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Your Instagram on the page, without the embed

A real Clay site, built from a Google listing

The embedded feed is the most requested feature that most often makes a page worse.

Takes less than a minute · no sign-up or credit card required

Everybody asks for the feed to be embedded, and it is worth knowing what that actually does: it loads somebody else's script, slows the page, and offers your visitor a door back to an app they were already in.

So the page carries your best pictures as a gallery you control, and one clear link to the profile. Nothing breaks when the API changes, the page stays fast, and the visitor who was going to follow you still can.

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Why not the embed

Slow, fragile, and a door out

An embedded feed is a third party script that has to load before anything shows, and every couple of years the platform changes something and the block goes blank.

It also sends people to Instagram. That is fine if the goal is followers and wrong if the goal is a booking, and on a business site it is usually the second.

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What to do instead

Your pictures here, one link out

Take the six or eight you would actually want a customer to see and put them on the page as a gallery, sized properly. They are your pictures, so nothing stops you.

Then one link to the profile, in the footer or the header. Somebody who wants to follow you will find it, and nobody leaves halfway through booking.

What you get

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Your pictures, on your page

A gallery you control, sized on upload, that cannot go blank when a platform changes.

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Nothing to load first

No third party script between the visitor and your page.

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One link out, in the right place

In the footer, where somebody looking for it will look and nobody else gets diverted.

Your photographs, already sorted

Clay reads the pictures on your Google listing, grades them, crops them for the shape each band needs and puts the best one at the top. Nothing to upload, nothing to resize.

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What it looks like when it is live

Drawn rather than described, the page, the address, and what it can switch on.

In a search result
Found the way people actually look
yourboutique.clay.site
Boutique
Open now · rating and reviews from Google · map and directions
Your address
Free to start, your own name when you want it
https://yourboutique.clay.site
Free foreverYour own domain, included on Pro

In short

A gallery of your own pictures
No third party script
One clear link to the profile
Nothing that goes blank on an API change

How it works

1

Search your business

Type your name, Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.

2

Pick a style

Choose a look and Clay builds a full site around your content. Change anything with a tap, no code, no templates to wrestle.

3

You're online

Publish to your own name.clay.site in minutes. Add a custom domain and connect your own tools whenever you're ready.

Real sites, made with Clay

Open one. It is the live site in a frame, not a screenshot, so what you see is what it looks like right now.

Questions

Can I embed my feed anyway?

You can paste an embed onto most sites, and it will be slower and will eventually break. This page is here to say so before you do.

How do I keep the page current then?

Change the gallery when you have better pictures, which is about as often as you would have wanted the feed to be interesting.

What about a follower count?

Leave it off. A count is either impressive or it is an argument against you, and it changes without you.

Where should the profile link go?

In the footer and the header, once each. That is where people look for it, and it does not interrupt anybody.

Does this hurt my Instagram?

No. Somebody who wanted to follow still follows; what changes is that somebody who wanted to book does that first.

What if Instagram IS my shop?

Then the page should be a link in bio and a shop: what a link in bio site carries.

How many pictures should the gallery hold?

Six to twelve, chosen: what a portfolio needs applies here too.

Try it with your business

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