07/05/2021
Message New Followers
You see, Instagram doesn’t actually show your posts to all of your followers. Only a percentage of your followers will see the post at first (the more engaged your followers are, the higher the percentage).
If those followers then engage positively with the post then it will be pushed to more followers and may land on the explore page or rank for hashtags you’ve included.
Like & comment on your follower’s posts
This is another way of reminding your followers of your account.
When you like and comment on their posts and they see your notification, as they’re already following you, they will be more inclined to return the favor.
Instagram will, of course, take note & your future content will then also be pushed higher up on their feed increasing your engagement.
Use Instagram Stories to build up your engagement
Instagram Stories are a great way of engaging your followers and building up some hype around your next post.
When followers watch your Instagram Stories, that relationship status I mentioned earlier comes into play once again. Instagram’s seeing that they’re watching your Stories & will take note by increasing
Them
Link new posts in your
Instagram allows you to do quite a lot with your Stories and you can even upload posts to your Stories. It could be some awesome posts from your followers that fit well with your audience, another way of building a relationship, or by sharing your own recent post.
Use Lower Competition hashtags
You can use up to 30 hashtags in your posts (use all 30!) and it doesn’t matter whether they’re in your caption or the first comment. I personally prefer to include them in the caption as they can take effect immediately.