Instagram thrives on likes. The more people who like your images, the more you’re going to grow in terms of engagement and in following. Getting more likes on your images gets you more out of the site as a whole, …

Instagram as a platform is all about engagement. It’s limited in access, it’s limited in advertising, and it’s focused heavily on content designed to be engaging. You can’t really sell products directly through it, and you can’t do lengthy content …

One of the biggest problems with using Instagram as a business is how much of a “walled garden” it is. It’s a social network typically accessed via mobile device. You have to jump through hoops with a third party app …

Instagram is an interesting social network because it eschews many social media conventions and yet is still quite successful. It’s focused on mobile first, to the extent that you can’t even post from a desktop device. Where most social networks …

Instagram is a fickle platform. There’s not a lot of permanence, though it’s still ahead of Snapchat in that regard. People find and follow profiles, but once they follow enough, their photo feed is much like Twitter. You get a …

Instagram is a great site to use if your brand or product is able to be promoted visually. Yes, some businesses find it harder to use than others will, but if you can make use of it, it’s a great …

Instagram, like all social networks, has an API that allows third party apps to perform some functions. Unlike most social networks, Instagram’s API does not allow posting. It’s true! You can check the API endpoints here. This even applies to …

When Instagram was created, long before Facebook thought about buying it, it was a mobile app. It was, in fact, touted as one of if not the first entirely mobile social network. This was in the early days of mobile …

Make no mistake; every social network in existence has a problem with fake accounts. Some have it more than others, and some have more effective means of stopping them than others, but they will always exist. Heck, some Korean MMOs …

Hashtags are a way to sort, categorize, and discover content on a social network like Instagram or Twitter. For example, I could categorize this post using hashtags like #hashtags, #Instagram, #social_media, #guides, and so forth. Then you could go to …