How to link Instagram to VK - setting up account synchronization via phone and computer

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.

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.

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.

What is native integration

“VKontakte” is defined as follows:

Native integration is branded publications in the community that fit seamlessly into the content, are useful, informative and at the same time contain a mention of the advertiser or partner.

Principles of native integration:

The publication corresponds to the community on the topic.
The publication does not directly advertise the product.
There is no emphasis on the object of promotion.
The material is designed in the style of other community publications.
The publication has its own semantic value.

VKontakte also has a “Catalogue of Native Integrations”. Here you can add your community and receive orders or find a platform for posting native posts.

Differences between native integration and third-party advertising

Native integrations in the community can be posted in any quantity. The “rule of five” applies to advertising messages. This means no more than 5 advertising posts a day. Moreover, you can independently agree on only 3, the rest must go through the VKontakte advertising network

The line between native and non-native is thin. The VKontakte administration recognizes this and recommends contacting support agents in any unclear situation. Official examples of the distinction are here.

Signs of a non-native publication:

The advertising object is placed in the foreground: the name is in large font, a large logo in the center of the screen.
A call to take action in favor of the advertiser: buy, subscribe, share.
The emphasis is shifted from benefit to the audience to the qualities of the object.
The subject of the message does not match the subject of the site.
The message loses its meaning if information about the advertiser is excluded from it.
To obtain full information, you need to go to the advertiser's page.
The promotion object does not fit organically into the plot of the video.

We will analyze each point in more detail with examples in the subsection “Errors when creating native integrations.”

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What is the difference between advertising and reposting?

Native advertising differs from repost in the purpose of the message and design.

A regular repost is material that is supposedly useful for your audience and contains a link to the wall of another public page. If you irregularly repost materials from another community on your topic, they will not be considered advertising.

But a repost will become an advertisement if it contains a call to subscribe to another community or a hyperlink with the words “Read further in the source” and the like, and also if it does not coincide with it in topic.

The publication does not contain a call to subscribe to another community or otherwise advertise it. The caption for the repost translates the message into its context: the footballer is mentioned not as a representative of the club, but as a player of the Russian national team and a future participant in the World Cup.

Although the material does not contain a direct call to subscribe to another public page, it is an advertisement. The topic of the publication is not relevant to the site, and the image of the goods has no value separately from the advertised object.

The VKontakte administration may recognize as advertising multiple repostings of materials from other communities or cross-posting of materials by administrators of two groups. This is relevant for those who have thematic and commercial communities aimed at a close audience.

Cross-posting is a mutual PR tool where two communities repost each other’s materials.

If you have a similar situation, follow the “rule of five” - support agents may consider publications to be advertising.

What happens if you violate the rules for creating native integrations

If the total number of advertising posts in the public is less than 5 per day, nothing.

If you regularly violate the “rule of five,” administrators will issue a warning and then temporarily prohibit you from posting links on the wall. Those who are especially slow-witted will be sent to eternal ban.

Only native integrations can be published on the cover, logo, and videos. If the advertisement on the cover is not recognized as native, the community will be dropped from search for 2 months. If a non-native video appears in video recordings, the entire subsection will be blocked.

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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.

Synchronization of Instagram with VK

Linking Instagram to Vkontakte provides the following options:

Automatic duplication of photos from Instagram on the wall or in an album in VK. You can also manually share individual images on your profile wall.
Search for a friend's profile on Insta. This procedure is performed automatically. If your friend from the VK social network registers an account on Instagram, the system will offer you to become his subscriber.

Instagram is one of the most popular social networks today. Many of us have our own account there, and regularly launch this application in search of new photos from our friends and acquaintances. An important feature of the application is the ability to track the presence of accounts for people who are present in the phone book of your gadget. But when you go to the specified contacts section, you may not find anything there. Although previously contacts were displayed correctly. What happened? Below we will look at why the Instagram application does not show all contacts from your mobile phone, although synchronization is enabled, and how to fix it.

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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Instructions on how to link Instagram to social networks

It is difficult to imagine a person who has a profile on only one social network. Running several services is quite labor-intensive. Therefore, to simplify your life on the Internet, you can create links between pages. Let's talk about whether it is possible to link Instagram to VK.

How to connect Instagram and VK?

To see what services can be linked to Insta, you need to go to “Linked accounts” in the “Account” section. Back in the summer of 2018, users noticed that VKontakte had disappeared from the list. For some time, this problem was observed only in those people whose interface language was set to English. Changing the language solved the problem. But now it doesn’t change things either - the photo network does not allow you to link VK to Instagram in the same way as, for example, Facebook.

What social networks can Insta be linked to?

To check the accuracy of my words and the relevance of the information, you can go to “Linked Accounts”. It displays all available services that connect without problems to your profile on the photo network. Let's look at each of them point by point:

Facebook. This is Insta's big brother. Comments are unnecessary here.
Twitter. This is a social network where you can publish short messages up to 280 characters long.
Tumblr. They also post mostly visual content and stories. The service is popular both among Russian-speaking people and all over the world.
Amoeba. No, it is not read as “Amoebae”, that is, a single-celled organism. The correct pronunciation is Amoeba. Japanese blogging platform.
Ok.ru. Classmates. It still remains a mystery to me why the connection of this service, where the average age of users is 40, is possible, but VKontakte is not. Nevertheless, it is true.

How to set up login on Instagram via social networks?

Everyone has seen the “Login via Facebook” button on the login screen, where you need to enter your username and password. Can VK be used for these purposes? Unfortunately no. As I wrote above, Facebook is the big brother of the photo network, and other sites, even those listed in “Linked,” cannot be used for authorization. Therefore, I will give you instructions so that you can log in using FB. The algorithm of actions via computer and telephone will be identical. Therefore, I will not divide it into stationary and mobile platforms. It should be taken into account that before performing the items from the list below, you need to link FB to Insta.

Open the Instagram application or website.
There will be a “Log in with Facebook” button.
Then enter your “blue brother” login information. Or, if you are already authorized in the browser, you will simply need to confirm your intention to log in to the photo network.

How to unlink all social networks on Instagram?

Although it is unrealistic to combine VKontakte and Instagram, setting up this side of the profile is quite possible for other social networks. Let's discuss how to unlink all services from a profile in a photo network.

Open the application.
Open your page. To do this, click on the icon with a person in the lower right corner.
Click on the three horizontal lines on the top right.
Go to settings by clicking on the corresponding item at the very bottom of the interface.
Select the “Account” section.
You need the “Linked Accounts” item.
Select the desired social network.
At the bottom there will be a “Cancel connection” button. Let's click on it.
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This will need to be done with each connected service. There is no magic button that allows you to “break ties” with everyone at once.

How to share a post from Insta on VK?

The fact that we cannot connect Instagram and VK does not mean that we cannot share publications in any way. You can synchronize these sites by manually reposting. It works like this:

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.