How to increase Instagram followers number with the dark side?

After writing in the last article about the most common mistakes people make on Instagram, today I objectively want to talk about the dark side of Instagram to be aware that it exists and know what you can get and what you can lose if you want to step into the dark side.

There are three ways you can quickly increase the number of followers on Instagram and then sell shootouts to others by tagging their profiles on a profile that has a large “follower” base, writing about how successful you are in Instagram or just having a better look at your profile.

1. Buying followers

This is the most common way to get followers because it is easily accessible and simple, and the prices are not too high. There are web pages that offer follower packages that are claimed to be real profiles, and you can get about 1,500 followers for about $ 10.

Buying a follower at Instagram is buying a number.

What you will get is inactive profiles, profiles made just to exist and could be sold somewhere. From these profiles you will never get any like, no comments, nothing. Over time, they will slowly start to disappear as they will be deactivated.

I recognize such profiles in literally two seconds, and I hope you will too after this article.

People buy followers to give the impression that they have a lot of fans and to impress new, real potential fans, and here’s a quick and straightforward guide to identifying such profiles to keep them out of your sight.

• lots of followers, almost no interactions
• generic comments like “I love your work” or “Keep going!”
• if you check out their followers, it’s just a bunch of random names without profile pictures

I can directly compare buying followers with a person who comes to the gym and every time he only works biceps to attract girls. Buying a follower is the bottom of the bottom and will bring you more harm than good and is the result of your laziness and nothing more.

2. Engagement groups

Another thing that is used is an engagement group, most commonly in the Telegram app, and let’s see how it works.

What is known about the Instagram algorithm is to value more the content that gets as many interactions as possible within the shortest time of the time when it’s posted, and this is where the engagement groups come into the story.

These are the groups that contain 100,200,500+ people sharing each other’s post. The person in the group posts the post and everyone has to like that post or comment, depending on the agreement, and that same person should keep track of all the other posts and do the same thing and so raise the post.

These things are recognized by the fact that some of the posts on a user account have minimal interaction, and then a couple of abnormal number of interactions, which is a very weird ratio.

Engagement groups serve artificial interaction creation.

You are aware that this also serves to create the best picture possible for a real potential fan, as you imagine, you come to the Instagram profile that you like and see to have a bunch of followers, likes and comments, looks wonderful, doesn’t it?

And then you recognize it:

• followers are usually accounts with names like vabq_551
• comments are usually “Great work” or “I like your profile!”
• 90% of followers have fake pictures or don’t have a picture at all

3. Automation

The last thing I’m going to talk about today is automation, popularly called “bots”. It’s about automating processes that you would otherwise do manually, why waste time if a robot can make the same thing instead?

This I have been practicing for a while and independently, Instagram recognized it and punished it, and when I started working manually, the results were much more relevant, and here’s a concrete example of what you can do with automation.

There are programs by which you can set whatever you want, and here are examples:

It can scrape followers from your competitor and any profile who is following less than 200 people and has at least 30 likes and 5 comments per two images, in a picture that is posted within a maximum of two days leaving a comment written in advance. And it works 6 times per hour, so it’s done 144 times a day. If you try to write enough general commentary that will not look so generic, it’s likely that you will get back to you thinking that you really left that comment.

What are the positive and negative side of automation?

The positive side is a great time saving, and if you set the program smart enough, you will get a good number of followers back, and thankful and thankful comments thank you and congratulations on your profile, but I repeat, if you’re smart enough, you understand the network philosophy and you know how to bypass some traps.

On the negative side, you are risking all the time that Instagram can “shadow ban” be punished in the sense that your posts are not visible on the hashtags for a certain time or that you get the ban and delete your profile – Instagram has been much more rigorous on this issue lately punishing a bot with a clean ban now, so I do not believe you want to risk your profile.

What is the conclusion?

The dark side of the Instagram exists and it is important that we know these things and that we know how to recognize when someone is doing them. In case you decide on one of these activities, you will do much more harm than good, you do not need the number that will look great in the eyes of the fans and risk of deleting the profile.

You do not need the width but the depth.

You need fans who will come in an organic way, people who are here because they are interested in what you are doing and are waiting for your next release because it brings value to them.

How to increase the number of followers in an organic way is a topic that I will write about next week.

If you need any advice on marketing on social networks, please contact me at mirko@different.hr and you have my support, I will take only a couple of minutes for me to answer the specific question and will bring you much more!

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