I started in spring 2016 and got 50k followers within a month, but got too busy with finals and life to continue (plus re-posting other ppl's junk gets boring)
When I first started, I knew that if I got lets say, 500 likes within 1 hour of posting, I would rank in top posts for a hashtag that was between 500k-1mil(ish). It wasn't too hard to figure out what you can rank for by looking at what was ranking (competition). Usually it would take thousands of likes to rank for a huge hashtag like #color.
What's changed: Now I see tons of noobs/personal accounts in the top hashtags (top 9) for something like that #color hashtag that has 58 Million posts with only 10-100 likes. What the heck happened? Why are the big accounts not dominating these anymore? I used to rank for a tag and stay there for weeks, maybe the turn around is shorter. I would do different levels of hashtag popularity (small,medium,big) and could get posts to rank up to the big ones from small, then medium and finally large.
Yes, I understand that the big accounts are landing on the explore page, but I am at a loss for figuring out how to create a keyword strategy for my new accounts I am trying to grow.
P.S. I knew about Engagement Groups probably 2 years before most people. No one on here would talk about it forever. I told a BHW member through a DM on IG about it in 2016 and he is now at 2mil (kale salad), don't know if he ended up using them, but big congrats to him for the hard work he's done. I tested it last month with my bigger accounts liking/commenting from a large account on a post no longer does much to boost it. IG obviously knows about them at this point and has adjusted, I don't think they are worth the time; someone can correct me though if they have a different experience, I never used them much.
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When I first started, I knew that if I got lets say, 500 likes within 1 hour of posting, I would rank in top posts for a hashtag that was between 500k-1mil(ish). It wasn't too hard to figure out what you can rank for by looking at what was ranking (competition). Usually it would take thousands of likes to rank for a huge hashtag like #color.
What's changed: Now I see tons of noobs/personal accounts in the top hashtags (top 9) for something like that #color hashtag that has 58 Million posts with only 10-100 likes. What the heck happened? Why are the big accounts not dominating these anymore? I used to rank for a tag and stay there for weeks, maybe the turn around is shorter. I would do different levels of hashtag popularity (small,medium,big) and could get posts to rank up to the big ones from small, then medium and finally large.
Yes, I understand that the big accounts are landing on the explore page, but I am at a loss for figuring out how to create a keyword strategy for my new accounts I am trying to grow.
P.S. I knew about Engagement Groups probably 2 years before most people. No one on here would talk about it forever. I told a BHW member through a DM on IG about it in 2016 and he is now at 2mil (kale salad), don't know if he ended up using them, but big congrats to him for the hard work he's done. I tested it last month with my bigger accounts liking/commenting from a large account on a post no longer does much to boost it. IG obviously knows about them at this point and has adjusted, I don't think they are worth the time; someone can correct me though if they have a different experience, I never used them much.
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