Here are the ten best ways to get more followers on Instagram.

1. Share Images People Can Relate To

If you check out the most popular Instagram accounts, you’ll notice a common theme. All of their photos are something most people can relate to and connect with. They’re personal, unique, and original. By sharing these types of photos, you’re establishing a connection with your audience, which is the absolute best way to attract people to your account.

In short, make sure your Instagram account is authentic and original.

2. Post at the Right Time

Before posting anything onto Instagram, consider what time zone the majority of your audience lives in and what time they check their Instagram account.

Because of its mobility, there isn’t really a favorite time for Instagram users — engagement is high on Wednesday between 5 to 6 PM, while more people post on Thursdays Regardless, a majority of Instagram users log in when they have the extra time, such first thing in the morning, on their way home from work or school, or on Sundays.

3. Use Popular & Relevant Hashtags

Search Google to find popular hashtags, which are used to organize photos. You can then use the relevant trending hashtags to you or your industry to gain more visibility for your photos, which should generate more interaction. For example, the top 10 hashtags are: #love, #instagood, #me; #like, #follow, #cute, #photooftheday, #tbt, #followme, and #tagsforlikes.

While hashtags are an important asset when attracting new followers, you don’t want to go overboard. Instead of posting an entire paragraph of hashtags, try to select one to three hashtags per photo. Any more than three will seem spammy.

Instagram changes its algorithm on a very regular basis and its impossible to determine what brings you the most followers. But there are certainly few things that can help you increase your followers organically. Curated below are the some of the tips that really helped us blow our accounts.

Niche Instagram knows what your account is about and who would be interested in your content. If you like a lot of dog videos and post a lot of content about dogs, it sure knows that you would be interested in dog videos and your content would be good for other folks who are interested in dogs. If its possible to pick a specific niche, go for it.

Videos vs Image posts If your moto is to gain followers, post video content over image content any day. Currently Instagram suggests your content to other users who might be interested in your content. If any of your video goes viral then you will gain massive followers overnight

Regular Posts Some say to not post too much content, but for us posting too much content is what gained us a lot of followers. Try posting during different times of the day and different frequency and see what really works for your account

Follow Unfollow Ethically it might be a wrong thing to do, but for your account to be visible it is really necessary that you have some amount of initial followers (around 2000) for instagram to start suggesting your videos to others. Do not go following anyone or everyone, make sure that you are following people in your own niche. Best to follow people who comment on others posts

We are currently managing 30+ accounts with a total of around 300K+ followers. Our strategy is very simple, we repost content of other users every 1 hour. To help us with the process we built an automation software that reposts content that we like every one hour.

Get influencers to mention you :

Collaborate with influencers on your niche. They have a lot of followers, so if they mention / tag you, you will get a lot of exposure.

Offer them something before you request a mention.

Power likes :

There are services who sell Power Likes. These are likes on your content that come from large accounts, with content similar to yours.

When an account with hundreds of thousand followers like your posts, they get much more engagement.

Be consistent :

All the above are some ways you can follow to reach your first 1000 followers but at the end of the day it all comes down to one thing: Consistency.

You need to be consistent with the content you upload and the actions you take. Only then you will be able to see the number of your followers increase!