How to custom location on instagram

How to make your own (custom) LOCATION TAG on Instagram

In this blog post, we’ll teach you how to create your own special, custom location on Instagram. So you can “be” anywhere you say you are.

(Or so you can get people to tag your new restaurant, office, apartment, event — you get the picture whatever!)

But first, I’ve got a question for you. What’s wrong with the picture below?

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Did you spot it?

Is it?

a) she’s on a green screen.

b) is that mars?

c) The location tag says “The Wisdom of Forrest Gump” – and that’s not a real place!!!

The answer is…

(drumroll please)

(suspense building)

(…) (…) (…)

It’s “c” – you silly gooses!

But here’s a better question…how did she do that?!?!

And that’s what this article will teach you. How to create your very own funny, practical, or nonsensical custom location on Instagram. But first, some backstory. (Skip ahead to go right to the step-by-step-instructions).

Let me tell you a story about my life

In the age of social media, our society has a growing curiosity concerning the whereabouts of our friends, our families, even our exes, estranged aunts and childhood bullies…. We wonder what they’re doing out there.

What are they up to? Where are they eating? What’s that restaurant they posted from while on a date?

Of course, you’ve seen those you follow on Instagram tag their location, or your friends on Facebook “check-in” to a restaurant, coffee shop or some other attraction.

And, if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably clicked on one or two (or 35) of those location tags to check them out, wondering what those paces offer and why they’re popular with our friends.

With every location tag we follow to a venue’s social media, directory or web page, that business suddenly has our engagement — which is an opportunity for them to gain new customers.

If you’re a business owner, this last bit should have gotten your attention, at the very least!

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(A Love Letter)

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Custom Location + Business = Major Key

Did you know you can create your own custom location for your business? And that your location can be tagged, shared and followed by users who are interested in your content?

You don’t need to be a business owner to create a custom location. Locations can be a great way to have fun with your Instagram feed or give your followers some additional insight.

For instance, an Instagram family might want to create a custom location for their house and title it, “The Bungalow.” Or a group of friends could create a custom location called, “The Hangout.” The opportunities are endless.

However, if you are a business owner, creating a custom location is almost essential in gaining more exposure. Here are the exact instructions for creating your own special location on Instagram:

How to Create a Custom Location Tag on Instagram [Step-by-Step Instructions]

In order to get a custom location on Instagram, you’ll need to head over to… Facebook? Yes, you heard correctly. Since Facebook bought out Instagram in 2012 (for $1 Billion), the two social media titans operate on the same system.

This means you often need one to access certain functions on the other. Creating a location is a prime example. You will be setting it up on Facebook so that you can use your new location on Instagram.

Let’s get started!

Step 1: Check-In

On the Facebook homepage, you should see a “Check In” button located underneath the status bar.

Click on this, and you should see a list of popular locations near you. If you are not seeing any locations, make sure to…

Step 2: Enable Location Services

You need to have your location services turned on in order to create a custom location. You can do this by going into your Settings > Privacy > Location Services and allowing your Facebook app to know your location.

(If location tracking isn’t something you want, you can turn this off as soon as you’re done setting up the custom location.)

Step 3: Name Your Location

Once your GPS permissions are turned on, go ahead and type in the name of your custom location (in most cases you will want this to be the name of your business).

Make sure to use capital letters and proper grammar — this is what people will see when they tag your business!

Step 4: Add Your New Location

Ignore any other locations that auto-populate while you’re typing in your custom location. Instead, find the “Add Location” option, located towards the bottom of the Check-In screen.

For the sake of this tutorial, let’s say I own a flower shop called Beautiful Blossoming Buds.

As you can see, there are no other businesses or locations with that name.

Note: If you find your location name is taken, get creative with your new name. Use keywords that allow your audience to know what your business entails. The more specific, the better!

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Step 5: Choose a Category

After clicking on the “Add” button, you’ll be taken to a prompt to pick a category for your location.

It’s important to choose an accurate category so people can find your business when searching in your niche.

For my example, I chose the Floristry category for my business, Beautiful Blossoming Buds.

Step 6: Pick a Physical Location

After choosing a category, the next step is to determine your exact location. This process works best if you are physically at the location of your business. (I’ll go over this in more detail below.)

Step 7: Claim Your Location

After creating your location, find it on Facebook by typing it into the search bar at the top of the Facebook homepage. When you find it, you should be brought to a page where you can click, “claim this location. ”

Do that and you’re done! Creating a custom location is a super-simple process with a lot of payoffs.

Now when you want to post a photo on Instagram, your new location should now be available to tag and share.

Troubleshooting

Facebook can be finicky, so if you still can’t seem to access your custom location on Instagram, consider the following:

Test Out Another Category: Facebook really wants you to be specific with the category your business falls under. Play around with a few different categories and see if that does the trick.

Be in the Exact Location – or really, really close. Custom locations tend to work better when you’re creating one in the exact spot of your business. If entering in an address from elsewhere didn’t work, try creating the location while you are physically there.

Benefits of a Location Tag For Your Business

So why should you bother creating a custom location in the first place? Does it really affect your business that much?

The short answer is Yes.

Above all else, a custom location creates exposure for your business, literally putting it on the map for social media users. More exposure means more customers and more customers leads to more profit …that part’s kind of a no-brainer.

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How a Custom Location Tag Creates Exposure for Your Business

For starters, potential clients and customers will have an easier time stumbling across your business.

Locations work in a similar way to hashtags. When a user searches a particular word or phrase, any hashtags containing that word or phrase populate.

It’s the same process with locations.

Let’s say I’m sitting in my apartment in Los Angeles, and I want a cup of coffee. Maybe I want to try out a different coffee shop I haven’t been to, or I’m new to the area and looking for local businesses. I’m going to use Instagram to find a business that sells coffee.

(In fact, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people who use Instagram as a means to search for places to eat and drink, using it Iike Yelp!)

As you can see below, a simple search of the keyword automatically generates a list of all locations near me that make and sell coffee.

When you create your custom location, your business will appear in search results and increase the chances that someone might stumble across it and try it out.

Insta Stories

Instagram Stories is another way you can use a custom location to increase your reach.

The Stories feature continues to grow in popularity, and it’s easy to see why. Through this platform, users can easily upload photos or boomerangs, tag friends, use hashtags, countdowns and share their location.

Allowing your business to be tagged by you or, more ideally, by your happy customers, is an easy way to spread the word about your products and/or services.

Higher Engagement for your Page?

And if all that exposure wasn’t reason enough, what if I told you that posts with a tagged location have higher engagement than those without?

In 2016, Instagram released a statement about their new algorithm, quoting that “the order of photos and videos in your feed will be based on the likelihood you’ll be interested in the content. ”

What does this mean?

Well, let’s pretend you are in the coffee business, and caffeine-hungry Instagrams users are searching for coffee shops or coffee-related products like we do. The likelihood you will appear in the feed of someone who enjoys coffee increases when you have a custom location turned on.

This is because Instagram can identify your business through your location and category. It can pick up on keywords in your custom location and place your popular content in the feed of applicable users.

What Does This Mean For Your Business?

All this, again, means more exposure for your business without you having to lift a finger (well, after those couple of strenuous finger-lifts involved in that 5-minute Facebook step).

A custom location can be set up in no time, but it will have long-reaching effects on your customers finding you and how, in turn, your business will go forward.

It only takes one location tag to lead to an inquiry, leading to a new customer, who makes a new location tag, and your reach will grow on.

If you’re a brand trying to grow your business, and you haven’t created a custom location for it yet… what are you waiting for? It’s a great way to gain more exposure and spread the word about your products with minimal effort on your part.

How many times have you checked out an interesting new location because you saw it tagged on social media?

How to create a custom location on Instagram? Full guide + tips

After visiting an interesting place, you want to show your subscribers not only what it was like, but also how to find it. At this point, you may find out that the place is unknown to the social network. Learn how to create a new location on Instagram. At the end, we will tell you how to tag several custom locations at a time.

You can create a location on Instagram only by using Facebook. Make a custom geotag there, and it becomes available to all users in both social networks.

A location for Instagram can be created from your FB profile page. Let’s see an example with a recently opened store, which hasn’t got its location tag on any of these platforms.

Tap What’s on your mind?.
Choose Check In in the opened window.
Choose Add a new place.
Fill the Place name field.
Tap the map.
Move the red tag across the map to have it in the right place.
Tap Save.
Tap Save Custom Place.

You will see a map widget in the creating post interface. No need to publish it.

You can’t delete a location on Facebook, but you and other users can report it. If you provided wrong information, or your tag violates the terms of use, it will be deleted by Facebook.

Now you can go to Instagram and post with the location you've just created. One post can have only one location tag.

When you create an Instagram post, you tag a location on the last page.

Tap Add Location.
Type the name of your custom location in the search box.
Choose the name.

If you write a unique location name when creating it, you find it on Instagram quickly. To make sure you choose the right tag, tap it in the posting menu, or under your username after publishing.

You can see the exact position of the tag in the opened Google Maps. After posting, you can see the location tag on a map too.

You can put a location sticker on your Instagram story. The list of the available places is the same as you see in posts. You will find your custom address among them.

Tap the stickers icon.
Choose the location sticker.
Type the name of the place in the search box.
Choose the custom place you created.

The sticker with your custom location will appear in your Instagram story. You can tap it to change it.

When you create a location, it usually becomes available on Facebook and Instagram right away. But sometimes, it make take a while or never appear on the list. Don't worry! We have several solutions for you.

Sometimes tags appear not so fast. When we wrote this article, we also created a location, and it appeared on Facebook and Instagram in 4 days. Though, it might be not your case, so, if your custom location hasn't appeared on the lists, you can try the solutions below.

Facebook may prohibit creating new location tags for places that are far from your real location. Turn off the location on your phone, if you need to create a tag removed from your current place.

On Instagram, you see locations that are close to you. Turn on location on your phone if you can't see a location near you.

You don't have to post on FB with your custom location to make it available on Instagram's locations list. But it may be a solution if your created geotag doesn't appear on the lists.

You can set a category to your new location when you create or edit it, this may make the tag appear on Instagram. It will also help users to find you. For example, you wrote a shop name "Pinpay" in the tag name, then you better specify that you sell clothes in the category. Thus, a user finds you when searching for clothes.

Geotags without a category are often rejected. To specify a category, first, make a tag and post something with it.

Tap the created location.
Disclose the three dots menu.
Choose Suggest Edits.
Tap +Add category in the Category section.
Tap Add category in the new window.
Type a word related to your field in the search box.
Choose a category from the suggested list.
Tap Save.

While you are waiting for the address to appear on the list, you can add a location to your Instagram bio. You can put almost any location you want there, and also state a ZIP code or the name of your company.

This custom location will be a clickable link that Instagram users can follow. But you should know they will get to a maps app, not the page with posts. Of course, it works a bit different from when you create a custom location for Instagram posts or Stories. Still, it works perfectly as a last resort or while you are waiting.

The methods below allow you to add your location on Instagram without Facebook. You won't have to create a new custom one, but you can set any address or location link you want.

Post your created location in a carousel or several Instagram Stories. Share a map with the tag after photos and videos of a place you want to show. Or you can record a video of how to arrive at a place from a popular spot in your city.

Pin Instagram posts with custom locations and maps to the top of your profile page, and the stories can be saved to Instagram Highlights. User can easily notice and view them to figure out a way to your store.

You can use the link in your bio to share locations with Instagram followers in social media. Create a Taplink landing page and put a link to it in your Instagram bio. You can create one or more maps on it. And you can put one or more locations on each of them.

Location tags are created using precise coordinates or addresses. You can copy the coordinates in Google Maps. Use the format with dots and without other symbols. For example, 40.741469, -73.988478. You should type the full name of the address. For example, 89 Bleecker St, New York.

You can zoom in and out the maps, move it and the tag. Thus, you can place a tag manually, or clarify its place after adding it. For example, show exactly where the entrance is.

Share a location on your Instagram landing page:

Open blocks on a landing page.
Choose the Maps block.
Set coordinates or a place address.
Tap Add marker.
Type any name and description you want.

Repeat steps 3-5 if you need more locations on this map.

06. Tap Save changes.

You can write text, and place pictures and videos near every map. For example, you can explain how to get to a place. It will also be useful to explain what Instagram users will find at every address you share.

In a personal Instagram blog, it may be a list of your favorite places, shops or cafés. On a business page, you may show all your offices.

Here are examples in the editor interface.

When an Instagram user taps your custom location, they are redirected to Google Maps. They get to the place you tagged.

Sign up for free to create a page with maps and location links for your Instagram bio and share your custom addresses with users.

The only way to create a location on Instagram is by Facebook. The place will be available for all users on both social networks. But there are more ways to share a precise location with users.

Post a map with a geotag or a video to show your subscribers where a place is. This is a good way if Facebook hasn’t confirmed your location yet.

Create and share multiple custom locations on Taplink to share with Instagram users. You can place them on one or different maps. You can add a description, photos and videos to each of them.

Which way to add a custom location on Instagram do you like most? Write in the comments!

How to easily change my country location on Instagram

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It's no secret that one of the platforms that has received wide recognition from social media users in 2020 is Instagram. The fact is that for some time he tried to make significant changes that would allow him to better interact with his users. In the next lesson we want to show you how you should learn to easily change the location of my country on Instagram.

It is a reality that the amount of content that is uploaded daily on Instagram is increasing, so we can say that this is the social network that is in vogue. At first it was used almost exclusively for uploading photos, now it is the most common way to upload photos. communicate with your subscribers through private messages, better known as DM.

Other innovations that made this massive use possible this application publishes its stories. For this reason, we want to bring you more articles that will teach you how to use its various features. And also this guide to help you is easy to change my country location on Instagram.

How To Change My Country Location On Instagram Easily

So You Can Change My Country Location On Instagram Easily, We Are Going To Recommend You To Use An App You Can Free Download From Play Store. With this tool, we will be able to log into the Instagram app, giving the impression that we are doing it from another country.

We will do this via a VPN and this will allow us to change my country location at any time. The app is called Secure VPN and you can download it from the pledge after which we leave here. But if you prefer to download another application, you have every right to do so.

Then you need to download and install the application on your mobile phone, now when you open the application you go to the top right side of the screen and press the flag icon. So you can choose the VPN of the country you want. It is highly recommended that you always select the United States, as the news is primarily about that country.

By selecting United States, connection will start to be established immédiatement and then Connected will appear. Indicating that the connection was established from this country, we now need to open the Instagram social network from another country. We will do this in the following way, which we will explain to you below.

How can we access Instagram from another country

This procedure is very easy to follow if you set up your VPN . The next step is to completely uninstall the Instagram app and clear all data and cache. Once this is done, we will install it again, follow the same steps as the first installation.

What we get from this operation is that the installation you perform does this by taking as the location the one that will be retrieved from the VPN. In other words, it will accept location settings in the country of your choice, and the safest thing is that you will be able to use features that you did not have before because they were not available in your home region.

After the installation is completed Instagram app, We will now log into our account and log in. You will now be in your account, but in a different location, and if you enter stories, you will find that you have a large number of stickers available that you could not find before.

This is a good solution for cases where certain application features are not allowed. Please note that some features are available depending on your region. So in a few steps, they were able to learn to easily change my country's location on Instagram.

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How do I change the country on my Instagram account? – Enter your location

Without a doubt Popularity on Instagram continues to grow, and is that among all the social networks that currently exist, the developers of this social platform do not stop adding more and more features, each of which is better than the previous one, and this makes the user experience of this social network has everything the features you need to share life's best moments with friends and family thanks to this powerful social platform.

Of course, every time the developers introduce a new feature or want to update one of the existing ones in this application, users live in it. USA who can enjoy new features and updates on their Instagram accounts first than anyone else in the rest of the world. But there is a possibility that if you do not live in this country, you will also be able to enjoy this news, how? Join us to learn how to easily and safely change the country on your Instagram account.

What can you do to set up your location on Instagram?

If you want to enjoy all the added news, Instagram social network in your account in whatever country you live, you will need to set up your Instagram location. In order to make changes to your Instagram account, you need to change the IP addresses of other browsers, which are automatically configured according to where you live, as the case may be.

This is necessary given that when you install the Instagram application on your device, which you can find in the app store corresponding to your operating system, or access your account on this social network from its official website, the platform geolocates your location via IP address is present in your team, for this reason you need to change this address. Next, we will teach you how to do this on your Android and iOS devices, as well as on your computer running Windows or MacOS operating system.

With Android devices

If you have installed the Instagram application on a device with Android operating system , you can change its IP address in the hardware settings, for this you must first go to the “Settings” of the device and find the option “ VPN", which is usually present in most of these devices, in the configuration options. network "WiFi" or "mobile networks" if it's not visible, you can type in where it says "advanced settings" and it should be there. Once in the VPN configuration option, you only need to enter the requested information to complete the setup.

But if you want to save time by figuring out what information you have to enter to set up your Android device's VPN to change its IP address to another country, it would be better to download and install the app to do it for you. You can find many of them on the Google PlayStore, but one of the most commonly used is Secure VPN. This application is free and very easy to use.

After installing this app just open it before you log into your instagram account and select what you need from all the countries that are shown as an option, in this case it will be USA where you will first see news from this network. social networks, when you make a choice, the app will take care of assign a new IP address corresponding to this country to your device , after which you can launch the Instagram application installed on your device.

On iOS phones

If you have a device with running iOS The process for setting up your Instagram account location is similar to what we just mentioned. On this device, you can also change its IP address in the "Settings" option in this section, you must find the "VPN" configuration option, after which you must enter the requested data to create a new IP address from the "VPN" option add VPN configuration your computer.

To make these changes, you must To fully explore to find out what information to enter to create a new IP address that suits you. But just like with Android devices for iOS, there are apps designed to give your device an IP address for any country you want. Among the most used by iOS users are CyberGhost, Express VPN and others, some of them are paid apps and others have free trials, both can be useful for logging into your Instagram account from another country and using the features that are there .

How can you access your Instagram account as if you were in another country?

So far, we have shown you how you can set up the location of from your Instagram account on Android and iOS mobile devices. But this is possible not only from mobile devices, but also from a PC. So you can log into your Instagram account either from the website or app of this social network as if you were in another country, there are several methods for doing this, so let's talk about two of them, and also about changes you may see in your account when you sign in to a new location.

With a VPN

As mentioned above, there are programs for PC and mobile applications that allow you to create a virtual private network (VPN) unlike what is on our device, these programs or applications are known as VPNs, and in this case, it is necessary to set up the location of your account and thus enjoy Instagram news no matter where you live.

To change the IP address the web browser we use In order to access Instagram on our PC, we need to install a VPN program that is compatible with our operating system, in some cases these programs are compatible with both, such as Psiphon, which is one of the most commonly used for this purpose on computers.

Of course, there are many others. As with the application on mobile devices, these programs must be downloaded and installed on the PC that we use to log in to the official website of Instagram, once installed we must launch it and select the country from which we want to connect, in this case USA , once it is indicated that this connection is established, we will be able to access our Instagram account.

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Beta Version

Another way you can be one of the early users of instagram To take advantage of new updates or features that will be implemented in the future on this platform, you need to download the beta version of this application. Instagram uses multiple user accounts around the world so that they can test new features and updates they intend to release to the market. If you ask to be one of them, you can download the beta version of the application and then test each of the news offered by this platform.

To make this request you just have to log into google play and then you can follow the procedure to become a beta user, of course this is only if you have an android device. In the case of those who have iOS devices They have to download the app to make this user test request and get the beta, the name of this app is: TestFlight and you can find it in the App Store, after installing it, open the app and find Instagram. There you should see if there are quotas available for the Instagram tester, these quotas have limits.

What changes can I make by changing my Instagram location?

After completing any of the above procedures, you will be able to enjoy the new features and updates offered by this Instagram platform in your account. No matter where you live . But apart from that, you will notice some changes both in the stickers and in some other parameters, which differ depending on the area you are in, so we will take a closer look at these changes.

Change stickers

By setting up the location of your Instagram account and accessing it as if you were in a larger and more developed country than the one you live in, you will find that you have a lot of stickers very diverse and different from what you had before. Undoubtedly, you will love it a lot, because with these new stickers you will be able to animate your posts in this social network much better.