How to Grow an Instagram Account in 2024 (Easy Mode ✅)

Summary

In this video, Alex reveals a proven strategy for growing an Instagram account by over 50,000 followers each month in 2024. He emphasizes the importance of niche mastery, engaging with trending audios, using new Instagram features like polls in captions, and crafting compelling captions with a clear call to action. Alex also advises on the strategic use of effects, hashtags, and pinned content to boost visibility and growth. Additionally, he shares tips on optimizing your bio and utilizing keywords on videos to help the Instagram algorithm understand and target the right audience. The video is a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to significantly increase their Instagram following.

Takeaways

• 📈 Focus on Niche Mastery: Train your Instagram account to show content similar to your niche to get inspiration and trending ideas.
• 🎶 Utilize Trending Audios: Find and use trending audios in your posts to increase engagement and performance.
• 🎥 Edit to Trending Audios First: When creating original content, edit to a trending audio before posting to enhance the video's appeal.
• 🗳️ Engage with Polls in Captions: Use the new Instagram feature of polls in captions to boost engagement and follower growth.
• 📝 Improve Caption Strategy: Use a structured format for captions to increase watch time and show the algorithm that viewers are interested.
• 🔍 Use Keywords and Captions: Longer captions with keywords help the algorithm understand the post better, leading to better audience targeting.
• 🌟 Try Out Effects: Experiment with Instagram effects to potentially increase views and engagement.
• 🔄 Turn Off Facebook Recommendations: To focus growth on Instagram, disable Facebook recommendations to avoid misdirected views.
• 🏷️ Use Hashtags Wisely: Employ 3 to 7 hashtags to help the algorithm understand your content without overpopulating.
• 📌 Pin Content and Comments Strategically: Pin comments on viral posts to encourage follows and pin content after 30 days to maintain momentum.
• 🔗 Optimize Your Bio: Use your bio to attract and incentivize follows, focusing on community and value rather than selling.

Q & A

What strategy has been revealed to grow an Instagram account by over 50,000 followers in a month?

The strategy involves training your account for niche mastery, using trending audios, engaging the audience with polls in captions, optimizing captions with keywords, utilizing effects, turning off Facebook recommendations, using hashtags effectively, pinning content and comments wisely, and optimizing your Instagram bio.

How does training your Instagram account for niche mastery work?

Training your account involves liking and saving content in your niche for a few days, which helps the explore page to show more relevant content, providing inspiration for your own posts, hashtags, and captions.

What is the significance of using trending audios in Instagram content?

Trending audios can boost the performance of your content, as they are popular and currently being used by many users. They can be found by pressing the 'real' button and looking for audios with an upward arrow indicating they are trending.

How can polls in captions increase engagement on Instagram?

Polls in captions allow users to interact with your post by voting, which can lead to a high number of responses and increased watch time, signaling to the algorithm that the content is engaging.

What is the recommended format for Instagram captions to maximize engagement?

The recommended format starts with a hook (like a question), followed by advice, a story, or actionable steps that match the post. Credit the source or yourself if it's original content, include a call-to-action (CTA) to follow, and end with a relevant hashtag.

Why are effects considered underrated for increasing views on Instagram?

Effects can significantly enhance the aesthetics of your content and are similar to trending audios in that they can provide additional exposure if they are popular and used by many users.

What is the purpose of turning off Facebook recommendations for Instagram growth?

Turning off Facebook recommendations ensures that views and engagement are focused on Instagram itself. Views from Facebook do not contribute to growth on Instagram.

How should hashtags be used in 2024 to aid Instagram's algorithm?

Hashtags should be used to help the algorithm understand who to show your content to, with a recommendation of using three to seven single-word or short phrase hashtags to avoid confusing the algorithm.

What is the best practice for pinning content and comments on Instagram?

Pin comments on posts that are performing exceptionally well to incentivize new followers. Pin content to the top of your profile after 30 days when its momentum starts to die down to maintain its visibility.

Why is it important to optimize your Instagram bio for growth?

An optimized bio captures a user's attention and incentivizes them to follow your account. It should include searchable keywords, describe the account and brand, provide value to potential followers, and focus on community.

How can adding keywords on your videos help with Instagram's algorithm?

Adding keywords as text on your videos helps the algorithm understand who your content is for and can increase the chances of it being shown to the right audience.

Outlines

00:00

📈 Instagram Growth Strategy and Niche Mastery

The speaker shares a strategy for growing an Instagram account to 50,000 followers per month in 2024. They emphasize the importance of training your account for niche mastery, regardless of the current number of followers. The process involves customizing the explore page to show content similar to what you post, which helps in finding inspiration for content, hashtags, and captions. The speaker also advises against using the account as a personal one, as it dilutes the niche focus. They provide a step-by-step guide on finding and using trending audios to boost engagement and suggest editing videos to fit trending audios for better performance. Lastly, they introduce a new Instagram feature: polls in captions, which can significantly increase audience engagement and, consequently, growth.

05:03

🗣️ Enhancing Instagram Engagement with Captions and Effects

This paragraph delves into the art of crafting effective captions to increase post engagement and watch time on Instagram. The speaker suggests a format for captions that includes a hook, advice or storytelling, crediting sources, a call-to-action (CTA), and hashtags. They highlight the importance of using keywords and a concise CTA to drive traffic and followership. Additionally, the paragraph discusses the use of effects on Instagram reels to enhance content and potentially boost visibility through the platform's algorithm. The speaker advises using subtle effects and experimenting with filters to improve aesthetics and reach. They also touch on the importance of turning off Facebook recommendations to focus growth solely on Instagram.

10:05

🔍 Leveraging Hashtags, Pinned Content, and Bio Optimization for Instagram Growth

The speaker explains the evolving role of hashtags in helping Instagram's algorithm understand and target the right audience for your content. They recommend using a mix of single-word and multi-word hashtags without overpopulating, which can confuse the algorithm. The paragraph also covers the strategic use of pinned comments on viral posts to encourage follows and pinned content after the initial growth phase to maintain visibility. Furthermore, the speaker discusses optimizing the Instagram bio to attract and incentivize followers, emphasizing the use of searchable keywords, a clear account description, the value provided, and a community-focused CTA. Lastly, they introduce the concept of adding keywords directly onto videos to assist the algorithm in content discovery.

Keywords

💡Niche Mastery

Niche Mastery refers to the process of specializing and becoming an expert in a specific theme or category on Instagram. In the video, it is mentioned as a crucial step for growing an Instagram account, regardless of its current follower count. The script illustrates this by suggesting that users should like and save content within their niche to train their account, which helps the Instagram algorithm to show more relevant content on the explore page.

💡Explore Page

The Explore Page, also known as the 'Discover' page, is a feature on Instagram that displays content tailored to a user's interests. In the context of the video, it is used as a tool for finding inspiration and trending content within a specific niche. The script emphasizes the importance of using the Explore Page to get ideas for content, hashtags, and captions, which can help in growing an Instagram account.

💡Trending Audios

Trending Audios are audio tracks that are currently popular on Instagram and are used in many posts within the community. The video script explains how to find and use trending audios to enhance content and increase its appeal. It suggests that by using trending audios, creators can improve the performance of their videos, as these audios are already popular and can attract more engagement.

💡Polls in Captions

Polls in Captions is a feature introduced by Instagram that allows users to add interactive polls directly into the caption of their posts. The video highlights this as a powerful tool for audience engagement, as it can generate thousands of responses and significantly boost engagement rates. The script provides an example where a simple yes-or-no question in a caption resulted in a high number of responses, contributing to growth.

💡Caption Strategy

Caption Strategy involves crafting captions that encourage users to stay on a post longer and engage with it. The video emphasizes the importance of captions in increasing watch time and overall engagement. It suggests a format for effective captions that includes a hook, advice or story, credit, a call-to-action (CTA), and a hashtag. This strategy is crucial for helping the Instagram algorithm understand the content and show it to the right audience.

💡Effects

Effects, in the context of Instagram, refer to visual filters or enhancements that can be applied to videos or images. The video script mentions that using effects can triple the views on a post. It advises using subtle effects, such as the '4K' filter, to potentially improve the aesthetics of the content without drastically changing it, which can help in gaining additional exposure.

💡Facebook Recommendations

Facebook Recommendations is a feature that allows content from Instagram to be recommended on Facebook. The video script advises turning off this feature to focus growth efforts solely on Instagram, as views coming from Facebook do not contribute to the growth of the Instagram profile. This is an important consideration for those aiming to increase their Instagram-specific audience.

💡Hashtags

Hashtags are a critical component of Instagram's discoverability feature, allowing users to categorize their content and make it easily searchable. The video script suggests using three to seven hashtags to help the algorithm understand who to show the content to. It advises against overpopulating hashtags and recommends using a mix of single-word and multi-word hashtags that are relevant to the content.

💡Pinned Content

Pinned Content refers to posts that are kept at the top of an Instagram profile to highlight important or popular content. The video script advises against pinning content as soon as it starts taking off, but rather waiting until it starts to lose momentum after 30 days. This strategy is used to maintain a curated and updated profile that showcases the best content to new visitors.

💡Instagram Bio

An Instagram Bio is the short description that appears under a user's profile picture and name. It serves as a summary of the account's purpose and a call to action for potential followers. The video script emphasizes the importance of using the bio to capture attention and incentivize following. It suggests including searchable keywords, a description of the account, the value provided, and a community-focused call to action to increase conversions.

💡Keywords on Videos

Keywords on Videos are text overlays used to help the Instagram algorithm understand and categorize the content. The video script describes how to use this feature by adding small, barely visible text that describes the content, such as 'pizza' for a food-related post. This technique aids in ensuring that the content is shown to the appropriate audience, contributing to the account's growth.

Highlights

Instagram account grew over 50,000 followers in 30 days and is expected to continue this growth throughout 2024 using a specific strategy.

The strategy has been tested across more than 20 different theme pages in various niches.

Niche Mastery is essential for account growth, regardless of the current number of followers.

Using the Instagram explore page to find content, hashtags, and captions similar to what you post for inspiration.

Avoid using the Instagram account as a personal one to maintain a focused niche.

Trendy audios can be found and used by pressing the reel button and identifying trending audios with an upward arrow.

For original content, edit to a trending audio first, then repost on Instagram to improve video performance.

Instagram's new feature allows polls to be included in post captions, which can significantly increase engagement.

Captions are crucial for keeping viewers on the post longer, impacting the algorithm positively.

A suggested caption format includes a hook, advice or story, credit, CTA, and hashtags.

Effects on Instagram reels can triple views and should be explored for content enhancement.

Turning off Facebook recommendations can help focus growth efforts solely on Instagram.

Hashtags are used to help the algorithm understand the audience for your content, with a recommended 3 to 7 hashtags.

Pinned comments on viral posts can incentivize new followers with a CTA.

Pinned content should be used strategically after 30 days when the post's momentum starts to decrease.

The Instagram bio should capture attention and incentivize follows without selling products initially.

Keywords on videos help the algorithm understand the content's target audience.

Transcripts

in the last 30 days one of my Instagram

accounts has grown over 50,000 followers

and it will continue growing over 50,000

followers each month of

2024 if you are able to use the strategy

which I'm about to reveal in this video

then you will be guaranteed growth this

video is in no particular order every

single detail is important I have tried

and tested this across 20 plus different

theme pages in different niches these

are the keys to growth let's go training

your account or also known as Niche

Mastery whether your account is zero

followers 5K 50k or more you need to be

doing this right now let's look at my

food page right here if I go to my

magnifying glass which is the explore

page or the reals you will see that is

only showing me food content similar to

what I post now the reason I have built

my account this way is because anytime I

need ideas whether that's for content

for hashtags for captions I can just get

inspiration at a click of a button I can

get trending audios which I know are

working right now as they're on the

explore page for my Niche and you can

literally do this with any type of

Instagram account all you need to do is

for a few days like and save content in

your Niche and after a while the explore

page will show you more and more of this

content what you need to avoid is using

your Instagram account as a personal

account only concentrate on your M and

once you start liking random other bits

it will show you those random other bits

and honestly we need to run our Pages

like a business if we want real growth

trending audios here is a full breakdown

here in my opinion is the best way to

find your trending audio so let's say

you're on your profile what you want to

do is actually press the real button in

the bottom right once you've pressed

that you will see a bunch of different

reals and in the bottom left is where

the trending audios are all the audios

now to see whether it's trending or not

you will see an arrow like that which

points up or points up to the site once

you press the audio so I've pressed

light audio it will say trending or not

if it says trending you can actually

press that and see all the top trending

audio simply scroll through you can just

press the button on the right to save it

and essentially this is a massive

catalog of what is trading that

particular day so if you want to use the

audio simply press use audio press the

button press your video and the audio is

currently being used now the next thing

is a bonus point for audios if you're

creating original content this is what I

want you to do I don't want you to find

your audio lost the audio needs to be

the first thing that you find because if

you are able to edit to a trending audio

the video will become so much better and

perform so much better when you post all

you need to do is download the real with

the trending audio put into your editing

software extract the audio then you can

edit to it then you can go back to

Instagram and press use audio and you

will have had a video that has already

edited to that audio guys that is the

best way to use trending audios any

questions let me know in the comment

section let's move over to the next one

which is going to blow your mind one of

the most important things about creating

content on Instagram is to actually

engage your audience and Instagram have

released a new feature called polls but

it's not polls on your stories it's

actually polls in your caption if we

look at this post right here you will

see that they've done a vote and they've

had

43,000 responses to this vote and it's a

simple question yes or no but imagine

the amount of Engagement that they are

getting from adding or implementing

these polls if you have this feature you

need to start using it Instagram are

rolling it out right now and I really

recommend doing this this as quickly as

possible as this will Skyrocket your

growth this account is making the most

of it right now let's say you're in the

motivation Le you can't think of what

Paul to do ask them simple questions

what's your goal for 2024 make more

money spend more time with the family

it's really that simple and a massive

massive feature for 2024 so jump on

pause in my opinion still one of the

most underrated aspects of Instagram is

the keywords and the captions the reason

you need to have a better strategy for

your caption is because Instagram wants

people to stay on your post as long as

possible so even if they stay in read

your caption for 2 3 seconds that's

going to increase your overall watch

time for that post not for the

particular reel but for the algorithm to

understand that people are actually

interested in this post here's a quick

format that you can use for your

captions the first line needs to be a

hook so for example a question the next

bulk of it I want you to give advice

tell a story give actionable steps give

a bit of substance that matches your

post under that credit whoever the

content potentially is from or if it's

original then credit yourself and then

under that is CTA about follow so follow

me for more content like this and then

under that is simple put your hashtag

it's literally that simple obviously you

can have a c if you have a product or

something but I would recommend doing

that later on when your growth is like

an aval guys don't sleep on your

captions if you need help with that bulk

bit you can simply go on to chat gbt and

get it from there use ran refiner PT to

refine it if you don't want to be add

detectable and that's the formula to

make a caption which is going to get

clicks and remember keywords are really

important so the longer your caption the

more information about your post the

more the algorithm is going to

understand what the post is about which

again is going to help it put the

content in front of the Right audience

effects this is really underrated and I

don't see enough people use this I've

seen people 3x their view simply by

adding effects now let me show you how

it works so let's say I'm posting this

reel on my food page I've got it up I'm

going to press next now you will see the

three stars at the top I will press this

button and this essentially is my

effects now effects work similar to

trending audios once there is a popular

kind of effect you will see loads of

different content under that effect so

it's kind of a similar algorithm to

training audio and you will potentially

get additional exposure and this also

Stacks with training audio Etc so

there's no harm in trying it sometimes

but let me just quickly give you some

ideas what you can do now obviously some

of the effects you know can change your

content quite drastically what I

recommend is picking some subtle ones

for example one of the really good ones

is just 4K so if you type in 4k you will

see loads of 4K fi filters or effects

and let's say you press one of them

you'll see that it doesn't really change

it that much it could even potentially

improve it but let's say for example you

know you're editing a video and you want

to make it black and white and you're on

cap cut or something and you make the

change there wait and do it here instead

as you will be using Instagram's

platform and potentially will get a

boost so when it comes to filters

effects and just the Aesthetics of your

post tried this sometimes and I

definitely think this can help newer

accounts get additional reach and even

older accounts definitely too now the

next thing is a quick one and it is to

turn off your Facebook recommendations

I've seen so many accounts going viral

but the views are coming all from

Facebook this is not going to help your

Instagram grow I've done this on

multiple accounts and it's best to

actually turn off this so turn off

Facebook recommendations you can get a

ton of views on Facebook but they won't

come to your profile so turn this off

and just focus everything onto Instagram

guys the next ones are really important

so stay tuned it wouldn't be an

Instagram video without hashtags what is

the best way to use hashtags in 2024 now

the first thing I want you to do is

understand the purpose of hashtags right

now hashtags over the years has changed

a lot in my opinion the reason to use

hashtags right now is to help the

algorithm understand who to show your

content

so for example this is basically like

keywords on steroids and what I

recommend is doing three to7 hashtags

you don't want to overpopulate the

hashtags and confuse the algorithm and

you will often see big accounts not

posting any hashtags at all because

they've already established with the

algorithm who Their audience is so it's

great for smaller accounts to use

hashtags but to teach the algorithm who

to show your content to now what I

recommend is doing a few which are

single word and a few which are two or

three words if you're putting multiple

words in your hashtags like # I went on

a boat trip you know that is not going

to help you at all let's focus on what

I've just mentioned and you will see

that your hashtags become a lot more

useful to you pinned content now for

this there are two types which I'm going

to discuss there is the PIN reals or

content at the top of your feed and

there is the pinned comments now the

first thing is pinned comments if you

have a post which is per per forming

exceptionally well is going viral this

is what I want you to do I want you with

your account to write a comment like

follow us for more and pin that comment

some viral posts get thousands of

comments and if people see a CT by the

account creator that incentivize people

to follow then you utilizing your PIN to

the Max and it's really that simple be

smart with your pins you don't need to

add them to all your posts but as soon

as you start seeing momentum you can add

some pins with CT saying follow us for

more or click the link in my bio which

again you should be doing later on and

the final thing is with pinned content

do not pin content as soon as it starts

taking off what I want you to do is wait

30 days once it starts dying down then

you can pin it to the top of your

profile and that's how you use pins your

Instagram bio now so many of you are

losing followers because you are not

using your bio properly so use this

section wisely what we want to do with

our bio is to capture Sol's attention

and incentivize them to follow our

account speak to them why should they

follow you if you are still seeking

growth then do not use your bio to sell

this is the biggest mistake that I see

people do here is how to build a good

bio your name should be keywords that

are potentially searchable so people are

going to search and you potentially will

come up if your account is called

Finance mindset then you don't need to

put Finance mindset there again but

something like Finance money motivation

keywords which match the content that

you will be posting for line one in your

bio describe your account describe what

your brand is about line two value what

value are you going to provide to your

potential follower why should they

follow you line three Community focused

don't put follow me follow us be smarter

what I've been doing is join the family

or join the community join the

Brotherhood whatever it might be make it

more appealable and focus on the

community aspect if you do your bio like

this you will increase the conversions

of fers and guys I don't want to see

long lines it needs to be simple clean

sharp people come on to your profile and

and will make a decision in a matter of

seconds you don't want to make it too

long stick to it it takes time to create

a good bio don't rush it and if you ever

want us to review your bio have any

questions or anything make sure you join

my Discord or communities so that we can

help you build the perfect bio but trust

me you can do it yourself using this

strategy okay guys so the last one is

key words on your videos or on your

content so I'm posting my rule right now

and this is another way to help the

algorithm understand who to show your

content to so let's say I press next

what you want to do is press the text

button and typee in who your content is

for so for example if my content is

about pizza and I want to show it to

people who like pizza I will type pizza

and you can see my text right there what

I want to do is make that text as small

as possible so you just literally make

it tiny and essentially you are putting

keywords on your video to help the

algorithm and it's literally that simple

you can put like one or two if you add

everything that we've done in this video

you will be on track for growth guys my

name is Alex and if you like this video

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