Short clip on one of the reasons why going viral sucks. It can hurt your future growth & load you up with Ghost Followers.

See the whole video here: https://youtu.be/BMHWlXjTGwg

*Description from the full video:
Here's why your Instagram account isn't growing anymore. If you're stuck and unable to grow it's likely due to an increase in Ghost Followers.

The term "Ghost Follower" refers to inactive followers on your page, who don't engage with any of your content (ex: likes, saves, comments and shares).

Because these fake followers aren't engaging with what you post, they're anchoring your page down, and preventing future growth.

This is why you'll start to see reach drops, follower drops, and engagement drops - Instagram is showing your content to less people, because you've got too many Ghost Followers.

And truthfully, Ghost Followers are impossible to avoid. Everybody on Instagram has to deal with Ghost Followers.

How you get rid of Ghost Followers though, is what's important. If you're too aggressive in removing Ghost Followers, you can trigger an action ban with Instagram and possibly even get shadowbanned. You also want to be sure that you're really removing Ghost Followers and not your active audience. You don't want to undo your real growth.

So here's my guide for How I Remove Ghost Followers on IG:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8X--gCCTYU

It still works in 2022, for pages under around 15K followers.

Instagram pages larger than that may not have their Ghost Followers correctly identified. The app may make mistakes. (In my experience).

If you can't get any followers on Instagram right now, this is certainly something that you should consider.

Instagram hasn't given users an official method to identify Ghost Followers and Inactive Followers on their account, but this app has worked for me. It may be against Instagram terms of service though, so use it at your own risk. I don't endorse it. I'm simply saying it's a tool that I may have used.

Once you've erased enough Ghost Followers, you should see your engagement rate start to go up. When your engagements go up, this tells Instagram that your page is worth growing with their algorithm.

Generally speaking, I've noticed that the Instagram algorithm helps pages most when their engagement rate is above 10%.

So, to hack the algorithm, use that information to your advantage. Erase Ghost Followers and Boost your Engagement.

By taking these steps, you should see your Instagram growth skyrocket.

These are some simple growth hacks and strategies that I've used to grow my themepage to over 30,000 followers over the last year.

This strategy still works, and is crucial for growing your Instagram in 2022.

If you want rapid growth on IG that lasts, I recommend removing your Ghost Followers as you grow, so that you can elongate your growth periods. Even when your reach is going up and up, remove them.

Hopefully this video can help you to get your page growing again, and reaching more people. It sucks to be stuck on IG, especially when you just had crazy growth.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, just put them in the comment section below. I'd love to help.

Much Love & God Bless,
- Mitch