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Instagram Automation/Botting is the Worst way to grow your Account

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Great thread Ziad, from my experience on IG I couldn't agree more with your point of view, thanks for sharing what you've learnt!
 
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Using bots on any social media service or Youtube to get big is like committing crime to get rich. Sooner or later you're going to get F*cked.
 

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You need to create an Instagram account for your game. Add a bio link to your company from that account. And post regularly on that. Include videos of the gameplay and mix it up with funny posts etc. :)

thanks for the advice man, appreciate it. Rep+
 

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Great thread Ziad, from my experience on IG I couldn't agree more with your point of view, thanks for sharing what you've learnt!

Using bots on any social media service or Youtube to get big is like committing crime to get rich. Sooner or later you're going to get F*cked.

thanks for the advice man, appreciate it. Rep+

Thank you everyone :)
 
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Hey @Ziad, I'm curious how you would start an account that was brand new.

I just started one for my newest website and have thus far kept things organic. The account is growing, but very slowly. 20% growth week over week sounds good on paper except there are only about 110 followers right now.

How would you go from 0 to 500/1,000 to even be useful in an engagement group?
 

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I ditto everything in this question.

Only difference, is I've consistently used a ton of hashtags. But engagement fell off around that same time. Doubled followers, 1/4'd the engagement. My theory was that it was the hashtags that caused IG to label me as spammy. But you didn't really use them, and the same thing happened to you.

So, I'm curious.

Nope, from Apr to Sep, I would use the same 20+ hashtags on all my posts. Then in September 2017, things suddenly came to a halt and it hasn't recover since. I'm thinking of closing the account and starting a new one.
 

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Thought id share some success, I’ve spent a lot of time adding people on Facebook, and lots of people have they’re insta linked...so if you create a personal page and max out friends at 5k you can get a good start for instagram. Then just target people that are involved in your buisness
 
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Hey @Ziad, I'm curious how you would start an account that was brand new.

I just started one for my newest website and have thus far kept things organic. The account is growing, but very slowly. 20% growth week over week sounds good on paper except there are only about 110 followers right now.

How would you go from 0 to 500/1,000 to even be useful in an engagement group?

I would follow a few large accounts in my niche to have an idea of how they operate. I would be the same: posting high quality content and joining engagement groups in the beginning (as many as I can).

Thought id share some success, I’ve spent a lot of time adding people on Facebook, and lots of people have they’re insta linked...so if you create a personal page and max out friends at 5k you can get a good start for instagram. Then just target people that are involved in your buisness

Good idea. :)
 

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A lot of you PMed me asking me for results I've gotten with my methods I use. Here's a few:

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I blurred out their usernames because I'm not sure if they'd like their results to be posted like this on a forum. If you want to see the pages yourselves just shoot me a message.
 
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What program do you use to track followers?

BTW thats some impressive gains!
 

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Indeed, Ziad knows what he is talking about.

When I first started growing accounts on Instagram, it would take me around 3 months to get to 30.000 followers. Now using the methods mentioned in this thread, I can get an account from 30k to 100k in 2 months or less (real story bro).

@Ziad, if you don't mind telling how you got those customers for botting in the beginning?
 
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Indeed, Ziad knows what he is talking about.

When I first started growing accounts on Instagram, it would take me around 3 months to get to 30.000 followers. Now using the methods mentioned in this thread, I can get an account from 30k to 100k in 2 months or less (real story bro).

@Ziad, if you don't mind telling how you got those customers for botting in the beginning?

Shoutouts, partnered with influencers.

omg i can't believe i didn't make an instagram for my app that was made for instagram lol...
thanks again for openin my eyes to this approach of makin an instagram for a product. feels fun to put up posts.
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Good going :)
 

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Have you tried automation recently? They shut down instagress and I've used other's but actually ended up losing some followers no matter what settings I've tweaked. I grew the account up to 25k but nothing seems to work on automation these days. It seems like Instragram is finally cracking down on the methods or changed something so that old methods no longer work with automation.
 
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+1 on hashtag's being useless -- I've noticed I don't trend on hashtags anymore like I did a few months ago. I started in August. I think I will only use 3-4 tags now.
Explore page views are crazy viral. Ziad is right about the importance of that.
 

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Have you tried automation recently? They shut down instagress and I've used other's but actually ended up losing some followers no matter what settings I've tweaked. I grew the account up to 25k but nothing seems to work on automation these days. It seems like Instragram is finally cracking down on the methods or changed something so that old methods no longer work with automation.

Automation still works. If you still wanna go that route, shoot me PM. I'll offer you the best kind of automation out there. Personally, I prefer going viral and growing followers more naturally now. :)

+1 on hashtag's being useless -- I've noticed I don't trend on hashtags anymore like I did a few months ago. I started in August. I think I will only use 3-4 tags now.
Explore page views are crazy viral. Ziad is right about the importance of that.

Thank you for your support. :)
 

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what's the best way to add hashtags fast?
i found TagForLikes app, would you recommend something else?

i know u said hashtags are worthless, but i seem to be getting likes with them but not without them.
 
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Hey guys, most of you know me from the Instagram Marketing - Journey to $10,000/month thread.

Yes, I have successfully made over $10,000/month in Instagram marketing for clients. I have also already sold that business.

If you haven't read that thread: I started a journey where I used Instagram automation (bots) to grow Instagram followers for various people and get them real,targeted followers. I was in the game for over a couple of years when I started so I already knew how to get clients 100-150 followers per day.

Yes, I know I've made 5 figures a month doing this. But today, I am here to tell those of you who are automating your Instagram accounts or trying to grow your account by following/unfollowing, liking, commenting or DMing people, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

"Ziad, why are you saying this? You had over 100 clients paying you $70-$150 a month, you can easily scale up and continue automating Instagram accounts." Well, truth of the matter is, I'm well set to earn much more than I was through the automation route because now my Instagram game is 100 times better. I'll type on more of this later.

Why you need to stop botting

You are hurting your Instagram account very badly if you continue to follow/unfollow and bot. Basically, you are forcing people to make a decision by engaging them first. Let's take an example:

Let's say you have an account in the dentist niche. You start growing your account by following people who have liked the most recent post of a large dentist account. Great! You get most of them to follow you back. But are they highly active and engaging with your Instagram account? Do you think they will begin to fall in love with your Instagram account, or continue to stay active and engaging with the large dentist account they already follow for a while?

98% of the times (this is based on my years of experience) these users are only following you back out of friendliness or the fact that they don't usually get friend requests from public pages so it's a "big thing" for them. 2% of the times, they are interested in your business. But here's the fun part: the 2% that's interested in your business drops down to 0.1% because they sense all this lame Instagram automation going on in your account! Do you have posts that have comments like these: "Amazing content!" "Really good post. check out my page" "Hey amazing content check out my content and give me a follow!" Basically general comments and nothing specific to your post?

These guys have automated comments running on Instagram and are liking posts that have certain hashtags in them. A total turn off for a real, potential customer. And by the way, hashtags are totally worthless on Instagram today (unless you are geotagging). I could do a whole other post on this, but that's for later.

Botting isn't TOTALLY worthless

If you have the patience to wait out a year (or more) until you actually start getting a mix of good followers + bad followers, then botting isn't worthless. You need to automate your Instagram account to atleast 75k followers and post highly engaging content. When you do reach 75k or higher, your engagement will still not be up to par because of all the bad followers you forced to follow you.

In reality, botting is A BIT better than just buying fake followers. This is true! The only difference is, fake followers give you 0 activity while forced followers give you a bit more.

Botting/Automation is only for people who are focused on spam marketing. If you own a 100 spam accounts with 100 different proxies and are spamming affiliate links every hour or so, then automation is for you. I wouldn't rely on Instagram as the platform for this sort of marketing for too long though. You need to be exceptionally cautious and experienced to avoid getting your accounts banned on a regular basis.

My Instagram Service

Back to me. I sold my business, Instagram automation, and now focus solely on manual Instagram growth. I have had several clients who have hit "Explore" on Instagram where their posts have gone viral and they have gained thousands of followers naturally. In fact, on automation, I used to grab 10,000 followers in 3-4 months.

Now, with my natural marketing methods, I've had a couple of clients gain over 35,000 followers in just over a month, regardless of how many followers they had. :)

What I've learned is this:

High quality content + Timing + Natural Posting + Engagement Groups + Network Influencers + Good Understanding of Instagram's Algorithm = High quality, explosive growth on Instagram.

Why did I rant? I am not selling my Instagram service nor do I intend to (I already have many clients who used my automation service hopping on to this service at a much higher price), but after years of learning Instagram (one of the biggest goldmine platforms today) I have come to realization how bad automation is compared to gaining followers more naturally.
Hello! Thanks for the info, I was wondering if you could teach me how you do it ? Or if you’ve actually have a course about this? I would get into it right now! Also what can I do if I have start with my instagram edm cases page ? @musicasesmx in insta!! I want to growth fast! Thanks.
 

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Hey guys, most of you know me from the Instagram Marketing - Journey to $10,000/month thread.

Yes, I have successfully made over $10,000/month in Instagram marketing for clients. I have also already sold that business.

If you haven't read that thread: I started a journey where I used Instagram automation (bots) to grow Instagram followers for various people and get them real,targeted followers. I was in the game for over a couple of years when I started so I already knew how to get clients 100-150 followers per day.

Yes, I know I've made 5 figures a month doing this. But today, I am here to tell those of you who are automating your Instagram accounts or trying to grow your account by following/unfollowing, liking, commenting or DMing people, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

"Ziad, why are you saying this? You had over 100 clients paying you $70-$150 a month, you can easily scale up and continue automating Instagram accounts." Well, truth of the matter is, I'm well set to earn much more than I was through the automation route because now my Instagram game is 100 times better. I'll type on more of this later.

Why you need to stop botting

You are hurting your Instagram account very badly if you continue to follow/unfollow and bot. Basically, you are forcing people to make a decision by engaging them first. Let's take an example:

Let's say you have an account in the dentist niche. You start growing your account by following people who have liked the most recent post of a large dentist account. Great! You get most of them to follow you back. But are they highly active and engaging with your Instagram account? Do you think they will begin to fall in love with your Instagram account, or continue to stay active and engaging with the large dentist account they already follow for a while?

98% of the times (this is based on my years of experience) these users are only following you back out of friendliness or the fact that they don't usually get friend requests from public pages so it's a "big thing" for them. 2% of the times, they are interested in your business. But here's the fun part: the 2% that's interested in your business drops down to 0.1% because they sense all this lame Instagram automation going on in your account! Do you have posts that have comments like these: "Amazing content!" "Really good post. check out my page" "Hey amazing content check out my content and give me a follow!" Basically general comments and nothing specific to your post?

These guys have automated comments running on Instagram and are liking posts that have certain hashtags in them. A total turn off for a real, potential customer. And by the way, hashtags are totally worthless on Instagram today (unless you are geotagging). I could do a whole other post on this, but that's for later.

Botting isn't TOTALLY worthless

If you have the patience to wait out a year (or more) until you actually start getting a mix of good followers + bad followers, then botting isn't worthless. You need to automate your Instagram account to atleast 75k followers and post highly engaging content. When you do reach 75k or higher, your engagement will still not be up to par because of all the bad followers you forced to follow you.

In reality, botting is A BIT better than just buying fake followers. This is true! The only difference is, fake followers give you 0 activity while forced followers give you a bit more.

Botting/Automation is only for people who are focused on spam marketing. If you own a 100 spam accounts with 100 different proxies and are spamming affiliate links every hour or so, then automation is for you. I wouldn't rely on Instagram as the platform for this sort of marketing for too long though. You need to be exceptionally cautious and experienced to avoid getting your accounts banned on a regular basis.

My Instagram Service

Back to me. I sold my business, Instagram automation, and now focus solely on manual Instagram growth. I have had several clients who have hit "Explore" on Instagram where their posts have gone viral and they have gained thousands of followers naturally. In fact, on automation, I used to grab 10,000 followers in 3-4 months.

Now, with my natural marketing methods, I've had a couple of clients gain over 35,000 followers in just over a month, regardless of how many followers they had. :)

What I've learned is this:

High quality content + Timing + Natural Posting + Engagement Groups + Network Influencers + Good Understanding of Instagram's Algorithm = High quality, explosive growth on Instagram.

Why did I rant? I am not selling my Instagram service nor do I intend to (I already have many clients who used my automation service hopping on to this service at a much higher price), but after years of learning Instagram (one of the biggest goldmine platforms today) I have come to realization how bad automation is compared to gaining followers more naturally.
Hello again ! Just a quick question! I’m just starting, I have 170 followers 180 likes (organic) What are your thoughts on creating 100k dm/engagement telegram groups in your same niche ? I saw this strategy, do you think it will increase on viral and show on the discovery (explore) part?
 
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Hello again ! Just a quick question! I’m just starting, I have 170 followers 180 likes (organic) What are your thoughts on creating 100k dm/engagement telegram groups in your same niche ? I saw this strategy, do you think it will increase on viral and show on the discovery (explore) part?

That's not enough to grow rapidly. But a good step forward.
 
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I have grown my network of Influencers to 21 million followers. Viral posts really work and boost your sales like crazy guys. Automation is s*it compared to this!
Hello! I am currently on Igerslike automation and dm groups, but could you explain me what is a Influencers network? And how to growth it? Really appreciate your content bro!
 
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Sorry if this is a silly question, but without hashtags or large follower bases, how are new accounts getting discovered?
 

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The explore page and getting shoutouts/reposts
What determines if you'll get on the explore page?

It seems like kind of a chicken/egg scenario.

Do niche accounts get featured on the explore page?
 
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Yes. On my third post ever it exploded and got 65,000 views. Very lucky. I think it depends on the people that you follow, posts you like. If you have an eye catching video in the same niche you might get put on there. I would only recommend 5 hashtags or you will eventually get shadowbanned on hashtags
 

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