How to Create a Instagram Profile Monitoring

1. Introduction.

2. Step by step.

2.1. Create your monitoring.

2.2. Monitoring your own profile.

2.3. Monitoring an external or competitor profile.

2.4. How to edit a monitoring.

3. Other specifications.

4. Related content.

1. Introduction.

With our Social Listening & Analytics tool for Instagram, you can 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 have some limitations, which we will explain below.

2. Step by step.

2.1. Create your monitoring.

First, 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 give these permissions for one of your Instagram profiles.

Click on connect with Facebook.

Select the account or accounts you want to use with Cool Tabs. In the following steps, you must select 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 you check all of them. You can always go back to edit them.

2.2. Monitoring your own profile.

Once you have given access permissions, Cool Tabs will display the profiles you have associated.

After that, you have to select the profile you want to monitor. You can choose between one of the profiles that 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.

The data you will get are:

History of followers: due to Instagram API restrictions, from the moment the monitoring is created, it is possible to get the history of followers from 30 days ago.
Most used hashtags
Most used words
Most used filters
Ranking posts with more engagement
Likes, comments and posts per day
Likes and comments per week
Likes and comments by hour of day
Daily impressions and reach
Hashtags and filters with more engagement
Profile views and clicks in bio
Best days and times to post

From the left sidebar, by clicking on 'Report', you will have access to statistics and data on engagement and photos.

Below, you can see some images of the data and graphs shown in the monitoring report.

In addition, in the 'Photo Manager' section you can filter by search terms, date, language, exclude users or establish that only the publications of the user or users you specify are included.

You can also download the report in PDF, Excel or get a public link to the report, so you can publish it in any online media.

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:

Write the profile
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 we told you at the beginning of this tutorial, data from external profiles is more limited, due to Instagram API restrictions.

The data you will get are:

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 for which you want to know the evolution of followers, 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 per 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 download reports.

2.4. How to edit a monitoring.

To edit your monitoring (time zone, include some content...), go to the main list of your monitoring and click on the 'Edit' icon of your monitoring. If it is not your own profile you will not be able to edit it.