Every social network makes it clear how to put a link in your bio on their platform -- except Instagram.

Twitter lets you tag other handles in your bio. LinkedIn gives you lot the ability to link yourself to your employer'due south official page. Facebook allows you to tag a number of unlike businesses, interest pages, and people in your "About" section, then you can let friends know who y'all work for, what brands you like, your alma mater, your relationship status, and so on.

What nearly Instagram?

Until recently, Instagram didn't give you a ton of infinite to brand your profile with hashtags and profile handles -- y'all could just link to their respective pages in photograph captions. Websites were the simply types of links y'all could put in your bio (hence the common phrase "link in bio").

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What does "link in bio" mean on Instagram?

If an Instagram user addresses their audience with the phrase "link in bio," information technology means they are directing them to become to their Instagram contour's bio section to admission the clickable URL for the website they're promoting.

"Link in bio" is essentially a call to action, promoting more information bachelor outside of Instagram's parameters.

But Instagram recently gifted us two new features: linkable profiles and hashtags, right in your bio. You tin can now add them aslope the link to your website.

How to Add together a Link to Your Instagram Bio

  1. Open your Instagram mobile app.
  2. Visit your profile by borer the person icon on the bottom right.
  3. Tap "Edit Profile" at the summit of the screen.
  4. Write a custom description in 150 characters or less.
  5. Add together a brief link to your website in the form of yourdomain.com.
  6. Add together links to other profiles by borer "@" followed past the profile'due south handle.
  7. Add hashtags past tapping "#" followed by the hashtag you acquaintance with.
  8. Tap "Done" to salve your bio.

Note: The instructions above apply to the latest version of Instagram -- 37.0 on iOS. You can besides edit your bio on Instagram'south website by navigating to your profile and clicking "Edit Profile" next to your name.

On the screen to the left, below, you can meet how Instagram suggests popular hashtags as you edit the bio text field, just similar it would when you add together a hashtag to a picture'southward caption. On the screen to the right, yous'll see the contour of a person who uses hashtags, contour links, and websites in her bio.

Screen to add hashtag link in bio of an Instagram account Screen showing an Instagram bio with hashtags, a profile handle, and a website link

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Things have inverse at Instagram equally of late, and y'all now have options to link to other pages you identify with right below your Instagram profile picture. But go along in mind that users who don't want their contour tagged in others' bios can opt to untag themselves.

It's all-time to reserve this space for the accounts you lot know would agree with the association y'all're making.

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Editor's note: This mail was originally published in March 2018 and has been updated for comprehensiveness.

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Originally published Sep xvi, 2020 5:xv:00 AM, updated April 27 2021