Method - Growing Organically

What are your methods? Ive thought of some but havent tried them all out, have you?

- posting good content with targetted hashtags

- liking, manual f/uf of similar accounts where you target the engagers of posts

- buying accounts in your niche then shouting yourself out?

- shout-outs in general - does this still work?

- being posted on similar page - does this work?

- buying ads - how wel ldoes this work?

- how does account get reccomended from another account? and also how to get onto suggested page?

- adding hashtags in bio so insta algo knows who to direct to your page? - is this even a thing?

What am I missing?

Bring people from outside of platform. Advertise your account on different social media

Good content and hashtags are usually the staple of growing an account regularly,
f/uf manually can ruin your engagement but get you followers,
buying yourself an account is actually a good idea, I do this personally, also mother/child method works the same way.
shoutouts are usually ok but so many accounts have fake engagement that if you pay for one you may end up wasting your money,
buying ads is only good for getting likes on the advertised post, put an ad on a giveaway and you got something going.
getting recommended from another account is purely the algorithm and is hard to control.
I don't know about putting hashtags in the bio, I haven't tested that out yet.

You aren't missing much, just keep reading the forum and these answers will become more clear to you. You don't need to post too much or reply that much if you don't want to, just keep reading because this place has so much information.