How to Create Auto-Follow Links for Your Social Media Profiles

People are clicking on your social media profiles, but many probably aren’t subscribing or following.

I’m going to show you a couple of little tricks you can do with your social profile URLs that will help you turn more people into followers or subscribers. We’re going to turn these links into “auto-follow” or “auto-subscribe” links that prompt the user to follow or subscribe after they click.

This works well because it reduces one step from the flow of going from a visitor to a follower or subscriber.

We do it by adding a little bit of customization to your basic social media profile URLs.

I’ve found ways to use this method on YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, and LinkedIn.

It’s not a magic pill for growth, but it can certainly boost your growth rate by a good 10%+. At scale, that’s pretty solid!

Yes, This Is White Hat

I wouldn’t show you how to do anything that would get you in trouble. These methods still require the user to explicitly follow or subscribe to your channels. The URLs just make it easier for them to do it by showing a pop-up with a one-click option.

YouTube Auto-Subscribe URL

I wrote at length about creating an auto subscribe URL on YouTube on my blog.

The simple explanation is to take your YouTube channel URL and add ?sub_confirmation=1…