Like any other social networking site, there are
methods to improve and make your Instagram page thrive. Here are ten ways to help your site: choose your photos wisely, cross-post with
other social networking sites, don’t forget to turn off the privacy button, do
your research, follow and friend and give accolades, geotag your photos, look
for suggested users and follow them, perfecting your craft, spacing your photographs,
and use the power of hashtags.
#1: Choose your photos wisely.
Keep
your audience in mind when choosing your photos for your site. Who are your
viewers? What’s in it for them when they
see your photograph? Audience analysis is important in photography as well as
other forms of communication. Choose photographs that will appeal to and
attract a wide audience.
#2:
Cross-post with other social networking sites.
Cross-posting
is used all the time in social networking. Widen your audience and link your
Instagram photo to your Facebook or Twitter accounts. In return, they may like,
share, and cross-post back to you.
#3: Don’t
forget to turn off the privacy button.
The privacy button has
its purpose and it is good to be able to protect yourself from photos that you
don’t necessarily want displayed all over cyberspace. However, if you do have interesting
photographs that you want to share, don’t forget to change your settings in
order
to
attract followers and make your page available to view. For posting to your
account, use the public button.
#4: Do Your Research.
Visit
other Instagram accounts. Which photos are the most popular and are getting the
most shares and views? This is a good way to do your research in order to post
your photos and improve your page. Again, keep your audience in mind, but see
what people like to view.
#5: Follow and Friend and Give
Accolades.
This
is the golden rule of social networking. Make new friends and keep the old, and
then made them happy. Giving a compliment will make someone’s day and help
build your own account. It’s a win-win and definitely good cyber karma.
#6: Geotag Your Photos.
Geotagging
your photos will allow other viewers to discover where you took the photograph
and they will be able to share their photographs that they took in a similar
location with you. Geotagging is also a great way to make followers and friends
from a geographical perspective.
#7: Look for the Suggested Users
and Follow them.
This
is similar to the concept of Facebook. The site will offer “suggested friends”
to follow. You can find friends, look up suggested users that take photos like
you, and then you can follow them. Following up on suggested friends is another
good way of building up your Instagram website.
#8:
Perfecting your Craft.
Don’t
worry about perfection when you are first starting out: just post the photos anyway! Just like any other craft, you will improve
with practice, practice, practice! Just keep snapping photos and post away.
Sometimes the slightly blurred or off-centered photo makes the most effective
image.
#9: Spacing your photographs.
Just
like blogging or writing for a website, it is a good idea to space out your
photographs. If you post too often or too many photos at once, your site will
appear cluttered, you may overwhelm your viewers, and you may not have
photographs for awhile. Consistency is key, so post a photograph a day or a
couple times a week.
#10: Use the power of hashtags.
Hashtags
are a Twitter phenomenon, and have crossed over into other social networking.
The key to using hashtags are to make sure that they are real hashtags and not
made-up ones. Viewers who try to access a hashtag that is not real is like
clicking on a dead link. Use them, but use them wisely.
There
are numerous ways to spice up your Instagram page: using hashtags, spacing your
photographs, perfecting your craft, looking for suggested friends, geotagging
your photographs, following, friending, and complimenting fellow Instagram
users, doing your research, turning off that privacy button, cross-posting to
other social media sites, and choosing your photographs wisely will help you
reinvent an amazing Instagram account!
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