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The Easiest Way to Increase Your Instagram Engagement Starting Now

June 23, 2019 By Lisa Sicard 58 Comments

Table of Contents

  • What makes Instagram engagement special for your businesses?
  • What does engagement really mean for you?
  • Instagram as a marketing tool for your business
  • Where to start with Instagram engagement for your small business?
  • Begin by sharing great images, photos and videos
  • Engage, engage and engage more
  • Hashtags help engagement on Instagram
  • Instagram tools to help you
  • Use stories feature to increase engagement on Instagram
  • Making money and shopping from Instagram
  • Over to you
    • Lisa Sicard
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What makes Instagram engagement special for your businesses?

The Easiest Way to Increase Your Instagram Engagement Starting Now

The #1 reason Instagram is HOT today is the Instagram engagement level. The engagement level on Instagram surpasses all the other social media networks today. That is huge.

Not only that, but Instagram has 1 billion users and ½ of them are active every single day on Instagram.

What does engagement really mean for you?

It means that people are spending more time on that social network connecting with others. They are not just strolling through the feed. They are commenting on their friends’ posts.

And they are messaging on Instagram. Businesses can message users as well. Many users who keep their profiles private use messenger only and never even post a thing to Instagram.

The engagement level on Instagram surpasses all the other social media networks today. #InstagramClick To Tweet

Instagram as a marketing tool for your business

Instagram is a great marketing tool for expanding the presence and visibility of almost any business.

It can be beneficial for any company that has a visually appealing aspect of their business, such as home decor, clothing, lifestyle, travel, pets, and much more.

Instagram allows every kind of business, from publicly traded big businesses to local mom-and-pop shops, to reach a worldwide audience.

The smaller businesses need to position themselves to reach their niche.

Many local businesses use word of mouth for their marketing. Instagram is similar online to the old fashioned word-of mouth marketing done offline.

People are chatting and commenting on Instagram daily about the products and services they love. Be sure to have a social media listening tool to monitor what’s being said about your business.

People are chatting and commenting on Instagram daily about the products and services they love. #InstagramClick To Tweet

Where to start with Instagram engagement for your small business?

If you are not on this social network yet, it’s not too late to get started with Instagram. Just be sure to fill out your bio completely and start with a nice profile picture.

Think about what link you will have in the bio as it’s your only link. (Unless you generate 10,000 followers!)

Then, make sure you have a business profile. You can have both a personal and a business or just a business profile on Instagram – unlike Facebook.

Lastly, this precious link in your bio can be changed as often as you want. It’s great to highlight a sale, promotion or new blog post.

Anything you are referring to in your Instagram post can say “see more in the bio above!”

Begin by sharing great images, photos and videos

Since Instagram is a visual social network, it’s important to really use your best photographs and images there. Mix them up with video. Video does best on Instagram (as it does on all networks).

Remember, with video you have only 3-60 seconds on Instagram. (Stories can only be up to 15 seconds and IGTV up to an hour.)

Engage, engage and engage more

To really get noticed on Instagram you need to engage with others. Focus on your area and your niche. Follow those with like interests and in your area. (Unless you have an online store, then you can expand your area.)

Next, read their descriptions – some tell stories with their photos or videos. Then, respond and engage with them about the story, not only about the image. Finally, use some emoji’s in your post description.

Then, respond and engage with them about the story, not only about the image. #InstagramClick To Tweet

Hashtags help engagement on Instagram

If that isn’t enough, next you have Hashtags to use. There are many guides out there explaining how to find the best ones.

Use some that are very popular and mix with some not so popular because if you only use really popular hashtags you may not be found.

Do not use emoji’s in your hashtags – you could be shadow banned.

What is a shadow ban? It is a ban that renders your hashtags undiscoverable by the vibrant users. Only your followers will be able to see your feed and not the entire Instagram community.

What can you do to prevent a shadow ban? Refrain from using the same hashtags repeatedly. Do not use third party tools to gain followers and likes and/or comments.

If all else fails, give Instagram a few days break and do nothing. It will help the algorithm there re-adjust!

I love the tool by Triberr to check for shadowbanning. The tool allows you to review your last 10 posts on Instagram. If you find you have a post shadowbanned you can easily edit it.

What is a shadowban? It is a ban that renders your hashtags undiscoverable by the vibrant users. #InstagramClick To Tweet

Instagram tools to help you

There are many tools for Instagram you can use to help you achieve more visibility as well.

There are tools and apps to create collages, others to create quotes with beautiful images and some that even repost for you.

A repost is when you share someone else’s Instagram post.

Use stories feature to increase engagement on Instagram

Stories are the rage today on Instagram and Facebook. They took a page from Snapchat and their stories disappear within 24 hours. No one wants to miss out on their friends’ story!

These images are vertical, and you can use stickers and polls on them. Polls will increase your engagement level. Be sure to participate in others’ stories as well.

The stories feature can get you noticed more on the popular social network. They stand out on the feed and are easily scrollable.

Making money and shopping from Instagram

Many bloggers can make money from Instagram with influencer campaigns and sponsorships. Niche bloggers can share products and tools for their audience and get paid at the same time.

Online businesses have shoppable grams available so people can shop right from your Instagram post to your product.

Yes, you can use Instagram Checkout now. Instagram Checkout is for United States businesses only to date.

Look for the SHOP icon under retailers’ Instagram profiles for this feature! This saves Instagram users valuable time shopping and means less third-party payments for you.

Another way to shop is when someone clicks on the Instagram post and a shopping bag pops up describing the product.

You can save it to a wish list or make a purchase right from there. The saved items send people directly to the product page on the sellers’ websites to purchase.

This can be a little more time consuming for users than buying directly on Instagram.

Over to you

How are you increasing your engagement over on Instagram today? We’d love to know more in the comments below!

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Comments

  1. John Philips says

    September 10, 2020 at 4:47 am

    Hello their,
    I am John, And my instagram Accounts are very week. But I think this idea are very effective for grow my instagram accounts and followers. Thank you for share this article.
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  2. Raj Singh says

    February 7, 2020 at 9:01 am

    Hi Lisa,
    Thank you so much for such a helpful post.
    Nowadays Instagram is one of the most popular and most engaging social media platform, so thanks a lot to you for sharing these helpful techniques with us. I hope these techniques help me to Increase my Instagram engagement.
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  3. Daisy says

    January 27, 2020 at 1:03 am

    Hi Lisa
    Thumbs up for unique ideas and impressive writing skills! I have got lots of points that will use to get more engagement on my Instamixes Instagram account.

    Reply
  4. Ray says

    September 29, 2019 at 11:35 pm

    Thank you Lisa for a very insightful post! This is an eye-opener for me regarding Instagram. Stumbling on your articles is a goldmine!
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    • Lisa Sicard says

      October 7, 2019 at 5:41 am

      Hi Ray, you are most welcome! Are you there on Instagram? Thanks for coming by and taking the time to comment here.
      Lisa Sicard would love you to read ..Why You Need to Start Doing Instagram Stories Now To Grow Your InstagramMy Profile

      Reply
  5. Nicola says

    August 29, 2019 at 9:36 am

    Really helpful post, I particularly agree with the importance of posting stories – I have found that my engagement has increased a huge amount since I started posting daily stories.
    Nicola would love you to read ..The End of Summer // Living ArrowsMy Profile

    Reply
    • Lisa Sicard says

      September 3, 2019 at 2:48 am

      Thank you Nicola, I’m glad you found it helpful! Yes, stories have really helped increase engagement both on Instagram and Facebook. I appreciate your coming by on this one, have a great new week!
      Lisa Sicard would love you to read ..It’s Time to Make Your Business Great and Here’s HowMy Profile

      Reply
  6. Manish says

    August 16, 2019 at 5:03 am

    Wow! This is very helpful Lisa. If we properly engage with our audiences, we can get some good leads too, because Instagram is evolving as one of the best marketing platform.

    Reply
    • Lisa Sicard says

      August 17, 2019 at 4:14 am

      Hi Manish, glad you found this post very helpful! Engagement is key today on Instagram, the likes may become a thing of the past soon 🙂
      Lisa Sicard would love you to read ..How to Use the New Twitter Layout to Your Advantage to Secretly Rock TwitterMy Profile

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  7. Travenjo says

    July 30, 2019 at 5:31 am

    Hi Author,
    Wonderful and impressive.
    A very good collection of information you shared about Instagram
    and how to increase Instagram engagement.
    Good work…

    Reply
    • Lisa Sicard says

      August 17, 2019 at 4:15 am

      Thank you Travenjo, are you using all of these tips? I’d love to know more ! Have a great weekend.
      Lisa Sicard would love you to read ..How to Use the New Twitter Layout to Your Advantage to Secretly Rock TwitterMy Profile

      Reply
  8. Chloe says

    July 28, 2019 at 12:26 pm

    I just set up an IG account for a small business. Luckily, I stumbled upon this content and it’s very informative. I believe IG will be taking out the ‘Like’ feature, but I don’t think it will affect social media managers in any way. I appreciate you for sharing your tips!

    Reply
    • Lisa Sicard says

      August 28, 2019 at 6:02 am

      Hi Chloe, you are most welcome. It will be interesting to see how that all plays out over there on Instagram. Thanks for your input here.
      Lisa Sicard would love you to read ..It’s Time to Make Your Business Great and Here’s HowMy Profile

      Reply
  9. David F says

    July 27, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    Do you have any tips for growing b2b accounts? I think there’s still a big opportunity for b2b brands to engage with their audience on Instagram but how I’m not so sure about?

    Reply
  10. Punam Maharjan says

    July 24, 2019 at 11:30 pm

    HI Lisa,
    This is a good piece of information that you have posted. As Instagram users are still increasing by the day, your informative content about Increasing Instagram Engagement helps a lot. After reading all the content i found it very interesting as well as instructional. As you said being worldwide social media platform many people are using it as a platform for their business as well and those who are new users on Instagram can get a great help from your tips that you have mentioned in the post. As it was very helpful for me, I would like to Thank you.
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  11. Jawahar says

    July 24, 2019 at 2:34 am

    Hi Lisa, great article! After reading this article, I’ve realized my mistake that I was doing on Instagram, which is I expected high engagements for my posts but I failed to engage with other’s posts. From now, I’m going to engage more with other’s post. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • Lisa Sicard says

      July 29, 2019 at 6:11 am

      Hi Jawahar, That’s a big mistake, I hope that once you correct it, it will make a difference. You also need to do some promotion with Instagram as well. Nothing is really FREE anymore with social media especially on Facebook and Instagram. Thanks for coming by and have a great day!
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  12. Vrujal Bhalani says

    July 23, 2019 at 5:36 am

    Splendid thought, I grateful it’s so innovative and has helped me in getting significant information which I required.
    Keep Sharing.
    Thank you!

    Reply
  13. Vidha Joshi says

    July 23, 2019 at 1:19 am

    hey Lisa,
    loved your article.people have that mentality that Instagram is just for timepass mostly business gets to benefit from Facebook and LinkedIn only. but you have proved them all wrong and clearly proved that Instagram is important as well. your tricks to generate leads and engagement helps a lot. thanks for this amazing article.

    Reply
  14. Lorenzo Gutierrez says

    July 21, 2019 at 7:08 pm

    Hi Lisa,

    I agree – Use stories feature to increase engagement on Instagram – Stories provide great engagement rate. You can stay on top of your customers mind by consistently posting stories.

    Reply
  15. Cindy mcmillan says

    July 17, 2019 at 3:28 am

    Hi Lisa,

    Interesting post! Thank you for breaking this down so well. You have pointed out the most important factors to increase Instagram engagement. Instagram has become a very powerful marketing platform and it’s just time to take advantage of what it could offer. I couldn’t agree more with what you said here, especially the hashtags and the quality of images/videos. Hopefully, more people could learn from this post. Cheers!
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    • Lisa Sicard says

      July 19, 2019 at 10:52 pm

      Thanks Cindy. How long have you been using Instagram? Videos really do help along with the right hashtags. Have a great day!
      Lisa Sicard would love you to read ..A Guide: How to Take Your Marketing to the Next LevelMy Profile

      Reply
  16. Vivek Dadhich says

    July 16, 2019 at 8:03 am

    Thanks a lot, Lisa. I read your article thoroughly and found out some mistakes I have been doing for months. I will try not to use the same hashtag more. I was not aware of that.

    Reply
    • Lisa Sicard says

      July 19, 2019 at 10:54 pm

      Hi Vivek,
      I had done the same thing until I learned about it. Glad this piece was helpful for you. Have a nice weekend
      Lisa Sicard would love you to read ..A Guide: How to Take Your Marketing to the Next LevelMy Profile

      Reply
  17. Ragav says

    July 16, 2019 at 4:48 am

    Hey Lisa,

    Thanks for the useful blog. Really nice to read. Now a days Instagram plays the the main role in Digital Marketing. This tips helps me to increase my Instagram followers.

    Reply
  18. Ahmad says

    July 15, 2019 at 1:46 am

    Instagram is the best social media platform.
    I also use it for sharing my videoes, photos, etc.
    It helps us to show our quality or talent in the world.
    Your blog is very informative.
    Thanks for sharing with us.
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  19. Sid Shukla says

    July 14, 2019 at 11:41 pm

    Hi Lisa,

    Thank you sharing this informative blog post. I am sharing Photos & Videos on Instagram for more than 8 months now but my engagements are still not upto the mark. Well i will try your instructions and do as it is mentioned by you to boost my Instagram business profile.

    Reply
  20. Jay says

    July 14, 2019 at 5:18 am

    Thanks a lot for this informative article about Instagram engagement.

    It’s indeed an eye-opener for me reading this.

    In particular I’m very surprised about the engagement level surpassing all the other social media networks.

    Five hundred million people active every single day is massively insane.
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  21. Pratim says

    July 14, 2019 at 1:29 am

    Very informative post. I literally didn’t knew that using emoji’s in hashtags can led to shadow banned. I think I need to be careful from next time.

    Thanks for sharing this Lisa!
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  22. Himanshu says

    July 13, 2019 at 11:12 am

    Before reading this article, I wasn’t able to gain engagement on Instagram. But now I’m sure I will get good engagement.
    Keep up the good work!
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  23. Siddharth Sharma says

    July 13, 2019 at 1:14 am

    Hi Lisa,
    Finally another well-researched post from your side, yes you are right social media is very helpful now a day in the growth of business .

    Here you shared all the very useful tips to increase engagement on Instagram but sometimes i feel waste because you can’t post link of web page directly anywhere apart from profile.

    Well Thanks 🙂
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  24. Shameem says

    July 12, 2019 at 6:48 am

    Hey Lisa,

    Nice piece of content Instagram which is getting engaged a lot now after Facebook and it can utilize for all our business as well.

    If you have good business model like T-shirt you can use this source to promote your business , we can engaged with

    influencers to give some shouts as goes on as like you mentioned many possibilities available on it.

    Thanks Lisa for such wonderful post!
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  25. Tanmay Kapse says

    July 8, 2019 at 12:06 pm

    Just like content is king for bloggers, for Instagram its the images that are important! So your section mentioning “Begin by sharing great images, photos and videos” is really valid and helpful.
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    • Lisa Sicard says

      July 9, 2019 at 2:07 am

      Thanks Tanmay, yes, Instagram for images and even content now too counts a lot on that platform. Have a great day!
      Lisa Sicard would love you to read ..11 Must Have Instagram Tools To Boost Your Business In 2019My Profile

      Reply
  26. Timothy says

    July 6, 2019 at 4:49 am

    Hi Lisa! I have noticed that some social sites does not really like Internet marketers, for instance Facebook and Twitter. I would not market my internet marketing blog on Pinterest either.

    I don´t have an account on Instagram yet, but I will definitely sign up and use your tips! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • Lisa Sicard says

      July 9, 2019 at 2:09 am

      Hi Timony, What do you mean they don’t like internet marketers? I thought they loved them especially if they advertise on them 🙂 I think you will really like Instagram.
      Lisa Sicard would love you to read ..11 Must Have Instagram Tools To Boost Your Business In 2019My Profile

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  27. Anshul Panchal says

    July 6, 2019 at 2:41 am

    Hey Lisa,
    Instagram became a very effective social media platform after 2k16. now peoples are engaging more on Instagram. and your article helped me to understand the tools used in Instagram marketing. thanks

    Reply
    • Lisa Sicard says

      July 7, 2019 at 2:48 am

      Hi Anshul, thanks for coming by on this. Are you using any tools now for your Instagram marketing? I’d love to know more.
      Lisa Sicard would love you to read ..How to Create an Engaging Social Media Marketing StrategyMy Profile

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  28. Anshul Panchal says

    July 3, 2019 at 6:28 am

    Hi Lisa, I regularly read your blogs. I`m a newbie in social media marketing. your tactics of using Instagram marketing really helped me a lot. I have one query that can we do promotion on Instagram`s DM? thanks
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    • Lisa Sicard says

      July 9, 2019 at 2:11 am

      Hi Anshul, yes, you can with the DM’s on Instagram. I’d be careful not to spam people though. They will quickly unfollow you. Thanks for your comments and have a great day 🙂
      Lisa Sicard would love you to read ..11 Must Have Instagram Tools To Boost Your Business In 2019My Profile

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  29. Ram Chakraborty says

    July 3, 2019 at 2:15 am

    I want to know about image posting through Instagram. Is it very effective that capture photo of our products with high resolution and post it to Instagram ? Will it be helpful to spread our business ?

    Reply
  30. Harsh Singh says

    July 2, 2019 at 7:48 am

    As we all know that Instagram is growing very fast and everyone is using Instagram in their daily life style. So it like a part of our daily routine. This article is quite helpful for us to understand and improve our knowledge about Instagram. In current scenario business also can tackle by Instagram and if we increase it then it will be too good for in perspective of social view as well as business.

    Thanks again for the information.

    Harsh
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  31. Rahul Ahlawat says

    July 2, 2019 at 12:06 am

    Hey Lisa,
    Thanks for putting lights on using Instagram to outreach to your potential customer by working on engagement activities. Well, I would like to add a point that easy and best way to engage your audience is through story and ask some question to engage them with your page. This works most of the time.

    Thanks,
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  32. Abhay Gautam says

    June 30, 2019 at 1:55 am

    Hi Lisa,

    Great Post! Thank you so much for sharing this informative post on the easiest way to Increase your Instagram engagement. I totally agree with you that Instagram is the most engaging platform these days and it’s full of opportunities.

    And I really liked the Hashtags and Stories Features For increasing the engagement…

    Cheers,
    Abhay
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  33. Arif says

    June 29, 2019 at 7:42 am

    Thank You Lisa Sicard. That’s an awesome and very helpful article. I want to know more about Instagram tools..
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  34. Rajat Chauhan says

    June 29, 2019 at 7:09 am

    Lisa, Thanks for crafting awesome post.

    And yes, Instagram can do wonder for your marketing and branding campaign. Lots of great tips I figured out over time and today I came across one interesting example, hope you guys would be interesting to know how a 20 yrs girl grab her dream job at Deloitte by crafting a creative resume using her insta feed: https://bit.ly/2XcPnjU

    Thanks again Lisa, have a wonderful weekend.

    -RajatChauhan

    Reply
  35. Harsh Raletta says

    June 29, 2019 at 1:02 am

    nice article I have gained almost 1000 more followers after applying all the tricks and tips given in this article thanks for sharing this post
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  36. SARA says

    June 28, 2019 at 5:42 am

    Thank you so much for such a useful post. I have followed your steps and guess what i am able to increase followers to my instagram all credits goes to you.

    Thank you so much. Keep the Good Work!!!
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    • Gail Gardner says

      June 28, 2019 at 8:05 pm

      Hello SARA,

      You need to publish something or not use CommentLuv because most bloggers will delete comments that link to “Hello world!” as we know that is a default which means you haven’t published anything.
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  37. Rahul Ahlawat says

    June 26, 2019 at 1:09 am

    Hi Lisa,
    Thanks for showing us a way to increase customer engagement through Instagram.
    You write awesome and your way of explaining to the point is really appreciated.

    Can you make a similar article for an engaging audience through twitter?

    Reply
  38. Ryan K Biddulph says

    June 25, 2019 at 10:08 am

    Being chatty makes such a big difference Lisa. People can talk more and get more folks to talk about their updates. What a simple way to boost your engagement. Time, positive energy and a genuine intent make all the difference in the world.
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    • Lisa Sicard says

      June 26, 2019 at 12:56 am

      Ryan – I love that phrase “Time and energy!” Yes, it does take energy to engage on Instagram. I think that cannot be replaced by bots. You know the ones that leave the same comments on every post. Thanks for coming by here Ryan and taking the time to comment. Have a fabulous day ahead!
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  39. Neo Digitech says

    June 25, 2019 at 6:27 am

    Hi Lisa,

    This is a really wonderful post regarding Instagram, today’s Instagram is most uses the social platform so thanks a lot to you for sharing this helpful techniques with us.
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    • Lisa Sicard says

      June 26, 2019 at 12:57 am

      You are welcome Neo and I’m glad you called it a “social” platform. That one certainly is! Thanks for coming by and have a great day!
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  40. Joy Healey says

    June 24, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    Hi Lisa,

    Thanks a lot for this informative article about Instagram engagement.

    It’s indeed an eye-opener for me reading this.

    In particular I’m very surprised about the engagement level surpassing all the other social media networks.

    Five hundred million people active every single day is massively insane.

    Wow!

    I have to say I’m one of those who hasn’t gotten serious with Instagram but with this type of engagement level, it’s time to get started.

    Thankfully there are tools to help with the process as you have said in this article. These tools will be very much appreciated by people like me not so good at making quotes with beautiful images, haha.

    Thanks again, Lisa.
    Joy Healey would love you to read ..Marketing Your Small BusinessMy Profile

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    • Lisa Sicard says

      June 26, 2019 at 1:00 am

      Hi Joy, yes, isn’t it amazing how this network has grown? I was out last night having dinner at the people nearby were talking about how they knew about someone kids dance recital because of Instagram. It used to be you would hear them say because of Facebook…. We have to keep with these changes as they effect how are businesses will be seen or NOT.
      Thanks for coming by Joy and taking the time to comment. Have a fabulous day ahead!
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  41. Lisa Sicard says

    June 24, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    Hi Gail, I noticed when I used the Triberr shadowban all the ones that were shadowbanned had emojis in the hashtags. I’ve read too that always using the same ones can have the same effect.
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  42. Gail Gardner says

    June 24, 2019 at 12:39 pm

    Hi Lisa,

    When Julie Weishaar shared this content on LinkedIn, she got a response from Stephanie Dolce, one or her 1st degree connections:

    Stephanie’s profile says she is an Author, Blogger,Talk Show Host, Social Media Influencer, Ambassador and Guru.

    RE: “Do not use emoji’s in your hashtags – you could be shadow banned” she says:

    “This is wrong information- people aren’t being shadow banned because they are using emojis- they are being shadowed banned because they are copying and pasting the same hashtags!

    I wrote a column on this topic about a month ago! (I would link to it, but I have no idea where to find it.)

    Also engagement on Instagram starts with posting great content therefore that’s where the engagement comes from.” #socialmediaguru”
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