Travel Accounts

[Fortify99]

This is probably one of the most interesting niches for me nowadays. I'm not sure I understand it at all.

For me, back when I started mid 2018, you could use fuelgram or infinicore + DM groups on some viral travel content and go semi-viral every single time. Around December time I noticed that for everyone in all the DM groups I was in engagement was dropping big time. So to put in some perspective, I went from 5k likes per post to averaging about 1k at this time. I gave up on the account in January, my posts were getting 200 likes from my 10k followers.

So does this mean that I had fake followers? I manually checked through and found no suspicious accounts but it seemed that everyone else in my DM groups with 1-40K followers got anywhere between 30-300 likes per post, VERY low.

So if it wasn't just me, then what happened? Some accounts survived and kept going, but literally none with under 40k kept going. Did instagram purge travel accounts because they deemed that the niche was too saturated?

Since then, my knowledge has vastly grown on instagram growth, but I still can't make any travel page grow organically. Even if you go to some 100K+ travel accounts, some that used to be thriving are getting 500 likes per post.

Any ideas anyone?

Travel accounts are the most valuable in my opinion, so i'd love to get one going for a long term project.

 

[Salamouna]

When i was on 5k i was getting 500 likes per post and now im on the 30k and getting 500 likes too
It's related to 2 fact
Instagram is doing like it did to fb
and also when you don't post for a long time you will lose the engagement

 

[Fortify99]

When i was on 5k i was getting 500 likes per post and now im on the 30k and getting 500 likes too
It's related to 2 fact
Instagram is doing like it did to fb
and also when you don't post for a long time you will lose the engagement

true true

 

[Fortify99]

When i was on 5k i was getting 500 likes per post and now im on the 30k and getting 500 likes too
It's related to 2 fact
Instagram is doing like it did to fb
and also when you don't post for a long time you will lose the engagement

But then I wonder how the one's growing are still surviving. I saw a 10k growing 200 followers per day and for a travel account that seems insane to me.

 

[Curiousitic_Me]

I'm not sure but my travel account is growing nicely and it's been around for 3 years; even though I stopped [posting stuff] on many occasions on short terms

 

[Fortify99]

I'm not sure but my travel account is growing nicely and it's been around for 3 years; even though I stopped [posting stuff] on many occasions on short terms

What follow count and average like count?
Also are you getting reach from explore or hashtags or both?

 

[Curiousitic_Me]

Used https://phlanx.com/engagement-calculator for this:
Follow Count 73,780
Average Like Count 6,502
Most of my posts trend on hashtags and only some of my posts get to explore with a little reach.

 

[Salamouna]

I found that 10k accounts are doing good
but when i try to go bigger im losing the engagement so i will stop at the 10k on each acc

 

[Fortify99]

Used https://phlanx.com/engagement-calculator for this:
Follow Count 73,780
Average Like Count 6,502
Most of my posts trend on hashtags and only some of my posts get to explore with a little reach.

So what i'm seeing is small accounts that can't reach explore, and because there's so much competition hashtags aren't going to work as well on small accounts. Clearly you've grown your account the organic way meaning you are naturaly getting a lot of likes boosting you onto hashtags and further growth.

 

[Fortify99]

I found that 10k accounts are doing good
but when i try to go bigger im losing the engagement so i will stop at the 10k on each acc

That's odd because I can't do anything with my 10K. Literally getting 100 likes per post.

 

[IGFella]

My followers have grown from 4k-13k on my travel account but likes have stayed exactly the same. Around 1k.

 

[Curiousitic_Me]

So what i'm seeing is small accounts that can't reach explore, and because there's so much competition hashtags aren't going to work as well on small accounts. Clearly you've grown your account the organic way meaning you are naturaly getting a lot of likes boosting you onto hashtags and further growth.

I don't think I'm either seeing small accounts on explore page but sometimes you can get on hashtags if you use powerlikes along with your own followers. In the past, I use to use a followforfollow app to get tons of followers, however I think the app is banned from the appstore or something now because it doesn't work and when I search it, it doesn't appear on the appstore.

 

[Fortify99]

I don't think I'm either seeing small accounts on explore page but sometimes you can get on hashtags if you use powerlikes along with your own followers. In the past, I use to use a followforfollow app to get tons of followers, however I think the app is banned from the appstore or something now because it doesn't work and when I search it, it doesn't appear on the appstore.

Follow for follow apps are terrible. It's basically buying fake followers. You want your organic engagement to be as high as possible, and the followers you get from those apps won't like your posts, decreasing your engagement. If instagram shows your post to 10 people, and bases your ranking off off what those 10 people do, if 5 are fake followers then the maximum engagement you can get from those 10 people is 5. 5/10 interactions tells instagram that your post is bad so they won't show it to more people.

 

[Littlevt]

Definitely appears that IG is putting limits on likes , in the same way Facebook limits impressions. No surprise since fb owns IG

 

[102drive]

PM me if you have travel accounts! I am looking for influencers.

 

[Ricardo Dias]

Damn OP, it's like this is me posting. I am in the exact situation. Had a good travel page running with powerlikes before, going viral almost every single time, growing pretty well but now I don't know what to do.
Im stuck at 6k following, seems impossible to gain any new following. Avg likes are like 200
#feelsbad really