Instagram growth

Are you following related pages? Following the people that like those pages? Interacting with the people that like pages that are similar to yours?

It sounds like you're under the assumption that people will see your profile, follow you and interact with you.

Quick insight :
1. Try to set up a bot ( not to follow people, but for liking pics of those, who have recently interacted with your content)

2. Using related hashtags isn't enough, because you won't last long on top of each hashtag ( in case of bigger hashtag [ 1MLN +] )

3. Try have more followers than following ( making your page more professional)

4. Use Garry vee's 1.80 $ method ( google it ) - it's about interaction, not money.

5. You can post other people's content and give them a credit in the description, or tag them.

6. Like other peoples comments.

7. Ask questions on your pictures ( with subtilities) and try to post a vid form time to time as they are more likely to go viral.

8. Post when people are not busy - about 7 - 10 a.m and 8-11 p.m

9. Try to collaborate and exchange content with profiles with the same following. ( ideally, with a bigger following than yours)

I think, it was helpful - I can recommend you two cheap tools for hashtag research and IG automatization - It's Jarvee and Ashatory.

If you found it useful and want to use those tools - just DM me so I can send you an affiliate link -I don't want to sell anything, but if you decide to buy them, then, after all, you will have to pay for them. ( Treat it as a reward for writing long instruction)

I wish you luck, HAVE A NICE DAY

How many people are you following daily? A number I could advise is 300 per day per account. Automation and multiple accounts may also improve results. However, it can get expensive.

Are you maximizing views on your posts by adding the most popular hashtags for your niche?

Hi Smiljan,

Well done buddy, profile-wise. All checks covered.

You are doing nothing wrong. But you are seeing no growth because you neglect a certain activity that virtually all struggling IGers neglect; going off-site aka off-profile.

Here's what you do:

- Like other user's updates
- comment on other user's updates
- message other users asking how you can help them

Follow those 3 steps generously for the next month. Be authentic. Be genuine.

All growth with your IG account should skyrocket because you'll generate interest, by being interested in others. Easiest way to grow your IG account quickly, by far.

Ryan

It can be exhausting operating a business account on Instagram. To get the attention you need to stand out from your competitors, you need to receive a lot of engagement. That means spending countless hours interacting with others to convince them to follow you.

Some people just don't have the time to do this, especially while running a company. Fortunately, there are services out there that can do it for you. In fact, they can do it quicker and more efficiently than any one person could.

Interaction is a big part of gaining and retaining followers. It's not just about following. You have to like and comment back to them, tag them in posts, etc.

A graphic designer I hired long ago suggested that I try out those automated Instagram apps like follow liker. I would use them with caution, however. Instagram doesn't exactly like it when we use bots to gain followers.

On a more personal note, I prefer getting followers organically than through paid software, but to each his own. It's harder, but it makes the follower count mean more than just a number to me.

Interact more with people: follow, love, and give constructive comments.

I suggest you keep up the high resolution content, have a good quality photos, use appropriate hashtags, communicate with your audience and follow some of them.

Have you tried video content? have you come in front of the people? have you added so much value to your readers? Have you replied to every comment?

Have you commented on other people's Instagram in your niche? Have you tried paid post? Have you used other platforms to create awarness? are you meeting with people in your niche?

Hello Similjan.

Although I am sure there are people on this forum that have much more experience with Instagram than I, I want to share some of the things that worked for me pretty reliably.

Keep in mind that Instagram is much more than just a picture that you are posting. Words in descriptions are very important as well because they are used by the Instagram algorithm and ranked accordingly (yes, Instagram is a search engine, shocker). Therefore, you need to use a lot of text. Try writing two to three paragraphs to each picture and optimize the text for the keywords you want to rank for. More text means that you will take more space on somebody's screen, increasing the chances that somebody will notice you and read what you wrote.

Instagram is centering on a storytelling. Include a short story about the image that catches people's attention, inspire them, help them realize their potential. Try to include emotions in your text because emotions appeal to more than just reason of a person.

Make sure every image is very subtly branded with your handle (meaning your profile name, such as @Joe). Do not overdo it though, you only need something small, that will not take away from the actual image. Branding like that will create an association between the topic and brand. A lot of people think that you improve brand awareness when people click and interact with your content, but what they fail to take advantage of is all the people that scroll past your images. When enough people would see your name together with images about food, they will start associating you with it. Eventually, some of those people will start clicking on your images over other people in the food industry because of the familiarity they developed over time.

Best handle to have for such branding is a short and memorable one, so that people would remember it easily. So if you have a chance to change it for better one, I recommend you do it.

Regarding following others, I found that tagging other people to your posts work great. Make sure those accounts have similar following and story. Work on enticing them to like or comment on your images. Once they do that, it shows up on their profile for their followers to see, so you'll get a nice inflow of traffic over to your profile from that.

Regarding hashtags, Even though Instagram allows up to 30 hashtags (I think), I wouldn't recommend going over 10-15 hashtags at most. I would stay around 10 to be safe. Spend time at coming up with a variety of hashtags, in o order to avoid Instagram labeling your post as a scam. Go to Displaypurpose.com and use their hashtags generator if you can't come up with any.

Share other user's content. When you find something interesting that other people in your topic are posting, share their stuff while giving them the credit for work. Moreover, add something valuable to it by commenting. This way you are building valuable relationships that will compound over time.

Last but not least, experiment with Instagram Ads. Even though this is a paid option, there is no harm in trying it out, especially if you have a post or two that are receiving a lot of action from organic traffic. Blasting them to new people in the specific audience can gain you a lot of new followers.

Oh, one more thing before I end thing behemoth of a reply. If you overuse your hashtags, your Instagram post can actually receive what call a silent penalty. Just like with SEO and over-optimization of the website, over-optimizing your post may result in your post losing its ranking or dropping off of the list altogether. The worst thing is that you don't receive any notification when this happens and often only see a drop in activity (fewer likes/comments). With new posts, you may think the post is just not interesting to your audience, when in fact it could've been a killer if not for the penalty. I found that taking off all the hashtags from the post for few days usually removes the penalty.

That is all I have to say. I hope this will help you grow your audience at least a little bit. Have fun and be patient.

Posting good high quality pictures wont help you grow. People need to know you exist to like your pictures. A few hacks can be:

1) Get creative with your hashtags. Be funny, ironic, or outrageous - but never boring!

2) Promote your dedicated hashtag on your other social profiles, on your website, and your email blast.

3) Use your bio link to drive traffic to your newest or most popular content.

4) Try videos, live videos, and Stories

5) Post at your best times

Hope this helps

Follow the similar pages and also like the other peoples post. Increase your interaction. Post your image or post between 7-10 AM and 8-11PM

Try to focus on more interaction

1. You may consider the follow/unfollow method but please be careful of its restrictions and all.
And if you are using a bot, please be even more careful.
This is one of the fastest way to build a following.

2. Video,Viral,Videos

You got that right. You need to be posting videos, especially viral videos. Heck, it doesnt even have to be your own content. Reposting is one of the best ways to get traffic to your Instagram account.

But in the end of the day, what you want is traffic to your bio link where you build your list (I hope), so why not consider other means, such as a solo ads or something instead? Unless you have a large following, it is going to be very difficult to monetize it.

Don't use popular hashtags, use specific ones - related to the content you're posting. Also, you can use tools for boosting your post engagement, such as Fuelgram. This tool brings you numerous likes and comments from real profiles belonging to your niche, puts you on top of the explore feed, and after some time you'll get more likes and followers organically.

Hello,
If your focusing on "Instagram". You are also publishing your instagram to keep related other social media platform like facebook, twitter, tumblr, reddit and more.

I hope that, you will be get better results for this.

Thanks

It may be laborious running a business account on Instagram. To get the eye you want to face out out of your competition, you need to acquire a whole lot of engagement. That means spending infinite hours interacting with others to persuade them to follow you.

Some human beings simply don't have the time to do this, particularly while running a corporation. Fortunately, there are offerings obtainable which could do it for you. In fact, they can do it quicker and more effectively than anyone person ought to.
You are also publishing your instagram to keep related other social media platform like facebook, twitter, tumblr, reddit and more.

Well, a lot has been said but from what I've observed your following greatly outweighs your followers and that seems like a characteristic of a bot-operated account.

Besides posting good content regularly, you need to be calculative of your hashtags. Advisedly, as a beginner, you should be targeting hashtag between 25k to 200k.

Also, though another commenter advised against using more hashtags but for me, I always try to use a minimum of 25 hashtags though I mix them always and I have had a steady rate of engagement.

The best would be if you get the early engagement from big accounts from your niche. The good news is you can easily get that.

You can get the early engagement through engagement groups. Engagement Groups are groups of Instagram accounts. On Telegram, for example, is a group of 600+ people. Most of them are from the motivational quotes/success quotes niche.

You can join this group and big accounts with 100.000+ followers will like and comment on your posts. This is how your posts go viral and get thousands of impressions. It´s that simple.
Let me explain how this engagement group works, how you can get into it and all that.
It works like this. Every 3 hours a bot will message you on telegram (it´s an app for your phone) and tell you to drop

your username. You then can decide whether you want to join the round or not. The bot says that at 8:30 am, 11:30 am, 2:30 pm... (every 3 hours).
At 9am est, 12 am 3 pm, 6 pm.... (every 3 hours) the bot then say that the round started. Once the bot says round started you go to Instagram and upload your post.

He creates a list of all usernames that have been dropped and messages you the list. You then have to take that list, copy it and message the list to yourself on Instagram. Then you have to click on each username and like and comment on their last post.

Everyone from the list will do that with your last post too. This is how you get early engagement.

Leave comments on related pages and interact with them....

Are you using #f4f #l4l and other hashtags alike??

make sure to also use hashtags all over your posts

maybe some special pr or marketing specialist should help You?

Use hashtags and tag someone accounts related with food. And connect with your followers

Use tags and hashtags and leave comments on relevant pages and try to interact with them.

Do you engage with the community? Take time to like and comment on others' posts every day. You can also grow with Fuelgram, which is a niche-based powerlike service with a huge base of real account. It helped me a lot with my growing.

Hmm, I think you need more interactions. Remember that Digital marketing is just like traditional marketing, except it happens on a different space. What I am trying to say is that you should try to connect with other influencers. Commenting or liking an influencer who gathered a lot of followers won't hurt you. Sending DM to them or even collaborating will surely give you followers and put legitimacy to your whole account.

what are you doing wrong? your not doing the work... You have a phone right? TAKE YOUR OWN DANG pics and EARN followers... why would I follow a account that is posting pictures I have already seen? COME ON MAN!

And lets REALLY get to the point.. what do followers do for you? why focus on that.. are you trying to convert the traffic to something? or are you just in a vain quest to show your buddies you are someone with 1000 followers?

Seriously think about what you are doing... you are stealing other peoples images to get "respect" from people you probably don't even know... Im going to be super blunt at this point.. you are being FAKE.

Be true to yourself man... you have an interest in food.. take your own images EARN followers. You will find its a whole lot easier - TRUST ME

Best of luck man.. I truly wish you the best!

Try to find some engagement groups on telegram.

Thats how you can grow fast.

Collaborations worked for me, keep it niche specific. You can also consider influencer marketing. If you have a service or products to offer then you can definitely offer that as a trade for a shoutout from them.

Use comment on website for relative page and build up your relationship.

Here are some of the benefits of having more Instagram followers in 2019

1. An increase in the number of likes and comments on your photos
2. Larger audience size for your business
3. Becoming well known, famous and perceived as an Instagram influencer.

But how can you attain more followers on Instagram?

There are a few ways you can go about doing this, however, the easiest method to attract real followers to your Instagram profile is to simply invest in an Instagram bot management tool.

A bot (AKA web robot) for those who may have not heard of this before is basically just another word for software that runs automated tasks over the internet.

One of the best Instagram bot tools out there is Instato.io
Link:

Instato works in three basic steps. First, it works to generate activity. Secondly, it schedules and automates your content, which then leads to more and more followers.

Another way to grow Instagram followers is to use interesting hashtags and to avoid the overuse of hashtags. Also taking good quality photos can have an impact on the number of Instagram users that could be engaged in your posts and content.

Me the same problem i post everyday but the process of gaining folowers its very tedious and slowly

First, you have to follow the Instagram followers with your relevant niche, You also have the same type of follower's following you back on your Instagram. You have to post daily content on your Instagram page. You have to follow more people relevant to your niche on a daily basis. This may good for your Instagram traffic and you have to create multi-account or automation for getting more traffic.

Expand your reach to grow.
Post at right time is more important.
Use multiple hashtags.

Good content + qualitative photos + promotions/giveawys + don't forget about your stories

You need to use those popular related hashtags to engage with people in the same niche. Comment, like, and add value to their posts. Use all the tools Instagram gives you such as IG TV, and stories to engage your audience. The first 5-10k followers may require some work but after that it will start to pick up.

Here is Some Step You Can Use and You Will Definitely Get Lot of Likes on Instagram.

1. Be Strategic with Your #Hashtags.
2.Post-High-Quality Content.
3. Explore the Full range of Instagram Video Formats.
4. Post Images that People Relate to.
5. Use Instagram Video Subtitles and Closed Captions.
6. Post them at the Right Time.
7. Reshare on Other Networks.
8. Like Others Posts.

Thank You

Go with the correct and relevant hastags

Thank you for the comments here, this will be a great topic and help others too like me.
God bless!

recently i open my instagram account travel related. i post always related photos, related hashtags and descriptionbut don't growing my account.

Here are Some Step That's Help to Growing Your Account. You Can Use and You Will Definitely Get Lot of Likes, Followers & Engagement on Instagram.

1. Share High-Quality Photos.
2. Connect Your Instagram Account to Facebook.
3. Timing Is Everything.
4. Take More Selfies.
5. Make Your Filter Schemes Part of Your Branding.
6. Explore the Full Range of Instagram Video Formats.
7. Be Yourself.
8. Like Other Posts.

Thank You

STRATEGY 1 : Post multiple photos
STRATEGY 2: Meaningful engagement, meaningful comments, direct message
STRATEGY 3: Using the right hashtags
STRATEGY 4: Do most that one post

GROWING YOUR INSTAGRAM: WHAT NOT TO DO
Of course, we need to quickly touch base on what you shouldn't do when trying to grow your account.
First, don't get too hung up on your numbers!
It's a slow game, and if you are checking your follower count every couple hours, you'll drive yourself mad seeing the number go up and down.
Secondly, set goals that are realistic.
Don't plan on reaching 10,000 followers in three months if you are just starting out.
Is it possible to reach that many followers in such a short amount of time?
I guess anything is possible, but to be honest, it's not the norm.
It's ok to grow slow. I personally don't know any bloggers who haven't spent at least a couple years growing their accounts to sizeable followings. So, less focus on the numbers!
Let's talk about some of the poor strategies that you should avoid when trying to grow your Instagram account in 2019:

FOLLOW TRAINS
A follow train is when you drop a link to your Instagram account somewhere, and everyone else who has left their link has to follow everyone.
These result in a whole bunch of random followers who likely don't care about your content.
In my Facebook group, Creative Girl Bosses and Bloggers I do a variation on this where I only require participants to follow five other accounts of their liking.
This ensures that people are only following accounts they like, so if you'd like to participate in a follow train, try to find ones like that. You don't get as many followers, but the followers you get will actually be engaging with your content.

NON-TARGETED GIVEAWAYS
Giveaways can be a great way to get more followers, but you can also end up with lots of non-targeted followers if the item you are giving away is too broad and appeals to too many people.
You might end up with a spike in new followers, but they probably won't interact with your content which will really hurt your account in the longrun.
If your followers aren't interacting with your content, the algorithm will stop showing your posts to as many people.
You should also read my story on how I ended up losing 3,000 followers after a poorly-planned giveaway.

GROWING YOUR INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT IN 2019
If you'd like to grow your Instagram account in 2019, remember that creating a community and engaging is going to be a huge factor in your success.
On top of taking the time to genuinely engage with others, you should also make sure your photos are appealing.

Hash Tags is very important facts for instagram followers. Instagram allowed 30 hash tags. Take to each post maximum tags with good content. Follow targeted audience and comment and like their post. And finally staying to active every day.

Here are Some Step You Can Use and You Will Definitely Growing Your Followers & Likes on Instagram.

Followers:-

1. Optimize Your Instagram Account.
2. Creating Content Your Audience Will Love And Interact With.
3. Use Popular and Trending Hashtags.
4. Try Videos, Live Videos, and Stories.
5. Start a Conversation.
6. Follow Other Users.
7. Use Instagram Stories.
8. Comment with a Question.

Likes:-

1. Share High-Quality Photos.
2. Connect Your Instagram Account to Facebook.
3. Timing Is Everything.
4. Take More Selfies.
5. Make Your Filter Schemes Part of Your Branding.
6. Explore the Full Range of Instagram Video Formats.
7. Be Yourself.
8. Like Other Posts.

Thank You.

Work on hashtags and engage with your followers when then comment on it.

Maybe the food niche is crowded.

You have to like and comment on a ton of posts, that helps a lot!

The things that you are following, Do works on Instagram as I'm also an Instagram user & use the same trick on Insta got the good result but if you are following the issue so yes there would be something serious as an Instagram algorithm.

So you need to understand the Instagram algorithm & and this may work for you.

you need to use regular story sharing and follow a recent follower by like and comments.

I madfe instragram account in 2019 but it look like i dont gets followers that i wanted.I tried everything but it is not working.

Try to do influencer marketing, as a initial stage that it will be more effective than any other thing.

best wishes
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You should try a promotion bot in order to succeed. Personally I've tried many of them and stopped on Ingramer. In comparison with others it's really great and it simplified my life a lot. As it saves time and does all the work for me.

Have you tried to use hashtag generator? Because you can't define which hashtags have been blocked by Instagram and to choose suitable ones. I like Ingramer hashtag generator. It's free and perfectly match images with related hashtags which work best for your growth.

Probably the most important question is how long have you been working on your instagram account for? Don't expect overnight success.

Always engage with other Instagram profiles that are relevant to your business and content. Always drop a comment on their posts. Be seen. They may not respond to you, but other users may notice you and follow you back.

Keep everything organic when it comes to followers. Yes it may take time, but it is worth it. Buying your way into Instagram won't really work with bots and fake profiles. This would only reflect a bad impression as well as most of the followers you have are just fakes. Plus keeping it organic saves you money as opposed to always buying followers.

Morning folks, I think it's no secret that instagram nowadays is the most popular network in the world and one of the biggest platforms for advertising and a lot of companies are gradually moving there and against this background have become popular services on automatic likes and comments for your account and in my opinion this is one of the most effective ways to promote your account and many use it and quite effectively.

Hi Smiljan,

Starting an Instagram page is not as easy as it looks. Let me tell you that one of the parts of a successful page is the content, but a marketing strategy is also equally important.

Now, As you have already set up your page, these are few things you should continuously be aware of for growth:

Be Findable: Use hashtags and tags

Promote Yourself

Create a proper plan and schedule for your content

Keep Finding What's Trendy

Run Contests

I hope this will help you out, Thanks!

One thing to note on Instagram is to always make your post unique. Do not repeat the same post, again and again, it can make your audience bored. the more attractive post is, the more your followers will grow.

Well, there are a lot of different applications and sites that help novice bloggers in search of an audience. All these sites do is help users with your interests find your page.