[Method] Recover your engagement on Instagram

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Does anyone else experience this problem? In step 4, using ImRisto Instagram Manager, the program skips some of the followers, therefore losing some of them. Let's say a list of 10000 followers only giving back 6000 when it completes the task. I repeated the same list, it usually returns different numbers of followers. I could minimize the loss this by reducing the number of followers on a list (i.e. 100 followers per list). But then this is tedious when dealing 10k+ followers. I'm completely stuck at this point. Anyone knows the solution?

Maybe connection issues ? It loads up fine on my dedicated server.

Hey @tux,

Sorry not very relevant questions. Hope you don't mind.

You said lots of accounts on a single residential IP is doable if you're smart? I would believe this to be true if you are as you said providing valuable content and not abusing follow/unfollow - content is king. Could you elaborate on some best practices here for staying smart?

If these were all handled through the browser with an iphone user-agent, would it not be as easy to run that many?

Do you use an emulator?

Thanks!

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This is so true! Wanted to repeat it.

Not f/u spam is still doable on residential IPS . Posting quality content is just cherry on top. I can't write my tests results here due to obvious reasons but mobile proxies can handle a lot of simultaneous accounts , even better if you are on airport or library wifi (where 100's of users are connected) you can exploit it even more :p

I'm not really a fan of browser based emulations so I stick with software using ig's API.
 
looks good but in my experience dead accounts never get recovered :(

How can I tell if it's a dead account or not? One of mine has 18k followers and gets 200-300 likes per post. Is this dead?

Btw, I did this method with the same account. Using FL, I blacklisted about 12k (I don't block it seems safer this way) the ones that are privates, less than 3 uploads and inactive more than a month. In this blacklist, the followers who liked my recent posts (the L list in the OP which is about 1000) are also included. So this is about 6k followers out of 18k that need to be prioritized for social engagement. Is everyone getting more or less the same proportionally?

If I focus likes and comments to these 6k followers, how do I gain more followers? Since I don't reach out to non-followers while doing this.
 
Does anyone else experience this problem? In step 4, using ImRisto Instagram Manager, the program skips some of the followers, therefore losing some of them. Let's say a list of 10000 followers only giving back 6000 when it completes the task. I repeated the same list, it usually returns different numbers of followers. I could minimize the loss this by reducing the number of followers on a list (i.e. 100 followers per list). But then this is tedious when dealing 10k+ followers. I'm completely stuck at this point. Anyone knows the solution?

Your list still has private users on it. It will also skip if accounts have 0 posts.
 
Wow, nice. I enjoyed this read and it was very informative. Going to try this out!
 
Very helpful guide!
Just the first part is absolutely not true, instagram doesn't flag you for follow/unfollow.

I have grown accounts from 0 - 100k+ followers without ever following anybody with viral content and powerlikes. But I have done the same with accounts that already had 20-40K followers through follow/unfollow. I stopped follow unfollow at this point and started with viral content and powerlikes. There is absolutely no difference in how often they go viral
 
Well almost everyday i see some user asking this question again. My engagement has dropped , my account is dead yada yada yada. This guide is most useful for people doing follow/unfollow.

Warning - this guide is long with no pics , you have been warned !

First of all i'm going to say something that most of you already know - Follow/unfollow (via a bot) breaks the account, your account is flagged and you won't be able to recover it no matter what you do. Trust me i've did everything under the sun even getting my account disabled and then getting it re-activated. I just doesn't work. Some accounts are lost hope but you may still see an increase in engagement using this method. But what do i mean by it breaks your account ? Thing is you won't get viral as often as you can on a normal account as compared to on a botted account.

Second - stop doing telegram engagement groups, atleast the most common ones. Don't you think ig can detect everyone who come together at 9am , 12,3pm EST and like each other photos since dinosaur went exist few years ago? @colorme can tell you more about this.

But what about manual follow/unfollow ? I would say manual follow/unfollow is better than follow/unfollow by bot according to my tests but i still wouldn't recommend doing follow/unfollow at all if you already have a decent instagram account. If you are just starting i would say spam the hell out of follow/unfollow and then move to dm likes on a new account.

So lets dive right into the method -

Say you have a 10k account - The way ig algorithm works is that when you post, your post will be shown to a small sample to accounts - lets say we choose this number as 10. So if it was shown to 10 people and none of them even liked your pic , that post is going to suck. However if it was shown to 10 people and all of them liked, commented and even tagged a friend then that post is going to explode. Ig will show the post to a lot more users in the second case.

So the main problem is people don't remember following you and some are pissed as you unfollowed them. The best way to remind them is to like their posts and remind them that you still exist as simple as that. So what we need to do is like 2-3pics of users who are your followers and are not liking any of your content.

Steps (you will need a bot or scraper) -

1. Scrape a list of your followers via any bot. I'll name this list as F.

2. Scrape a list of people who liked your 10 recent posts. One by one and manually of-course. Compile all of them in a same notepad as name this a L.

3. Go to - http://www.somacon.com/p568.php (not my site), paste both lists F and L there. It will filter out the uniques for you. The uniques will be the users who are you followers and who haven't liked a single pic of yours for the last 10 posts. Name this list as U. You can also use excel for this if you are good at excel.

4. Get this - http://imristo.com/instagram-manager-scrape-users-data/ , credits to @JustChillin . Load the list U, filter out the users who are private. You can't like pics of users who are private if you have unfollowed everyone so we will just block them. Save the list of privates as P and the rest as NP.

5 - Block out the private users P using specific filters - block all those who don't have a profile image/bio, haven't posted in last 60 days, have number of posts less than 2. This will filter out almost all bots without making a dent in your followers count. I use a private bot which provides all these filters, i'm sure the common bots has it too.

5. load the list of NP (obtained in step 4) in your like tool and start liking them. Like 2-3 of their recent posts and keep up this process.

6. Enjoy !

Results - you should see like 15-50% boost in engagement , it varies from accounts to accounts.

p.s - Don't say it doesn't work without trying, sometimes list will be long if you have a 50k or so but its worth your time to do this.


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Nice job op! Keep up the good work!
 
Second - stop doing telegram engagement groups, atleast the most common ones. Don't you think ig can detect everyone who come together at 9am , 12,3pm EST and like each other photos since dinosaur went exist few years ago? @colorme can tell you more about this.
Haha so true tbh. Probably IG set up the timers to wake the bots at exact moment ahahaha :P
 
I have an issue at #4

I downloaded the manager from http://imristo.com/instagram-manager-scrape-users-data/ and loaded a whopping 234.000 users.

But my problem is that i cant seem to filter private from non private... There's no option to filter via that from what I can see? Is it just me?
The options I have is down below or in the added image:

Filter users:
Followers
Followings
Upploads
Bio
Website
Avg. Comments
 

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looks good but in my experience dead accounts never get recovered :(

Depends on account to account. I'm having some pretty good results out of dead accounts btw

How can I tell if it's a dead account or not? One of mine has 18k followers and gets 200-300 likes per post. Is this dead?

Btw, I did this method with the same account. Using FL, I blacklisted about 12k (I don't block it seems safer this way) the ones that are privates, less than 3 uploads and inactive more than a month. In this blacklist, the followers who liked my recent posts (the L list in the OP which is about 1000) are also included. So this is about 6k followers out of 18k that need to be prioritized for social engagement. Is everyone getting more or less the same proportionally?

If I focus likes and comments to these 6k followers, how do I gain more followers? Since I don't reach out to non-followers while doing this.

Focus on fixing engagement first and then growing the account.

Very helpful guide!
Just the first part is absolutely not true, instagram doesn't flag you for follow/unfollow.

I have grown accounts from 0 - 100k+ followers without ever following anybody with viral content and powerlikes. But I have done the same with accounts that already had 20-40K followers through follow/unfollow. I stopped follow unfollow at this point and started with viral content and powerlikes. There is absolutely no difference in how often they go viral

Well if you do more tests , you will find out clean accounts work better.

Haha so true tbh. Probably IG set up the timers to wake the bots at exact moment ahahaha :p

They don't need to setup timers

I have an issue at #4

I downloaded the manager from http://imristo.com/instagram-manager-scrape-users-data/ and loaded a whopping 234.000 users.

But my problem is that i cant seem to filter private from non private... There's no option to filter via that from what I can see? Is it just me?
The options I have is down below or in the added image:

Filter users:
Followers
Followings
Upploads
Bio
Website
Avg. Comments

Export CSV with your filters and then sort privates
 
@tux first thing, thank you for all the suggestions and responses, there's a lot of gold in this thread. My questions comes from desperation. I have 2 accounts that I've been growing with FL until 3 months ago, thatI've been trying to revive the engagement on since then including your method step by step. All followers came via F/UF method but I just can't seem to get any traction with those users. At this point Im jsut looking for anything that might help.
 
What's the scrape tool everyone is using? (step 1 and 2)
 
Hello guys!

I've followed step by step this guide for a month. I have a 200k followers account so I will be never able to complete the re-engagement of my followers.
Onestly it worked. During this month I've experimented an increase of 10k views on every single post. That's a really awasome result! I was liking about 500 posts per day (I was liking last 4 posts of every account, so do your math) :)

Now, I've stopped to re-engage my followers a week ago. Now, my reach has dropped againg and I've lost that 10k earned before.

I don't know if this is strictly related to my re-engagement actions or because of a new Instagram update.
Today I'm starting againg to re-engage, I will keep you updated.

My question is: it's really possibile that only 500 likes per day on my follower's posts are enought to rise up my reach so much?
I guess not, but maybe Instagram categorize every account with a "score". If I interact with my followers means that I'm a real and "good" account so Instagram dosen't hide me. Otherwise, Instagram hide posts to your followers.

Is this theory so crazy?

The only thing that I can say is that, from my point of view, this method works really fine.

Thank you!
 
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Hello guys!

I've followed step by step this guide for a month. I have a 200k followers account so I will be never able to complete the re-engagement of my followers.
Onestly it worked. During this month I've experimented an increase of 10k views on every single post. That's a really awasome result! I was liking about 500 posts per day (I was liking last 4 posts of every account, so do your math) :)

Now, I've stopped to re-engage my followers a week ago. Now, my reach has dropped againg and I've lost that 10k earned before.

I don't know if this is strictly related to my re-engagement actions or because of a new Instagram update.
Today I'm starting againg to re-engage, I will keep you updated.

My question is: it's really possibile that only 500 likes per day on my follower's posts are enought to rise up my reach so much?
I guess not, but maybe Instagram categorize every account with a "score". If I interact with my followers means that I'm a real and "good" account so Instagram dosen't hide me. Otherwise, Instagram hide posts to your followers.

Is this theory so crazy?

The only thing that I can say is that, from my point of view, this method works really fine.

Thank you!

Can you yell us what your views were before they increased by 10k,like what percent did they increase? Also are you trying to say that you would have to continuously be engaging with your followers? Did you use followliker to like your followers posts? If so what settings ?
 
hi guys , i have account with 70 000 but i have likes from 40-800 avg 75 .

i post more than 100 post a day , how can i keep getting like while posting too much ?

thanks
 
Hi @jkelly20201

Can you yell us what your views were before they increased by 10k,like what percent did they increase?

Before re-engagement, my Impressions were 12/15k, after re-engagement about 23/30k. I know that even 30k isn't so much for a 200k account, but my page is really old (I started at the beginning of Instagram) and a lot of followers became ghosts with time. Beyond that, I've started f/u targetting wrong people. Of course, that's after the introduction of the new algorithm.

Form this week my Impressions are again 12/15k and this is really frustrating! o_O

Also are you trying to say that you would have to continuously be engaging with your followers?

Yes, I think that might be a good strategy.

Did you use followliker to like your followers posts? If so what settings ?

Yes, the only bot I've ever used is FL and basically, I set a like strategy targetting my own followers.
 
hi guys , i have account with 70 000 but i have likes from 40-800 avg 75 .

i post more than 100 post a day , how can i keep getting like while posting too much ?

thanks

WHAT? 100 posts per day? Oh my god how can you post so much, it's crazy! :)
I think that you need to post a maximum of 2 posts per day but depend on your niche, of course.

100 posts per day could have been a good strategy with the old algorithm, the chronological one, but now followers see your posts because they interact with you and vice versa.

I hope that I was of some small help!
 
Hi @jkelly20201



Before re-engagement, my Impressions were 12/15k, after re-engagement about 23/30k. I know that even 30k isn't so much for a 200k account, but my page is really old (I started at the beginning of Instagram) and a lot of followers became ghosts with time. Beyond that, I've started f/u targetting wrong people. Of course, that's after the introduction of the new algorithm.

Form this week my Impressions are again 12/15k and this is really frustrating! o_O



Yes, I think that might be a good strategy.



Yes, the only bot I've ever used is FL and basically, I set a like strategy targetting my own followers.
I would still stay that’s great since you basically doubled your impressions , can you let me know what settings you used in followliker to target your own followers . Do you still use flc?
 
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