Lots of people use Instagram. Some do it right some are just plain lost. There is no right or wrong way to use Instagram, but there are mistakes that cause people to miss out on some of the benefits of using it. There are multiple reasons people post on Instagram: there are those who post simply to have fun, there are some who post to share with friends, then there are those who post to promote themselves, their work or their business.
Posts
Posting is the most basic part of using any social media platform. There are a few ways you can make sure your posts do what you want them to do. If you are in it for fun or to share with friends, post and your done. If you are trying to promote something then here are some tips to make sure you get the most out of every post.
First you need to have a good quality picture. It also needs to be something that will catch your followers attention. Make sure the picture you choose has something to do with what you are trying to promote. That is pretty obvious.
Your caption needs to link your image to what you are promoting. It will also help you get traffic from Instagram to your post to your website, or business. To create a good caption, write a sentence that tells a story about where the image is from or what the image is. Your also going to want to add hashtags, and tag any other accounts related to the image.
A good way to loose a following is to post more than three times a day. If you drown your followers feed they will eventually get bored and make the green button blue again. So stick to keeping posts more than two hours apart and no more than four posts a day.
Hashtags
Hashtags are the best way to get followers and people to see your posts and eventually you or your business. The best way I have found to use hashtags to gain a following is to find a hashtag related to your post that has around fifteen thousand posts on it and start posting to that hashtag every other day. This will mean you pretty much dominate the hashtag. This helps you get followers because people who are interested in that hashtag will search it, when they search it they find your post, when they find your post they find you, and since your posts are related to something they are interested they will follow you. Once they follow you they will see all of your posts and become interested in you or your business and want to find out more that is where your profile comes in.
Profile
Your profile is what people see and what links your Instagram posts to your website. You need to have your profile picture something that will catch peoples eye. Pictures of you, something related to your posts or a logo work well.
How do you link to your website? With your bio. Your bio should contain a description of you or your business, and a link to your website. Having a link in your bio is the only way you can link your profile to a website.
When it comes to weather or not you should make your profile private or public, make it public nobody likes it when you don’t know what an account is posting about before they follow them.
Another way you can gain followers is to follow people that have similar posts as you or businesses that are related to yours. And when people follow you follow them back if they have interests similar to you or your business they are the ones that can turn into friends or customers.