How to Get Followers on Instagram
Instagram is an app for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, and Windows Phone that allows users to share and upload photos within the Instagram community or across social networks. Getting more followers is essential to increasing your Instagram presence, but knowing where to start can be difficult. See Step 1 below for tips on creating good photos, interacting with the community, and other ways to increase your followers.
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Follow similar accounts. Instagram is a community, and you will find yourself gaining followers if you participate in that community. This means interacting beyond simply uploading photos. Find people that are posting pictures that interest you, and follow their accounts. This will let you see their latest photos on your feed.
- Don't just follow everyone you see, or your feed will become too overloaded to process. Limit yourself to following only those accounts that you find most interesting.
Like and comment on pictures. Once you start following some people, take some time to Like and comment on their photos. Not only will this make the other person feel good, but other people may see your name or comment and check out your profile. If you stay active, this can lead to a steady stream of new followers.
- Respond to comments on your own photos. Interacting with your own followers is essential to maintaining your follower base. Respond to any interesting comments, and thank your followers for any compliments. If a follower asks an intriguing question, take the time to answer it properly.
- 4Ask your followers questions. Use the photo caption to ask questions to your followers. This will get your comments section more active, which will attract more viewers to your photo.
- Consider having a call-to-action, such as "Double-tap if you found this funny" or "Share your story in the comments". This will help drive community interaction with your photos.
- 5Connect your Facebook account.Instagram is now owned by Facebook, and you are losing out on a lot of potential followers if you don't connect your accounts. All of your Instagram posts will be pushed to Facebook as well, giving you double exposure.[1]
- You can connect your accounts through the Instagram Settings menu.
- 6Fill out your bio. Your Instagram bio is an often-overlooked but very important part of your Instagram account. Let people know who you are and why they should follow you. Include a couple hashtags as well that relate to your content.
- Your bio is another good place to place a call-to-action.
- 1Research popular hashtags for you niche. Hashtags are words and short phrases that describe and categorize the image. Hashtags help people search for your image, and can add your image to current trends. Hashtagging is incredibly important to reaching a larger audience.[2]
- Webstagram is a great tool for finding what the most popular trending tags are.
- The top hashtags on Instagram are almost always "#love", "#me", and "#follow".
- 2Add a few hashtags to each image.Add a few of the most pertinent hashtags you can find to your image. Try to limit the number of hashtags to three at the most. If you have too many hashtags, your followers will feel like your images are too spammy.
- 3Create your own tag. If you have a decent amount of followers, you can try creating your own hashtags. This could be your company name or a slogan that applies to many of your photos. This will help brand your Instagram account, and lead to a more cohesive community presence.
- 4Geotag your photos. Instagram users are interested in photos from locations that they know. On top of that, as you post geotagged photos, Instagram will bring up other photos from that location.
- Other users posting photos from the same location may see your pictures and follow them to your profile.
- 5Use "Like for Like" hastags. If you want to try and bolster your likes, you can use some of the more popular like-trading hashtags, such as "#like4like" or "#like4likes". Just make sure that you actually Like someone's picture if they Like yours.
- Some people consider this a "dirty" tactic, and you may lose some followers if you tag this too often.
