You must be wondering how some people get so many followers on Instagram. Some people get followers by paid services but that is helpful only for business profiles. For individuals it is best to post good content and get organic likes and followers. You will get more likes and followers if influential profiles on Instagram start liking, reposting and following you. In short your content should not be annoying to people who don't know much about you.

Quality of content

For a long run, the quality of your content will decide how many followers and likes you get on Instagram. Quality of content doesn't mean how beautiful you look but it depends on the composition of the pictures. A professional photographer can quickly determine the skills of photographers by browsing through your gallery.

Don't put too many selfies

Selfies sounds so selfish. Your friends will definitely like it but strangers won't unless you are a model. For becoming a Instagram star you need to make more use of your rear camera, if not a DSLR

Don't #put #hashtags #before #all #words

This type of sentences are an eyesore. Most of the sophisticated people would turn off and unfollow you. Take 15 precious minutes out of your life and learn about hashtags.

Don't use #followforfollow and #likeforlike kind of hashtags

This hashtag puts your esteem to a low and makes you appear like an Instagram beggar. Keep your standards high and let people follow you on basis of your content.

Determine ten good and relevant hashtags

Instead of putting 100 hashtags and again lowering your esteem, you should put roughly 10 good hashtags depending on the picture. For example if you are putting a college reunion picture clicked in auditorium then #nature is definitely not relevant

Tag relevant profiles and mention relevant locations

For those who don't know, tagging a profile is different from hashtags. You can tag a person on the picture itself. See online tutorial if you still don't understand about tagging profiles. But remember that you should not tag people who are not related to picture. For example - don't tag your best friend in your honeymoon pictures. You can instead share the image link externally to her for getting the likes. Most of the people get very annoyed if they are tagged at irrelevant pictures.

Look out for Instagram offers

Some of the relevant businesses might repost your content if you tag their page. But again, watch out for relevancy.
For #travel pictures, you can tag the page of "DarkGreenAdventures". They will repost all the quality travel pictures in which the page is tagged and also give #Paytm cash to best tagged pictures of the month