there is nothing worse than posting on Instagram and getting zero views and then a few hours later posting another one and getting zero views again after managing and running hundreds of Instagram accounts this is my checklist and strategy to get through this zero and low view stage I tried this as recently as last week and trust me it works Step One is account creation Now a lot of issues actually start before we've ever even posted our first video here is how to make sure your account is in the best standing possible when you are creating
a new account make sure that you are using an aged Gmail or an aged email address every single second of the day there is a bot account being created on Instagram Instagram notoriously has a lot of issues with this it could be difficult for the Instagram algorithm to understand if your account is a bot or not these bot accounts often use Gmail which were created a matter of minutes or seconds before the account was created so my advice is make sure that you're using an email address which has been age that you've had for a
while or has been sitting there dormant or if you want to create some accounts in the future then create some Gmail now and just get them warmed up this section is all about making sure that Instagram understand that we are not a bot the next thing to do is fill in as many security questions or details as possible so add two Factor add a phone number everything that you can to distinguish yourself as bot accounts they don't do any of that he's right damn it step two don't post right away instead of posting on your
account straight away warm it up warming up your account is simple here's what to do set up your bio set up your logo set up all the details you need and do the previous steps I mentioned for the next 24 to 72 hours it's simple interact with content in your Niche so if you're in the food Niche for example simply type in the keyword pizza and you should start seeing reals creators who have that keyword start liking start saving that content like five to 10 pieces of that content every few hours for 24 to 72
hours and you will know when your account is ready because 90% of your explore page will be full of that type of content the next part is about posting but before we get to that make sure that your reals visibility settings are turned on I've actually seen people have this turned off and then wonder why no one's seeing them so make sure you go to settings and check this something like this step three time to post hashtags are the quickest way to get into Instagram jail so many hashtags nowadays are sensitive or banned which is
why I always recommend not to just post a bunch of random hashtags or massive Hashtags with a bunch of content attached to them hashtags don't work how they used to how I want you to think about them is use them as a guide for the algorithm so help the algorithm understand who to show your content to not to try and rank on Hashtags with Millions trust me this will help you use 3 to 7 hashtags and make it content specific here's how to find how popular hashtags are first thing to do is obviously open up
Instagram then you want to search hasht your topic so for example if your topic is pizza you can do # Pizza switch to the tag section and you'll see a bunch of tags that are related to pizza and you should see a number next to them you know whether it's 2 million or 100,000 or 500 plus what I recommend is actually picking hashtags between 20,000 and 500,000 and just trying to have a variety of those step what is your content if you have followed all the previous steps then your account has the ability to start
getting Impressions impressions in a nutshell is when someone comes across your content or when they see your thumbnail it doesn't mean that they interact what it means is for example let's say you're in the explore page all of the posts that you scroll past you are giving them all Impressions you're not pressing all of them if you press one of them then obviously it changes but all of the ones you don't press you are giving them an impression now let's change an impression into a view the two most common places where we're going to get
impressions is the explore page and the scrolling feed here are the two most important elements to turn those Impressions into view the first one is thumbnails okay so as you can see here I've got this video and what you want to do is you want to pick the best thumbnail and I'm going to show you just roughly you know the different options you have so I've got my real I'm going to press next and then just next again I will do caption or anything right now but what I'm going to do is press edit cover
now as you can see as I scroll through I can pick what the thumbnail is going to be now when you're doing this you want to pick the best kind of moment that is going to draw people in okay so it's not always about Aesthetics it's more of what is clickbait you know what is going to draw people in so sometimes you know kind of moments where it's not completely clear in terms of what the video is about not in quality are going to be clickbait okay so what you can do for example for this
video I would say you know really often even like this would do well because people would press it just to see what is inside that burrito okay so you know once you start understanding that your videos will get more views so when we're here we can also go to profile grid and you can actually play around with this quite a bit here as well so a lot of people don't know this like you don't have to just stick to that so if you wanted to zoom in and just have that you could do that you
can go higher you know Instagram give you a lot of different options when it comes to your thumbnail because it's important and even when you go to cover you can press add from camera roll so if you wanted to add a custom thumbnail you can do that you can create custom thumbnails a lot of people will do that so your thumbnail is super super important captions is another very important element as essentially when people are scrolling through so when you press reals and you start scrolling people often actually check the first line of the caption
and if it's you know something that is intriguing and makes people watch the video then they'll watch the video instead of just flicking through so it's important for us to also use our captions properly as we want people to stay so even if they go onto the explore page and actually press our video people often within 3 seconds you know if they've liked the first seconds 2 seconds the thumbnail is good they'll check the caption quickly and that needs to be the final boost for them to actually watch the video so use your caption wisely
to motivate people to watch your video fully okay so don't expose too much of what the video is about but use it to be intriguing make people want to watch your video in full this going to be as simple as asking a question like what would you do in this scenario or how would you react something like that to show that there is something that is going to be crazy about to happen step five is the future if you follow the previous steps you should start getting views but often what happens is people get stuck
between 200 and 2,000 views if you want me to dive deeper into anything I've talked about in this video or will talk about let me know in the comment section now the first reason why sometimes we can't pass 200 or 2,000 views is the quality of the content and here's what I mean by it there are a few factors to measure the quality the first first one is the quality of the footage whether it's 720p 4K 1080 240 whatever it might be the better the quality the more attractive and more professional it looks to the
audience and the more likely they'll engage watch it Etc there's so many times people are posting you know Clips which are low quality amongst the other factors and they wonder why they're getting zero views or 200 views that's good quality video better be next is the quality of your package a post a whole post is a package there's multiple different variabl that go into delivering that post you know content creation captions hashtags keywords many elements of content it goes on what I want you to start doing is start to rate each element that you're putting
into your post whether that's hashtag the content your keyword whatever it might be you know break down your post and you'll be able to see where you actually potentially need to improve where potentially you're failing and you know if you need extra help with this then I would recommend comparing your content to your competitors okay and guys you know if you're saying saying that your content is an 8 out of 10 and your competitor is 8.5 but they're getting 500,000 views and you're getting 200 you need to really look deeper guys you need to be
humble and accept that your content might be 5 out of 10 you know there's always room for improvement the next thing is quality of audience delivery this is one of the biggest mistakes that people make you need to make sure that your content actually appeals to your audience so if you've warmed up your account set up your bio you set everything up you have your audience in mind but then if your content starts to diver from you know what you've set it up for then what results do you expect think about your audience rather than
what you want to create if you can deliver what your audience wants you will get to more views the next thing is about retention now a lot of the time when we're creating content we're not always thinking about retention remember to keep someone engaged in your video you need to make sure that you're providing value that the editing is good there needs to be multiple elements that you're caring about and I think from a basic point of view even as a beginner if you just think when you're creating your content that I need to maintain
retention on this video or in this post you will start to make adjustments and improvements that will help if you want me to dive deeper into this just let me know what the algorithm wants is for people to watch at least 70% of your video okay if you see percentages greater than this you will start getting views and it will start accumulating consistency now this is a major factor again consistency isn't about posting every day of course it actually means posting you know on a consistent basis but how I view consistency it's about a matter
of improving so every time I post how am I improving from one to another consistency is about quality not quantity so guys when it comes to posting keep posting and keep trying to improve and trust me you will get more and more views there's been a lot of times when people have messaged me and I've seen their profiles and they've posted 300 times and every single video is basically a replica of the previous there's been no adjustments and they're asking why am I not getting views small adjustments Stack Up long term and you know this
brings me to my next point which is testing testing is such an important factor whether it's Instagram YouTube Tik to anything that you're doing even you know business in general testing is a common and ongoing thing that you need to be doing so if you've posted 10 times one of the videos gets 100 all of the other ones get zero then you need to concentrate on that video which you got 100 views and think why did it get 100 views and then it's just a matter of testing focusing on what does well and then keep
testing when it comes to to analyzing your content don't overanalyze it okay of course it's important to check analytics Etc but I really think people often fail because they will post and be refreshing it trying to check you know is this getting views is it doing well wait 24 hours or until the next time you need to post then look at it you know think okay it's got zero views I need to improve this but if you're going to sit there you know refreshing Etc it's not going to help anyone what you need to do
is post and get ready to move on and then you know when you need feedback you can go back to it and see where You' kind of need to improve but guys post and move on is going to help you long term guys embrace the low views low views means that there's room for improvement that's it I want you to join me in a 30-day challenge if you can follow every single step in this video and apply it to your account you will see different results I have no question about it and I want you
to do this come back to this video and tell me your results if you want to change your life and build a faceless online business which is the future make sure you check out my Community which will be pinned at the top of this video my name is Alex and I'm all about growth make sure you check out my playlist