[Tiktok Journey] How big will the account get?

In the end, the key to TikTok is to upload 6 videos a day and wait for one to go viral and explode your statistics. It's amazing how fast you can grow if the viral is good. maybe it encourages me to do something similar.

SEOhacks said:

In the end, the key to TikTok is to upload 6 videos a day and wait for one to go viral and explode your statistics. It's amazing how fast you can grow if the viral is good. maybe it encourages me to do something similar.

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Have you had any experience with uploading 6 videos a day? I mostly upload 4 videos within 1hour timeframe. One video usually gets viral out of the 4. What do you think could this be the fault of uploading all videos in 1 hour? Or is this normal behavior by TikTok? Thanks!

ScottKnight said:

I am 90% sure that the patreon link was the problem for the shadowban. I've removed it from the account and I've added a call to action in the new videos. The progress is slow due to many reasons: I was posting 3-5 times per day in the beginning and that wasn't good tbh (that's good if you upload copyright content, not original content); I have to brainstorm and find content ideas, yesterday I've drafted 21 more video ideas, but it took some time; the videos involve animations, designs and so on.

Thanks.

Day 40:
Followers: 1434 (+70)
Videos uploaded today: 2
Likes: 18.8k (+700)

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I'm just throwing ideas out here, but maybe try masking the patreon link behind a landing page. I feel like TikTok already has a list of links that they shadowban. If you already have a website run by you, you can sneak your patreon in there or make some sort of blog on which you run ads. I have seen plenty of TikTok influencers with 3k followers that have their online store or blog in their bio. Also try not to blatantly put "donate in bio". I have noticed that the algorithm targets such posts and holds back from ranking. Try using something like "M0RE lNf0 in Bl0" use small "L" for I and "0" for O's. Haven't tried this but I have seen that some people by masking some keywords have had luck in gaining traffic.

Best of luck mate!

Blacktizer said:

Good Luck and would like to know your whitehat strategies..

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Thanks. Pretty much the strategy is creating original (quality) content in a niche. I'm not doing follow/unfollow or something, I'm following 0 accounts.

SEOhacks said:

In the end, the key to TikTok is to upload 6 videos a day and wait for one to go viral and explode your statistics. It's amazing how fast you can grow if the viral is good. maybe it encourages me to do something similar.

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I've tried uploading 3-5 videos a day, but the results were lower than posting 1 or 2 times a day. That's why my progress is so slow.

kilovats said:

I'm just throwing ideas out here, but maybe try masking the patreon link behind a landing page. I feel like TikTok already has a list of links that they shadowban. If you already have a website run by you, you can sneak your patreon in there or make some sort of blog on which you run ads. I have seen plenty of TikTok influencers with 3k followers that have their online store or blog in their bio. Also try not to blatantly put "donate in bio". I have noticed that the algorithm targets such posts and holds back from ranking. Try using something like "M0RE lNf0 in Bl0" use small "L" for I and "0" for O's. Haven't tried this but I have seen that some people by masking some keywords have had luck in gaining traffic.

Best of luck mate!

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I won't post it again in bio too soon, I preffer growing the account and using it in video if that works, so far it works, I'm no longer shadow-banned.


I'm also considering adding a new series to my account, one without animations, probably me appearing in the videos just to be able to go live. I can't go live because my content involves animations.

Day 41:
Followers: 1446 (+12)
Videos uploaded today: 1
Likes: 19.1k (+300)

Slow and steady grow, I'm still thinking about another series of content (one easier to make) so I can post more than once a day.

When you upload for example 3 videos, does that mean that you are uploading 1 bigger video cropped in 3 smaller parts , or it really means 3 different videos,thus maybe 6-9 posts if you crop them ?

slarkpol said:

When you upload for example 3 videos, does that mean that you are uploading 1 bigger video cropped in 3 smaller parts , or it really means 3 different videos,thus maybe 6-9 posts if you crop them ?

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When I upload 3 videos it means they are 3 different videos (content ideas) which can't be croped in smaller parts. For the type of content that I create I can't crop them in smaller parts.

So you found the best way is to upload 1 original video per day? Also do you use any software to research hashtags?

Good luck for your journey. Bookmark done

ddlmanager said:

So you found the best way is to upload 1 original video per day? Also do you use any software to research hashtags?

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Yeah, pretty much 1 video per day is the best for my content it seems. I don't use any software for hashtags, I use 3-4 broad hashtags and 2-3 very specific ones, in total 6 hashtags per video. I don't use things like fyp, foryou, viral because they are useless, I get in for you without any of those.

Erikstal said:

Good luck for your journey. Bookmark done

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Thanks.



Day 42 & 43 & 44 & 45:
Followers: 2189 (+743)
New videos uploaded: 4
Likes: 26.8k (+7.7k)

They probably changed the algorithm because 99% of the growth happened yesterday after a video (1 week old) got picked up by the algorithm and went from 6-7k views to 56k views.

Nice to see some progress in your work. Since you already have posted plenty of videos, maybe try getting some attention by using F/UF methods. Essentially you don't have to do that yourself. I suggest looking up one of these services that provide automated F/UF. I'm not affiliated nor am I promoting this, but last I saw Fueltok was giving out some free trials for a week. Maybe you will be able to get some handful of followers by using this method. Of course there are some other services out there as well, this is just the only one I have had the experience with and so far seems pretty okay.

Cheers!

kilovats said:

Nice to see some progress in your work. Since you already have posted plenty of videos, maybe try getting some attention by using F/UF methods. Essentially you don't have to do that yourself. I suggest looking up one of these services that provide automated F/UF. I'm not affiliated nor am I promoting this, but last I saw Fueltok was giving out some free trials for a week. Maybe you will be able to get some handful of followers by using this method. Of course there are some other services out there as well, this is just the only one I have had the experience with and so far seems pretty okay.

Cheers!

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Thanks for the info, I know about them, but I'm not sure if their service could help me considering my niche, it would be hard to target the right followers for sure.


Current stats:
Followers: 2347
Likes: 28.6k


I will update the journey probably once a week or when something important happens or when I figure out some info that can help others.
I'm thinking about switching the region through the VPN method, but I'm not positive about that yet considering there's a chance it won't work and noticing the recent algorithm change that shows my posts to less than 25% in my home country. Before this algorithm change my videos were shown in my country about 40-70%.

ScottKnight said:

Thanks for the info, I know about them, but I'm not sure if their service could help me considering my niche, it would be hard to target the right followers for sure.


Current stats:
Followers: 2347
Likes: 28.6k


I will update the journey probably once a week or when something important happens or when I figure out some info that can help others.
I'm thinking about switching the region through the VPN method, but I'm not positive about that yet considering there's a chance it won't work and noticing the recent algorithm change that shows my posts to less than 25% in my home country. Before this algorithm change my videos were shown in my country about 40-70%.

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Yeah, this seems to be the problem. I thought you already published your content to tier 1 countries. Changing the VPN won't do you any good, you still will receive majority of your audience from your country and might even get shadowbanned for meddling with their algorithm. Since TikTok already collects a ton of data both software and hardware related - it is difficult to mask yourself. The most successful method so far is using an iOS device with a VPN connection in one of your desired countries (and this comes from a person that has also used a functioning bot). I feel like your lack of audience is because there are not too many people using TikTok in your country.

What device do you use for posting content? Does it have any logos/watermarks/text on it, if not you might be able to buy an aged account and by flipping your content horizontally start posting such in your tier 1 based account.

Good luck on your journey!

Any news on the TikTok Channel? Have you posted videos regularly?

@ScottKnight if you can, keep updating this journey thread. You've done great so far.​

It is interesting to see a major difference between posting multiple vs one video per day.

I think you are doing well. I'm following

To be honest, this journey stopped. I was wasting too much time on it.

Understandable. How big is your account now and did you stick to the one post per day plan?

ScottKnight said:

To be honest, this journey stopped. I was wasting too much time on it.

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