Recently Facebook (Instagram’s parent company) has gotten serious about monetizing Instagram. And that means it is doing everything it can to bring businesses onto the platform. Instagram has made some very strategic updates, which signal that change is coming. Businesses that can hop on the bandwagon early will have a huge advantage. These are the 8 reasons why…

Sara Melotti wrote an excellent in-depth guide to Instagram's algorithm, hacking it, and the downsides as a creative

The date was December 11, 2015. The event: a challenge. "I want you to pick a platform we’re not on yet and grow it rapidly. Set a traffic goal and make a plan." Challenge accepted. And guess what? We took SumoMe’s Instagram following of under 1,000 in February to 88,000 in just six months. More impressively, we took our Instagram following to 50,000 in under 3 months. Since then, we've seen massive traffic to our site from Instagram (with many of those people buying our products). And now, we're revealing the exact way we did it. Everything is on the table: our marketing plans, the tools we used, our SOPs...all of it. So we're not just going to show you how we did it. We're giving you the tools to do it for yourself, too. There isn't another Instagram guide like this on the internet. Consider this the definitive guide for cracking the Instagram code. Ideas you can try from this article: