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This part of your journey is often going to be the hardest. You don't have an audience of people to engage with and share your content you may well not even know who your target audience you're trying to reach is because you're just starting out and chances are if you've got less than a thousand followers you also don't know what the right strategies to use.

Instagram remains one of the fastest-growing social media platforms in the world. Its popularity is almost unparalleled and it's not going anywhere. Growing Instagram theme pages is a good idea to take your online business started.

In this article, we going to show you the best tips for building and growing your Instagram personal and business pages and how to get started right now

While most of the tips here apply to theme pages they can definitely be used for personal brands as well.


Picking Your Niche.

Back in the day on Instagram you can just post random pictures and hope to grow. This day is a bit different you want to find an interest a particular area of interest that your audience might be really into

It could be a sport it could be travel it could be fashion doesn't really matter, you want to find that niche and build your whole page around that it can be any interest you like but as long as you have that one focuses it should draw people.


Optimize Your Bio.

To begin profile optimization, you need to go through your username with the bio section.

So for your username you want something clean something reasonably short You don't want it to drag on too much you don't want to use too much punctuation, underscores, periods, and stuff like that numbers. You want to keep it clean.

In your bio underneath your username obviously, you want to give someone a reason to follow your page so let them know what the page is about, how often you're going to post what kind of pictures you're going to post things like that, and don't forget in your bio you really want to make it clear to your audience that this page is about and why they should follow that's really important.


Finding Content For Your Page.

Obviously content is the most important factor of your Instagram page so the best way to go about doing this is often to make your own content now if you can make your own content

That's awesome take your own photos whatever else is fantastic.

 If you're into the idea of creating your content and making a theme page like most do you're going to want to find the best viral content for that page depending on what niche you’re in.


Let's say you're in a travel niche.

You want to hunt for sites in the same niche that aren't too big but aren't too little. Take a look at these sites to see how well their postings are doing.

What you want to do is find the posts that are doing much better on average. For example, a post with three times the likes and three times the comments are more likely to become viral, thus these are the ones you want to repurpose for your own page.

To begin, select 9 on 12 of such viral posts and upload them all at once to your Profile page. Obviously, you won't be posting 12 times a day, but you'll want to start with a great complete page. So that new visitors can see what's going on with your page and that it isn't just blank and empty.

It's appealing because you can post one, two, or even three times a day whatever you want. once you've done this, you need to keep sourcing and finding these viral posts with the most potential once you've done. It's also critical to give credit for those posts if you get them from a specific page.

Make sure you mention that page in the caption; it's crucial. Because it's so important, you'll probably have no issues with it, but if someone wants their post taken down, they can see they've been tagged by you and contact you to get it removed too.


Getting Your First Followers.

Once you have built your page and made these first 9 to 12 posts, it's important to go out and follow say 30 to 50 large pages in your same niche then the followers of these pages will likely see you at the top of the page they're following section.


They'll check you out see your pages in the same niche if your content is good they may follow you it's a wonderful way to start getting the ball rolling on some followers. Also, it helps your account feature suggestions of followers of those pages.


A lot of people like to use a follow-for-follow strategy but by no means this is an unhealthy strategy. But there is a right and wrong way to do it.


 What most people do is go on pages and start the following everybody, the worst thing you can do is that. Because Instagram assigns your account what is known as a health score so when you create a brand new account your health score is premium.


It's excellent with every action you keep performing though more and more often times if Instagram sees these actions as spammy or unappealing they will lower your health score and you don't want that it can lead to action blocks, shadow bans, drop in engagement and reach.


It's bad the more you follow people in a compressed area of time the more chances you are to have these problems with action blocks.


So when you're following these people you don't want to follow more than 200 people a day and you never want to follow more than 20-25 an hour. But once again if you can avoid follow-for-follow tactics it's great.  If you feel that it's necessary, just be cautious.


Hashtags 

 

Hashtags are such a wonderful tool to help rank your content and reach a wider audience. Instagram allows you 30 hashtags per post at a maximum I found the sweet spot to be between about 22 to 26.

One of the really big keys to success with hashtags though is to make sure to utilize hashtags you have a chance to rank in.

If you have a smaller account say it's a travel account and use the hashtag travel you're not going to gain much traction that way all the larger accounts will use the travel hashtag take up the top nine posts rank higher on the explore page

It's really hard to gain traction. So what you want to do is find a bunch of smaller hashtags combine some larger ones and smaller ones in each post that you make to have a better chance of maximum exposure.


Make Good Use of Your Captions.

Captions are a fantastic way to stand out. Now, if you have a theme page and you post about sports, football, baseball, or anything you want, chances are that a lot of people are following a lot of the same accounts, and they may even use the same viral post research. You may really stand out by using high-quality captions.


By being creative and asking your audience questions that make them think and interact, not only will they be more likely to follow you, but they'll also be more likely to engage in interactions with others, which will help your organic reach improve because you'll have more engagement overall. It also provides you a fantastic opportunity to ask for a follow on your Instagram profile.


No one indeed wants to do this, but if you repeat the phrase "follow @username" a few times, in captions it will push them to easy to go into your account and it makes a significant engagement to your profile.


Engage Within Community.

It is really important to participate mainly within your niche's community.

Let's imagine you have a motivational page or a business page with infographics. If you comment and engage with other accounts in your niche, big and small, you're building relationships and credibility. It's critical to not just comment on other people's posts, but also to reply to your audience's comments.

You want to make them feel heard, known, and noticed; it's a great opportunity to network, meet new people, and maybe form business relationships.


To Conclude.

Lastly, be consistent and updated about the Instagram features and make necessary changes according to it  to get encouraged by the algorithm to succeed. 

Success usually doesn't happen overnight it takes time it takes effort it takes practice and if you don't get immediate results, that's okay you can always improve, you can always get better and with time success usually does come.

If you follow these steps and you stay consistent, stay focused. Don't take it too seriously but make sure to put in the time and the effort you will find success sooner or later absolutely now is the greatest time you could possibly ask for to start your online business to start your theme page. If you put some time and effort into it you can succeed and it's totally going to be worth it.