Instagram Journey | Weekly Updates

AAW said:

thanks for the update, how do you know your new organic followers on main account? Is there special app are you using to follow them on the other account? Do you all of this on the actual IG app? How do you decide which people to unfollow

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I consider new followers as organic if I haven't interacted with them before. Since I am basically only posting for the last month, most of my new followers are just from hashtags and from shoutouts and none of them are from f/uf.
I am only using the official app, because I don't want to risk anything.

I am unfollowing people by sorting earliest and then I just go down the list, if I don't know their profile picture I will unfollow them. I don't really care for other things and if I don't know their profile picture they are most likely not engaging with my content to much.
I actually remember a lot of people who engage with every single post+story. I am not going to unfollow them, because they are my "base" of followers that gain me the first traffic on the post every time!

Short Update
I am currently thinking about investing into a proper hashtag research tool. What's currently holding me of is that I would invest like 10€ into the tool, but I am currently not gaining anything in return even though it would be profitable in the long run.
My second account is getting more and more attention and I believe that it would be great to push it even further. I will be reaching 1000 followers on the second account within the next two days and the engagement is pretty nice on my recent posts (sometimes even better than my main account, which got 4x the followers)! My main is doing fine as well, but in comparison the second account will overtake the main sooner or later and that's fine!

A couple of days ago I changed my captions, it now includes better call to actions + a different structure. I will see how they will perform and let you know in the future!

Stats:
Main account: 4278 Follower
Second account: 920 Follower

Wednesday Update
Hey guys! This week I decided to try a hashtag research/analyze tool. I got a one-month membership for hashtastic. I will try to get the most out of it and let you know if it was worth it!

This week I wanted to push the second account even further. I am commenting on many posts, posting 3 times a day and I upload good story content. So far the results are pretty great, the second account is now growing 400 followers/week and I am very happy that I did not receive a single action block / shadowban! The overall engagement is currently fluctuating since I haven't found the best hashtags for my account yet.
Obviously I tried many different hashtags with the tool and I am currently analyzing the results on my account.

The main account is only gaining around 100 - 150 followers each week since I can't do f/uf anymore without getting banned again. But I learned from this mistake and it looks like my second account is doing great. I am still continuing to post every single day on the account, but my focus is now on my second account rather than the original main!

Current Stats:
4291 followers
around 200 likes ->> likes are highly dependent on the hashtags, I am still struggling to rank some posts at all

Currents Stats Second Account:
1091 followers
2325 following (actually thats a pretty decent follow back ratio )
likes are between 150-200
getting around 40 votes on story stickers which is pretty nice

Since I got to 1k followers I won't update the growth daily anymore. I took me 25 Days to reach the first 1000 followers on the second account!

If you have any questions let me know!

Short Update
Both of my account are suddenly seeing more reach from the explore page.
I believe it's because of the use of better hashtags and more quality posts.

Quick Hashtastic Review
The service is fine, but since I am only gaining around 150-200 likes on my posts it was pretty hard to find hashtags that I can rank on easy.
I am still happy with the "campaign" feature, which lets you check at what position your posts ranked on each hashtag. With this information it was a lot easier to create better hashtag sets.
My second account is currently doing much better than my main account. I had an engagement rate of 13% when I started and now it's increasing daily and my posts start to rank better and better!

Overall I am very happy with the service, but I would not extend my subscription for another month. But that's only because I am currently not earning anything with my account, if I would be able to sell just one shoutout for 10€, then I would definitely reinvest that money into hashtastic again!

What I learned
The "ladder strategy" is not working at all for my account. I am now using hashtags between 100k and 500k, they got me way better results so far!

I am currently trying to gain as much as possible from the explore page exposure on both accounts, lets see how this journey goes. It could be the start of something big!

Update
I started unfollowing on my main account again. This time I used the "least interacted with" feature. With the feature I can unfollow 200 people without any problems, I got no action block or shadowbans so far!
But obviously I am also loosing a lot of followers (like 20 per day) because they realise I unfollowed them, but I guess that its fine in the end since my account will look very clean after unfollowing.

Nothing really happen since the last update but here are the current stats:

Main Account:

• 4310 Followers
• 2058 Following

Second Account:

• 1455 Followers
• 2987 Following

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Congrats. What do you mean by the ladder method? Also how many times do you post a day?

itsmytime said:

Congrats. What do you mean by the ladder method? Also how many times do you post a day?

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Ladder Method:
Using small, medium and large hashtags. If you rank on the small hashtags you can take the momentum and rank on the medium hashtags, if you rank on the medium hashtags you can then rank on the big hashtags!

I don't know why, but it's not really working for me. I can reach way more people if I stick to hashtags between 100-500k, but I will try it again every couple of posts!

On my main account I am posting once a day, but I am currently running a poll asking how many times I should post and what type of content they want to see!
My second account is posting three times a day!

DrakeNekron said:

Ladder Method:
Using small, medium and large hashtags. If you rank on the small hashtags you can take the momentum and rank on the medium hashtags, if you rank on the medium hashtags you can then rank on the big hashtags!

I don't know why, but it's not really working for me. I can reach way more people if I stick to hashtags between 100-500k, but I will try it again every couple of posts!

On my main account I am posting once a day, but I am currently running a poll asking how many times I should post and what type of content they want to see!
My second account is posting three times a day!

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Amazing! Thank you

Hello DrakeNekron,
When you will monetize your Instagram account? and with ogads or other? when this target $$$ ?
I'm really curious
Thanks and best regards.

Do you have any experience using creator studio from fb?

I’am using to automating posts, but don’t know if change something like engagement

Also, great journey and shares

CyrusKing said:

Hello DrakeNekron,
When you will monetize your Instagram account? and with ogads or other? when this target $$$ ?
I'm really curious
Thanks and best regards.

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I currently have no intention to monetize the account at the current state. At around 50k I plan to monetize it with print on demand / shoutouts!

c4s4rin said:

Do you have any experience using creator studio from fb?

I’am using to automating posts, but don’t know if change something like engagement

Also, great journey and shares

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I haven't tried facebook creator studio yet, but I believe the engagement should be the same or better since you can structure the posts multiple days ahead. (That way you can't forget to upload the post!)

Wow! That is so interesting. Thank you so much

Nice journey. Looking forward for more updates!

Good luck