How to make a link in bio with a map

You get one link on Instagram or TikTok. Most people point it at a list of buttons. This is that page with a world map on it, between your name and your links.

Maya Castellano

Trip guides, routes, and what everything actually cost. A new one most months.

drawing the borders…

Been (18)Want to go (5)Currently in Portugal

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viewed

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The map does three things:

• It shows where you have been. You color in the countries yourself, so it is full on day one.
• It holds your links. Pin your Japan guide to Japan and it sits there with its picture. Tap it and it opens.
• It fills in as people visit. Every view lands as a dot on the city it came from.

Your links also appear as normal buttons under the map, so nobody has to use the map to find anything.

If you make guides, itineraries, presets, packing lists, vlogs or affiliate links to places you have stayed, the map does two jobs a list of buttons cannot.

It shows you have really been there. Forty colored countries is proof. A list of twelve links is twelve links.

It sorts your links by place. Somebody who just watched your Peru video looks at South America and finds the Peru guide, without reading every button.

Sign up, then press New link. Everything is on one screen, with a live preview of your page beside it. On a phone, the preview is the button at the bottom.

The form walks you through it in order: each part ends with a Next button. Only the name is required. You can skip anything and add it later.

Already colored in some countries on our home page? They come with you when you sign up, and the form opens with them on your map.

Copy your address from the page you land on after publishing, then:

• Instagram: your profile, then Edit profile, then Links, then Add external link.
• TikTok: your profile, then Edit profile, then Website. TikTok only offers this field to some accounts.
• Anywhere else: YouTube, X, an email signature. It is an ordinary link.

When you paste it into a message or a post, the preview that shows is your actual map, not a logo.

1. Color in every country, not only the big trips. The count in the key is the first thing people read.
2. Put your best seller first. The top link gets the most taps.
3. Give your main link a large picture. Set its picture to show across the top of the card and it stands out from the rest.
4. Say the price in the short line. “48 pages. Every stop and what it cost. $19” answers the question before it is asked.
5. Tell people to find themselves. “Open my link and see if your city is on my map” is a reason to tap that a plain link never has.

Under Privacy you can hide the map from visitors. Your links still work, and the page becomes an ordinary list. You still see the map in your dashboard.

With the map hidden, pinning a link to a country does nothing, because there is no map to show it on.

A dot for every view, on the city it came from. Zoom in and the dots grow into strips with the city name and how many views came from it. A city needs at least 3 views before it is named, so one visitor is never identifiable from your map.

Country names appear as you zoom. At the opening view the map is colors and marks, which keeps it readable; zoom in and the names arrive.

Clicks, broken down by country. Not just how many people clicked a link, but where from — per link, not per page.

A live count of views, how many are reading right now, and how many countries you have reached.

Free gives you a real page: the map, your profile, two links, your countries colored in, and everything your visitors see.

Pro raises the links to 20, lets every page you make choose its own address rather than only your first, and takes our name off the foot of your page.