Great idea! Keep me updated as to how your testing goes!
What are you restrictions with this method in terms of determining the quality of those who have engaged? (Follower/following ratio, profile photo, bio words, etc)
Basically, what Iâm trying to determine: A lot of engagement is faked with Fuelgram and comment/like pods, so if youâre seeing repetitive engagers how can you rule out that theyâre not âreallyâ engaged users and just trying to grow with those sorts of things?
Iâd be concerned that repeat engagement would be due to that, unless youâve got some super fans following those accounts⌠I find it rare (at least going from my own personal page that I monitor) to have frequent engagement from the same people on a regular basis. Maybe over time, but not the last 10-20 posts, going by your example.
Hi Ian - that is a valid concern.
What I would say is that, I donât think many of the scraped users are those that are faking engagement via bots. The reason is if they are engaging on posts from accounts that they already follow I doubt this would be fake engagement. What would be the point of setting a bot to like the posts from an account you already follow (i dont see how this helps an account grow)?
Letâs say youâre right and these are âfake engagersâ, I would hypothesize that they would not end up following your account if you targeted them since there might be nothing in it for them to do so, Thus, the would get weeded out and you wouldnât end up with a non-engaged follow from them.
Lastly, I would say you can combine this strategy with the Jarvee scrape tool to check to see if they are engaging in YOUR posts after you target them and they follow you. Remove any that are not engaging if desired.
I already wrote what Ian wrote a few comments before but you ignored it.
In my opinion, this strategy would be only effective if the commenters in the last 20 posts are different at a certain percentage, letâs say 70%.
If your target is an account which tries to grow and you find many repetitive comments in the last 20 posts is more than sure that the owner is participating in engagement pods/groups. In that case the users may follow you and comment to you but if you donât offer back the same to them, they will happily unfollow you very soon.
On the other hand, if youâre sure youâre targeting a clear account, which does not use fake engagement methods, eg fewer comments under each post but real (there are so many such accounts) and different commenters in each post, then the commenters are more likely to follow you from real interest and engage with you.
Yes, you have nothing to lose, but itâs so much waste of resource scraping these data if you focus only to the criterion of the same commenters. Itâs easier to participate in an engagement group in the first place.
Plus, liking with a bot accounts that we already follow, we already do that through J for strategical reasons, arenât we? Engage with followers is good.
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This is not necessarily true. I have real followers who comment pretty much the same thing on all my posts (I donât do engagement groups). I love them, itâs like automatic engagement.
Itâs hard to identify accounts that use engagement group in my opinion. Best I can do is if the follow back rate is low from the engagers of an account after 50 follows, I just assume they are fake engagements and stop wasting time with rest of engagers of that account.
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In some cases it may be hard but I could just DM you a number of accounts for which is obvious that they use groups and others for which is obvious that they donât.
sure, I would be interested in how you spot them.