More Followers = Less Engagement

[mladz]

Thats the way it is l. Be thankful for every follower because sooner than later all this will go to shit and you will be left with the current count you have and only be able to grow organically. So get as many followers as you can.

 

[UnleashTheWolf]

my biggest of four pages, when i was at 57K i would get 2,000 plus likes pretty much every photo, now over the past 5-6 months i've gotten up to about 105K, still posting like 3 of the best photos i can find and really good times when IG is active and i now with almost 50,000 more followers than when i was getting 2K+ likes a photo, i now get like 1,400,1,600 likes per photo.... sooo who knows what the hell is going on, some guys in the exact same niche as me with like 200K+ only get like 2,900-3,100 likes per photo which you'd think it'd be a lot more for them too, wish there was a fix to bring engagement back up

Maybe you have been going too hard every day with a bot for that whole time?

 

[extrablackhatter]

They detect your commercial intent and start throttling you. To stay organic in FB and IG you must somehow avoid triggering their commercial post detection.

Where'd you get this info from? Not denying it but can you provide any insight to back it up?

 

[danceparty]

They allowed advertising (sponsored posts) earlier this month, and now its possible they are starting to tune down the accounts to sell more ads themselves.

this happened with Facebook pages right before they started showing ads in the feed.

 

[brodel34]

They allowed advertising (sponsored posts) earlier this month, and now its possible they are starting to tune down the accounts to sell more ads themselves.

this happened with Facebook pages right before they started showing ads in the feed.

Don't you get it? Instagram isn't algorithm based. At least not in the feed (but it's starting to look possible). Its comparing apples to oranges.... Even tho they are the same company. Thats like saying twitter is adjusting their algorithm. What algorithm? It's a news feed based system.

If this was facebook, i wouldnt even make the thread. Algorithm changed... Game over. But its different with insta.

 

[onelettershor]

since school started (for usa) my engagement has dropped

 

[willteasle]

Well we can all agree on one thing, as soon as they allowed ads it all went to sh*t, unfortunately now there is a conflict of interest. The golden days are over!

 

[lancis]

Instagram is Facebook, what did you expect from Facebook?
They have the algorithms ready, and are pushing them in gradually in order not to scare away too many people at once.

 

[freeiman]

maybe people get tired of it. I dont like click like or dislike now.

 

[richardleb]

uhm i get 20k likes per pic as usual, no engagement drop

 

[AlexIonescu]

Yeah. I didn't see any drop. Still getting 700-900 likes

 

[danceparty]

Don't you get it? Instagram isn't algorithm based. At least not in the feed (but it's starting to look possible). Its comparing apples to oranges.... Even tho they are the same company. Thats like saying twitter is adjusting their algorithm. What algorithm? It's a news feed based system.

If this was facebook, i wouldnt even make the thread. Algorithm changed... Game over. But its different with insta.

What is there to get? instagram is facebook, and Facebook is selling ads. if you're trying to build a business on instagram selling ads or selling anything really, then you're competing with instagram itself, and at any moment Facebook decides to cut you off, they will.

Algorithm or not, they modify the code/ratio of your exposure, and your business goes bye bye. Everyone advertise through official Facebook!

Your balls are in facebook's hands. Drive traffic to your own app, then you'll get your "likes" that you are all so complaining about.

 

[brodel34]

My engagement has gone waaaaaaaaay down today. I posted a pic that normally wouldve gotten 30+ likes in under a minute and it didn't even get 10 likes in 5 minutes. Something is up. I don't understand how they can do this.

 

[brodel34]

What is there to get? instagram is facebook, and Facebook is selling ads. if you're trying to build a business on instagram selling ads or selling anything really, then you're competing with instagram itself, and at any moment Facebook decides to cut you off, they will.

Algorithm or not, they modify the code/ratio of your exposure, and your business goes bye bye. Everyone advertise through official Facebook!

Your balls are in facebook's hands. Drive traffic to your own app, then you'll get your "likes" that you are all so complaining about.

I'm not selling anything in my posts or selling shutouts

 

[petirthunder]

My engagement has gone waaaaaaaaay down today. I posted a pic that normally wouldve gotten 30+ likes in under a minute and it didn't even get 10 likes in 5 minutes. Something is up. I don't understand how they can do this.

did you happened to run but on your account to unfollow? or using instagress??

 

[boo5t]

How have you been gaining followers? Usually shoutouts from active IG accounts work best for active followers.

 

[thepersianhustler]

How have you been gaining followers? Usually shoutouts from active IG accounts work best for active followers.

something was up with IG today. For an account with 200k followers, i barely got 10 likes... i deleted the pic after 5 minutes bc i knew something had to be up. Not sure what it was tho

 

[petirthunder]

something was up with IG today. For an account with 200k followers, i barely got 10 likes... i deleted the pic after 5 minutes bc i knew something had to be up. Not sure what it was tho

you happened to use your account on unfollow? or using any bot to do auto likes?
yes i think its the new algo

 

[mladz]

something was up with IG today. For an account with 200k followers, i barely got 10 likes... i deleted the pic after 5 minutes bc i knew something had to be up. Not sure what it was tho

Yeah that happens when the 'feed not loading' issue happens. Same thing happened to me today...I got 30 likes in 5 minutes on 211k account and though wtf. Deleted it..30Min later posted and got the usual 300 likes in 5 minutes.

 

[boo5t]

something was up with IG today. For an account with 200k followers, i barely got 10 likes... i deleted the pic after 5 minutes bc i knew something had to be up. Not sure what it was tho

Ah yes, that happened to me, too. I dont think the posts show on yoir followers feeds. Might just be a glitch.