Instagram has provided some new examples of creative approaches to utilize Instagram Stories ads. Nowadays it's one of the best methods for generating traffic on your blogs or sites.

1. Do Not Use Banned Hashtags On The Post

Not many hashtags are made equal. Using among Instagram's banned hashtags can land you in hot water and ignorance isn't an excuse.

While some prohibited hashtags are pretty common sense and align with Instagram's terms of support, others are not so apparent. According to the HuffPo, the banned list comprises #adulting, #citycentre and #eggplant. Research the hashtags you utilize carefully, make sure that they are relevant to your audience and do not have a secret, urban dictionary or emoji meaning you didn't know about... (Not that it has ever happened to me!)

2. Use A Third Party Posting App

Instagram has a closed API- it does not allow third party programs to post straight to Instagram. You can still use a social networking dashboard for example Agorapulse to handle your Instagram account but the process is a tiny bit more complicated than for Facebook or Twitter.

Most legit social networking management programs work round the challenge. For example, you can log in to your Agorapulse accounts and program an Instagram post.

When the time comes, you'll be given a notification. You can then log in the Agorapulse app which will take you to Instagram at which you are able to hit publish. The key is that you have to be the one which strikes publish.

But, while that's the way we do it, there are a number of apps like Schedugram that place directly to Instagram for you, with your user name and password to access your accounts. This is a big Terms and Conditions no . Jumping through some extra hoops can be frustrating but it keeps your account safe.

3. Do Not Post Too Much Content

Instagram favors actual, individual posters and the dos and don'ts are meant to prioritize them over robots and spammers. Whereas Twitter has apps like Social Quant that can follow along with unfollow a lot of people to develop your next, Instagram frowns on this type of behavior. That is why they have an unofficial cap on account activity.

What exactly are these numbers? While Instagram hasn't released official numbers Ana Gotter did some in depth study and came up with the following:

Following and unfollowing over 60 people an hour or so

Liking over 300 articles an hour

Posting over 60 comments One Hour

4. Stay Away From The Robots

Look. In any other circumstances, I'll be the first to determine the potential of bots in automating your marketing procedure but that's not what Instagram is about.