What Are Ghost Followers? + How to Remove them

in hive-175254 •  4 years ago 

When we are talking about Instagram marketing many details flash out. One of the famous parts of Instagram marketing is to remove those who don't follow you back. This is the old trick. However, you need to remove some of your followers too.

This may not seem very pleasant because we all want to have more followers. We don't want to drop them. But, it's neccessary as grass needs trimming.

You need to know the first dangerous category of your followers as ghost followers. So, we're going to know them better.

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What Are Ghost Followers?

Ghost followers are generally those who have low trust score. But, what's trust score after all? It's not very clear what trust score is, but many believe that it's an overall score Instagram algorithm calcualtes through our actions behavior.

Spam-like Actions Decrease Your Trust Score

You may think what makes this score lower to find who your ghost follower is. Well, if one thing is very obvious about Instagram is that it hates bots. So, many assum that spam-like behavior makes ruins your trust score.

Even if you don't use any bot, doesn't mean you're doing ok. So, here is some spam-like actions you need to avoid:

  1. Overliking (there are hourly and daily limitations)
  2. Overcommenting with same words
  3. Overfollowing
  4. Overunfollowing
  5. Overusing DMs with same words
  6. Using irrelevant hashtags

If you want to know more about How to remove ghost followers see " How to remove ghost followers from your Instagram?"

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You don't have a choice if you want to build a clean Instagram profile.

Yes, you're right. But, we are talking about an optimal and feasible "clean" Instagram profile. So, it's better than doing nothing at all.

Alright thanks for the guide.

You're welcome. Thank you for your comment and appreciation

Good advice my friend, if I have seen many accounts with thousands of followers and the voting in the publications does not really reflect the amount of followers they have, that is not very beneficial if we are talking about business.

See you later friend 🤝

Thank you @amestyj for your comment. Of course, you're right about it. But, we can talk about two kinds of business accounts: developing and developed. It's good to drop extra and harmful burden If you're starting and developing.

I really feel most bought followers are ghost followers, one reason why I do not support the idea of buying followers.

You're right. Because, they don't even engage with your account. I'll share my viewpoint on Buying followers soon in some posts.