Instagram, the most used social network in the world , allows us to create publications with videos or photos , we can also add a description to each publication that we make with a restriction, we cannot put links, but we will tell you how you can do it and so you can put links on Instagram posts.
We have already told you how to put links in the Instagram biography so that your followers can access the link that you want since Instagram does allow you to add links in the biography, but in the next article we will teach you how to put them in the publications.
Another way we have to put links on Instagram is in IGTV videos or in Stories as long as you have more than 10,000 followers, something sometimes difficult to achieve if you are starting on this social network.
Next we will show you a series of solutions that will allow us to add links in the publications we make on Instagram, in such a way that your followers can access other links from them.
How to upload long videos to Instagram Stories
Where can we add links on Instagram?
First of all we will remind you of the ways we have to add links on Instagram, when we talk about links, we refer to those that we can click on them and be sent to another website. The places where we can put links are:
- Instagram profile.
- In Stories with the “Swipe up” option , but only when we have more than 10,000 followers.
- In the description of the videos on our IGTV profile.
Now, Instagram does not allow us to add links that we can click, so we will have to look for other options such as the Linktree and Beacons tools .
Linktree, add external links on a single page
Linktree is a website where we can create a profile dedicated to adding buttons with external links , with Linktree we can make our followers access a whole network of all the links that we want to add with just one link that we put in our Instagram bio. .
We can add all kinds of links, but if you want to know what it is and learn more about Linktree and how it works, we recommend that you read the article that we have dedicated to this website that helps Instagram users so much.
Beacons, create an Instagram feed with external links
Beacons is one of the best tools for this type of task, with Beacons we can create something very similar to Linktree but with much greater potential and best of all for free. Beacons is a service that allows us to create a kind of copy of our Instagram feed to add links in the publications.
At first, Beacons can be something impressive because you do not know how to start or what to do, but we recommend that you follow the steps that you will see below, in a strong way and thus you will learn how to create a feed of your Instagram with links in the publications.
How to create an Instagram feed in Beacons
The first of all will be to create an account in Beacons , we only need a username and an email, we recommend that, if possible, use the same username that you have on Instagram so as not to create more confusion for your followers.
Web: Beacons
Now we will begin to customize our Beacons profile in such a way that our Instagram will appear and thus be able to add links in the publications:
- When creating the Beacons account you will have to answer some questions, as a wizard to create your profile, but do not worry because all the options can be modified later.
- The assistant will ask you for your data, one of the first will be the option to add your favorite social networks , in our case we have only selected Instagram, and Beacons will automatically create a profile based on your Instagram by copying your profile image and your bio.
- Now it is the turn to choose the theme you want to apply , you can make it very striking or leave it in a simpler way to make it look even more like Instagram, but we advise you to customize it as much as possible to make it more attractive.
- Once we are done with the Beacons wizard, we have three important areas to make our changes. We will have several tabs; “My page” , to manage all the links in our Beacons profile. “Appearance” to change the whole style and design. “Advanced” , where we can manage some more advanced options.
- The first thing will be to go to the “My page” tab where we will find several editable buttons; Header, Text, Links and Emails & SMS. We will center everything in the “Links” section .
- We press the “Edit” button located to the right of “Links”.
- Once inside, we will have to add each of the publications that we have in our Instagram feed , this is very important that they are the same photos (with the limitation that they can only be 3 MB maximum).
- We press the button “Add new link to botton” .
- Now we will have to customize this section , we can select a title, a description and the address that you want to put in that publication.
- Now the most important step, add the image , we will have to click on the photo icon.
- Then we will click on “Upload image” and select the images from our Instagram feed.
- We will have to do this same step over and over again to add all the publications that we want to add links so that your followers know where they will have to click, hence putting the same image as on Instagram.
- Now to be able to share our Beacon profile we will have to copy the link that the web gives us in the upper right part that will have a format like this, the final name being your user:
- The last step will be to copy the Beacons link in our Instagram bio , and we will have to use the “link in the BIO” trick in each of our Instagram posts to bring our followers to the Beacons profile.
- With this we will get our followers to see the same photos as on Instagram and can click on them to go to the link that you wanted to put in the Instagram publication.
- This is the most effective way to put links on Instagram posts in a simple and also very practical way.
- Once we have added all the images we want with external links from our Instagram posts in Beacons, we can see that we have something very similar to our Instagram profile.
- On the one hand we can see the profile area and the bio.
- On the other, we can see the area of the photo feed, each one of them being an external link.
When we have finished all the photos we want, Beacons offers a premium subscription that enables us many more functions , but luckily with the free account we can change the style of the buttons, the font and all the visual elements of our Beacons profile , all from the “Appearance” tab .
