Hi, friends! As I posted before Im disappointed with reach from feed (1000-2000 people see posts from feed on 11k account, didn’t change from when I was on 7k, 500-900 likes, growing with F/UF, M/S,no automation) so I’m searching for a ways to increase it. Can interacting with every follower from followers list help? I mean likes/comments/dms, so they’ll check my page and maybe interact back. Would Instagram count it as interest and show posts to them and more people next time? or my account is just dying (its 6 years old and had bad times without posting in 2016-2017 with 3k followers)?
I believe that first of all, before you start growing your account again, you should deal with fake followers. Try unfollowing or blocking them. You can automatically do that by using Jarvee. Cheers.
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I was thinking about removing ghost followers too, but don’t understand how to know if its a real ghost follower who see posts and don’t like/comment or someone who is not interacting just because Instagram don’t show posts for them?
Any automation tool may help you with this.
You simply need to be a bit creative.
Here are some examples.
Set your tool to unfollow any follower:
Who haven’t posted for X days.
Who hasn’t liked your 3 last posts.
Get the idea?
You simply consider any account who does not engage with your content as GHOST.
None engaging followers kill your engagement rate. All those you wanna get rid of.
If you can manage to setup JV correct, it’ll by far be the most powerfull public tool to target and get rid of Ghost followers, as it comes with tons of options for this purpose also.
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Thank you for answering, very helpful!! Is it possible that Instagram will think that I’m losing followers (because of deleting) and decrease post visibility thinking that its a boring acc with bunch of unfollowers? Like if I have 10% reach from feed with 10k it will still keep it at 10% or lower even If I’ll be on 5k with deleted ghosts. I just heard theories about this and don’t know how it turns out in practice.
And another question, does Jarvee make lists of such ghosts with usernames or links so I can go and delete them manually? (I just don’t want to put main acc on automation again)
Maybe. But even so this will only be temporary. Flags are “normally” lifted and then when things are back to normal you will be all good and with much better engagement rate.
As things go for insta, they will show your post to xx% of your followers, now the number of engagement from these xx% followers will decide if the algo will show your post to additional followers, since it seemed to be interesting for the first ones it showed it to.
And this keeps on going untill you eventually hit explorer page. And that is ofcourse your goal.
The trick here is to go sloooooowly and unfollow ghosts step by step. Do not go for 200+ unfollows a days as things are right now. I would honestly say keep it on the safe side and go with 75-100 daily. Now we might have skillede people who may do many more. But for you to be safe go easy.
Yes. You can ask JV to scrape user who haven’t done xxxxxx, then export the scraped list and manually do the business.
Great luck to you mate 
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I wouldn’t do the ghost follower cleaning. Would mark your account more in the red imo and will permanently hurt you…
How often are you posting? You using any reels?
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oh… thats scary 
in average Im posting once in 3-4 days, I cant do it more often because content based on my handmade figurines which take time to make, so I dont want to spam with same figurines often afraiding that it will decrease activity more. I dont use reels because we dont have them in my country yet
That is why optimizing sources (semi-manual) by engagement increase over follow-back-ration is so important. I would start by checking how many of those likers are actually your followers.
Jarvee has all kinds of extraction functionalities to support you with that task. If you just want to unfollow inactive users, you can just use the built-in Jarvee function.
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I would have suggested reel, but since it’s a 11K account and depending on how many bot and ghost followers it may have, my experience says reels won’t do the trick.
Usually on “smaller” accounts reel or any other newly implemented feature by IG is a perfect workaround for IG ER issues
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Thank you for answering! what should I do next when I figure out who is following me and liking and who is not?Because I believe I have some percent of likes from people who came from M\S and F\UF just to like without following
Oh, we don’t have reels in my country yet 
Ive been cleaning my account from ghosts and bots in 2018, then stopped afraiding of decrease of reach. Now everyday activity stats in IG saying that 7,8-8k of my followers are active everyday, I dont know if its good or bad
Ever shared yourself documenting how you make them? Sharing a bit on the delicateness of it? Or choosing your tools, materials, etc. Ppl usually like to see that kinda stuff cuz it makes what you doore interesting.
If you put on a “Gary Vee” hat 
(document vs create), it could help you publish more content easier. Plus, letting your audience be the judge if your content is good or not.
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This is actually a very nice idea and different. Like involving your followers throughout the entire process. Definately a different move and tempting for followers of your niche @alexx
You have always had those gold grains @tripleyourtribe 
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Its a great idea! Thank you! I tried process videos before but they got not good reach but seen from explore by more people than usual posts, I’ll try more, thank you again!
@Micky @tripleyourtribe but what should I finally do with ghost followers?opinions are divided
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Now you see, don’t complicate things for yourself my friend
Having several options shouldn’t be that bad.
If I was you, I would go with plan A:
@tripleyourtribe option first for a period of time. I would see if that helps.
If it does, you keep doing it. If it doesn’t, you go to plan B.
Getting rid of ghosts.
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@Micky thank you very much, friend! can I countinue M\S and F\UF while doing plan A? It wouldnt hurt, right?
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Anything is possible. But look at the whole process as a journey and not a race.
Anything is possible. But make sure to behave human and not like automation. Any automation like behaviour can be flagged.
Avoid doing things in blocks as much as possible. Spread everything out. Slowly find your sweetspot. That goes for both automation and manual engagement.
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Thank you! You are bringing hope back 
I was thinking that my account is cursed by IG, or already killed and cant be recovered, because its old and hit explore only once or two unlike competitors with almost same content
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Staying as a personal page has brought me my best results
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