but others I'd really of expected there to be me fans out there on fanpop!

ineedcoffee wow great article! off I go to check out some more obscure spots.

maybeastarbucks I'm not nearly the crazy rater kathiria82 is.

mosone music: gregor tresher: http://www.fanpop.com/spots/gregor-tresher mode: http://www.fanpop.com/spots/fhm/ great article. ^.^

hooch-is-crazy starbucks, you have rated over 30,000 things, what's crazy to you?

inespinto She rated almost 50,000 things! (at least yesterday, today is probably more) I created a few spots that have 1-10 fans and I'm still very proud of them!

x-missmckena-x hmmm i shall have to go and check these out, great article!

Earl-h great article u really got a point here!

jlhfan624 Great article! A few of the spots I have created only have a few people but I am extremely lucky in having the Blair & Chuck, Blair Waldorf, and Chuck Bass spots to be proud of! (hundreds of fans) :D

scififan great article!

dazl Good article. Spots like my Billy Connolly spot deserve recognition.

waterlilybarb This is to DarkSarcasm. I'll admit to creating one spot that I "un-fanned", due to the fact that there wasn't much of anything I could add. It used to be that if something had no interest it would be removed after an adequate amount of time. I guess there's just too much here now to do that. I'm much more careful about what I add now, though there now are so many fanpoppers, much of what I plan to add is already here...not that that's a bad thing. BTW, great article Cinders! :-)

Juviana I have a spot with only one fan (me)! Hooray! I was appalled to see that there was no spot for MacGyver. WHAAT? Great article :)

aholic I have also been lucky in one of "my" spots. I only got 12 fans in it, but the people there are quick to rate, although not when it comes to the pictures :P

WorshipDwight Thanks for standing up and appreciating the work spot creators put into the spots! I've created three spots myself, squirrels, yo gabba gabba, and viola (instrument), all of which have about 6-8 fans- so I appreciate recognition!!

HannaK I'm gonna check some spots out :)

tushtush Great soapbox :D I created the The Dolly Parton Spot and that only has two fans. :( It's not even that obscure!

imprint-on-me Cool article/soapbox :)

Krevetka16 join the Hair (musical) spot if u love the movie! or just check it out. thnxx xx

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