Few newbie questions f/u and bots

First of all, thank you all so much for this amazing forum and all the knowledge you are sharing.

I have a small blog just for fun, and recently I started realizing I can actually make money of it, and reading here gives me so many ideas.

So these questions are regarding growing my IG account.

1. I see many mention f/u.
What is the best strategy to perform it.
What I just set up my account 4 years ago, what I used to do, is to find a profile similar to mine (theme, style) and follow all the people who liked it's last post.
Now it seems not working anymore.
No one is following me back.
And also unfollowing is really time consuming.
I would really appreciate any tips on that.

2. Are there any cheap bots?
I checked out jarvee but its really pricey for me right now.

3. What can I expect a bot to do? F/U? Schedule post?

Please remember the blog and its IG are a side project and my aim is to spend no more then 3-4 hours a week working on it.

Would really appreciate any advice.

You're entering the space at the wrong time, just in my own opinion.

Instagram to blog conversion is traditionally low and there're better ways to grow your traffic if that's your main goal.

Instagram botting is dead, it's not 2014 - 2018 no more. You need to have $2K - $3K saved up to get a private bot made for you.

I'm not trying to demoralize you, that's just the current climate we're working in.

FUTUR TIM said:

Instagram to blog conversion is traditionally low

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Yes I've noticed. I get around 40 monthly visits from IG in compare to 1500 from Pinterest.

And yet, in my niche in my country the number of followers and engagement counts.

And my IG account is personally linked to me.
I with I could grow it just for the visual value of it..

Instagram automation died in august 2019. TIKTOK is what most people have started using now to generate traffic, however i dont have any personal experience with this platform.

karthimx said:

TIKTOK

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OMG.. you are so right.
But I'm having difficulty learning this new media.
I was thinking of reposting all my IG stories to tiktok, but I don't have the spare time.

Wall Whisperer said:

First of all, thank you all so much for this amazing forum and all the knowledge you are sharing.

I have a small blog just for fun, and recently I started realizing I can actually make money of it, and reading here gives me so many ideas.

So these questions are regarding growing my IG account.

1. I see many mention f/u.
What is the best strategy to perform it.
What I just set up my account 4 years ago, what I used to do, is to find a profile similar to mine (theme, style) and follow all the people who liked it's last post.
Now it seems not working anymore.
No one is following me back.
And also unfollowing is really time consuming.
I would really appreciate any tips on that.

2. Are there any cheap bots?
I checked out jarvee but its really pricey for me right now.

3. What can I expect a bot to do? F/U? Schedule post?

Please remember the blog and its IG are a side project and my aim is to spend no more then 3-4 hours a week working on it.

Would really appreciate any advice.

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Dont use the f/uf method with your main account just use child-mother

I won’t suggest you to get Jarvee its being flagged a lot, private bots are expensive so if you don’t have the money to buy one just do the method manually

Thank guys

How about schedule posts?

Any tips on that?

Wall Whisperer said:

I wish I could grow it just for the visual value of it

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Keep doing f/u manually then, it will build up over time.

FUTUR TIM said:

Keep doing f/u manually then

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And what strategy do you recommend?

How do you find the right potential followers?

Wall Whisperer said:

And what strategy do you recommend?

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I would say keep doing what you are doing already - follow likers of similar content.

Try changing the target pages and/or the things you post if you are not getting many follow backs.

Wall Whisperer said:

Yes I've noticed. I get around 40 monthly visits from IG in compare to 1500 from Pinterest.

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What method are you using on Pinterest to get that conversion?

Abhi Balesh said:

What method are you using on Pinterest to get that conversion?

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I have many boards, for each fragment of a subject I'm writing about.
For example - if I post a lemon pie recipe I would pin it to several boards I have:
Lemon recipes, pie recipes, baking, summer recipes, baking with kids, summer party.. and so on.
I keep all the descriptions of all the boards with al relevant keywords.
I also a member of many group boards.

I try to upload to my post 2:3 images and then I pin directly to the site. I addition I create for each post several "click bates" pins, and pinning them to with the post link directly from pinterest.

Wall Whisperer said:

I have many boards, for each fragment of a subject I'm writing about.
For example - if I post a lemon pie recipe I would pin it to several boards I have:
Lemon recipes, pie recipes, baking, summer recipes, baking with kids, summer party.. and so on.
I keep all the descriptions of all the boards with al relevant keywords.
I also a member of many group boards.

I try to upload to my post 2:3 images and then I pin directly to the site. I addition I create for each post several "click bates" pins, and pinning them to with the post link directly from pinterest.

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Thanks for this sir but how do you find the best keywords that drives traffic on Pinterest?