One of the biggest problems small business owners encounter using Instagram is that it only allows ONE link in the bio. It’s a pain to be constantly changing this link depending on what you are promoting at the time. Linktree is used to house all the links to services or goodies. If you are using LinkTree for your Instagram profile, please stop. In this article, I’m going to tell you why you shouldn’t use Linktree and what is the alternative.
What is Linktree?
Linktree is a free tool that helps you optimize your Instagram traffic. It serves as a landing page for your links and encourages your audience to consume more of your content. Linktree offers a paid version of the tool at $6/month and it gives you access to analytics, more themes, removal of the Linktree logo, and email sign-up integration.
Here are 4 reasons you should stop using it:
1. You have ZERO control
You’re depending on an external third party app. If it breaks (which it has), then you have a broken link on your bio and there’s nothing you can do about it. Most people don’t even realize when the app is down or broken. Meanwhile, you’re losing potential leads, clients, and cash. LinkTree Instagram links can also be banned and/or marked as spam by Instagram at any time without any notice.
2. Sacrifices your branding
If you’re using the free version of Linktree, consider yourself a digital ad for the brand. Each time someone clicks the link in your bio, they will be met with the Linktree logo. Let’s not forget that the one link you’re allowed on Instagram will still be tied to Linktree. (https://linktr.ee/username) Lastly, the free version only allows you to choose from five themes, so good luck finding one that matches your personal brand’s colors.
3. Bad user experience and poor conversion
I don’t know about you, but every time I’ve clicked on a user’s Linktree link from their bio, it feels confusing and I usually just exit out. All of the buttons look the same, the text on the button is small and annoying to read and there are no engaging visuals, etc. This is just not how we consume information and certainly not how we convert!
65% of humans are visual learners and our brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than text.
Brands that create custom visual content have a 7x higher conversion rate.
There are hundreds of studies by marketers, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists that prove that visual content is the present and the future. Not only does visual content attract more eyes and encourage engagement, but it also skyrockets engagement and conversion. Linktree does not provide this option so you are missing out on capturing and converting a huge percentage of your leads!
4. Minimal access to analytics
Linktree only allows you to see the number of times someone clicked on your links and they don’t even tell you which ones. That means you have no way of decerning which links are doing well unless you pay for the premium version of the tool. Even the paid version’s analytics are super limited. Plus, all of the data belongs to THEM. This means no data for your retargeting ads. ?
OK, I’m done bashing Linktree, but what is the alternative?
First off, I have nothing against Linktree, but I think you’ll like my solution a whole lot better. It’s simple! Create your own Instagram Landing page on your own website.
This is seriously the most simple, reliable, and FREE workaround, I don’t know why more people aren’t doing it and why it took me so long to do it myself!
All you need is a mobile-friendly website (if you don’t have that already, talk with me about getting that sorted out ASAP!) a blank page, some buttons, and a header!
This is fun too because you can really style it however you like, it is YOUR website after all, so you have complete creative freedom here!
Benefits of having your own website hosted on WordPress:
- 100% Control of your traffic
- 100% Control of your branding
- 7X Higher conversion rate
- 100% Control and visibility of your analytics
- 100% Control of your Facebook retargeting
- Much much Cheaper than Linktree (Linktree – $6/month | WordPress – $3/month)
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okay all i want is a simple link hub that is completely free. No perscriptions of monthly payments to look more pretty. No, i just want something that can link people so i don’t have to have a thousand links just to share my music to friends.
when i first joined linktree… it was not as money hungry as i thought it would turn out… was i wrong. I now recieve emails monthly asking if i want to get premium crap that i don’t want or need to pay for.
They made it so easy for me to hate. I want something i can easily type through t9 text when ever a release happens… (which is often.)
I don’t want to type the random numbers and letters of a youtube link. it’s impossible on a t9 phone.
Also i hate smart phones, they are crap and only serve as a distraction. Sorry, i have been fairly emphatic in this post. I am just “GAH!” over this, searching online yeild no results and is populated by capitalist fccktards saying there are some alternatives but it is the same exact perscription plans.
I don’t want addons i don’t want to have my own custom url. if a company will not blind side it’s users with monetization temptations. (like linktree has been doing. I will proudly support them.
MY OUTPUT IS MUCH MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE! Every year i have released a lifetime of work. (i have been doing this for more than a decade. I don’t like the state humanity is in… and don’t give a sh1t if anyone listens to my music for many centuries.)
I am anti-capitalist. And this fccking world should be destroyed.
Sorry… i keep getting more and more frustrated as i type. lol so i’ll put my link tee for my website, so you have an idea on what i am up against.
REMEMBER: although i am more serious on my music compositions than the entire top 40 lineup, i don’t compose for money… i compose for passion, the love of music. Not because i want to be famous or known. I do it because I HATE THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! but i love music more than ebery human in this world. (there is no way to prove this but really it is that intense. I breathe music.
Again i am sorry that i let out some of my pent up aggression of capitalism’s grasp on humanity…
please don’t shut me out. i am reasonable when i am not bombarded by “monotization temptation.” (hey a song idea.)