My Instagram Journey

[tripz20]

Hey BHW,

Starting this thread so I can use myself as the guinea pig for theories posted here about IG and engagement.

Current Page Stats
Niche- Fitness\Personal
Followers- 20.9k(mostly botted,purchased)
Following- 2,264
Posts- 98
Profile Type- Business

I am currently in the process of purging the purchased/non-engaged followers in an attempt to boost my engagement back up and find out if I can bring this account back from the graveyard. I post very regularly on stories and post every 1-2 days a lot of videos and picture every so often. My main focus once the purge is over will be to organically engage with accounts in my niche to see if this can possibly be a first step in bringing my engagement/reach back from the dead. I am open to any suggestions and want to use this as a community post to test organic strategies. If people are interested, cool. If not this post will end up in the BHW graveyard haha

 

[rad93k]

Okey, great thread i'm following it

 

[Vanam]

Please keep updating the thread with how many followers you get after 2-5 days. Interested in the stats

 

[chfreak]

Are you the own appearing in the photos/stories or are you getting them from other places?

 

[SpawneR]

Good luck! Just grow and don't you ever sell it!

 

[abdel007]

Good luck

 

[t1nar1wen]

Any plans on monetizing? Good luck with the journey! I'm following.

 

[davids355]

Thread moved to journeys forum. Good luck OP.

 

[tompots]

Sounds good, do you know what the key/tags where used to gain the "botted" followers?

 

[tripz20]

Okey, great thread i'm following it

Wooo!

Please keep updating the thread with how many followers you get after 2-5 days. Interested in the stats

I am currently in the purging stage so not to focused on engaging organically at the moment

Are you the own appearing in the photos/stories or are you getting them from other places?

Yes, It is all me on the account

Good luck! Just grow and don't you ever sell it!

Don't plan on ever selling. Just having fun with my fitness account. I'm pretty sure I bricked it with all of the shit I was doing before haha

Any plans on monetizing? Good luck with the journey! I'm following.

I wouldn't mind getting some money in the future if I am able to build an actual audience.

Thread moved to journeys forum. Good luck OP.

Ohh thanks, been a member here forever and didn't even know about this section haha I remember when BHW was wild and had people teaching about making trojans and RAT's and wild Blackhat stuff.

Sounds good, do you know what the key/tags where used to gain the "botted" followers?

Yes I was targeting a lot of fitness celebs followers and middle of the road hashtags. Got a ton of followbacks from targeting the BarbellBrigade hashtag and the Dominatehumbly hashtag. Im guessing it is because I had videos on my page from actually being at Barbell Brigade.

 

[crackmeup]

coool!! KEEP UPDATING... share your experience weekly basis that will be good.

 

[GRABBA]

I'll be following your journey OP
Best of luck

 

[tripz20]

Hey BHW,

Starting this thread so I can use myself as the guinea pig for theories posted here about IG and engagement.

Current Page Stats
Niche- Fitness\Personal
Followers- 20.9k(mostly botted,purchased)
Following- 2,264
Posts- 98
Profile Type- Business

Alrighty time for an update:
Current Page Stats
Niche- Fitness\Personal
Followers- 20k(mostly botted,purchased)
Following- 2,259
Posts- 101
Profile Type- Business

I have been working on removing all inactive profiles, profiles without a profile photo and ghost follower. I have removed 1,118 so far and have seen my engagement uptick very very slightly. My organic reach is SUPER low between 500-1,000. With only 1-3% of people not following me seeing the content. In the breakdown I am seeing almost no views from hashtags but have confirmed I am showing up on them.

 

[DonMillion]

Good work! Wish you best luck!

 

[danko6]

Good work! I'll be following your journey.

 

[tripz20]

Update:

Still going heavy on cleaning up my account. Don't really care if my numbers drop (followers\Following) It is pretty clear my reach is heavily throttled as my views barely reach 100 without any engagement groups/purchasing. I have made the choice that I will buy GMT2 again after the clean up and use it conservatively while measuring its impact on reach\engagement. I don't see an issue using it to mimic engagement I would actually be doing manually. Any thoughts from the crowd?

Edit: I have also been focusing on posting 1-2 times a day with hashtags in first comment. Adding more OC memes and seeing if that can drive up engagement along with my normal lifting videos/pictures

 

[tripz20]

Seeing a good uptick in organic reach\engagement in the past week. Still weak af though. Still going strong removing ghost followers
+15% Reach(+148 in last 7 days)(+197 impressions) Actions are not super high but I see good upticks on post days.

 

[Naroha]

Seeing a good uptick in organic reach\engagement in the past week. Still weak af though. Still going strong removing ghost followers
+15% Reach(+148 in last 7 days)(+197 impressions) Actions are not super high but I see good upticks on post days.

hey what tool/service is that to show you those statistics ?

 

[tripz20]

hey what tool/service is that to show you those statistics ?

It is the business analytics directly on IG

 

[tripz20]

UPDATE:
I have a license for GMT2 again and plan on running it on a laptop at home and using Teamviewer to remote in and run it during the day while I am at work. I would just bring it in to the office but they have Instagram blocked on the network here.

Also, reach/actions really jumped yesterday went from 16-20 actions to 33 actions yesterday and from 460-420 reach to 1.1k yesterday. I have been really focusing on posting twice a day with lifting videos and original memes. I had food in my lifting vid and added food hashtags and these really seemed to catapult my reach. That post jumped from my normal 7-10% accounts of non-followers viewing it to 43% with that post and over 200 impressions from hashtags where I was barely getting any before.