{"id":41102,"date":"2021-08-12T16:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fbskip.com\/services\/?p=41102"},"modified":"2021-08-13T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T16:22:33","slug":"easy-ways-to-post-a-link-on-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fbskip.com\/services\/easy-ways-to-post-a-link-on-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Ways to Post a Link on Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though, nowadays, Instagram is one of the most widely used social media platforms, it is still missing one essential feature – links. A few months after the platform was launched, Instagram decided to establish a no-link policy. Why so? Many Instagram users started referring to other sources in their posts, which filled the app with spam and made it impossible to use the platform organically. Therefore, Instagram disabled all links in posts and comments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Posting links on Instagram<\/span><\/h2>\n

Links vsURLs<\/span><\/h3>\n

Many people think that links and URLs are the same thing. But the two are actually very different:<\/span><\/p>\n

www.instagram.com is a URL — a few symbol that define a web address.<\/span><\/p>\n

www.instagram.com<\/span><\/a> is a link — a \u201cclickable\u201d URL that can take you to another page when you click it.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you put a URL in your post caption or comment, Instagram will never turn it into a clickable link.<\/span><\/p>\n

How to post a link on Instagram?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

We\u2019ve already established that you can\u2019t put links in your Instagram posts. But there are several easy ways around this:<\/span><\/p>\n

Put a URL in your Instagram caption<\/span><\/h3>\n

If you need to post a photo or video on Instagram and include a link in its caption, you can simply use a URL address. But keep in mind that it will be just a raw, unclickable URL. Other users would have to copy and paste the URL in their web browser to visit the page.<\/span><\/p>\n

To make URLs in Instagram posts and comments easier to copy, we recommend using <\/span>URL shortening services<\/span><\/a> that create concise URLs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Put the link in your Instagram bio<\/span><\/h3>\n

Instagram allows you to post links in your account. The issue is that you can only use one link and put it in your bio.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To post a link in your bio, you should:<\/span><\/p>\n