how to grow my instagram? (18.2K)

hi guys!

So here is my question...
My instagram page has 18.2k followers and i get an average of 2000-3000 likes per post (i think the engagement is pretty good...) and i can't find any other pages in this niche bigger than mine! I think other niches like travel, nature and photography could be related to mine if not exactly the same ...

My question is that what are the best options for me to grow that 18.2K followers?

Keep on posting and keep on engaging with the followers of other pages.
Just likes aren't the best indicator for engagement, quality comments from the followers matter a lot if not the most.

That is some great engagement. Well done!

So are you following the followers of other macro accounts at the moment?

There are bigger pages than yours in the macro photography niche. An example is https://www.instagram.com/macrophotographyuniverse/ although his engagement is quite bad compared to yours. If you follow his followers your engagement could even drop. The number of followers does not mean much. His followers might be fake.

Look for macro pages with a couple of thousand followers and a good engagement rate. It does not matter if the accounts are smaller than yours as long as they get plenty of likes and comments.

A way to find pages like this is to go to Google and type:

site:instagram.com keyword k

Replace "keyword" with a keyword or keywords like "macro photo" or "macro photography"

The "k" at the end is to find Instagram accounts with thousands (k) followers.

You can also visit a macro page and click the "related" option on that page. This will show you more macro pages, with often a similar number of followers.

You can also check who the bigger macro accounts are following: often other big macro accounts. So that is another way to find them.

And yes, if you post macro photos of e.g. nature, chances are people who follow nature accounts will like your account too.

Whatever you do, only follow the followers of pages with high engagement.

Hope this helps

Wow. Great engagement rate you got there. Did you use any bot ?

You seem to be doing really well especially 10%-15% engagement rate is considered really well in your niche.
To grow them further, since you can't find someone who's exactly into your niche, look for people who post related stuff.

Anything close to photography should work, get in touch with accounts with similar number of followers and exchange shoutouts with them.

Get a boost in your number of followers, make yourself look more legit and share shoutouts with even bigger accounts.

Once you've good number of following, you can start monetizing your account by selling your own products or promoting CPA.

Great niche idea, was it an automated account?

underachieved said:

Great niche idea, was it an automated account?

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combination of auto/ manual! mostly manual! i use automation only for unfollowing or scraping users...

twitter.followers said:

You seem to be doing really well especially 10%-15% engagement rate is considered really well in your niche.
To grow them further, since you can't find someone who's exactly into your niche, look for people who post related stuff.

Anything close to photography should work, get in touch with accounts with similar number of followers and exchange shoutouts with them.

Get a boost in your number of followers, make yourself look more legit and share shoutouts with even bigger accounts.

Once you've good number of following, you can start monetizing your account by selling your own products or promoting CPA.

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awesome thanks for the tip! it seems like getting bigger around 10-15k is harder than the beginning!

TuanTran said:

Wow. Great engagement rate you got there. Did you use any bot ?

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thanks! i just tried to find people who really do actually care about the subject! i started contacting them and being really social to be honest.

IGSuccess said:

That is some great engagement. Well done!

site:instagram.com keyword k

Replace "keyword" with a keyword or keywords like "macro photo" or "macro photography"

The "k" at the end is to find Instagram accounts with thousands (k) followers.

You can also visit a macro page and click the "related" option on that page. This will show you more macro pages, with often a similar number of followers.

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wow! the google trick was genius thank you so much for teaching me that !

Alborzam said:

My instagram page (macrobrilliance)
i can't find any other pages in this niche bigger than mine!

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So your instagram page is https://www.instagram.com/macrobrilliance/ with 18.2k
And then there is https://www.instagram.com/macro_brilliance/ with 90.3k

When you search your own instagram name "macrobrilliance" right there at the first spot is someone with 90k followers and nearly the identical name.
And you CAN'T find any bigger page then yours?

Top 9 hashtags for "macro_brilliance"
https://www.instagram.com/freyaeverafter_/ 195k
https://www.instagram.com/flowersandmacro/ 96,5k
https://www.instagram.com/grikart_macro/ 37.9k
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https://www.instagram.com/arjovt/ 16,1k
https://www.instagram.com/sherrill_photo/ 11,1k

Mate seriously?

1.you got very engaged followers and pull almost the same average likes as the bigger pages.
Contact them for shoutouts and let them see the advantage of cooperating with you.
https://i.imgur.com/2Jykusa.png

2.If you are doing F/U start following the like and commenters.

no pages bigger than yours? how about the one you probably stole the name from lol

Edit: I didn't read the last response... he sumed it up lol

I have a question to you. Please feel free to answer

how many days it took you to touch the goal?

First off, never share your page, many shitty people online who will try to screw your page, copy it etc only talk about niche.

You can monetize this like everything else.

Find a CPA related offer, make a landingpage and out it in your bio or if you want to think long term you set up a blog.

How do you have such a good engagement? What is your secret?

mladz said:

no pages bigger than yours? how about the one you probably stole the name from lol @macro_brilliance it has 90k

Edit: I didn't read the last response... he sumed it up lol

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wow! calling someone a thieve without knowing the background is just wrong! (something you parent should have taught you...) yes and based on that page's engagement, i can tell 80 percent of those followers are fake So don't take that 90k seriously...

Billy Batts said:

First off, never share your page, many shitty people online who will try to screw your page, copy it etc only talk about niche.

You can monetize this like everything else.

Find a CPA related offer, make a landingpage and out it in your bio or if you want to think long term you set up a blog.

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thank you for the tip! i am new to this forum... So far everyone is so nice about it and try to help me (just like you) except 1 guy in this thread