Wanna attract more Instagram followers who are like your current followers?

For starters, double-down on making valuable content that’s intended FOR your followers. It’s sometimes easy to get caught up in the desire to grow your following, all the while failing to look after the followers you’ve already got. Thing is, if you 100% focus on adding value to your existing audience by continually publishing content “worth following,” then you’ll naturally draw a bigger crowd (i.e., more followers).

That said, there are some accounts that for one reason or another stall out growth-wise. And I know you’re thinking—that it’s gotta be the content. But not necessarily.

Sometimes it’s the product of a low engagement ratio—i.e., an account’s average number of hearts/likes relative to its follower count. Engagement ratios are a major factor Instagram evaluates in deciding whether it should suggest your account to non-followers or distribute your content in its explore feed.

Over time, accounts gain and lose followers. Some of those followers engage with your content, some don’t, and some are bots—regardless of whether you’ve ever “purchased followers.” The point is, it’s possible to fall victim to stagnation at no real fault of your own.

So… Another tactic you may consider is to try boosting your posts. Not all of them — just every so often. When you boost, by default, Instagram targets people LIKE your followers. So… if you’re making content that’s FOR your current followers, perhaps consider boosting your posts to Instagramers LIKE them. Logically, since they’re LIKE your followers, the odds are pretty solid they too will elect to follow you.

Instagram’s job, in terms of helping its users discover new accounts to follow, is to size up your page and recommend it to other Instagramers who are “like” your current followers.

So… If you’re dissatisfied with the degree to which that’s happening for you, boosting may go a long way.