How to put a link in your Instagram bio to promote your site

Key quotes:

• "Because so many people are on Instagram, having an account just for your business is a solid way to acquire customers and attract attention."
• "Driving traffic to your website, however, well, that takes a bit of effort."
• "If you’re planning to announce a new event or product on your website, for instance, consider posting a picture on your Instagram site a week before the official announcement and hint at the fact that you have something new a brewin’."
• "Let’s say you’re promoting a new product/event/service on your site and you want to post about it on Instagram."
• "Pro tip: To avoid long, ugly links, shorten your URL with Bit.ly."
• "If your website includes a blog, make sure to draw attention to it on your Instagram."

Transcript: Hey guys this is young kid from the guys computer and one of my friend have trouble in putting wings on Instagram so today we will learn how to put wings on Instagram this method is very simple if you have a computer open your laptop and put Instagram calm on the address bar now now as soon as the page load click on this human icon and here's my profile right here and it's time to open my youtube channel or whatever the link I want to put on my Instagram now the while the page is loading alright I have this my channel click on ok he is my youtube link right now and I will copy and you can also sharp this URL by using Google URL shortener that will be much easier which that would be much easier to put a small way and they can the short URL and here I copy now on Instagram page I will click on edit profile yes yes wait and here I will paste the link that is copy click on submit as soon as either frickin submit that's the profile is same and again I will check and... See more →

Transcript: What is up everyone. Welcome back to my channel, the number oneplace for new coaches, content creators and entrepreneurs. In today's video, I want to dive right intoInstagram bios and the reason for this is because Instagram bios is so important, notis it only your Instagram feed that gives the first impression when someone goes onyour profile, but the Instagram bio is the first thing that someone sees and reads beforethey even scroll down to your feed. That's why in today's video specifically,I'm going to go over the five most important components of your Instagram bio and how youcan optimize it so that you can attract more leads into your business. With that being said, let's just get rightinto the video now. Before I dive into the five tips that I havefor you today, let's just first talk about why having a solid Instagram bio is so important. Number one, it's going to be a really greatfirst impression when someone goes onto your feet, meaning you need to give people a reasonwhy they should follow you, whether your account is a perfect fit for them or whether or notyou have the solution to their problems. At the end of the... See more →

Key quotes:

• "Here’s how to use special characters in your Instagram bio using Microsoft Word: You can pour a lot of love and energy into creating the best captions for your Instagram posts, but isn’t it annoying when Instagram removes your line breaks from your text? How to hide your hashtags in your Instagram caption: Did you know that you can add up to 10 hashtags for each your Instagram story posts? By adding an Instagram hashtag to your story, you’re giving your content an added chance to be seen by new audiences."
• "Here’s how to add a link to your IGTV video from Instagram Stories: Just like Instagram posts, engaging with your community is important to build your IGTV channel."
• "If you know exactly what or who you’re looking for, use the search bar in the middle of your screen to type in a username or a keyword like “travel” to find IGTV channels."

Key quotes:

• "If you use Instagram, you’ve seen people publicize a URL they want you to visit by saying “Clink link in bio.” They do this because Instagram doesn’t automatically hotlink URLS that you put into the caption of your photo or other comments."
• "This is a ubiquitous field in online account profile screens, and it’s made for people to link to the home page of their websites."
• "But the Internet is smarter than that, and Instagrammers have come up with a “hack” to use this field to link to their latest blog post, or deal, or whatever the latest thing is that they’re promoting."
• "This would work if Instagram’s feed was simply chronological, showing your posts to your followers in the order you post them."
• "But awhile back, Instagram followed Facebook’s lead and started using a fancy algorithm to display posts."
• "The solution is to make an archive page on your website that has links to all of the things you’ve linked to on Instagram and put that link in your profile."

Transcript: Hey everyone in this video I wanted to show you how to add a link to your Instagram story now this is often called a swipe up link so you swipe up and it will take you to a YouTube page for example or to your website you could use it to sell things or you could use it to get views on different videos and it's taking me some time to get to the point where I can make this video and I'll show you why in a second just make sure you watch the video till the end I'll answer all your questions it's a little bit of a complicated setup mainly because there is an IG TV swipe up link which is nowhere and there is an old-school swipe up link that takes you to a YouTube video or a website or a blog and that's the one I'm gonna focus on in this video if it's your first time here I make easy-to-follow social media tech videos every single day of the week so please consider subscribing so let's go through the process I want to show you how to get this swipe up link so... See more →

Transcript: Hey what's up is Andrew welcome to another video in this week's video I'm going to be talking about hmm Instagram so on Instagram you have one place only for people to look at your website so there's only one space that you can put a link of your choice a URL of your choice which you can then direct to your website or your blog or your video channel or maybe another social media platform now the problem with that is you might want to use Instagram to promote multiple things and unfortunately Instagram isn't very link friendly but I'm about to reveal the smartest way around that right after this hey what's up is Andrew helping you create a more delicious life brand and business and in this video I'm going to show you how to have multiple links inside of your Instagram account so what we're going to be using is a special tool called linked in profile so the website is linked in profile comm and I'm going to show you exactly how you can have each post in your Instagram account direct to its own special URL or link which is great for promoting your... See more →

Transcript: Everyone in this Instagram video I wanted to show you how to get multiple links in your Instagram bio so Instagram only allows you to have one URL link one at link where you could link to a different profile and a hashtag link where you go to a hashtag and follow the hashtag those are the three different types of links what I wanted to show you a tool that you could use to get more external URL links that will take you to different websites if it's your first time here I make easy-to-follow Instagram and social media videos every single day of the week so please consider subscribing so let's look at the tool here I'm gonna go to my browser and it's called link tree I'll put a link in the description for it and here you'll have to use Instagram to sign up so sign up with Instagram go ahead and click that and go ahead and log into the Instagram profile where you want to make this change to next you need to authorize link tree so I'm gonna press authorize here I'll have to type in this information here to finish up I'm... See more →

Key quotes:

• "This is what the link looks like in the Instagram bio: And this is what the landing page looks like: Later is a handy, free, social media planner that’s great for Instagram."
• "In essence, Linkin.bio does the same thing as Linktree, however when you click on the link in the profile it brings up a landing page that looks just like your Instagram feed, only clickable."
• "The landing page basically resembles their Instagram feed, except you can click on the pictures and be taken to the attached link."
• "There are a lots of similar tools available such as Have2HaveIt, Link in Profile and LNK.BIO so it’s worth testing them out to see which has the best combination of features you need."
• "Each highlighted story has an important link attached — for example to the Ethical Hour blog."
• "Perhaps Instagram will make the process easier in future by offering more than one clickable link, by allowing smaller profiles to use ‘swipe up’ in stories, or by allowing click through on posts."

Key quotes:

• "Think back on what you were aiming to accomplish with Instagram in the first place, and that will help you better discern which of the following link options could be the best choice for your brand and your unique objectives."
• "But, for people who perhaps miss your advertisement or your initial post announcing the start of the contest, it’s a great idea to create a dedicated landing page that explains things like the rules, timeline, and prize for your contest — and then link to that landing page in your Instagram bio."
• "Use your Instagram link to send people to a landing page where they can opt-in to receive something for free — whether it’s a coupon code or a digital download that teaches them something they’re eager to know."
• "As a result, they use their Instagram link to send people to the photography page of their website, where those visitors can see even more awesome images."
• "This is an important thing to remember about the link in your Instagram bio: In most cases, people are going to click that link if they’re interested in finding out more about your brand."
• "Think you can only use your Instagram bio link to send followers to your website homepage?."