How can you get more views on your Instagram stories?

Since January 2021 Instagram Stories have lost steam in the organic reach they once possessed. Since that date and up until now, very few people are interacting with Stories and it's about time you stop going crazy about it and do what you need to do to get your Stories back to the same reach they had before ...

Adding hashtags and locations in your Stories is no longer useful to position or highlight images in hashtags and locations results within Instagram

Since March 2020 Instagram removed Stories from search results and top circles and Stories are no longer displayed on those screens. If you don't believe it, you can do a search by hashtag or by location of a major city and you will notice that circles with featured Stories no longer appear. For this reason, it's time to try some new tricks that we are going to reveal in this post.

Why do your Stories have less visibility and reach than before?

It's a fact, day by day, IG Stories are losing reach. Accounts with more than 50K followers sometimes struggle to get 5% reach on their Stories. Do you know why this is happening? There are 3 main reasons:

1. According to TrackMaven data, each day is generating a volume of 4% more Stories than the previous day worldwide, and that only means one thing: your Stories have more and more competition and that means that fewer and fewer people can see your content.

2. Instagram has only one priority: to win the advertising pie that Tik Tok has taken from Facebook. Because of this, Instagram's main goal is to get users to upload and consume reels and therefore is doing everything possible to divert the time we spend watching Stories with the idea that we spend it watching reels. It is for this reason, that now the main button in the bottom menu is reels and for this same reason Instagram has removed featured Stories from the location and hashtags results screens.

3. The number of new Instagram users has increased 10-fold, according to Statista data. Since 2018, Instagram has grown the volume of new accounts staggeringly and that only means that there are more and more competitors trying to get noticed on this social network.

How to increase the views of your Stories? 5 tricks to get more visits in Stories

If you want to increase the views or visits of your Stories, you have to start thinking "outside the box". That is, stop thinking only about your followers. Unfortunately, there is very little we can do against the priorities set by the "Stories Relevance" Algorithm, which is one of Instagram's 9 main algorithms and is the one that determines which Stories will have priority to be seen by users.

So let's unlearn a bit because if we keep repeating what we have done so far, we will keep getting the same bad results we are getting.

Below you will find 5 essential tricks to get more people to see your Stories, both your followers, as well as those users and people who are not yet following you. If you want to know what this is all about, then read on:

1. Embed your Stories on your blog or website.

2. Share the URL of your Stories.

3. Trigger the number of Taps.

4. Set Stories on Autopilot

5. Edit your Best Friends List.

Trick 1. Get more views on your Stories by embedding them on a website, blog, or online store

Have you tried embedding your Stories on your website, eCommerce, or blog? Well, now there are some great tools that do just that and that you can use to give your IG account much more exposure.

Insert your Stories on the web and blog with flockler >> Flocker.com

Flocker is a tool that in its free mode allows you to insert one or more Stories in any web or WordPress environment and has several templates to make everything look great.

What do you get by inserting your Stories in a web environment?

a) When your Stories appear on other websites, you get more people to see them, because they will not only be available to your followers, but will be available to all other people who daily browse the web, and this makes the Instagram algorithm boost the priority of that Story so that more people in the social network know your content.

b) You get people who visit your website to see the Story and click on your profile, which increases the chances of getting even more followers.

Are there more tools to insert Stories?

Snappd.tv

Fastory.io

Embedsocial.com

Trick 2. increase visits and views of your Stories by linking to the Stories from other social networks, from email, blog, or website

Each Story and each set of featured Stories has its own URL (web address). What you can do with those URLs, is to share them on other social networks, in email marketing campaigns, in your newsletters, bulletins, or directly on your online store, your blog, and in general, everywhere where an IG Story can be published.

How to share the URL of a Story?

Step 1. Publish your Story on IG, that way you will get the link that you will be able to share.

Step 2. Click on the dots in the bottom right corner and select "Copy Link".

Step 3. Paste that link anywhere you want to display your Story. You can paste it on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Pinterest, or even from another Story if you have more than 10k followers and the link from Stories functionality enabled. You can also paste that URL in your Active Campaign or Mailchimp template for email marketing campaigns, and you can also paste that link anywhere on your website, online store, or blog.

Step 4. When someone clicks on that link, if they are logged into the browser they clicked on, they will see a fantastic text that says "tap to play" and if they click on it, they will see the Story as long as the Story was uploaded to a public account and is active in the first 24h or you have included it in the featured posts.

Warning: Remember to add your Story to the featured posts if you don't want the link to break after 24h.

The best thing is that people don't need to follow you to see the Story, and the best thing is that it is possible that whoever sees your Story will start following you after having seen your publication.

Trick 3. more visits to your Stories by playing on autopilot

You have to let the Stories of the accounts you follow play on autopilot. Why? Many times, when we see that a user has seen our Stories, we automatically visit their profile and see their Stories.

So, the more people see that we have seen their Stories, the more likely it is that those people will visit our profile and see our Stories.

Depending on the people you follow, viewing all the Stories of others can be an entertaining task, however, it is not necessary to spend all day watching Stories, because they can be played on autopilot.

How to do this? It is very easy and simple: go do whatever you want and leave the phone unlocked playing Stories without anyone watching them. You can leave your phone on the table while you take a shower or watch a series. It seems stupid, but I assure you that it works.

Trick 4. To increase the visits in your Stories, trigger the taps in your Stories

As you have already read, increasing the interaction of Instagram Stories is a fundamental key to having more reach and more people seeing them. Well, the interaction that the Instagram Stories Relevance Algorithm values the most is the TAP. That is when a user touches the screen somewhere in your Story.

For that reason, I recommend that you ask more questions, polls, or include more calls to action for users to tap on your hashtags, locations, or mentions.

If you insert a mention in a Story, for example, the user may click on it, but if you give them a reason to click, you will have more chances to increase the number of taps. If you don't believe it, do a simple test by placing a question that motivates people to TAP and then look at the statistics and you will see the number of TAPS that are achieved with a call to action and compared to another Story where there is no call to action.

Trick 5. increase the views of your Stories by including your followers in friends lists

When you include a person in a friends list, that person sees your Stories with a green circle. Well, the % of clicks on a Story with a green circle is immensely higher than that of a normal Story, according to data provided by Embed Social.

We all like to feel special. If we see that someone has posted a Story and we think that only a small number of people can see it, we tend to feel flattered and that is a natural invitation for people to see the Stories.

For this what you can do, is to create and edit the best friends list with as many people as possible. I know this goes against the general idea of friends lists being created for a small number of people to see, but, if you're reading this and you've come this far it's because you want more views on your Stories, right? well then, just put this to the test and then you'll see the results.

Bonus: Trick 6. You can use Story viewer bots. (I will deny having recommended this in a court of law)

What are Story viewer bots?

They are BOTS that broadcast from 1,000 to 10,000 daily Story viewers randomly to any user in the world with the criteria you have specified in the bot. Has it ever happened to you that a Russian model or a fitness model from Hawaii has seen your Stories? Have you ever wondered how you have come to achieve this? Well, now you know.

What do these apps do?

Let's just say that when you connect one of these bots to your Instagram account, you are giving permissions to that bot to view Stories on your behalf. In other words, more than 10,000 Instagram users could see your little face when they go to the stats to see who has viewed their Stories.

Warning: these applications and bots are not liked by Instagram and their use is not recommended. their use, if not done correctly, carries the risk of being blocked by Instagram or the total deletion of the account.

And you may be wondering why I tell you this trick if I do not recommend it. Well, because it's not that I don't recommend it. It is simply something that I advise you to use with great caution because, when used correctly, it brings excellent results. Of course, now that you know it, don't forget what Spiderman's uncle said: "with great power comes great responsibility".

I hope these tricks will be of great use to you and take your IG account beyond all limits.