Explore Page tips

Hello,

How can my account posts get to the explore page (seach), do tags effect on reaching there?

I believe your chances increase if new people, (not just followers who see it in their feed), find your post through your hashtags and then they like, comment and follow your account after having discovered your post through a hashtag.

When this happens it shows IG that your post is popular among new people and this is what I believe brings it to the explore page.

I also believe this is the reason why comment/like groups, (who like and comment on each others post to artificially increase engagement), lose their efficiency over time, because it's the same people liking & commenting...