Integration of social networks allows you to both link Instagram to VK and synchronize new publications. The option is intended for maintaining a “single” blog on various platforms, saving time. Integration is useful for those who are interested in creating a recognizable brand. However, the mass user can also find benefits for themselves. Synchronization of services is one of the promotion methods that increases audience reach.
Social media integration is designed to save time.
Benefits of account synchronization
The Instagram service offers a function for synchronizing your account with similar profiles on other social networks. For his own convenience, a person can link an Instagram profile with an account on Odnoklassniki, VKontakte, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and others. Most often, the need arises precisely in linking Instagram to the VKontakte website. If you understand how to connect Instagram and VKontakte, you will be able to notice the following advantages of synchronization:
- A person saves time spent on publishing posts. He won’t have to post the same photo or video separately on each social network. It is enough to publish in one; if the function is activated, it will appear on both resources.
- Any publication is duplicated in the linked social network along with the text below it. If this is a post on Instagram, then it will move to VKontakte along with all the tags, hashtags, and emoticons.
- It will be much easier for all VK users to find the Instagram profile of the author of the post. You can see the Instagram icon next to the publication date. After clicking on it, a post in this service will open.
- Simplified search for friends' accounts. After merging two accounts, the service will automatically offer to follow friends. If someone new registers on VK, users will receive an invitation to subscribe to the Instagram page. This function works similarly to the one that highlights people from your phone's contact list on Instagram.
Why link Instagram with VK: advantages
Owners of any pages can synchronize profiles. The condition is to have an active account. Suitable for both commercial profiles and personal blogs.
Reasons to merge accounts:
- for automatic posting of publications from one social network in the feed of another;
- save a photo or video in a VK album;
- The publication is posted with a signature written under the post, so there is no need to repeat the text;
- to search for acquaintances, when a friend from VK appears on Instagram, the page owner receives a registration notification;
- synchronization will help advertise your account.
The goal is to instantly place posts in feeds. The option is actively used by SEO specialists to promote business accounts.
Important! During synchronization, it is impossible to transfer dialogues and friends.
However, there is no advantage in completely copying the profile due to the fact that the advantages of both networks are different.
Linking via VKontakte
There are 2 working ways to link your Instagram and VKontakte accounts:
- via Insta from a smartphone or PC;
- via VKontakte from a computer.
Linking via the VKontakte social network is performed as follows:
- Open the “My Page” tab.
- Under your avatar, click the “Edit” button.
- Find the “Contacts” section, and at the bottom there will be a button “Add instagram.com” with a service icon.
- After clicking, a new window appears where you will have to enter your Instagram login information.
- If the fields are filled in incorrectly and the password and login are entered correctly, synchronization will occur.
There is another way to get to this profile editing section. Always at the top of the VKontakte page in the upper right corner there is the user’s name and his avatar icon. After clicking on it, a drop-down menu is displayed. In it you can select the “Edit” item. The rest of the steps will be the same.
How is this all done?
You must click on the page edit button. It is located on your page under the photo. To open your page, click on the “My Page” button in the left menu of the site.
Editing a page
When you click on the page edit button, you are taken to the main editing menu, where you are asked to change your first name, last name, photo, address, etc. But you don't need this.
The section you need to visit is called “Integration” and is located at the bottom of the page in the Contacts section. That is, first you should find at the top of the menu with the inscriptions “Basic”, “Family”, “Work” and among all this - “Contacts”. You need to open this section and scroll down, there is a link “Integration with other services”.
Integration section
Linking via Instagram
You need to find out in advance how to link Instagram to VKontakte via phone. Modern people are highly attached to their smartphones. Therefore, PCs and laptops are not used at all to access social networks. They perform all the basic actions of linking and editing a profile through their gadgets. In addition, a computer or laptop may not always be at hand. You can link two accounts via phone only through the Instagram service. To do this, perform the following actions:
- open a service for sharing photos and videos on a smartphone;
- if necessary, log in to your own profile;
- Open the menu on the main page in the upper right corner. It is hidden behind an icon with three horizontal stripes;
- it will have a “Settings” section;
- Among the proposed options, select “Account” from the list;
- in the list that appears, find the item “Linked accounts”, click on it;
- This section provides a list of different social networks with which Instagram can be linked. The very first site in it will be the VKontakte site;
- after clicking on VK, a new page will open. Enter your phone number or e-mail and password to log in and click the “Login” button;
- If the data is entered correctly, Instagram and VKontakte will be synchronized.
The user can easily verify for himself that this action was performed correctly. When he wants to post on Instagram, the profile name will light up on the edit page near VKontakte. To post a post on both social networks, you need to move the slider to the right near VK. It will light up blue. The signature along with marks, geotags, as well as a link to Insta will be published on VKontakte.
If Instagram does not synchronize with VK, perhaps another profile has already been linked to it. You can link only one VKontakte page to it.
How to disconnect profiles in services
Sometimes it is important for a user to learn not how to connect VK with Instagram, but how to untie the two social networks from each other. It happens that there is simply no need to synchronize them. Therefore they can be separated. This is done in several stages:
- First, open an Instagram account, log in if necessary.
- Open the menu in the upper right corner, hidden under the icon of three horizontal stripes.
- There, find the “Settings” item with a gear icon.
- Next, go to the “Accounts” – “Linked Accounts” section. It will display the profiles of all available social networks.
- Linked ones will be highlighted in blue. In this case it is VK.
- After opening it, you need to select “Cancel connection” and confirm the action.
After this, the accounts will be unlinked. Sometimes the tab continues to display information or the social network is highlighted in blue. You just need to restart the application or reboot your device.
If, after performing these steps, photos continue to be posted on VK from Instagram, then you will have to act differently. And in this case, you can no longer do without using a PC. You can try to unlink the page from the web version of Instagram. This is done in this way:
- you need to open the Instagram link, log in;
- open the “Edit profile” section;
- in the menu on the left, select the “Applications and Sites” section;
- there, in the column, find the active ones in the VK list;
- Below it there will be a blue “Delete” button that you should click.
You can try to unlink profiles from each other in the same way as synchronizing Instagram with VKontakte. In this case, you will need the web version of VKontakte and a PC. You need to open your profile, find the “Edit” button, then go to the “Contacts” section. There, find the linked account with a recognizable icon and click disconnect for Instagram. After completing these steps, auto-posting on VK will be permanently stopped.
How to link a VK group and an Instagram account
Some users want to know how to link Instagram with a contact. But not with a personal page, but with a public page. This option is not provided in the service. But there are separate applications that provide this opportunity. Most of them are paid. Among them there are those that provide the opportunity to use the service for free for the first time. Such a third-party application is onemorepost.ru. A person can temporarily use it free of charge. When the trial period ends, the person decides whether to continue paying for the service or find another application.
Before linking Instagram to a VK group, you need to create your own channel in the service. Main stages:
- Go to the resource, create a new profile, log in.
- Find and open the “Accounts” section. Select from the list those that need to be combined. In this case, this is a VK group and an Insta profile.
- Then you need to go through VKontakte authorization. Give your consent to receive and use your personal account data as requested by the program.
- Copy the address line and click the “Add address to VK” button. Paste the link into the “Address with token” line.
- After this, the VK profile is linked to the program.
- All you have to do is link Instagram - find the “Connecting and changing accounts” section.
- Find the treasured name in the list that appears.
- In the same way, go through authorization and enter the necessary profile data. Agree to allow the application access to personal information.
An Instagram account will be added to the system in the same way. Then you will need to create a channel:
- open the “Channel” section and click the “Add a new channel” button;
- select the appropriate accounts that the system already has - these are VK and Insta;
- for VKontakte, indicate the appropriate group that needs to be linked;
- then select the album into which the files will be uploaded. From it they will automatically post to the social network;
- It is also necessary to answer the question “Should I freeze the video?”
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What does synchronization of Insta and VK give?
Page linking is used for commercial purposes. By connecting Instagram to VK, a blogger can not only take advantage of cross-posting, but also find new subscribers from a synchronized friend list.
Ability to copy photos
The function allows you to duplicate the full content of a post from Instagram to VK. Cross-posting involves copying a picture, description and hashtags. A link to the original source is also attached to the post on VKontakte. The user can configure the import of photos into a separate album or publish news directly to the wall.
Videos and music files are copied differently: VK displays only the cover of the video and a link to the post on Insta.
Search for all friends' accounts
Once the pages have been synchronized with each other, the blogger begins to receive notifications about friends from VK registering on Instagram. An automatically created friend list of acquaintances who already have profiles on Insta is available in a special section - “My Contacts”. Potential friends are displayed in the "Interesting People" column. Using this Instagram tab, a blogger can increase the number of active subscribers.
Common problems
Sometimes the VK Internet resource is not among the social networks available for combining with Instagram. Therefore, Instagram does not communicate with VK, posts are not published on both social networks. To solve the problem, you can try reinstalling Instagram or write to technical support.
It happens that it is not possible to link Instagram and BK due to geographical location. In this case, the social network is present in the list, but publications are not automatically posted to it. This happens due to the fact that the user is located in countries where the VK social network is prohibited. For example, he posts publications in Ukraine. In this case, it will be impossible to publish. When loading, the process will freeze and then an error message will appear. To make such a publication from Instagram, you must enable VPN and create the appropriate settings for both services.
