idealmike
Level X3
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Instagram is a peoples social media site where people express themselves by using high quality photos. It's not like Facebook or Twitter in that you can post virtually everything you want such as your websites blog posts and pages, products etc. You can't create posts with links to where that image is such as a blog post. You can use #hashtags if you want though which can be useful but although Google can and does index your profile it can't index your images.
If you're a fashionista, designer or label, or a foodie, or restaurateur you can post pictures of the latest clothing and fashionable items or photos of the meals you cook. Or if you're a traveler you can post photos of waterfalls and elephants and things and that's good. They love that sort of thing on Instagram!
But if you're an SEO / freelancer where your business doesn't involve any images in any way other really as you're doing SEO work. What sort of things can you post to your Instagram profile for people to like? As an SEO or Freelancer, what would be good to post to Instagram that other people using Instagram might like?
I figure that a lot of people on Instagram probably would buy things like Instagram followers and likes and even followers/likes etc for their other social profiles too. And it's feasible many Instagram users are bloggers or webmasters so may need SEO or website marketing / traffic etc. But you can't really take a picture of SEO or Internet marketing in action like you can a beautiful waterfall or of a delicious cooked meal ya know!?
I've been thinking of things I could post that were eye catchy and that. But as an SEO / freelancer, they would have to be text images made using Canva or something with text written on them. But honestly, how appealing can you make "BUY 50000 INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS"? And why would people want to follow someone that just posts boring things like they no matter how nice they looked?
People want to see amazing, stunning, high quality REAL photos of people and all the things that the cool kids and users of Instagram post. They don't really want to see you posting about "Buy SoundCloud Views" etc in their timeline. So it's a real problem!
I have/had several IG profiles and mostly they have been in a nice that is much easier to post things too. But I've created an IG to help promote my SEOClerks affiliate site and wondering what things would be best to post that I could always have an endless supply of to actually post! I guess I could post nice images of things that people can buy with their money like gold watches, tech, cars, clothes etc etc and posts screenshots of earnings and things like that. That could be cool. The sorts of things a professional and successful freelancer / affiliate might purchase with his earnings. In and amongst the obvious image ads created in Canva or something.
So far all I have right now is an infographic split into 12 different tiles.
You can see what I mean on my Insta https://www.instagram.com/seoclerk/
I guess I could do that for other infographics/graphics I have and make just for it as you can play around with that and have some fun and do some really clever things with it.
Do you use IG to promote SEOClerks services as an affiliate?
Have you had any success selling SEO, SMO services etc on IG?
What are some ways to go about promoting SEOClerks services on IG?
I know there's gold in there just got to find a way of tapping into it!
Cheers!
Mike.
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TommyCarey
If you add tags to your image you can get a load of traffic if your image gets rated as the "Top Image". This is because Instagram will rank the most popular image at the time for the tag you have in the description. I've had images get 100+ likes just from hitting the top images spot and every time my image hits, I get at least 1 new client
Ok, so here's what you do.
- Find a cool looking image, make sure it has a sweet graphic or text on it.
- If you can't find something you really like, go on your computer and "borrow" a non branded image from a competitor and brand it yourself lol
- Post your image and add a your line of text to it. The text just needs to be short and sweet. Give them a taste of your page so they click through
- Add your URL under the text
- Add your hash tags to the post so that you pop up in the search results for specific keywords. I like to mix difficult keywords and easy to rank keywords in there so that I can get a flood of likes from the easy keywords and that should be enough to rank me for the difficult ones. Once you're ranked for the difficult ones you'll see a spike in likes
You're missing a huge part of the traffic you can pull from Instagram :D :D :D If you add tags to your image you can get a load of traffic if your image gets rated as the "Top Image". This is because Instagram will rank the most popular image at the time for the tag you have in the description. I've had images get 100+ likes just from hitting the top images spot and every time my image hits, I get at least 1 new client :D Adding tags isn't difficult, you're just using hash tags plus keywords in your description. I've noticed that a line of text and then a bunch of hash tags plus keywords are best because you give users a little bit of info so they know what you're about. You can even throw your URL in there right above the hash tags for even more traffic :D [size=140][b]Ok, so here's what you do.[/b][/size] [list][*]Find a cool looking image, make sure it has a sweet graphic or text on it.[/*][*]If you can't find something you really like, go on your computer and "borrow" a non branded image from a competitor and brand it yourself lol :D[/*][*]Post your image and add a your line of text to it. The text just needs to be short and sweet. Give them a taste of your page so they click through :D[/*][*]Add your URL under the text[/*][*]Add your hash tags to the post so that you pop up in the search results for specific keywords. I like to mix difficult keywords and easy to rank keywords in there so that I can get a flood of likes from the easy keywords and that should be enough to rank me for the difficult ones. Once you're ranked for the difficult ones you'll see a spike in likes :)[/*][/list]Are you sure you want to delete this post?