Warming Up Your UGC Account

Tiktok

• Days 1-2: Profile setup and browsing your local feed
• Days 3-5: Niche browsing and light engagement (like, comment, share)
• Days 6-10: One post per day
• Days 11-14: Testing different posting windows and formats

Instagram

• Day 1-2: 3-5 feed actions a day
• Day 3-5: One Reel every 24-48 hours

Before Posting

• Scroll and engage genuinely in your niche for 10–15 minutes first. It reinforces to the algorithm what audience you belong to.
• Post when your specific audience is actually online: generally 7-9 AM, 12-1 PM, and 7-10 PM local time, but check your own analytics rather than assuming.
• Don't post from cold, brand-new accounts. Immediately posting high-volume content gets flagged, and this applies to any account that's been dormant for a while, too.

First Hour

• Reply to every comment in the first 30–60 minutes. It drives comment depth, which now ranks higher than comment count.
• Avoid posting right before bed or when your core audience is asleep. Posting when your audience is asleep makes both weak completion and weak follower engagement worse. Socialync
• Nail the hook. Watch time and completion rate carry roughly 40-50% of the algorithm's weight, and you now need a 70% completion rate to have a shot at going viral, up from 50% in 2024.

Signals Worth Noting

• Shares and saves outweigh likes. Encourage viewers to save/share the reason in the caption “save this for later” or “share this with your friend.”
• Rewatch is gold. Loop endings to the beginning, making it a seamless transition for rewatch.
• Never post TikTok watermarked content on Instagram. Instagram Reels suppresses TikTok watermarked uploads.
• Avoid posting all at once. Only do 1-3 posts per day.