Instagram story stickers: Link Sticker

If you are a business owner, you probably have been looking for ways to promote your work and business, but how?

In our experience, you could shoot out your work by using social media as a jumping ramp into a better business, but there are so many tools and techniques and rules that you have to obey.

In this article, our main subject is related to a specific tool on the Instagram social platform.

The stickers of the Instagram stories.

Instagram has a lot of great options that you can use in your favor to perform better regarding your account and your business at the same time.

There is a sticker on an Instagram story called the Link sticker, and today we will be talking about the Link sticker on Instagram stories and how it can benefit our exposure and reach.

By this time, you know what the main subject of this article is, so let’s get started.

A brief introduction to Instagram stories

In October 2010, a new social media opened its eyes to the virtual world, and that platform was Instagram.

This platform did its best work creating a purely visual environment. In other words, this application and social network were based on videos and photos that its users shared.

Over time, using Instagram as our daily routine got more accessible and more manageable; this fact was associated with the evolution of the technology behind this social media platform.

One of the innovations that helped users a great deal was the story function on the Instagram app.

This ability allowed users to share short videos or photos with their followers for a maximum of 24 hours; this tool benefited a lot of users on Instagram, especially small and big business owners.

Expanding their work and growing as a brand was the primary purpose of using Instagram as a promotion point.

Overall the story function got better over time as well; Instagram added tools called stickers on the Instagram stories, which helped users to make better and more interactive stores for their audience.

Now let’s get to the next section of the article and learn how to use stickers on Instagram stories.

What is a Link sticker on the Instagram story?

As we mentioned in the last passage, you have several options when making an Instagram story, and one of them is using a unique interactive sticker.

If you recall, we mentioned that there are two types of stickers:

Interactive and productive stickers:

• Link sticker
• Mention sticker
• DM me sticker
• Quiz box sticker
• Poll sticker
• Etc…

Visual stickers:

• Occasional stickers
• Picture sticker
• Gif stickers
• Normal stickers

Today we will be talking about the Link sticker on Instagram stories.

Imagine that you own a coffee shop, and you have a website that you share blogs on daily; you want to promote your website and its content on your Instagram.

Making a story about your website is a wise move, but using a link sticker will help you make this story for your web page.

By using the Link sticker, you can insert the link of your web page so your audience can tap on the link, and they will be directly transferred to your website; in other words, you are creating a shortcut for your website.

Using this sticker creates interaction; when you use it on your Instagram stories, it makes sense of participation that will attract more and more followers to your page and, therefore, your business.

Now let’s get to the next section of the article, which contains a tutorial on creating your Instagram story and using the Link sticker.

 

How to use the Link sticker on your Instagram story? (6 SIMPLE STEPS)

In this section of the article, we will be going through the tutorial on using Link stickers on Instagram stories.

So, if you are ready, let’s get started.

Step 1

• Prepare the link that you will insert in your story, and then open the Instagram app on your mobile phone or web application.

Step 2

• Swipe to the right on your Instagram home page; this will take you to a new page dedicated to creating an Instagram story.

Step 3

• Choose the story you prepared form before or create your own brand new story content, and then all you have to be to add the sticker on top of the story.

Step 4

• Go to the Instagram sticker library, located in the right top corner of the page, and tap on the library. By opening the sticker library, you will see several stickers that you can choose from. However, we will be selecting the Link sticker, which is highlighted with a blue color.

Step 5

• After tapping on the Link sticker, it will ask you to paste the link you want; after getting your link in the text box, press “done.” now, you can resize and move the sticker to wherever you want.

Step 6

• The last thing you have to do is tap the done button on the bottom left corner of the screen that says “your story,” Then you are done.

Your story is now available to your audience.

By this point in the article, you know how to use a Link sticker on your Instagram story in your favor, and you are also aware of the impacts that this sticker could have on your account.

Now you have all of the information about the Link sticker on Instagram stories so let’s get to the conclusion.

 

In the end

In this article, we went through the steps of making an Instagram story and using the Link sticker on it, and we also talked about the impacts and benefits that using this sticker could have.

This sticker is the best option if you own a business or want to promote or introduce a web page.

As we said, it increases communication and exposure.

Our team hopes that this article can help you regarding your business and Instagram account in many ways.

Contact us in the comment section at the end if you have anything to add to this article or additional questions about the “Instagram story stickers: Link Sticker” article.