To gain Instagram followers fast, these are the 3 areas you should focus on:
1. Content
2. Hashtags
3. Community engagement
Focusing on these 3 areas is enough for you to grow your account fast. Of course, sharing your Instagram account on other social media platform also helps a lot.
Another commonly used method is the 'follow/unfollow' method, whereby you follow a bunch of people (preferably followers from a similar niche account), wait and see if they follow back, and unfollow those who doesn't follow you back.
While this may work, I didn't use this method at all because I don't want to get followers who follow me for the sake of following back.
I follow those who give decent comments (on my account or other's account) and those whose content I am interested in.
I've read that an account may be flagged by Instagram if it has a lot of follow/unfollow in a day. You'd probably get more followers, but less engagement as these followers followed you because you followed them, not because they are interested in your content. So I don't recommend this method.
There is also such as buying followers. It didn't even cross my mind to do this, because like the follow/unfollow method, engagement would most probably be low because they are not even interested in your content. Your account may look 'good' because it has many followers, but you won't benefit much from them.
Hope you find this training useful! Do give a like and share you thought in the comments below!
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Benson
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I definitely have some thinking and work to do! Thanks!
All the best,
Fred.
1. What is the purpose of hashtags, how do I access it, & are FB, twitter, and Instagram hashtags connected?
2. What is the difference between story and just submitting pictures or videos?
3. Can you put Hashtags in story?
Thank you again for the great training!
Ha --
For example, right now If you go into Instagram or twitter and tap in #Covid19, it would bring up everything - posts and images - related to this current situation.
1. What is the purpose of hashtags, how do I access it, & are FB, twitter, and Instagram hashtags connected?
Isaiah explained it! Hashtags lets others discover posts on the said hashtags. But like I mentioned in the training, some hashtags are too vast because millions of people use them, for example #love. If you use that, and someone search for #love, you post would be buried among millions of other posts.
As far as I know, hashtags are not connected across social media platforms. Using the same hashtag across IG, Twitter and FB would only show you their respective content; if you type #love on IG, then it would show posts that has #love in their caption, if you type #love on twitter, it will show you tweets with #love in them.
2. What is the difference between story and just submitting pictures or videos?
Insta Story only last for 24hr, afterwhich you can save it as a highlight on your profile page, or it will just disappear from your profile (and only you can access it if you want to). If you upload an image or video on instagram as a post, it stays on your profile page.
3. Can you put Hashtags in story?
You can, but I don't think it can be found when someone search for a hashtag. In the search hashtag option on Instagram, I only saw image and video posts.
Hope these helps, and if anyone who reads this has anything to add or correct, please do so!
Idris =D
We're you logged into twitter in your account when you searched? In the search box, when I first start typing in the characters "#Co" - it will bring up either Covid19, coffee, or other possible tags that start with "co".
For me, I've still yet to start YouTube videos as I'm kinda apprehensive about my accent, and that I'm not that good at video editing. But I'm planning to just do it anyways and just learn along the way. That's my next target! Starting a YouTube channel.
Marc
