Fark Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Submitting Links

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• Submitting Links
  • Increase the chances of your submission being posted on Fark

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Submitting Links

Fark.com, the Web site, is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site. Every day Fark receives 2,000 or so news submissions from its readership, from which we hand-pick the funny and weird notable news -- and not-news -- of the day.

Want to submit a link to Fark? Click on the Submit A Link link on Fark's main page.

Increase the chances of your submission being posted on Fark

• Before submitting, please take a minute to review our posting guidelines and our legal/privacy policy. By submitting, you agree to these terms.
• If you found the link on another link site or weblog etc, credit the source by putting its name in the Or: box on the submission page.
• Make the tagline funny.
• Make sure the submission is at least somewhat humorous.
• When making taglines for Photoshop or caption candidates, describe the picture.
• Try to make headlines have a noun and a verb. This isn't always possible.
• Don't link directly to videos. Link to pages where videos can be watched instead.
• Don't spam the queue repetitively.
• Don't capitalize every word like news headlines; write normally.
• Avoid the use of articles, just like news headlines. Instead of "A man discovers that he has two asses" write "Man discovers he has two asses."
• Did we mention "make the tagline funny"?
• Articles from the following sites will automatically be rejected:
  • Sites that shut themselves down after getting a lot of traffic, like Geocities did when it was alive
  • Ananova (long story)
  • Any site requiring logins or registration to read articles
  • Any site/user even remotely relating to "SEO" or "social bookmarking" or that's obviously selling something (which we consider "spammers")
• Don't get discouraged if your link doesn't get picked -- we get thousands of link submissions a day, and less than 5% make it to the Fark main page. However, they all show up for TotalFark subscribers.
• You do not need to be a TotalFark subscriber to get a submission approved.
• We may occasionally swap out a source link to another. These occasions can include, but are not limited to the following situations:
  • The original article link becoming unavailable or 404'd ("Farked™");
  • A larger, preferred site we know can better handle the traffic spike;
  • A request by the target site or the link submitter;
  • Swapping to the article's original page instead of a summary or direct duplication on a blog or non-originating site.

Fark is a news aggregator, not a "social bookmarking" site. Submitting to Fark will not affect your ranking in search engines, even if it is in the 5% of links that get hand-picked... and because they are hand-picked by actual humans instead of automatically being selected based on volume or popularity, spamming us won't get your link listed... so SEO/social bookmarking spammers, don't waste your time (or ours).