50 Tips To Get More Likes On All Your Instagram Photos

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50 Tips To Get More Likes On All Your Instagram Photos

Be sure to choose an aesthetic for your feed and stick to it.

Holly RiordanApril 19, 2017

Tagging a location in your photos lets people in your area see your photos more easily. Tagging a general location (like ‘Downtown LA’ instead of a specific restaurant) will increase the chances that people will see it.

— Carlo Pacis, How to Get More Likes on Instagram: 30 Ideas, Strategies & Tips

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One of the best ways to get more likes on your Instagram photos is to use your photo’s caption to ask a question. This is a great way to drive not only photo likes, but comments, too.

— Short Stack, 14 Tips For Getting More Followers and Likes On Instagram - ShortStack

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Running a simple like-to-enter giveaway is one of the best ways to get more likes on Instagram. Because the barriers to entry are low (it’s just a double tap away), it’s easy to rack up a ton of likes on your giveaway photo.

— Carlo Pacis, How to Get More Likes on Instagram: 30 Ideas, Strategies & Tips

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The best time to post on Instagram is on Wednesdays between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm.

— Short Stack, 14 Tips For Getting More Followers and Likes On Instagram - ShortStack

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If the lighting can't easily be fixed, try black and white.

— Erin Frye, 19 Seriously Smart Tips To Up Your Instagram Game

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Don’t go nuts with your hashtags! A hashtag paragraph, as I like to call it, at the bottom of your photo is not savvy. It can look a little overzealous and cluttered. Instead, stick to using 1-3 relevant hashtags per photo.

— Short Stack, 14 Tips For Getting More Followers and Likes On Instagram - ShortStack

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Stop using the front-facing camera for selfies. It's convenient, yes, but the rear-facing camera (the one on the back of your phone) takes pictures at a way higher resolution. Bye-bye, grainy images.

— Erin Frye, 19 Seriously Smart Tips To Up Your Instagram Game

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Link your Instagram account to your other social platforms (like Facebook and Twitter) to share your account and the media you post with your fans in other areas. This helps to leverage the profile traffic and views you generate in your other platforms to point them towards your Instagram profile, generating you more likes (and followers too).

— Carlo Pacis, How to Get More Likes on Instagram: 30 Ideas, Strategies & Tips

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You can easily gain thousands of new followers each day by getting featured. Unfortunately, Instagram doesn’t really share how they choose users, but if you get added to their suggested users list, you’ll get tons of exposure.

— Karen Tumbokon, 21 Instagram tips and tricks you can’t afford to miss

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Meet Instagram influencers, whether online or in person. Start developing relationships by leaving intentional comments on their photos.

— Kati Holland, 25 Ways to Get More Instagram Followers as an Artist - Patreon

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Adjust the photo brightness before playing with filters.

— Erin Frye, 19 Seriously Smart Tips To Up Your Instagram Game

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Don’t be scared of posting often. As long as you’re not posting ‘just because,’ posting more photos doesn’t lower overall engagement.

— Kati Holland, 25 Ways to Get More Instagram Followers as an Artist - Patreon

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Be funny, ironic, or outrageous–just don’t be BORING.

— Larry Kim, 11 Mega Tips for Increasing Your Instagram Followers

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Quality > quantity, so only post photos you’re proud of.

— Kati Holland, 25 Ways to Get More Instagram Followers as an Artist - Patreon

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Images with green, blue, and grey attracted the most number of likes while those with pink, yellow and orange got least attention.

— Fox Fans, 11 Foolproof tips to get more instagram followers than kimkardashian: it works!

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Make sure your profile is public.

— Lindsay Kolowich, How to Get More Followers on Instagram: A Guide to Earning Your First 1,000 Followers

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If you notice that photos you post in the mornings are consistently earning you more likes, comments, or followers than those posted in the afternoon or evening, then adjust your content schedule accordingly.

— Sarah Dawley, How to Get More Instagram Followers: The Ultimate Guide

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Structure your photos with more edges, and you will see the likes and comments per post soaring up.

— Fox Fans, 11 Foolproof tips to get more instagram followers than kimkardashian: it works!

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Embed your Instagram photos in your blog posts.

— Sarah Dawley, How to Get More Instagram Followers: The Ultimate Guide

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Post on Sundays: Sundays see the fewest images posted, so posting then may get your images more visibility.

— Jayson DeMers, 50 Free Ways To Increase Your Instagram Followers

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Announce your Instagram account to your followers on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or any other social network you’ve already built a following on.

— Sarah Dawley, How to Get More Instagram Followers: The Ultimate Guide

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Make sure your bio is complete. Include relevant keywords and hashtags, and a link back to your site. Above all, don’t be spammy; this is a guarantee that no one who reads your profile will follow you!

— Jayson DeMers, 50 Free Ways To Increase Your Instagram Followers

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Focus on one specific object in a photo with your actual phone camera, not with Instagram's blur tool. Manually tap on your camera screen to decide what the main focus should be, then take your photo. This looks less heavily edited and much more professional.

— Danielle Tullo, 15 Easy Hacks for Taking Better Instagrams

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Search for and follow people who are using popular hashtags like #followme and #likeforlike. Many will follow you back!

— Jayson DeMers, 50 Free Ways To Increase Your Instagram Followers

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Make a better caption or bio by copying and pasting text with line breaks from notepad or texts. You can't make a line break directly in Instagram, but if you want to have a more intriguing bio or caption that requires one, copy and paste your caption (line breaks included) into Instagram.

— Danielle Tullo, 15 Easy Hacks for Taking Better Instagrams

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Don’t be abstruse (overtly complicated, like that choice of word).

— David Christopher, The Dos and Don'ts of How to Get More Instagram Likes

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Pictures that are primarily blue get 24 percent more likes than photos with red as the primary color.

— Christina Newberry, How to Get More Instagram Likes

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Use natural light as often as possible to improve the quality of your photo. Even if you're inside with dim lighting, face a window to get as much natural light as possible.

— Danielle Tullo, 15 Easy Hacks for Taking Better Instagrams

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Be sure to choose an aesthetic for your feed and stick to it. Any major change can throw users off and suck likes away from your posts.

— Christina Newberry, How to Get More Instagram Likes

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Take a few extra seconds to leave a comment that shows you actually looked at the picture and you’re far more likely to create a connection.

— Natashalh, Tips (That Don't Feel Icky) for Getting More Instagram Likes and Follows -

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Instead of ‘cool!’ or ‘pretty!’ consider something like ‘the sky has such lovely colors’ or ‘what a neat dress.’ (This started an interesting conversation with a fellow photographer who enjoys creating pieces especially for specific photos, also fun.)

— Natashalh, Tips (That Don't Feel Icky) for Getting More Instagram Likes and Follows -

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I follow only if I actually want to follow, not so I can just unfollow tomorrow.

— Natashalh, Tips (That Don't Feel Icky) for Getting More Instagram Likes and Follows -

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Engaging with users in different countries means that you can work different time zones, so see what fits where and work it into your day. Central Africans seem to love using Instagram at around 6pm London time, and most people in the Middle East seem to have the best engagement at around midnight.

— Wrap Your Lips Around This, Hints & Tips: 10 ways to get more likes and follows on Instagram | Wrap Your Lips Around This

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Be sure to venture beyond your own photo stream to like and comment on other users’ photos and videos. That engagement can draw people back to your profile, where they’re sure to find some like-worthy posts to double-tap.

— Christina Newberry, How to Get More Instagram Likes

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Don’t inundate your feed with selfies. As a rough rule of thumb for every 10 pictures post one or two selfies or action shots with you in them.

— Wrap Your Lips Around This, Hints & Tips: 10 ways to get more likes and follows on Instagram | Wrap Your Lips Around This

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Avoid spammy unspecific hashtags. Some hashtags, like ‘love’ are the most tagged on the platform nearing 100 million tags! If you use that tag, it will become irrelevant in less than 3 minutes and the majority of people who use that hashtag will never see your picture.

— Garin Kilpatrick, How to Get More Instagram Followers and Likes

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Scroll through your home feed and engage with the people you already follow and who follow you back. This has to be one of the best ways to build long lasting engagement with the audience you already have, and is likely to lead to more long term Instagram success.

— Wrap Your Lips Around This, Hints & Tips: 10 ways to get more likes and follows on Instagram | Wrap Your Lips Around This

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First rule for me, if it’s not something I would want to see in my feed, why would somebody else want to see it in theirs? If you don’t want to look at someone else’s Cheerios or sleeping cat, why would they want to look at yours?

— Garin Kilpatrick, How to Get More Instagram Followers and Likes

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Be sure to tag your clients, models, and all vendors involved in the shoot

— SLR Lounge, Photography SEO and Web Marketing Workshop: Increase Instagram Followers With These 10 Tips for Photographers

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If you just post pictures of your food or your feet don’t expect to light up your Instagram with dozens of likes and new followers, no matter how many hashtags you use.

— Garin Kilpatrick, How to Get More Instagram Followers and Likes

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Put a list of 30 maximum hashtags in your first comment rather than cluttering your caption space. Having a paragraph as a caption takes away attention from the image.

— SLR Lounge, Photography SEO and Web Marketing Workshop: Increase Instagram Followers With These 10 Tips for Photographers

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Let’s not forget about how many likes photos of our furry friends can get us.

— Sherilyn, The Best Tips for Receiving Likes on Instagram | SOCi

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Some posts will do better than others and THAT’S OKAY! You don’t have to aim for hundreds or thousands of likes with every post.

— SLR Lounge, Photography SEO and Web Marketing Workshop: Increase Instagram Followers With These 10 Tips for Photographers

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Two types of filters had negative correlations: Saturation correlated to slightly lower views, and age effects led to lower comments.

— Courtney Seiter, How to Gain a Massive Following on Instagram

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Pictures with faces boost empathy, and receive 35-percent more likes. It’s the human factor we’ve seen in Starbucks’ social media strategy; people love seeing their fellow humans!

— Sherilyn, The Best Tips for Receiving Likes on Instagram | SOCi

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First, reach out to your existing friends and followers from other social networks. Since those people already know you, they’re far more likely to become a follower. You can simply send a message or share a post inviting your friends to follow you.

— Emil Pakarklis, How To Become Instagram Famous In 3 Easy Steps

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Accounts with the highest number of fans tend to post a bit more than that–up to 2 or 3 photos per day on average.

— Courtney Seiter, How to Gain a Massive Following on Instagram

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Just find someone with photos that are similar to yours, and start following the followers of that person. They’ll get a notification saying that you’re now following them, and many of them will check out your profile.

— Emil Pakarklis, How To Become Instagram Famous In 3 Easy Steps

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Ask users to ‘tag a friend.'

— Courtney Seiter, How to Gain a Massive Following on Instagram

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Never post text images or jokes, no matter how cool you think the text is. Also avoid posting random screenshots as most people really don’t like them.

— Emil Pakarklis, How To Become Instagram Famous In 3 Easy Steps

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