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6 Instagram Hacks You Haven’t Heard Before

Instagram Tips & Resources

By Jessicahowell

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Updated on May 30, 2017

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8 minute read

Learn how to customize your account with these Instagram hacks: add line breaks to Instagram captions, creating custom locations, and more Instagram hacks!

Published May 30, 2017

There are a ton of great Instagram hacks out there to help you go from Insta-basic to Insta-pro!

This week, Jessica Howell from Social Studio Shop is sharing 6 Instagram hacks to help you conquer Instagram for your business. From creating line breaks in Instagram captions to adding custom URLs to Instagram posts, here are 6 Instagram hacks you haven’t heard before:

Instagram Hacks #1: Add Spaces and Lines to Your Instagram Captions

Have you noticed that the old trick for creating line breaks and spaces in your Instagram captions doesn’t work anymore? Ever since Instagram’s update in May last year, Instagram has removed the ability to add line breaks and paragraph spacing to Instagram captions. Luckily, there is still a way to break up the content in your caption!

You can still add a line break in your Instagram captions, but there will no longer be a paragraph space to help visually lump your information together. Instead, you can use a character or a series of characters to give you that nice clean break.

How to add line breaks to your Instagram caption:

  1. Open the Notes app on your phone and draft your caption

  2. When you want to add a space, hit “Return”

  3. Copy and paste what we have between these brackets: [_____________________] or add in a series of underscores “_” by holding down on the hyphen symbol on your keyboard.

If you want a shorter line, you can hit backspace to delete any section of the line. If lines aren’t for you, you can also use other characters like numbers, bullet points, periods, or even emojis!

Instagram Hacks #2: Pin Your Instagram Posts to Pinterest

Did you know that you can Pin your Instagram posts directly to Pinterest? Not only is it a great way to drive traffic to your Instagram posts, but it can also help you your Instagram following by attracting users from two separate platform! Here’s how to Pin your Instagram posts to Pinterest:

How to Pin your Instagram posts to Pinterest:

  1. Copy the share link:

    1. Go to the post you want to share in the Instagram app

    2. Tap the ellipsis button in the top right corner of your Instagram post

    3. Select “Share” and then “Copy Link”                          

  2. Pin your Instagram post:

    1. Open the Pinterest app on your mobile device and navigate to your profile tab

    2. Tap the “+” sign to add a Pin

    3. Select the option to Pin from a “Copied link”        

    4. Pinterest will automatically populate the copied link from Instagram. If it doesn’t auto-populate, you can simply paste the link

    5. Select the proper image associated with the Pin

    6. Edit your Pin description to include Pinterest optimized keywords

    7. Add a location (if possible) to maximize the searchability of your pin

    8. Choose a board for your pin to be added to (you may even want to create a unique board for your Instagram posts!)

Pro Tip: Pin your Instagram post to relevant group boards to increase your potential for repins and more traffic!

Instagram Hacks #3: Make Ecommerce Sales on Instagram

Since Instagram only gives you one clickable URL, you can use Linkin.bio to easily drive targeted traffic to your online store. With Linkin.bio, you can add links to any of the Instagram posts you’ve published through Later, which helps direct your Instagram audience to the right content or products on your site. You can also link to multiple websites and pages, all without changing the link in your bio.

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Instagram Hacks #4: Create a Custom Location on Instagram

According to report from Simply Measured, Instagram posts that include a location tag see a much higher engagement rate. That’s why we recommend creating a custom location for your business on Instagram. By doing so, you can increase brand recognition because your business’ name will appear front and center on your Instagram posts!

Creating a geotag or custom location on Instagram used to be a simple process, however with recent updates to the Instagram platform it’s become a bit more tricky. But luckily it can still be done! The steps below are for users of Instagram’s iOS app. Android users can find specific steps here.

How to add a custom location to Instagram:

  1. Open the Facebook app on your phone

  2. Tap “Check In” button below “What’s on your mind?”

  3. You need to have Location Services for the Facebook app turned on. If it isn’t turned on, go to “Settings” and then “Account Settings.” Next tap “Location” to open your Location Settings. Finally tap location button below “Your Device Settings” to turn Location Settings on

  4. Choose your location by typing in your desired custom location in the “Where are you?” box

  5. Tap the “Add” button to create your location

  6. Add the most relevant category to your new location. You want to add the category that best matches your industry, to help you in search results

  7. Choose your city and add your address and zip/postal code, then tap “Create.”

After creating your custom location, Facebook will take you to a window where you can write a status with your new location. You need to post at least once to Facebook using this new location in order to share it on Instagram.

Next, you’ll want to check to make sure that you can find your location on Instagram. Keep in mind that it might take up to 24 hours for your custom location to become active.

Open the Instagram app, create a new post, and tap “Add Location.” If your new location doesn’t automatically pop-up as a suggestion, it’s probably because you either haven’t used the location enough times in the past, or you’re geographically too far from where you made the custom location!

Instagram Hacks #5: Center Your Instagram Bio and Add Spaces

Have you ever wondered how some accounts are able to center their Instagram bio or add spaces to the formatting?

There are a few things you can do to make your Instagram bio stand out, but a quick and easy way is to center the text in your bio. It’s a great way to boost the visual appeal of your bio and can help separate important keywords that your viewers will find easy to read.

How to center your Instagram bio:

  1. To make your Instagram bio appear centered, all you have to do is copy the space between the arrows (make sure you are copying the space between the arrows, not the arrows themselves!):  >>⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀<<

  2. Next, head over to your Instagram page on your desktop (you can also do this using the mobile app but it’s much easier from the web app), and tap the “Edit Your Profile” button

  3. Navigate to the “Bio” text field and paste the spaces you coped above before each line of text. If your text isn’t perfectly centered, you can always add or delete spaces until you achieve the perfect center!

It’s important to keep in mind that there’s a 160 character limit for Instagram bios, so if you plan to include a lot of text in your bio, the centered look may not be ideal!

At the end of the day, you want to have good Instagram bio in general and that involves a number of things. Centered bios also don’t translate very well on the desktop version of Instagram, but if you like the look of a centered bio and are able to include all your details (including the spaces) within the character limit, then you should definitely give it a try!

To add line breaks to your Instagram bio (like in the example below), you can add them by typing “Return” in your bio on the desktop version of Instagram. You can’t add line breaks to your Instagram bio from the mobile device.

Instagram Hacks #6: Embed Your Instagram Posts on Your Website

Similar to Pinning your Instagram posts to Pinterest, you can embed your Instagram posts on your website or your blog to increase the visibility of your posts!

People who visit your website or blog can click on your embedded Instagram posts to visit your Instagram page, which can help you get even more followers!

Finally, embedding your Instagram posts on your website can help extend the lifespan of your posts, meaning that you can drive engagement on your posts days and even weeks after posting!

How to embed your Instagram posts on WordPress:

  1. Open the Instagram on your desktop and navigate to the post you want to embed

  2. Tap the ellipsis button in the bottom right corner (next to “Add a comment…”) and then select “Embed”

  3. You can choose to include the caption or not by selecting or deselecting the “Include caption” button, and then select “Copy Embed Code”

  4. Create a blog post on WordPress and select the “Text” option to edit the HTML

  5. Paste the embed code

How to embed your Instagram posts on Squarespace:

  1. Follow the first three steps from above

  2. Open Squarespace, click on the “Insert Point” and select the “Embed” option

  3. Paste in that embed code and click “Save”

And last but not least, the best Instagram hack of all? Scheduling Instagram posts! Plan your feed, save time, and manage multiple Instagram accounts for free with Later.

Ready to jump-start your Instagram engagement? Later makes it easy for you to plan, manage, and schedule your Instagram posts!

Free Instagram Scheduler

About the Author

Jessicahowell

Content Marketing Specialist

Jessica Howell is the CEO of Social Studio Shop a social media consulting and training company for creatives. With over ten years experience + a BFA in Photography, Jessica uses her creative savvy to coach entrepreneurs + bloggers on their digital strategy. Her background in visual communications led her to a successful career in social media marketing where she has spent the last 4+ years consulting brands on social media.

Plan, schedule, and automatically publish your social media posts with Later.

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How to Add Line Breaks to Instagram (Captions, Bio & Posts)

Instagram is an incredible social media platform with over 1 billion daily active users and has recently become incredibly popular for microblogging, where users share longer stories and thoughts in their captions. However, for some unknown reason, Instagram still makes it hard to write clean, visually appealing captions since you can’t add line breaks.

What many users have resorted to doing is adding dots, lines, emojis and other special characters to break up the paragraphs in their Instagram posts. But ultimately this technique is still clunky and hard to read.

In this post, I’ll show you a variety of techniques to add line breaks to Instagram, so you can see your options and choose the best one from there.

1. Instagram line break websites

Another easy way to make Instagram line breaks is to a website where you paste in your Instagram bio or caption and it will generate a space-free version for you to copy and paste back to Instagram. There are quite a few of these websites, but my favorites are:

  • https://instablank.com
  • https://linebreaks.igrm.me
  • https://apps4lifehost.com/Instagram/CaptionMaker.html

Each website’s process is different, but for the most of them, you copy and paste your caption or bio into the box, then hit the button that converts your text to line breaks and copies it for you so you can easily paste it back into Instagram.

2. Instagram line break apps

If you prefer not to use a keyboard shortcut or open up a web browser to add your captions, then there are line break apps that make breaking up your text a breeze! Here are a few that accomplish this purpose:

  • Caption Writer
  • Space

The app interfaces are fairly straightforward, but the free versions are ridden with ads so the user-experience isn’t great. You can upgrade to the paid versions of these apps so that you can use them without annoying ads.

Many of the Instagram scheduling apps have line breaks and spaces as one of their features. All you have to do is write your post with line breaks in the scheduling app and schedule or post from there. And voila! Instant line breaks! Here are some of our favorite scheduling apps for this:

  • Planoly
  • Plann
  • Preview

3. Add Instagram spaces directly

To add line breaks to your Instagram captions, bio and posts, an easy way to do this is to create a keyboard shortcut so that you can easily add spaces while you are typing your caption. All you have to do is copy and paste the following characters (characters between the brackets only) and add them to your caption or bio.

[⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀]

Make sure that you remove any excess spaces in the last sentence, word or punctuation mark before you want the line break.

Another handy trick is to save this line break shortcut to your phone, so that you don’t have to constantly return to this page or wherever you’ve saved it to copy and paste. To do this on iOS, go to General > Keyboard > Text Replacement and save these spaces (minus the brackets) as a keyboard shortcut. Use a shortcode like “igspace”, so that any time you type that shortcut, your phone will replace it with this text.

Don’t Leave Hanging Spaces

It’s very important that no matter what of the three methods you use to not leave hanging spaces at the end of your sentances or paragraphs. Doing so will cause Instagram to smush the two paragraphs together and ignore the space all together.

So before you hit post, just make sure to check the end of each sentence to make sure there aren’t any extra spaces at the end.

 

For an in-depth tutorial on how to add line breaks to Instagram, watch this in-depth tutorial video below:

What’s your favorite way to add line breaks to Instagram? Sound off in the comments below!

How to make a line break in Instagram.

We format from the heart

Table of contents:

  • 1 The power of text on Instagram is growing
  • 2 Why are there such difficulties with line wrapping on Instagram?
  • 3 Ways to make a transfer
  • 4 How to make an empty line on Instagram?
  • 5 Programs and services for line breaks and beautiful text on Instagram
  • 6 Examples of when line breaks and empty lines are needed and when they should not be done
  • 7 Questions from our readers

When Kristina started promoting her page, she decided to strictly follow the advice of experienced SMM managers. Every day, in accordance with her content plan, she published 4 posts with a good caption with a seasoned emoji. It would seem, what else is needed? There is a photo, there is an interesting signature, and there is even some design in the form of emoticons. What is missing? Paragraphs ... Yes, yes, such a simple action as a line break on Instagram can radically change the situation. But Christina does not even know about it, so few people appreciate her most interesting posts, and the number of subscribers is growing so slowly.

The power of text on Instagram is growing

If the original goal of the creators of Instagram was to create a site with instant photos of happy moments of life, now most users pursue a different goal. More and more, the photo network resembles a marketplace. There are a lot of business accounts, and buying on Instagram is very convenient. Therefore, the pictures only entice to read the information under them. Now, more than ever, what matters is what you convey to users in words.

Why are there such difficulties with line wrapping in Instagram?

Solid text is hard to read. People did not just come up with paragraphs and columns - this is how it turns out to structure information and make it more convenient for understanding. But on Instagram, there are some problems with line wrapping. Not everyone knows that if you want to start writing from a new line, you need to remove the previous space. Otherwise, the social network will not accept your command.

Transfer methods

Let's get straight to the point. How to go to a new line on Instagram? There are five ways. Let's talk about them.

  1. Just click on the newline, but don't put a space in front of it. Finished the sentence, and immediately click on the transfer button. Not all keyboards lack this button, but people hear that others are having problems and are looking for ways to get around the problem that doesn't exist.
  2. Special space. Copy the space inside the "⠀" quotes, and then paste it in the right place. To be honest, this is not always convenient, because you will need to calculate how many spaces you need to separate the desired text from the previous one.
  3. Third party keyboard. If your standard keyboard doesn't show the translate button, you can install a custom one. You may need to try a few applications before you find one that works the way you want.
  4. Telegram bots. The messenger has special tools that will help you arrange words the way you need it. All spaces and newlines will be counted. So, a very good option. For example, @text4instabot.
  5. Some users on the Internet advise using text editors. Just write what you want in your notes, copy and paste where you want.

How to make an empty line on Instagram?

It is not necessary to use only string translations. An empty space can also be left to structure the text. Remember when I talked about the new line on Instagram, I mentioned the special space. Leave only it in the line to make the words more rare. You can also put a dot and go below. Any other character is fine too. The pass will be counted only if there is any character there. A regular spacebar from the keyboard is not considered by the application for something significant. This is why you need to use a third-party space.

The same answer awaits you on the question “How to make a red line on Instagram?”. Just add as many spaces as needed to indent the paragraph.

Programs and services for line breaks and beautiful text on Instagram

We figured out how to switch to a new line on Instagram. Surely there are some tools that make the design much easier. Not that it was very difficult without them, but we all understand that laziness is too great not to notice it.

  1. Bot @text4instabot in Telegram. Send it whatever you want with the formatting you want, copy the result and use it wherever you want.
  2. SMMPlaner. This is a deferred posting tool. Here you can arrange everything the way you want, without any complications. It is also convenient - you can drive in posts for a month in advance and forget about Instagram.
  3. picture.plus. The mechanics of this service is exactly the same as the previous paragraph. And in general, the algorithm is exactly the same - send what you need, copy the result and use it.
  4. Parasitelab. This is another tool for scheduling publications. It is logical that you can customize the appearance of the post here as you need.

Examples of when hyphens and blank lines are needed and when they should not be done

Let's think logically. In what cases is it necessary to break the text into logical blocks? When he is big. But this applies only to signatures to publications. Only they can be large, the description of the account can only be 150 characters. And there, just translations of the line, logically justified, of course, will be appropriate. Short signatures for posts should not be divided.

Figured out how to wrap a line on Instagram? Now tell your friends about it so they won't be like Christina. Some people stumble upon information that people are having trouble with formatting and immediately start looking for a solution to this problem, without even making sure that it is also relevant for them. In any case, we found that the ways to solve this problem are extremely simple.

Questions from our readers

#1. How to make beautiful paragraphs with a space in the next line to describe an Instagram photo? The standard line break does not work.

Then use any text editor if you write on a PC. Or contact the Telegram bot @text4instabot for help.

#2. Why haven't the developers made a normal paragraph on Instagram yet?

Because this application is not designed for text, the main format is photo. We already fell in love with scribbling canvases of text. The developers had a different idea. But maybe they'll fix it soon.

#3. How to make paragraphs in your info about yourself on Instagram?

For those who read the article inattentively, let's repeat. Copy the space from the quotes "⠀", and paste it in the right place.

Do you have any more questions? Write to us in the comments! And also watch the video about our second method.

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    How to make a line break on Instagram – Instaplus.me Blog

    People scrolling through the Instagram feed do not read the text. They skim their gaze over it, clinging to the relief of the article. To attract attention, the author needs to add “bulges” to the text, divide a continuous text canvas into paragraphs, and for this you need to learn how to do a line break on Instagram.

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    Why it is important to make paragraphs on Instagram

    Paragraphs are steps along which you lead the reader to the main essence of what you write. Without them, it is much more difficult to catch the main idea and it is likely that the reader will close the post before he reads to the end. With paragraphs, the text is easy to read and understand.

    You need to break the text into paragraphs so that the reader understands you. It helps to place accents, focus attention. In the end, this is necessary to reduce eye strain and make it easier for the reader to find the place where he stopped before he was distracted.

    The main task of a blogger or SMM specialist on Instagram is to be able to present information correctly. Here you can not do without formatting the text in paragraphs.

    Each paragraph should express one specific idea. The main topic should be stated at the beginning, it should reflect the main essence of the post.

    It's good when the Instagram paragraph takes from 5 to 9 lines on the smartphone screen. A paragraph longer than 12 lines can be called overloaded.

    Paragraphs are usually separated by an empty line. On Instagram, this rule can be neglected. You can indent without skipping a line, you can also use special characters and anything, so long as the text does not look like a continuous sheet.

    How to make a line break on Instagram

    It would seem that there is nothing complicated in arranging paragraphs. But not in the case of Instagram, where if you just put indents between lines, the text still merges after posting. Text wrapping on a new line in Instagram moves out, even if you use the special Enter key.

    Beautiful social media text is a real art. So, you already know how to write posts. It's time to consider the basic transfer techniques for Instagram.

    Copy prepared text from notes

    The easiest way to write text is not in the application, but in some other note editor. For example, you can use any text notebook on your computer or Notes on your phone, and then just copy the content and publish a pre-prepared post. Formatting in this case will be saved.

    Invisible space for instagram

    An easy way to split text into paragraphs when editing in the Instagram app is a secret space.

    Here it is - ⠀. This invisible space can be copied directly from here and used for separation in publications.

    How to use the invisible sign:

    1. Open the entry in the app.
    2. Delete the space at the end of the last sentence up to the split point.

    3. Change to a new line using the "Enter" key.
    4. Insert an empty character.
    5. Continue writing immediately after the secret space. Ready!

    For the magic to work, it is very important to ensure that there is no space at the end of the last sentence after a dot or emoticon.

    Important! The secret space won't work if the new paragraph starts with an emoji. Remove the smiley, otherwise the text will merge into one canvas.

    Telegram bot

    Another secret of successful formatting is Telegram bot text4instabot. Just send solid text to the robot, and in return you will get a ready-to-publish text with spaces.

    Symbols instead of spaces

    It is typographically correct to separate text with an empty line and a special space will help in this.

    Learn more