# Buying likes and followers affect engagement rate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Instagram Marketing\ **Created:** [February 14, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/buying-likes-and-followers-affect-engagement-rate/5257 "2017-02-14T17:12:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![BrandonBerner](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/brandonberner/32/9354_2.png) [@BrandonBerner](https://mpsocial.com/u/BrandonBerner)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/buying-likes-and-followers-affect-engagement-rate/5257/16 "2017-02-16T04:07:21Z")
> [@kvnsntosa](#): > > ouch, all of that you said was kinda, hurtful to read lol. all my mistakes were written there. Sorry for not sugar coating it for you. > [@kvnsntosa](#): > > so is there any thing i can do to recover my account ? i did make 2 subs account though (for my babyshop) but it doesnt seems having that much engagement as well.. could it be that its a shop ? you know, it doesnt really have much content like quotes, cute baby picture and stuff. mostly are baby blanket itself and with the baby (some), i also buy some likes probably around 100 to make sure it got featured in the hashtag (local industry so it wasnt hard to get featured with some likes) The more fake followers you purchased on an account the more damage that has been done to your engagement, and the harder it will be to recover it to a neutral state. Fake followers almost always drop over time, which will in fact increase your engagement rate slowly. If the fake followers are not dropping, then it would be better to create a second account to take over your main account if you cant restore it. You can refer to this post for more details [How to increase your Instagram Follower Activity?! - #12 by BrandonBerner](http://mpsocial.com/t/how-to-increase-your-instagram-follower-activity/5116/12) With shop or business accounts that dont have any good content to post (baby blankets), there is not really a point in trying to get lots of engagement since you dont really have anything visually to offer. The point of a business account with no good content to post is to showcase your products, gain the trust of potential customers, and generate additional traffic to your website and hopefully more sales. In this case, buying followers would increase your authority and gain the trust of your potential customers thus making it a good option to buy fake followers. In addition if you are following targeted users daily on this account, they will see your follow request, look at the profile, see how many followers you have (lots if you purchased more followers), and if its high, they will have more trust when clicking your link out of curiosity. You can also choose to create a new account (Highly recommended), which post daily tips for new mothers, and motivational pictures. This would grow much better than your store account. Grow it naturally and organically without buying followers on this account. In the BIO share your store account, and post an occasional picture promoting your store/store account. This account will be your promoting account. > [@kvnsntosa](#): > > oh and what about platform like [addmefast.com](http://addmefast.com)? AddMeFast and other platforms like this all contain a high amount of bot/fake accounts also. If you were to send followers to your accounts, you will notice most of the accounts have little to no posted pictures, and are following thosuands of accounts. This is because in order for Person A to get likes on their account, they need to first like/follow Person B. Person A does not want their follwing count to be 6,000 followers, so instead Person A will create a new account, and use this one to like/follow other accounts on AddMeFast to gain points. Then use the AddMeFast points to send likes/followers to their main account. In short, AddMeFast is NOT better than buying fake followers from a different source. --- _[View the full topic](https://mpsocial.com/t/buying-likes-and-followers-affect-engagement-rate/5257)._