05-26-2016, 04:05 AM
The first part you can find here:
The Beginner's Guide to Instagram
Okay, you choose a niche, now lets see how you can grow your account.
Content for your accounts
What I do is to contact people in my niche who are creating content that will fit in my niche. Just use Instagram search and look for them. Find 20-30 of those people and try to find their contacts. Some use Kik, some use mail, snapchat, etc.,etc.. Save their usernames and their contacts in a file. Later contact them all, tell them something like this " Hey, you have a great account! I was wondering .... will you allow me to post your content in my page ? I will give you credit back - always! " If people refuse to give your content ( because your account is freshly created and brings no value to them ) You can always find a big page in your niche and take content from there. Just so you can start.
What I use to download content from IG - app called EasyDownloader. It's free and allows you to download images and videos from Instagram. You can find it in google play for android. I have no idea if they support iOs. If not do your research for similar app to get the job done.
I wan't to mention: Even if you take content from pages in your niche a.k.a your competitors, always try to find the original source of the content and give credit to that person - not the page you took the content from. But even if you give credit to the creator, it's still against Instagram ToS. And if someone report for copyrights, Instagram will remove your post. That's why you need to find people who will give you the rights to post their stuff.
How to grow your account
Not this is the interesting part =) You have three ways to grow your account:
Paid way:
At the moment Like boosts work best. Find 1m+ pages in your niche, 99% of them will have contact in Bio. If not, take a look if they have a site. And contact them thru that site. Find 15-20 of those pages and write down username + contact details. Ask them how much cost a single Like from them, how much cost 5 Likes, weekly Like boosts, monthly....
NOTE: Now is the time to explain you why you wan't to pay for Likes and not for a shoutouts. Pay attention now! When you open your Instagram app and tap on the heart icon, you will see "FOLLOWING" and "YOU" at the top. At the YOU section, you can check what is going on in your account, who's liking your posts, who is commenting, who just started to follow you... at FOLLOWING section, you can check what the people you are following are doing. The normal users are checking that FOLLOWING feed, believe me, they are not marketers, like you and me. They are interested what the people they follow are doing. Because the average user follow friends, family, girlfriend, boyfriend, their cats, dogs.... They are normal users! Humans in nature are curious beings. The normal users will wan't to know what their people are doing, the will check the FOLLOWING feed, trust me. So, lets pretend for a second that you trust me about this FOLLOWING feed and users actually check that section.... Now imagine what is going to happen when 1m page like your post. Do you get it ? Your post will explode, people will like it, comment on it, follow you ( in case they like what you are posting, this is why the content is King, okay ? )
This is why you wan't to buy likes, not shoutouts.
If you understand how the Likes work, let me continue. If you still don't get it, read again, please. You need to understand it, because this information is the key for our growing, we will use growing methods based on this knowledge in the future threads I plan to write.
I'll take that you understand how the Like system in Instagram works. Now, there are few factors that would make this Like system even better. You need to explain to the guy, who is going to boost your posts: " Is it possible, before you like my post, NOT to like anything ONE HOUR before that and after you like my post, NOT TO like anything ONE HOUR after that ? " The reason is simple, pay attention.
If a page likes 3-4 posts, the people who follow that page can check FOLLOWING feed and they will see 3-4 small pictures, that that page has liked. So their attention is not focused. Do you understand ? They have to choose on which picture to tap. They might NOT choose your picture. Okay ? Bad stuff. The reason you ask for 1 hour before and one hour after is because if I like something right now, in the next 1 hour my followers will be able to see what I've liked. So I want the feed of that page I pay for likes to be clear, before they give me the like. I wan't their followers to focus ONLY on my post. I wan't the maximum I can get from that like = my money. If those people does not agree on those terms - ignore them and look for other page.
At the moment 90% of the people who owns a big page(s) don't know how the Like system works, if you are a lucky, you will find a page(s) who will charge very cheap, just because their lack of knowledge.
Important ! You already know how the like system works. So you probably figured out why you MUST NEVER LIKE a random posts. I can't stress enough how important this is. Just do not like anything that is not yours or nobody is paying you to. You will share your "juice" ( if you are into SEO, you would know ) with someone random person over the network. Liking something random is bringing you just harm. NO value at all.
Okay, this was the paid way, lets continue....
Free way of growing:
If you are going to grow you account using free techniques, just read. You have two option here:
Now it really depend what you are trying to achieve with Instagram. I'll share my experience and you can choose your way.
Manual - If you wan't the fastest result, this is your way. I grow accounts only by follow/unfollow people. You already know why I don't use likes. The comments are useless at this point. So, look for big pages similar to yours and not down their usernames. Find 5-6 of those and you are good to go. Pich the first page in your list and follow 20-30 people. Ignore people with no profile picture. If they don't even have profile pic, the are not really interested in Instagram. After you follow those 30 people, jump on the next page in your list and again follow 20-30 people. And again with the next page. You wan't to do this, because the follow back rate will be much higher than if you just mass follow the followers from one page. The reason is simple - the big pages ( 1-2m + ) are getting followers every min, so when you follow their most recent followers ( yes, those at the top are the recent ) there is a big chance the people you follow to be still online. That mean they will get life time notification that someone is following them. Got it ? =) Better follow back rate.
NOTE: Okay, Instagram has limits on everything. Follow, unfollow, commenting, like.... Depending how old your account is the limits are different. For example:
Fresh account ( 1 month old ) - Daily follows 200, Unfollow 200 ( we don't care about the rest, because it's useless )
Old account ( 1 year + ) - Daily limits can go from 600 to 3000 about follow and same about unfollow. But to stay under the radar, you better don't follow and unfollow more than 600 people daily.
Now... remember when I said that if you wan't the fastest way of growing the manual way is your way ? Now you will understand why. If you are botting, Instagram knows. Period. So if you are doing manual follow/unfollow your limits are HIGH. If you are botting, your limits are 3x lower. That mean if you are botting and try to reach the manual limits, you will get temp. block of the tasks. Temp. blocks are rising red flags, you don't want that. So if you are botting, you will do 3x less follow/unfollow. You just don't have other option. I said manual is fastest way, I didn't say it's the easier, okay ?
I was using an app called HiroMacro to automate just my unfollowing. HeroMacro is like iMacro but for mobile. All you need to do is to download the app, install it on your mobile device, start it and open Instagram app. Now head the the section "following". Scroll down to the bottom and press your Volume Down button. You will activate the app. Tap on the red button where it says "Record". Now record how you unfollow few people ( or just one ) and again click your volume down button. Your actions have been recorded. Now open HiroMacro and at the bottom left corner you will see a pencil and a paper icon. Click there. You will see a file called Record_124236.txt or something. Hold your finger on it and click Edit. Now this is your code. There are tons of information in internet how to work with HiroMacro. If you need to tune your script, just watch some YT videos.
Okay... some of you may say " but you said automation is not good and Instagram know this ". Using HiroMacro and not some third parties ( like Instagress or the other web based IG automation services ) won't reduce your follow/unfollow limits, just because you are using directly the Instagram app. Okay ?
Automated - I have tested every program, tool ,web based service that the marketplace has to offer. My favorite was Followliker. It's cheap, one time payment program. You can automate as many accounts you like, there are tons of filters and settings. The creators are keeping up to date their product. I will create A to Z guide how to work with Followliker very soon.
Mix way of growing:
You can do follow/unfollow ( manual or automated ) and pay for Like boosts at the same time. I prefer this, because it really speed up the growing. Remember when I said the manual way of growing is the fastest ? I lied :( his is the fastest way - paying for boosts and manual doing follow/unfollow.
You probably are wondering at what point you should stop growing your account ( paid, free of mix ). Well, your goal is to start driving organic followers. You are driving organic followers when all you need to do is to post 6-7 times a day and get 1000+ ( sky is the limit ) followers a day. And you drive organic followers when you reach the Explore page in IG. To reach explore page in IG, you need to get at least 1500 likes on your post IN THE FIRST HOUR. That usually mean you need to have 50 - 100k account. So you are thinking why it can be 50k ... and why 100k .... it's a freaking big difference ?! It's very simple, listen:
If you are doing only follow/unfollow to grow your account, you will do about 600 follows daily. From those 600 people, if your follow back rate is 50% you will get 300 followers. But when tomorrow you unfollow them, around 100 will unfollow you too. So you have 200 followers. From those 200 followers 80% followed you back, just because " hmm, I'll follow him back, so he don't unfollow me, because I didn't followed back, I am an attention whore, so It's important for me a lot people to follow my Selfie account, where I am doing duck faces " Okay ? Those 80% are not very interested in your page. So 80% of 200 is 160. The rest 20% - 40 are interested in what you are posting, those 40 people will give you likes, comments and all that. So daily with doing follow/unfollow you are taking 40 people, who are important for you.
Are you still with me ?? Now listen what is happening if you buy Like boosts:
EVERY single person who follows you without you follow him is highly interested in your page. This person won't leave you, because he saw that you have unfollowed him, just because you never did followed him.... Do you understand ? This person will like and comment on your new posts. He is your loyal follower. He came alone and choose to follow you. He knows that the pages rarely follow back, he is not following you because he's hoping to get a follow back from you. He just like your page and he wan't to see his feed full of your posts. Do you understand why there is a difference between 50k and 100k account ? The quality of the followers. This is what make the difference.
Okay ? =))))
The Beginner's Guide to Instagram
Okay, you choose a niche, now lets see how you can grow your account.
Content for your accounts
What I do is to contact people in my niche who are creating content that will fit in my niche. Just use Instagram search and look for them. Find 20-30 of those people and try to find their contacts. Some use Kik, some use mail, snapchat, etc.,etc.. Save their usernames and their contacts in a file. Later contact them all, tell them something like this " Hey, you have a great account! I was wondering .... will you allow me to post your content in my page ? I will give you credit back - always! " If people refuse to give your content ( because your account is freshly created and brings no value to them ) You can always find a big page in your niche and take content from there. Just so you can start.
What I use to download content from IG - app called EasyDownloader. It's free and allows you to download images and videos from Instagram. You can find it in google play for android. I have no idea if they support iOs. If not do your research for similar app to get the job done.
I wan't to mention: Even if you take content from pages in your niche a.k.a your competitors, always try to find the original source of the content and give credit to that person - not the page you took the content from. But even if you give credit to the creator, it's still against Instagram ToS. And if someone report for copyrights, Instagram will remove your post. That's why you need to find people who will give you the rights to post their stuff.
How to grow your account
Not this is the interesting part =) You have three ways to grow your account:
- Paid
- Free
- Mix
Paid way:
At the moment Like boosts work best. Find 1m+ pages in your niche, 99% of them will have contact in Bio. If not, take a look if they have a site. And contact them thru that site. Find 15-20 of those pages and write down username + contact details. Ask them how much cost a single Like from them, how much cost 5 Likes, weekly Like boosts, monthly....
NOTE: Now is the time to explain you why you wan't to pay for Likes and not for a shoutouts. Pay attention now! When you open your Instagram app and tap on the heart icon, you will see "FOLLOWING" and "YOU" at the top. At the YOU section, you can check what is going on in your account, who's liking your posts, who is commenting, who just started to follow you... at FOLLOWING section, you can check what the people you are following are doing. The normal users are checking that FOLLOWING feed, believe me, they are not marketers, like you and me. They are interested what the people they follow are doing. Because the average user follow friends, family, girlfriend, boyfriend, their cats, dogs.... They are normal users! Humans in nature are curious beings. The normal users will wan't to know what their people are doing, the will check the FOLLOWING feed, trust me. So, lets pretend for a second that you trust me about this FOLLOWING feed and users actually check that section.... Now imagine what is going to happen when 1m page like your post. Do you get it ? Your post will explode, people will like it, comment on it, follow you ( in case they like what you are posting, this is why the content is King, okay ? )
This is why you wan't to buy likes, not shoutouts.
If you understand how the Likes work, let me continue. If you still don't get it, read again, please. You need to understand it, because this information is the key for our growing, we will use growing methods based on this knowledge in the future threads I plan to write.
I'll take that you understand how the Like system in Instagram works. Now, there are few factors that would make this Like system even better. You need to explain to the guy, who is going to boost your posts: " Is it possible, before you like my post, NOT to like anything ONE HOUR before that and after you like my post, NOT TO like anything ONE HOUR after that ? " The reason is simple, pay attention.
If a page likes 3-4 posts, the people who follow that page can check FOLLOWING feed and they will see 3-4 small pictures, that that page has liked. So their attention is not focused. Do you understand ? They have to choose on which picture to tap. They might NOT choose your picture. Okay ? Bad stuff. The reason you ask for 1 hour before and one hour after is because if I like something right now, in the next 1 hour my followers will be able to see what I've liked. So I want the feed of that page I pay for likes to be clear, before they give me the like. I wan't their followers to focus ONLY on my post. I wan't the maximum I can get from that like = my money. If those people does not agree on those terms - ignore them and look for other page.
At the moment 90% of the people who owns a big page(s) don't know how the Like system works, if you are a lucky, you will find a page(s) who will charge very cheap, just because their lack of knowledge.
Important ! You already know how the like system works. So you probably figured out why you MUST NEVER LIKE a random posts. I can't stress enough how important this is. Just do not like anything that is not yours or nobody is paying you to. You will share your "juice" ( if you are into SEO, you would know ) with someone random person over the network. Liking something random is bringing you just harm. NO value at all.
Okay, this was the paid way, lets continue....
Free way of growing:
If you are going to grow you account using free techniques, just read. You have two option here:
- Manual
- Automated
- Mix
Now it really depend what you are trying to achieve with Instagram. I'll share my experience and you can choose your way.
Manual - If you wan't the fastest result, this is your way. I grow accounts only by follow/unfollow people. You already know why I don't use likes. The comments are useless at this point. So, look for big pages similar to yours and not down their usernames. Find 5-6 of those and you are good to go. Pich the first page in your list and follow 20-30 people. Ignore people with no profile picture. If they don't even have profile pic, the are not really interested in Instagram. After you follow those 30 people, jump on the next page in your list and again follow 20-30 people. And again with the next page. You wan't to do this, because the follow back rate will be much higher than if you just mass follow the followers from one page. The reason is simple - the big pages ( 1-2m + ) are getting followers every min, so when you follow their most recent followers ( yes, those at the top are the recent ) there is a big chance the people you follow to be still online. That mean they will get life time notification that someone is following them. Got it ? =) Better follow back rate.
NOTE: Okay, Instagram has limits on everything. Follow, unfollow, commenting, like.... Depending how old your account is the limits are different. For example:
Fresh account ( 1 month old ) - Daily follows 200, Unfollow 200 ( we don't care about the rest, because it's useless )
Old account ( 1 year + ) - Daily limits can go from 600 to 3000 about follow and same about unfollow. But to stay under the radar, you better don't follow and unfollow more than 600 people daily.
Now... remember when I said that if you wan't the fastest way of growing the manual way is your way ? Now you will understand why. If you are botting, Instagram knows. Period. So if you are doing manual follow/unfollow your limits are HIGH. If you are botting, your limits are 3x lower. That mean if you are botting and try to reach the manual limits, you will get temp. block of the tasks. Temp. blocks are rising red flags, you don't want that. So if you are botting, you will do 3x less follow/unfollow. You just don't have other option. I said manual is fastest way, I didn't say it's the easier, okay ?
I was using an app called HiroMacro to automate just my unfollowing. HeroMacro is like iMacro but for mobile. All you need to do is to download the app, install it on your mobile device, start it and open Instagram app. Now head the the section "following". Scroll down to the bottom and press your Volume Down button. You will activate the app. Tap on the red button where it says "Record". Now record how you unfollow few people ( or just one ) and again click your volume down button. Your actions have been recorded. Now open HiroMacro and at the bottom left corner you will see a pencil and a paper icon. Click there. You will see a file called Record_124236.txt or something. Hold your finger on it and click Edit. Now this is your code. There are tons of information in internet how to work with HiroMacro. If you need to tune your script, just watch some YT videos.
Okay... some of you may say " but you said automation is not good and Instagram know this ". Using HiroMacro and not some third parties ( like Instagress or the other web based IG automation services ) won't reduce your follow/unfollow limits, just because you are using directly the Instagram app. Okay ?
Automated - I have tested every program, tool ,web based service that the marketplace has to offer. My favorite was Followliker. It's cheap, one time payment program. You can automate as many accounts you like, there are tons of filters and settings. The creators are keeping up to date their product. I will create A to Z guide how to work with Followliker very soon.
Mix way of growing:
You can do follow/unfollow ( manual or automated ) and pay for Like boosts at the same time. I prefer this, because it really speed up the growing. Remember when I said the manual way of growing is the fastest ? I lied :( his is the fastest way - paying for boosts and manual doing follow/unfollow.
You probably are wondering at what point you should stop growing your account ( paid, free of mix ). Well, your goal is to start driving organic followers. You are driving organic followers when all you need to do is to post 6-7 times a day and get 1000+ ( sky is the limit ) followers a day. And you drive organic followers when you reach the Explore page in IG. To reach explore page in IG, you need to get at least 1500 likes on your post IN THE FIRST HOUR. That usually mean you need to have 50 - 100k account. So you are thinking why it can be 50k ... and why 100k .... it's a freaking big difference ?! It's very simple, listen:
If you are doing only follow/unfollow to grow your account, you will do about 600 follows daily. From those 600 people, if your follow back rate is 50% you will get 300 followers. But when tomorrow you unfollow them, around 100 will unfollow you too. So you have 200 followers. From those 200 followers 80% followed you back, just because " hmm, I'll follow him back, so he don't unfollow me, because I didn't followed back, I am an attention whore, so It's important for me a lot people to follow my Selfie account, where I am doing duck faces " Okay ? Those 80% are not very interested in your page. So 80% of 200 is 160. The rest 20% - 40 are interested in what you are posting, those 40 people will give you likes, comments and all that. So daily with doing follow/unfollow you are taking 40 people, who are important for you.
Are you still with me ?? Now listen what is happening if you buy Like boosts:
EVERY single person who follows you without you follow him is highly interested in your page. This person won't leave you, because he saw that you have unfollowed him, just because you never did followed him.... Do you understand ? This person will like and comment on your new posts. He is your loyal follower. He came alone and choose to follow you. He knows that the pages rarely follow back, he is not following you because he's hoping to get a follow back from you. He just like your page and he wan't to see his feed full of your posts. Do you understand why there is a difference between 50k and 100k account ? The quality of the followers. This is what make the difference.
Okay ? =))))