This guide explains how to earn and keep around 100 Instagram followers by actively participating in the community and posting often.
Steps
Step 1. Like hundreds of photos and comment on them
Empirical evidence suggests that for every 100 photos you like, you will gain around 6 followers. Participating even more actively with comments, even if it takes time, improves your chances of gaining followers.
You can also get a similar effect by following other accounts
Step 2. Post at least one photo per day
In this way, you will keep the interest of the users who follow you alive.
Step 3. Reply to the comments below your photos
Especially in the beginning, Instagram users can lose interest and stop following your profile after a day or less if you don't actively respond to their comments.
This level of participation, just like liking tons of other users' photos, takes a tremendous amount of time. You may even need to dedicate an hour or two of your days just to interactions with your followers
Step 4. Connect the Instagram profile to your other social network accounts
You can do this within the app settings. By adding other accounts (such as Facebook) to your Instagram information, you will increase the visibility of your posts to users who do not use this platform or who do not know your Instagram profile.
- For example, by linking your Facebook account to your Instagram account, you will notify all your Facebook friends who use both platforms that you are on Instagram. As a result, they may decide to follow you.
- Once you have connected another social account to Instagram, you will have the possibility to publish your photos on both platforms at the same time (e.g. both on Twitter and on Instagram). This allows you to make your photos visible to more users.
Step 5. Enter contests on Instagram with your photos
By winning a contest you will get a lot of exposure for your account, thereby increasing the number of followers. Some of the most popular contests include:
- JJ Community. Each day, this account posts a new theme. You will have to propose a photo related to the theme and a moderator will choose the best one. Consider that more than 600 thousand people follow this account, so you will have to compete against a lot of users.
- Contestgram. After downloading the Contestgram app from your phone's app store, you will be able to participate in daily contests. Contestgram, like JJ Community, is also a project based on community participation.
- Entering daily contests is a great way to make sure you're uploading high-quality, interesting photos at least once a day. Furthermore, having to respect a theme, it will be easier to find inspiration to take pictures.
Step 6. Use the most popular hashtags in your photo descriptions
To get started you can check out the list of the 100 trending hashtags or you can simply experiment with various types of tags to see which ones allow you to earn the most likes.
Some of the popular hashtags include "photooftheday", "instaphoto", "nofilter" and "followforfollow" (or "f4f")
Step 7. Add a geotag to your photos
You can do this when you write the photo caption during the upload process by selecting Add Location and following the instructions. By adding a location to your photos, it will appear when users search for that location.
This is known as "geotagging". To avoid problems, do not use geotags when you are at home or indicating a different area than where the photo was taken
Step 8. Publish during peak times
The periods of greatest use of Instagram vary from day to day, but on average if you post at 2:00 and 17:00 you will be able to reach more users with your photos.
9:00 and 18:00 are considered the worst times to post
Step 9. Schedule posts in advance
Consistency is the most important aspect of attracting Instagram users, but also very difficult to maintain. To solve this problem there are many applications, available for iOS and Android devices, which allow you to schedule Instagram posts in advance.
"Latergramme", "Schedugram" and "TakeOff" are highly rated apps that can manage your Instagram posts
Step 10. Continue interacting with the community
People love to feel part of your creative process, so tag them in your posts, keep uploading daily, and replying to comments. If you adopt these strategies consistently, you will reach 100 followers in no time.
Advice
While this is considered bad taste, you can buy Instagram followers in batches of about 100. Many of these followers will disappear after a certain period, so this is not an effective long-term strategy
Warnings
- Purchased followers often leave no comments or likes on your posts.
- Never reveal your password to websites or apps trying to sell you followers.
- When buying followers on the internet, be sure to read the seller's privacy policies (as well as terms and conditions) carefully, so that you know exactly what to expect and how they will use your personal information.
