About to give up, what did I do wrong?

[Alexnvo]

use “underscores” between words, because I thought they make the name easier to perceive. Or do you think that’s a bad idea?

if i thought it was a good idea i would not have said get rid of them.

Did you mean I should create two more accouts in the same niche but with different focus. For example, one account would post funny animal videos only . Something like that?

yes.

Did you mean I should post more videos which feature Western people or Western-culture related stuff?

yes.

Should these accounts be on different IP address, or does that matter?

gotta test.

[Molishparty]

Theres tons of different reasons why you are not getting as much engagement as the others (hashtags, caption, size of the profile and they also might be paying for their likes) also you will grow faster depending on the niche. My best repost account grew organically with no automation to over 150k in a bit over a year but I guess it was just a lucky niche or the right content, but some of my other accounts only got 2k followers max it really depends on a lot of factors.

I would create a few accounts in different niches and see which ones grow the fastest and concentrate on that one. Keep in mind there will always be someone who gets more likes then you so don’t be to harsh on yourself just make sure you have the right content and the right caption and it should work.

[abovetherim]

Thank you again.

You have talked about the mechanism and power of real “powerlikes” (not the BS ones like fuelgram/goso). Let’s say someone owns a network of big pages in my niche, would such a person sell “powerlikes” from his pages usually? Or do people like that usually have their own DM/engagement groups and only give likes to each other in the group?

[abovetherim]

1. Thank you a lot for the encourgagement and advice! Much appreciated!

2. And no, I wasn’t comparing mine with others or feeling frustrated because someone else gets more likes I just got the idea (from here lol) that 100 followers/day probably should be the minimum, so I must be doing it totally wrong.

3. Could I know how you grew your best repost account that fast without any automation? Did you simply post? How did you manage to have any growth in the beginning (before 5k let’s say) without automation?

Thank you again!

[Molishparty]

Back in the very beginning I was doing manual follow/unfollow until around 2500 followers than it just exploded with 300 follows a day later on ending up with 1000 follows a day in the best month (december last year) now its back to being pretty stable with 300-400 follows a day no automation no follow/unfollow, literally nothing apart from reposting great content twice a day.

Still no idea how to replicate that as I have never had any success with my other accounts which I have grown in a similar fashion. Again it could be just the right niche perhaps or the fact that I was reposting decent content twice a day every single day without any automation or a few factors that I am not aware off.

[DonPapo]

I have never been in a meme, jokes niche but my advice in seeking progress:

1. Learn from big accounts and seek inspiration
2. Check small profiles and find where they have high engagement on profiles and where not and analyse why not.
3. Ask your followers in DM what they would want to see more at your page and make a statistics and follow it.
4. Always have a motive. What I mean about that, your page has to have one big goal to look up to(not followers goal) but goal as a objective. What you want to be funny about, why you want to be funny about it and build some sort of “uniqueness” for your page. In our country its a saying “add a little bit salt and pepper” into known scheme and you will be better in it. Mix your own flair with known style and everything is better.
5. Have posts posted on same hours (ex. Everyday 12:00 and everyday 18:00) so your followers expect your post.
6. Only those who adapt and dont give up survive.(If it takes 1month or 3years, one day you will be the number 1 of niche).

Have a good day lad!

[Alexnvo]

et’s say someone owns a network of big pages in my niche, would such a person sell “powerlikes” from his pages usually? Or do people like that usually have their own DM/engagement groups and only give likes to each other in the group?

i cannot speak for them – ask em, you got nothing to lose and everything to gain,

[Cindy]

I just got the idea (from here lol) that 100 followers/day probably should be the minimum, so I must be doing it totally wrong.

That’s assuming f/uf I suppose. As you’re not using that, I wouldn’t take 100/day as granted at all.

[Cindy]

it just exploded with 300 follows a day later on ending up with 1000 follows a day in the best month (december last year) now its back to being pretty stable with 300-400 follows a day no automation no follow/unfollow, literally nothing apart from reposting great content twice a day.

This is crazy organic growth - are they mostly from hitting hashtag and explore? what’s your natural engagement rate on this account during its growth peak?

[Molishparty]

Yes it is hitting the explore page almost every time. The engagement rate was a lot higher back then up to 5% at around 100k now its declining a bit down to 2.9% at over 150 k follows.

Strangely a lot of people were following without likeing my posts first - makes me think that there was something about the logo (just a regular picture of the content i post) or the name making it come up on top in the searches, also when I changed the logo to a regular logo the follow rate was about 30%-40% lower.

I think it proves how important coming up on the searches is (with the right logo)

[Tradewolf]

[abovetherim]

Back in the very beginning I was doing manual follow/unfollow until around 2500 followers than it just exploded with 300 follows a day later on ending up with 1000 follows a day in the best month (december last year) now its back to being pretty stable with 300-400 follows a day no automation no follow/unfollow, literally nothing apart from reposting great content twice a day.

Still no idea how to replicate that as I have never had any success with my other accounts which I have grown in a similar fashion. Again it could be just the right niche perhaps or the fact that I was reposting decent content twice a day every single day without any automation or a few factors that I am not aware off.

Thank you a lot for the detailed answer! I was also doing the manual F/U until about 2k and stopped. The difference is I had been gaining like only 30 followers/day after that. I thought it would speed up as the page becomes bigger, but it was not the case. Lately it was like 10 followers a day for reasons I don’t understand. Meanwhile I had seen many accounts in my niche grow exactly as your best one did. I thought there must be a pattern about how to replicate that. That’s why I started this thread.

Would you mind me asking what niche your biggest repost acocunt is in?

[abovetherim]

Thank you so much for the suggestions and encouragement! Much appreciated!

Something about your point 4: I did start my page with the idea of posting short funny videos. But what I have noticed is that it seems the videos with “funny” content very very rarely get “popular” or viral. The ones which did do well were almost always about rare skills/people doing incredible things, which I occasionally uploaded. And from my study of the viral content pages, it seems almost always joke/funny content don’t do well either. So I have been thinking to switch focus actually.

[blu3n0va]

Just because they get 100k views doesnt mean you will as well.
You need a lot of engagement within the first hour or so. Post on the right time for your audience to maximize that.
Use hashtags to help get more reach, you can steal from competitors.

A lot of the viral videos pages use panels to boost the initial engagement “tricking” instagram into thinking the content is good so it gets pushed more and gains organic reach by using fake engagement, you never know what those guys are doing.
As long as your page is healthy you are good. Keep building on that momentum.
Post stories, better captions, CTA to follow, go live, engage with others but also your own audience.
There is so much behind how IG pushes content as well.
Once I started focusing on my page and my own audience I’m having way more success.

[abovetherim]

Thank you! I thought those fake likes etc. bought from panels wouldn’t help any more with the current IG algorithm? People also often warn that doing so would hurt your engagement in the long term? Another thing I heard from message boards like here is that most panels are having problems delivering likes after the recent IG update.

Are you saying those fake engagement still work actually?