Stop Wasting Time on Fake Followers: Learn How to Remove Instagram Bots and Grow Your Audience!

I made a huge mistake... 😬

When I was first getting started, I paid for some marketing services that brought in a large number of bot accounts into our follower base. 🤖

Not only was it a waste of money for a vanity metric – but it's KILLED our engagement. 📉

A few months ago, I hired a virtual assistant to go through all of our followers and remove every bot account that they could find. ❌

We had around 92,000 followers, and they worked for about three or four weeks to get it down to around 44,000. So, almost 50,000 fake bot accounts were removed from our Instagram account. 🤯

Why was this decision important?Instagram only shows your content to a small percentage of your follower base.

Based on the engagement from that small percentage, it'll take that content and start showing it to more people based on if they liked it, watched it, or engaged with it. If the majority of your following is bots, then you're not getting any real engagement. 👀

Removing the bots wasn’t an instant fix – but it was a step in the right direction.

After we removed the bot accounts, our engagement plummeted for a while.In Instagram’s eyes, our content must SUCK because we saw a major drop in followers in just a month’s time. 📉

It will take time to undo the damage we did to ourselves when it comes to the algorithm – but luckily, we're now seeing our engagement begin to stack up again.

We've had a couple of videos recently that have popped up to 18k or 12k or 14k, and our minimum view count is starting to rise again. It’s been a hard lesson. But now that we've removed all the bots and are focusing on REAL engagement, I'm excited to see where things go. 🔥

Remember, it's not about having a huge following. It's about having a real, engaged following. 👏

[annika.ceramics]

Did your engagement get better after removing them? I am currently doing it, there are THOUSANDS

[Fantabulouslala]

How long did it take to recover the account. Right now, my account is sitting at about 30% fake followers due to a previous employees mistake. I stopped the fake followers and did not inform the client of the issue because I didn't want our company to look bad.. but now our client is upset about the bad engagement and following, but I'm in the fixing it phase 😭

[TheHoneyDARE]

How did your VA know it was a bot account in order to remove it?

[twmissmt]

I went from 4400 followers to over 10k in ONE DAY! I'm not going to go through over 6k ghost followers one as a time ... is there no other method to identify and remove ghost followers!!??

[taniadanielle]

How do you know which is the fake accounts? Did you use a software?

[The.fireviking]

Hey did you engagement and views come back up since you posted this 4 months ago? I had the same thing happen to me with less bots tho and it has crushed my business and my life really. Can you help with any advice?

[efuyadandison]

How do we protect our account from people sending fake comments and followers into your account

[MajinBlxxdy]

How do I hire a VA, & what does VA stand for? Somebody just botted my account, I had 9, 600+ legit followers & made a post saying get me to 10k followers & I’ll drop a mixtape, then got botted, hella fake followers just started coming in, I want to get rid of them asap

[malikdauda]

Good day. Where did you go for instagram VA? I'm thinking of hiring one to do a clean up here too.

[ukvideos]

can your account get permaentley deleted if you unfollow too many bots in one day

[Linetkalendi]

Now removing mine was at 95k followers not at 77k

[officialfiteuropean]

Where can I find that VA? Need to remove some from my account

[aviatorguy]

Can accaunt be blocked because of spam followers?

[MAGICMALIKYE]

How much did that cost from the Philippines to remove your fake followers?

[earthtonhom]

Who did you hire? What’s the company name?

[hii.positivity]

do u need to give your IG password to the VA ?

[dhirenvairagade]

How much va charged for that entire job?

[Ramdinohikes]

This video doesn't tell me a thing about how to remove Bots like your email hook said. Disappointing

[mattduncan]

where was the "how to " tho ?

[TheRadioRodd]

Just sent an email, would really love your help please and thank you! 🙌🏾