TL:DR - Instagram has scraper sites that pulls descriptions and images from Instagram and reposts that content to their own "mirror" site filled with Instagram hashtags, images, and descriptions. URLs are not clickable in Instagram descriptions, yet if you include one in the description, it will be scraped and become clickable on the "mirror" site. Could these links be perceived as spammy (though the scraping is beyond my control) to a point I should stop including a link to a blog post related to the image?
The Longer Version:
Each time I post an article, I follow it up by sharing it to my social media pages.
Generally, I share a little blurb about the article and some hashtags, as well as the URL of course.
With most of social networks, it pulls the image and links directly; however, with Instagram I have to manually go in and upload a picture from my phone and then copy and paste over the same hashtags and blurb about the post.
Instagram, unfortunately, doesn't have hyperlinks within the post. I usually go ahead and just include the URL because I've noticed that Instagram mirror sites and scrapers (instaguz.com, instagiz.com, instagub.com) pull the description alongside from scraping the image and they do end up creating backlinks. Some of these sites do not seem to be marking the scraped URLS as 'nofollow'.
I know Twitter also has a variety of these types of sites, but I assume search engines factor that webmasters can't control if their posts are scraped from Twitter.
That said, because Instagram doesn't originally hyperlink to those URLs within the app, I'm curious how including the URL regardless and then having it show up on those Instagram scraper sites affects me.
My fear is that search engines factor in hyperlinks scraped from a site like Twitter, but doesn't factor that in for URLs that pop up on similar scrapers for Instagram because URLs are common on Instagram posts. The fear is because if that is true, then that could potentially mean I'm building all these backlinks on Instagram scraper sites that might be interpreted as spammy when all I'm doing is just including some additional information in my Instagram post with URL viewers could look at even if they can't directly click on it.
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