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Will I get banned for posting affiliate links in Instagram?

I want to take my marketing to the next level on Instagram. Is there a way to post an affiliate link on Instagram? And is this advisable?

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idealmike
You cannot put links in posts on Instagram anyway. Well you can but they wont be hyperlinked! Instagram is meant to be more of a visually pleasing place of images and photos where you can see amazing pictures and photos of things that the people you follow like or have that you're interested in and then interact with those posts by either liking them, commenting on them and sharing them. Not a place of affiliate links it doesn't work like that on Instagram! And it's the same for posting links in comments as well before you try that, the links you put are not hyperlinked. That's because Instagram doesn't want it to be a site used by marketers for business reasons only but by real people using it for personal reasons who wont spam the place up with tons of affiliate links.

However they still allow you to use it for business reasons and you can still use it to promote affiliate products, services etc. You just have to go about it a different way. You get one hyperlinked link and that's the one you set on your profile page. That one needs to be your main business site for that Instagram account usually. What you do is post lots of high quality images and photos of things that your intended audience is interested in and pose using #hashtags and cool descriptions and things and use call-to-actions for people to share it and visit your site or follow you elsewhere else. You can put domains in your posts in the call-to-action but don't do it all the time and mix it up with cool descriptions, ask questions, get people to engage with those posts and do it that way.

So you wont get banned for posting affiliate links in your Instagram posts. You will just end up making yourself look like an amateur Instagram user and a bit of a spammer too if all your posts have affiliate links in them and tbh for new accounts doing that all the time, Instagram may very well indeed ban/suspend or delete the account if that's what it's doing all the time. But I know that a lot of BIG IG users use all sorts of clever Instagram marketing techniques and ways of going around it "professionally" and posting very short shortened links they can remember like is.gd and ow.ly or by integrating a QR Code into your posts as well like this one.
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Lynne
Thanks Mike. You have just given me some much needed insight into Instagram. I am going to be joining soon and it looks like I will have the usual learning curve every time I try out a new social network.

I have struggled to join Instagram because I only recently learned here that it is for mobile and I was trying to access it and use it with my laptop LOL.

Just goes to show how much I need to learn about Instagram hey?

I was going to use one account to share content for my 3 websites but from what you have said that won't work at all because each profile can only have one website link?



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ajlancer
Hi sanfora thanks for your question. Though I am not very much familiar with Instagram. Despite of, I tried to know something about your issue. And as per as I know, you cannot put link on ?instagram profile. Even, if you able to link without hyperlinked, there has more possibility to get your link as spam. And you account may restricted over doing that for further using. Rather than learn other ways for affiliate marketing how to be a success. Here on CD, you can get lot of tutorial to learn how to be as successful affiliate marketer.

Regards by Ajlancer



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Barida
Just like Mike said, you are going to find it difficult putting up those links on your Instagram posts considering the fact that Instagram is more of a site that is used to promote images and pictures. I would suggest you use Facebook as a marketing tool in reaching out to your targeted audience.



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