Official explore page thread

[Sfrancos]

Need more info on explore page. Nothing is too conclusive yet. I don’t understand why some of my videos will hit explore, while others don’t, and the ones that don’t, if shared on my other accounts, will hit explore surprisingly, even if it’s already consistent with my feed on a profile of mine that it didn’t hit explore with. I know people say powerlikes etc. But that’s not conclusive. What is conclusive? can anyone share some insights on it?

 

[colorme]

Every account is different. But what most everyone has found out is a combination of your followers liking/commenting/sharing, then their followers interacting on it, and then random people that IG shows it to interacting on it. Thus, your page is sent to Explorer page. Every Explorer page is unique to every account.
Now, some posts will hit Explore without any powerlikes, little to few likes/comments (here is where engagement with their own following is a major catapult).

 

[Sfrancos]

Every account is different. But what most everyone has found out is a combination of your followers liking/commenting/sharing, then their followers interacting on it, and then random people that IG shows it to interacting on it. Thus, your page is sent to Explorer page. Every Explorer page is unique to every account.
Now, some posts will hit Explore without any powerlikes, little to few likes/comments (here is where engagement with their own following is a major catapult).

It’s odd though, because sometimes the ones with less interaction on my page is the one that gets the most from explore haha. It’s difficult to fully understand

 

[bartosimpsonio]

It’s odd though, because sometimes the ones with less interaction on my page is the one that gets the most from explore haha. It’s difficult to fully understand

There's also interaction that you can't measure. For example if people look at your photo for 10 minutes on average, that's counted as long time engagement and you can't see it. Also if visitors return a lot and go right to your page but don't click anything, that's impossible for you to measure. For sure they're measuring engagement in order to rank the explore page, but there are many forms of engagement.

 

[Sfrancos]

I just don’t understand when it’s obviously good content that I posted and it doesn’t hit explore AT ALL even though it fits the consistent theme. But on my other pages, it hits explore and gets a good amount of clicks from it

 

[arnie123]

I hit the explore page for first time in my account 3 days ago (notice that my page is only 6 weeks old). It was really crazy, 45k views and 9k profile visits in 15 min. I was excited. A shame that stopped very quick. I did the same as always. Same kind of content, same time, same amount of powerlikes, similar hashtags.... so is some small detail, is not a big thing probably. I have a question for those who reached the explore page several times: when you hit the explore for first time, how long took to get back there for second time? And how long the posts keep there? In my case was only few minutes. Thank you.

 

[Social Junkie]

Does power likes in this situation guarantee hitting explore page each time?