Hello tech lovers, are you an Instagram user like me but you're a bit sick of
only having a single link in your bio? I find that I want to push people to my
website or to YouTube or to other platforms and Instagram is a great way
of promoting yourself but the single link is quite restrictive. Well I found
the answer to this although you can only add one link to your Instagram bio that
can go to a mobile optimized page which can really show off your other areas
that could be websites or other social networks and help drive some of your
Instagram traffic elsewhere. If you like this tip and technology reviews in
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This is Shorby then it creates a short link which takes you to a dedicated link
page. if I just click Edit you can see we've got a very basic set up I've got
clicked visit my youtube channel, visit my website and then some social icons
and that's all controllable here. Now what I wanted to show you in particular
today because that's that's been very good as is but they're now upgrading
people to smart pages. Here's the editor for the smart page, you can see it's retained my
overall look I've got my avatar at the top I can now add messengers so if I
wanted people to contact me if you've got a business this is super useful you
can have WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Skype Viber,
email or phone and if you have a couple of these, you might have email phone, you
can drag them into a different order depending on what you want displaying first.
New here is the ad block section this allows you to add different items
so for example let's just go to my website and let's say I've got something
I want to promote, a recent tutorial I did and how to remove the DJI
Osmo lens. So if you see at the moment it's just basic text but you can now have a
little thumbnail button you can have it so the image is behind it or you can
have a much larger image like so. Now I want that to be above it.
so it's just drag and drop. Let's say you're not too
keen on the color scheme it's just very blue and you don't like the white on it
you hit theme and so you can pick a theme or you can press the little gear
icon so you can change the button color and you can change the background color
and if you have your branded colors and you know the hex value you can simply
enter those into there you can also upload a background image if we say
upload background image we might say that is Instagram, so I'm going
to collect Instagram and that will pull down my images and now let's have a look
let's select this one for example, probably not something I would use but there you go
you can see very quickly goes into the background and I may have...yellow
whatever colour you want you see it changing in the background press the
tick and there you go now this doesn't really fit my theme of
Technology but you can see how quick and easy that was so if I go back to themes
and let's pick a blue theme there we go so it's now changed it to the blue
background with orange and white text and hit publish that's now live so you
can update it very quickly you've also got access to insight so you can see
here if I click I can show you that from Instagram I've generated 19 visits to my
youtube channel, five to my website, if we go up to this other one so you visit my
shop has had 27 views so this is really great data and you can also connect a
Facebook pixel for additional tracking. This one's a lot more on brand, you
can see we've got a ceramic background image, visit my shop, watch my youtube
channel it looks quite basic on the big screen
but of course if you visit this on your mobile you'll see it looks really
fantastic so if I click on this one this is a one I've only just created recently
for a business, a massage businesses as you can tell as it's got the picture in the
background we've got the social icons along the bottom visit
sites but in this case Laura wants people to be able to email or call her.
If you're on your mobile and you click either of those it will open your phone's
app connecting you directly to the business which is what's really powerful
so once you've set up your page you simply take your link which you can name
you can see I've named these quite personally so you could have your
business name you can have something else your your Instagram name if you
want to keep it nice and consistent and on your Instagram account you simply
paste that as the link so you're going to get one link. Click on that and it will
take you to a page of other links and that now helps people visit you on
YouTube, visit your website, call you, contact you, whatever it is you're
looking to do. I like Shorby, I'm really glad I
picked you up during the AppSumo deal if you've got a large Instagram account and
you want to leverage that the stats in particular are incredibly useful as you
can see what people are interested in and now with the new smart page it's a
really great way of selling products or driving them to different areas that
you're interested in as here what is really taking people's interest when
they land on the page. I will put a link in the description below I hope you
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