@Adnan ok guys sorry for that i am new one hire, so can somebody heps me with my insta acount ???
@Adnan @BrandonBerner Hallo, gabrielgv88 is my account name you are welcome to give it a look.
I am from a little and not so popular European country, which has nevertheless incredibly beautiful nature called Bulgaria, in case you don’t know where it is situated, it’s next to Black Sea.
The thing is that I have the iconosquare app and have made my account into a business one but when I saw the analyses of my audience, I found out that the engagement is mostly from Bulgarians and thus is not so high, considering that Instagram is not so popular here. I am thus wondering if there is any way to expand my engagement and appeal to a wider audience in places where Instagram is definitely more popular like the US, Russia, UK, Brazil and others? (obviously, it has to do with hashtags, but Im wondering exactly what types of hashtags, and maybe aiming for specific time zone release and other stuff like that??)
Also, I am curious about the mass planner method of account development, does it function only by following and unfollowing other accounts or can it happen in other ways?
Thank you guys for the attention and I am looking forward to your answers 
Hey @gabrielgnchv from what I can understand, you would like to target a larger audience from the USA, Russia, UK, Brazil, and others.
There are a few different ways to do this:
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Make sure to use the correct language in your posts to target the right audeince
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You can use hashtags like #Russia #UK #Brazil #USA
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You can find accounts that have a large audience of people from Russia, UK, Brazil, or USA These accounts can be sports teams, country specific stores or restaurants, high schools, college, university, etc.
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Calculate the time zone difference, and make sure you are posting pictures when people in your target country are awake.
For example, I live In Canada, and I am posting from 10am-6pm (Pacific Time). When I post my pictures between 10am-6pm, in China the posts will be seen between 2am-10am which is NOT effective. I will need to post from 6pm-6am (Pacific Time), this way people in China will see my post between 10am-10pm.
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Hey brandon, this is the first post I’ve read here and I’m very interested in having you find hash tags for me.
Hi @neesmo welcome to MPSocial!
I will be more than happy to provide you with Hashtag Research.
Please Click Here to be directed to the MarketPlace to see the Hashtag Research Service
I recently had a post make it the Explore page of many non-followers. Prior to this my average likes would be about 1.2k with ~30% engagement. The post that went viral received 6.2k (as of this writing) which is absolutely insane to me.
I used the hashtag method here posted by BrandonBrener. I feel like the method played a large part of making it to the Explore page so I felt compelled to share my experience.
My account is 2 months old with ~4k followers/followings, which convinces me that account age doesn’t play a factor, but avg number of likes does (more on that later).
One important thing to note (that might throw everything off) is that my post was for an editing contest. The picture was provided by a pro photographer and I added my personal touches to it (another side note, I’m not good at editing so don’t think my pic stood out 
). As of this writing there are ~2000 posts. I don’t think I received many likes from the other submitters, since I myself didn’t want to upvote the competition.
My takeaway (which is essentially what BrandonBrener explains): most of the hashtags should have a ‘small’ amount of postings (<100k) but you also need your average number of likes to be the same or more than the posts in the Top section.
This wasn’t my hashtag method prior to last week so now I see the difference. For the contest, I purposefully inserted hashtags that had a small number of posts and average likes. I thought I wouldn’t get as many likes because my followers wouldn’t see it as a ‘real’ post. I ran out of the ‘small’ hashtags and was forced to use ‘large’ ones (about 7). Not sure if it matters, but about 98% of the contest participants did not have average number of likes above 1k.
Anyway, long story short, my post took the usual amount of time to get to my average of 1.2k likes. However, instead of tapering off, the likes kept coming and got even more frequent than usual. Comments did not grow at the same rate, but I did read/reply to all of them which made me realize the post was on the Explore page (a non-follower specifically commented she found my post that way). I did not post another pic until 4 days later, which was around the time I noticed drop-off in activity. It was a fun and interesting time to say the least. 
I’ve only had this one experience, but I am surprised what hashtag research can bring. You’re not always going hit one out of the park, but it’s worth the time/effort. I am not a customer of BrandonBerner but I will say his service should demonstrate immediate value because I basically did what he outlined here. At least until IG changes their algorithms 
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Happy to see that my hashtag method has worked well for you 
Congratulations on getting 6.2k likes (so far) on your post featured in the explore section.
Hello Brandon,
Thank you for the great post! Your hashtags has helped me a lot in some of my niche accounts which I used between 50-200k hashtags, since they do have good engagement
I was wondering about new accounts though with no followers or likes. Should I use less popular hashtags under 50k or should I use below 100k? Thank you
So glad you found my post helpful 
Absolutely. If you are starting a brand new account, you need to use un-popular hashtags that have Top Posts with around 50-150 likes. Then slowly use hashtags that have pictures in the Top Posts with around 100-200 likes and so on.
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Great tips @BrandonBerner !
I used 17 less popular hashtags and till 30 hashtags I used popular hashtags
Didnt measured exactly what engament I got from the hashtags but the picture got in 7 Top Less Popular sections ( I think is around 4-5 hours there as it got only 200 likes )
My regular likes are around 170-220/picture at around 2625 fallowers with 1-2 pictures posted/day but didnt got featured in top posts before 
I didnt mentioned that my niche is travel
Because its my first time doing hashtags research I will post them here, maybe you have an opinion over them ( I put the post count too to make it much easy )
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Hey @exod Happy to hear you found this topic useful.
Congratulations on getting featured in the Top Post section also
After looking at your hashtags, I would recommend using more that are less popular. You are using to many popular hashtags, which you cant get featured under yet, so its basically wasted hashtags. I recommend posting 25 less popular hashtags which receive similar engagement to your posts. Then add 5 more popular hashtags which are a bit more hard to get featured under. As your engagement increases, begin to slowly lower the less popular hashtags, and increase the more popular hashtags.
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Started researching more less popular hashtags and keeping count of the time in the most recent posts
This is how I filter them
Keeping those between 40 and 60 minutes ( this is the time of the last image in the most recent posts )
and then filtering them again using https://displaypurposes.com/
After 2 filterings for the hastags I test them and see.
Hope this is the right way to create a research
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Thank you very much!
I will start adding small hashtags for my new accounts
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Keep in mind, at different times, there may be a high amount of users posting with a specific hashtags. Although you are recording how long a picture remains in the Most Recent section, it will not be accurate since its based on the time of the day which you checked that. If you wanted to be more accurate, you can check periodically throughout the day for a week. Then add all the numbers, and divide them by the amount of times you checked to get an average.
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You are more than welcome! Feel free to share your results here after a few days of using small (less popular) hashtags.
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Will do the check everyday as the top accounts in the most popular section will be my targets too
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This is not true. I have several posts in the top 9 across multiple hashtags, including re-posts of my photos by others who used my hashtags.
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I can confirm this
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