There are a few ways you can use and come up with questions of the day. We recommend keeping them somewhat relevant to the particular post it is under, the niche, and demographic of your following. For example if you’re in the lifestyle niche and you post a photo of you cozy in bed with a hot chocolate it makes sense to ask things like “How do you spend rainy days?” or “do you prefer hot chocolate or coffee?” But it doesn’t make sense to ask things like “What’s your favourite way to explore a new place?”

It is also good to ask questions that contain the answer already, this makes them much easier to answer and is more likely to result in a quick response from the viewer. For example, the above stated “do you prefer hot chocolate or coffee?” has two options to choose from and is an incredibly easy question to answer.

Answering each question yourself is an excellent way to engage your following. All people are inherently interesting and people are following you for a reason, let them get to know you a little bit. Answering the question yourself can also invite conversation, especially for questions that don’t contain an answer. For example, on a photo of your delicious mac and cheese, you could ask something like “Do you have a favourite comfort food? Mine is mac and cheese!” can incite responses of people simple agreeing or disagreeing with your taste in pasta, alongside others answering the question themselves.

Now in no particular order, here is the list of 100 random questions!

What is your favourite thing about this post?

How did you find my account?

What about my account made you hot the follow button?

Do you play a sport? Tell me about it!

Are you currently reading anything? Tell me about the book!

Do you want to travel? Where to?

What is the time where you are?

What country are you from?

Do you have a favourite time of the day? What is it?

What is your favourite season?

What is your favourite way to relax?

Do you have a pet? What is its name?

What was the last song you listened to?

Do you have a goal for this week? What is it?

If you could do this week over again, what would you do differently?

Tell me about your favourite hobby!

Are you a procrastinator? What do you do when you procrastination?

Do you have a hidden talent? Tell me about it

would you ever go skydiving?

how do you like to spend a rainy day?

Are you a morning person or a night owl?

Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets? why?

Do you prefer coffee or tea?

What is the first thing you do when you get up in the morning?

What is your favourite movie currently?

*potential spoilers* What did you think of insert book, song, movie title here?

What is one of your worst habits?

What is one of your biggest pet peeves?

Are you afraid of spiders?

What is one thing you couldn’t live without?

What is the most useless thing you own?

Do you like cities?

What do you do to de-stress?

Can you describe your day in one word? What is it?

Are you more like your mum or your dad?

Do you have any allergies?

What is the last thing you do before you go to bed?

Do you have a favourite book?

What TV series are you really into right now?

Do you look up to a celebrity? Tell me about your idol!

Do you remember the last dream you had? What was it about?

Do you read horoscopes?

What is your star sign?

Did/does your school have a uniform?

Throw me a pick up line

Do you like sunny, cloudy, or rainy days more?

Is sprite counted as lemonade where you live?

what is your favourite holiday?

What was your favourite book as a child?

Do you have a favourite pen? Why is it your favourite

What’s your favourite ice cream flavour?

What is your favourite colour?

What are your favourite insert colour or type here emojis?

Do you play any video games? What ones?

Do you do buzzfeed quizzes?

Are you going to insert event here?

How do you keep track of what you need to do each day?

If you could be fluent in any language, what would it be?

Do you prefer warm or cold drinks?

Who are your favourite YouTubers/Streamers?

What kind of headphones/earphones do you use?

What genre of music do you listen to the most?

DO you use google or YouTube more when you’re looking for answers?

Are you a productive person?

What is your favourite kind of bird?

What is your favourite kind of flower?

Do you prefer hardcover or paperback books?

What is your dream job?

Are you still in school? What are you studying?

Are you a part of any fandoms?

What is one question you would love to be able to ask your pet?

Do you like your handwriting?

Do you prefer light or dark colours?

Tell me about your worst teacher

If you could have a super power, what would it be?

Do you have natural or dyed hair?

Sweet or salty?

If you could meet one fictional character, who would it be?

Does your family have any weird traditions? Tell me about them

What would you title a book about your life?

If you could shop at one store for free, what would it be?

What is your favourite snack?

Do you have a favourite day of the week? What is it?

Have you ever kept a diary?

Would you rather be smart or popular?

Do you have a favourite dessert food? What is it?

Are you a picky eater?

What is one food you just do not like?

Would you rather it was hot or cold all the time?

Do you have a favourite animal?

Do you prefer movies or TV?

If you could play one instrument perfectly, what would it be?

Name one celebrity you think is really overrated

What is your Hogwarts house?

Are you a read the book first or watch the movie/TV series first person?

Would you rather live in the country or a city?

Do you have bad neighbours? Tell me about them!

Do you have long or short hair?

Are you a tall or short person?

What is one of your favourite things to do in the summer?

What is it?

A shadow ban removes the effect of the hashtags you're using from your post, resulting in that post not showing up under those tags, leading to massive drops in engagement.

Why does it happen?

Instagram is taking the cleaning up of their platform very seriously, removing spam, nsfw, and other unsavory accounts to keep their platform clean and safe. They are also taking reports more seriously.

What can cause it?

The shadow ban occurs when your content and/or activity triggers the algorithm and spam filters. You can do this by consistently hitting activity limits, (when you get a warning stating you have hit the limit for likes or comments etc), using third party applications that post for you or automate your engagement and using repetitive, banned, or simply too many hashtags. Your activity can also be reported.

There are other ways to cause it but these are the most common and also the ones that we are certain of.

How can I avoid it?

It’s easy. Stop acting like a bot, and if you are running automation, disconnect and delete it right now.

Leaving unnatural comments like “nice!” on peoples content can result in them reporting your comment as spam. Put time and effort into your engagement to keep it organic. Genuinely read descriptions, comment things you actually like about the post or in response to a question of the day. This will prevent you from being spammy and will also help you avoid those activity limits.

Next is reassess your hashtags. There are so many hashtags out there that are banned and restricted, many of which will likely surprise you. You can read the full list HERE You can also do this yourself by checking your commonly used hashtag pages to see if the recent content is hidden or not.

There is a second step in regard to hashtags and that is to change them up. Copying and pasting the same hashtags onto every single post is spammy and more often than not, misleading. Change them up and keep them relevant to each specific post.

These are the tags that I have found to be restricted and banned. These tags are subject to change due to temporary restrictions that sometimes appear on tags like #instagood and #dogsofinstagram

#adulting #alone #americangirl #ariefmirna2015 #armparty #asia #asiandick #attractive #babyrp #bacak #badbitcztwerk #baddie #balenciaga #balls #bang #bangbang #batikate #beaty #belfie #bi #bigdickboy #bikinibody #boho #bombshell #bootay #bootybounce #bra #brain #breast #buns #butt #butts #cam #carving #catsau #cesitone #cheeky #citycentre #commentschivettes #costumes #cph #cpr #csun #cumfession #curvesfordays #curvy #damngirl #datass #date #dating #desk #direct #dm #dogsofinstagram #dominant #dripping #dutchgirl #dxb #easter #ebonyandivory #edm #edmbabes #eggplant #eggplants #eggporn #elevator #escilepernatale #estellaseraphim #everybodyisbeautiful #excitada #expose #fapstagram #feetofatlanta #fishnets #foreplay #freakshow #freethenipple #gays #gilofashion #girlsonly #gloves #goddess #hamishnadine #happythanksgiving #hardsummer #hijabiba #hooters #hornyyyyyyasf #hotgirls #hotguy #hots #hottie #humpday #iamgay #instagirl #instamood #istanbulgay #italiano #jugs #kansas #kickoff #kik #kikgirl #kikmessenger #killingit #kissing #lesbian #lesbiansofinstagram #lilmandingo #lingerie #lust #marcoreus #master #mebelim #medicina #meme #mexicangirl #mirrorphoto #mixedgirls #models #mr40club #mrsandmrsbordeaux #mrtox #nacket #nasty #newyears #newyearsday #ngento #oovoo #petite #piroka #pixie #poop #pornfood #printic #publicrelations #pushups #rack #ravebabes #roleplay #russiangirl #russianmilf #saltwater #sexlife #shebad #shesquats #shit #shower #single #singlelife #skype #slimthick #snap #snapback #snapchat #snapchatgay #snapme #sokus #sopretty #spanishgirl #sparklingnudes #stopdropandyoga #stranger #streetphoto #stud #submission #sultry #sunbathing #swole #tag4like #takeitoff #tanlines #teens #tgif #thatasstho #thick #thought #todayimwearing #treviso #twerk #twerker #undies #valentinesday #vatine #weed #weedstagram #weezmoney #wet #whitegirl #woman #womancrushwednesday #women #workflow

BATCH PRODUCE YOUR CONTENT

This method has saved me countless hours not only taking photos and filming videos but also creating thumbnails, graphics, video and live outlines, and blog posts.

Why you should batch your content The fact is that life happens. If you’re reliant on natural light to shoot you can go weeks without a sunny day, equipment can break, emergencies pop up, and batching your content will keep you prepared, weeks, or months ahead of time.

This post that you’re reading right now was written over a month ago, the graphic for it was made two months ago. All of my Instagram live stream ads are made at least a month in advance.

If you’re all set up to take a photo or shoot a video, why stop at one? You may as well keep going.

BLOCK TIME Filming, taking photos and creating graphics takes time, and batch producing content takes even longer. Blocking a few hours or even a whole day to batch will allow you to get a lot done and keep your energy up.

Remember that producing content always takes longer than planned.

BE PREPARED & DO YOUR PRE-SHOOT CHECKS Make sure you have all of your gear set up and ready beforehand because lens caps and dysfunctional mics can ruin a shoot and take up a lot of time.

Make sure your lens caps are off, mic is working, you have enough storage for the content, outlines prepared, your set is clean and ready and if you’re filming videos, keep a few changes of clothes nearby to give the illusion of each video being filmed at different times.

Keep a checklist of everything you need to do before you can actually start shooting.

Power Tip: Outline your content beforehand. Have scripts or basic outlines for videos with main points and certain b-roll shots you want to get. You can do this for photos too by listing what you want to get photos of. Check them off as you go.

Having everything outlined and set up before you start your shoot day will save you hours of time in the long run.

AFTER THE SHOOT - KEEPING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCTIVE

After batching a ton of content and editing it, you don’t stop there. What you should do now is go through and queue, schedule and draft upload all of it to its corresponding platforms. Many of the platforms you’re using have features that you can use to your advantage to keep content rolling out and working for you while you’re not working.

Tumblr has queue, scheduling and draft features that you can use to keep content moving at a constant rate and to post things at specific times on top of queued content.

YouTube has unlisted and scheduling features that allow you to leave videos for you to quickly switch to public or to drop all on their own at whatever time you want.

Instagram has a drafts feature allowing you to leave posts ready to be uploaded at a moments notice. Once a post is drafted it is an incredibly quick process to post it.

Twitter doesn’t have these features as the platform is more about ‘the moment’. For posts that aren’t random thoughts I simply write up the ads in the notepad app built into my phone to be quickly copied and pasted when I wish to post them.

Queuing and scheduling posts for specific times will save time and save your posting schedule if you happen to get called away around your usual posting time. Drafting features like that of Instagram mean you can stockpile content to easily access and post within a few seconds.

All of these features will help you to save time and stay productive with your content production and social media.

FREE BATCH DAY PLANNER PRINTABLE

This printable is very basic version of how I set out pages to plan my batch production days! (More sleek, minimal, and in depth versions coming soon)

Click HERE to download