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What’s a niche and can you change your niche?
🔹Defining your niche is essential to Instagram growth. Why? Because you can’t be all things to all people.
🔹Your niche is what you focus your content on.
🔹If your niche is too broad, you lack focus and don’t attract people who share your interests.
🔹Finding your focus, a specific interest, is a must! Start with one thing that you’re passionate about, that you care about, and focus on that.
🔹Think of niche as the one thing that you want to be known for.
🔹What if the niche you’re in is not working?Can you change or expand your niche? YES, but give it a few months and focus on serving your followers by posting high quality content in your niche before you change or expand it.
🔹If the one, specific niche you choose isn’t working or your interests change, it’s ok to change or expand your niche!
🔹Your content will naturally improve if it’s something you care about.
🔹Expect to lose some followers, but that’s ok!
🔹Focus your content on the followers you want to attract.
❓Have you changed or expanded your niche?
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You can handle the Truths about Reels!
1️⃣ Reach on Reels is slowing down:
🔹More people are posting Reels and you
can only watch so many.
🔹It’s all about supply/demand
2️⃣ Reels are still getting the highest engagement of all content on IG.
🔹Don’t stop using Reels even if your Reels aren’t performing as well as they used to.
🔹Focus on strong content in your Reels to entertain, educate or inspire
🔹Keep using single posts, carousels, IGTV, stories & IG Live too!!
3️⃣ Reels are taking longer to get traction or go viral on IG.
🔹A few months ago, if a Reel was going to go viral, it happened within the first couple hours/days
🔹Now, Reels can pick up views a week or more after you post them.
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My experience with using “banned” hashtags is FUR REAL. Who knew that “# KEEPWAGGIN” would be banned?
This hurt our reach for over a year. It took a long time to recover from being on the naughty list after I removed over 500 # keepwaggin from our content.
Here’s what you need to know:
1️⃣ What’s a “banned” hashtag?
🔹A hashtag that IG considers spammy, inappropriate, or it’s been reported by users who consider the content on the hashtag against IG’s guidelines. A lot of posts on banned hashtags comes from bots or spam accounts.
🔹Seemingly harmless hashtags can be banned because so many people use them at once, like “# valentinesday” or “# newyearsday”
2️⃣ What’s the BIG?
🔹Getting “shadowbanned” which can result in a dramatic decrease in engagement or even get your account removed.
🔹Instagram will show your content to fewer people as the algorithm thinks you’re spammy.
3️⃣ How do you know a Hashtag is “banned?”
🔹Banned hashtags CHANGE EVERY DAY, so you’ve got to keep checking.
🔹You can use various apps to check. We use IQ Hashtags. I don’t love it for somethings, but it’s good for searching banned hashtags & they are adding new features.
🔹You can also use this app to search your posts for banned hashtags. See the link in our profile.
🔹Another way is to search a # on the explorer tab. If it’s not there, it’s banned. For example, if you search “# like” as of today, it doesn’t show up because it’s banned.
🔹If you search a # and it doesn’t show the “top” & “recent” tabs, it’s banned. This is my experience but I have not found proof of it from IG.
🔹IG used to post a message that the content on a # was banned but they don’t anymore.
4️⃣What should I do if I’ve used a banned hashtag?
🔹Go back to edit your caption & remove the banned # or delete your comments to remove banned #’
5 Things you need to know about REELS right now!!
1. HOOK – use a hook to grab peoples’ attention right away to keep them watching!
2. LENGTH – 8 second is the sweet spot for length, even though you have up to 30 seconds for Reels. Get to the point!
3. IG FOCUSING ON VIDEOS – the dog’s out of the bag.
Instagram is focused on video, so use video in Reels for your feed. Use videos in your Stories for better reach too.
Also, try to record your Reels in the Reels app because the algorithm is optimized for videos recorded directly in the Reels app (rather than using outside apps or TikTok).
4. CAPTIONS – people have their sound off, so use captions for accessibility & to keep people’s attention.
5. CTA – Use a Call-To-Action and tell people what to do, like this👇👇
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STOP USING 30 HASHTAGS!
Yeah, I know – I was just talking about hashtags last week and recommended using ALL 30 hashtags, but…
Instagram is always changing, and the latest recommendation is that you should use only 8-15 hashtags!
WHY THE CHANGE?
The algorithm will focus better on fewer hashtags and be less confused – kinda like we are!
In theory this makes our “Hashtag Job” easier, and our posts “prettier” (because they’re not clogged up with 30 hashtags.)
Here’s what we’re trying for the next month:
🔹Focus on the most relevant hashtags in our niche
🔹Make sure that our hashtags are super relevant to a particular post
🔹Use 8-15 hashtags on all posts & Reels
Thanks to @thelucasokeefe for this news based on his conversation with Instagram. 😊
Comment below and let us know if you’ve heard this and what you’re going to do👇
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Do you stress over sharing pictures/videos of you and your dog, or of you to promote your pet industry business or non-profit? Getting out from behind your dog or dog business account to introduce yourself is hard! We get it!
Did you know that your dog, dog business or resue agency is a "brand?" Your brand is your identity, your vibe, what you're know for...
Why is it so important to get out there and share more than just your adorable pup? It's simple! People want to know the person behind the dog/brand. If you're trying to grow your account on Instagram and other social media, it helps to humanize your brand to increase that all-important know/like/trust factor.
Need help? We've got you covered! Grab our FREE Guide called "Sharing the Spotlight" to start building your community with confidence. Head to our profile to get your copy and get out there with your dog/brand!
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