Saima Ikram
Who really does not want to be acknowledged, appreciated and followed? Everyone wants to gain popularity but its not easy, especially on the social media.
It requires complete dedication to work and engagement of people within your circle for you to be recognized. Before I take you further towards the steps which you need to follow to get most engagement on Instagram, let me explain you what is instagram engagement?
Instagram has gained a lot of popularity in recent years because of its eye catchy photo filters, innovative stories and direct DM (message) ability. Instagram recently had a crackdown on many accounts that had fake followers using bot. The step was taken to make its space authentic and promote original user accounts.
Here are Five handy tips to increase your users engagement on Instagram. These tips are useful not only for increasing personal following but also promote business.
From business perspective, a lot of advertisers are targeting Instagram videos for their business marketing.
Optimize hashtags:
This is the most important feature in Instagram as hashtags let you get searched and also show-up in the trending spots. Hashtags lets you appear more in the discovery pages. Figure out what hashtags appeal to your demographics and use them sensibly. Below are popular hashtags on Instagram
#love #instagood #photooftheday #fashion #Beautiful #like4like #picoftheday #art #happy #photography #instagram #followme #style #follow #instadaily #travel #life #cute #fitness #nature #beauty #girl #fun#photo #amazing #likeforlike #instalike #Selfie #smile #me #lifestyle #model #follow4follow #music #friends #motivation #like #food #inspiration #Repost #summer #design #makeup #TBT #followforfollow #ootd
Avoid Auto Bots:
Instagram has pretty robust algorithms at place that can easily differentiate between original and fake traffic. If the fake traffic is spotted, your account will be deleted right away so it is advised to avoid going through this quick channel promotion and follow legit, authentic way of increasing followers.
Post just one time a day:
If you post more than once per day, it will cause your post to compete with others and that results in poor engagement and results. Many people still use Instagram just once a day and the post visibility can last longer.
Optimize Posting Time:
This is very important, you have to figure out at what time followers in your list are online the most. It varies from country to country but the best time are seen to be early morning around 8AM when people are heading to the work or around 8 in the evening when they are relaxed at their homes.
Call to action:
Engage your audience, encourage them to leave comments by asking interesting questions. Ask useful insight about your post and give sense to your audience that their opinion is important. Call to action means asking interesting question so others are tempted to answer such as “shall I buy iphone or Samsung“?
