New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms to have launched in the 21
st century and has over 1 billion users. This makes it the perfect platform for brands to attract potential customers, and the best platform for businesses who want to increase their reach.
Most of the time people use Instagram to be entertained, but there are also many people who took to Instagram to become influencers. Regardless of the reasons for getting followers, everyone wants them. However, this can be difficult, and new accounts often struggle to get the ball rolling.
If you are a new Instagram user, or have recently created a new account, and are having a tough time getting followers, here are a few tips to help you get more Instagram followers fast.
Use hashtags
One of the simplest tips that you will possibly receive is to use hashtags whenever you are posting. Unless you are completely new to Instagram, you would know that hashtags are used to organize content to make it easier for users to find. If someone were to search for "#photography", and you used that hashtag recently with a post, that person might see your content.
Something to keep in mind is that when using hashtags, the most popular ones aren't always the best, since that content might be saturated. On the other hand, using hashtags that aren't popular don't get very many searches, so your content won't be seen. There are tools that you could use, such as Task Ant, a hashtag generator that gives you the best suggestions for each of your posts. You can even save sets of hashtags to use to make copy-pasting possible, which saves a lot of time.
Pay attention to trends
The content on almost every social media platform is dictated by the most popular content at the time, and users will often post content that is popular in order to stay relevant and get followers. Instagram is no different, and if you are looking to get more followers quickly, you should try to do the same thing. Popular content on Instagram would be known as a trend, and knowing what's popular is easy to find out.
One of the most popular trends on Instagram at the moment are Reels; short videos, 15 seconds in length, that can be about any topic. Reels are great to use for more followers since your content will be shown to many users, and if its good, you will gain followers who want to see more. Just make sure that the content is entertaining, since this is what users want.
Understand your audience
The next thing that you have to do when posting on Instagram is to know the audience that you are posting to. More importantly, you should make sure that you have a specific audience that you are posting to, in other words, a niche.
There are many niches to choose from on Instagram, such as:
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Beauty
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Fashion
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Health and fitness
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Animals
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DIY projects
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Art
All of these niches allow for creativity, and have an active user base that will constantly engage with the content that is being posted. It's easy to find trends within these niches, just ensure that you are bringing something new, otherwise users will skip right past your post thinking "I've seen this before".
Post as often as you can
A lot of users struggle with growth, and that's normal considering that over 1 billion people use Instagram, and many of them are posting. However, something that many users do is only post once a day, or once a week. This is very detrimental for the growth of an account, so if you are not putting content out there, it is not going to be seen.
When posting on Instagram you should post at least twice a day if your account is new. Instagram has changed the algorithm for users' feeds, and one of the determining factors as to whether users see your content or not is whether it is being engaged with.
This means that if you are only posting once a week, your followers don't have the opportunity to engage with your content as often. That translates to your content not being seen by them, which hurts engagement rates, which then results in your content not showing up when people search for hashtags.
