2.2. Monitoring your own profile.
2.3. Monitoring an external or competitor profile.
2.4. How to edit the monitoring.
2.5. How to access the monitoring.
1. Introduction.
Our Social Listening & Analytics tool for Instagram allows you to monitor a profile on this social network and obtain your report with the following information: history of followers, most used hashtags, words, and filters, ranking posts with the most engagement and daily engagement, likes, comments, and posts per day...
You can monitor your own profiles or your competitor's profiles, as long as they are Business profiles. However, you should bear in mind that the data offered by monitoring other profiles has some limitations, which we will explain below.
2. Step by step.
2.1. Create your monitoring.
1) Log in to your Cool Tabs account. If you are not registered yet, check the tutorial: How to create an account on Cool Tabs.
2) Go to the 'Monitoring' section, which you will find in the left side menu.
3) Click the 'New monitoring' button and select the 'Instagram Profile' option
4) If this is the first time you create a monitoring in Cool Tabs, you must log in with Facebook and accept Facebook's permissions to manage your Instagram accounts.
Access to your Instagram account data is done through your Facebook account, so we need you to grant these permissions for one of your Instagram profiles.
Click on connect with Facebook and select the account or accounts you want to use with Cool Tabs. In the following steps, you must choose the fan pages associated with those profiles and determine what Cool Tabs can do with the Pages you selected. Note that Cool Tabs may not work properly if you disable these options, so we recommend checking all of them. You can always go back to edit them.
If you have problems or doubts about associating the profile, see our tutorial: How to link a Facebook or Instagram profile to create sweepstakes or monitoring.
If you can't find your profile, click on 'I can't find my profile' to reconnect to Facebook and grant the necessary permissions.
Once you've granted access permissions, Cool Tabs will show the profiles you've linked. Select the Facebook profile that your Instagram account is associated with.
2.2. Monitoring your own profile.
Once you have given access permissions, Cool Tabs will display the profiles you have associated.
Select the profile you want to monitor. You can choose between one of the profiles you have already associated or associate a new Instagram profile. Clicking on 'Analyze' will start monitoring.
2.2.1. Data you get from monitoring your profile.
After all the data have been collected, the analysis of the monitored profile will be displayed.
From the left sidebar, by clicking on 'Report', you will have access to statistics and data on engagement and photos.
The data you will get includes:
History of followers: due to Instagram API restrictions, from the moment the monitoring is created, it is possible to get the follower history going back up to 30 days.
Most used hashtags
Most used words
Most used filters
Ranking posts with more engagement. At Cool Tabs, we calculate engagement by giving a score of 10 for each comment and 1 point for each like. This is our own weighting model, based on the effort it takes for the user to perform one or another action.
Likes, comments and posts per day
Likes and comments by day of the week
Likes and comments by hour of day
Daily impressions and reach
Hashtags and filters with more engagement
Profile views and bio link clicks
Best days and times to post
In addition, you will have access to the 'Photo Manager' section, where all your publications and data about them are displayed, such as likes, comments, impressions, reach... You can filter by search terms, date, language, exclude users, or set the report to include only posts from specific users.
You can also download the report in PDF or Excel, or get a public link to share it in any online channel.
2.3. Monitoring an external or competitor profile.
Cool Tabs allows you to monitor an external profile for which you do not have administrator permissions. In this case, keep in mind that the information is much more limited, since the Instagram API does not allow access to certain information when it is not your profile that you are monitoring.
To monitor the external profile:
1) Enter the profile URL.
2) Select one of your Instagram profiles, which you already have associated in Cool Tabs. Choosing one or another profile does not affect the monitoring, but it is a requirement set by Facebook.
2.3.1. Data you get from monitoring an external profile.
After all the data has been collected, the analysis of the monitored profile will be displayed.
As mentioned, data from external profiles is more limited due to Instagram API restrictions.
The data you will get includes:
History of followers: in competing external profiles, Instagram only offers information on follower history prior to the last 24 hours since the monitoring was created. Therefore, if you are going to monitor profiles that you do not manage and want to track follower evolution, we recommend that you create the monitoring as soon as possible so that this data can be collected. Once created, you will get all the information from then on.
Most used hashtags
Most used words
Most used filters
Ranking posts with more engagement
Likes, comments and posts per day
Average daily engagement
Likes and comments by day of the week
Likes and comments by hour of day
Hashtags and filters with more engagement
Best days and times to post
As with the monitoring of your own profiles, from the left sidebar you will have access to the monitoring report, to 'Photo Manager' to filter content, and to report downloads.
2.4. How to edit the monitoring.
To edit your monitoring, go to the main list of your monitorings and click on the 'Edit' icon. If it is not your own profile, you will not be able to edit it.
2.5. How to access your monitoring.
You can access your monitoring data at any time from the main list of your monitorings.
To view the monitoring analysis, click on the 'View' icon, as shown in the following image.
3. Other specifications.
The Social Listening & Analytics tool is available in all our plans. It is also possible to use it during the 7-day free trial period, which allows you to try any of the platform's plans for free and without limitations.
For any questions during the process, contact us at help@cool-tabs.com.
4. Related content.
How to create an X profile monitoring.
How to create a Facebook page monitoring.
How to create an X content monitoring.
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