Trying to reactivate old accounts, looking for advice

Hi all!

First time posting here and first time handling somewhat big accounts and trying to make something out of IG Marketing.
Been reading about some manual strategies, F/UF, hashtags and have tried a combination of different things including Jarvee but nothing seems to work. I bought a month ago 4 inactive pages (inactive since a year ago) and been trying to re-activate them and generate engagement and reach. The thing is, even when they were active the likes and reach seems pretty low to me but not even able to reach that again. One of the pages is 20k but has engagement similar to 5k accounts.

Here´s what I’ve been doing so far on each account:

  • 1 post per day at peak hours according to IG.
  • Use different hashtags I got from hashtagstack.
  • In every post I mention to follow my pages.
  • 4 rounds of liking recent posts on relevant HT and commenting on Top posts.
  • Sharing tagged posts on stories and answering every comment.
  • Answering all the DMs.
    I tried Jarvee with one account but after a couple days errors started showing, so decided to not use again.
    With F/UF I followed accounts that liked recent posts of competition for a week and UF the next one with no big difference from accounts my other accounts with no F/UF.

Hope you guys could share some ideas on what to try or keep doing and what might not work. The ER seemed pretty low for some accounts before I bought them so don’t know if they are really worth the try. I prefer to skip automation and to try for everything manual. Seen some competition with no HT and less followers get a lot more likes and comments, is there a chance they buy them to pump numbers? Engagement pods?

I’ll try to follow any advice you guys have and keep updates on whats working or not if someone is interested on reactivating old accounts.