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TikTok Growth Tactics — Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

TikTok's New Algorithm Change Explained for July 2026 (Get Followers Faster!)

0h 11m video Published Jul 7, 2026 Transcribed Aug 10, 2026 R Robert Benjamin
Beginner 5 min read For: TikTok creators and social media marketers looking for practical growth strategies.
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"The title promises algorithm secrets, but the video delivers solid, actionable growth tactics—just with a bit of self-promotion padding."

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This video provides a comprehensive guide to growing a TikTok account by optimizing upload settings, leveraging photo and carousel content, using AI tools for trend research, reposting successful content, and conducting a post-performance checklist. The creator shares practical, actionable steps to increase reach and follower growth.

[00:40]
Account Check via TikTok Studio

Use TikTok Studio's 'Account Check' feature to identify any outstanding issues with your account that might be hindering growth.

[01:20]
Upload Settings Optimization

When uploading, leave location blank unless posting about a specific place. Enable comments, content reuse, copyright check, sound copyright, visual search, and high-quality uploads. Disable audience controls and select the correct language for translation.

[02:51]
Leverage Photo and Carousel Content

Photo and carousel posts are currently performing well. Use 4-6 slides, a strong hook, a consistent theme, and a call to action. This allows for mass production with AI and reaching a different audience segment.

[05:19]
Use AI for Trend Research

Tools like contentbuddy.ai can find trending keywords, competition scores, and search volumes. They can also analyze trending videos to provide scripts, hooks, and hashtags for recreation, making content creation faster and more effective.

[07:36]
Repost Successful Content

Repost videos that performed above average by downloading without watermark, changing the thumbnail, description, and hashtags. Do not repost the same video more than three times, waiting at least two weeks between reposts.

[09:12]
Post-Performance Checklist

For underperforming posts, check: 1) Was the topic trending in the last 72 hours? 2) Was the format and length similar to trending videos? 3) Was the post genuinely better than the trending one? Answering 'no' to any indicates the reason for poor performance.

The key to TikTok growth is a combination of technical optimization, strategic content diversification, and data-driven creation. By following these steps, creators can maximize their reach and efficiency.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 00:40 Go to TikTok Studio and run an Account Check to ensure no issues.
2 01:20 When uploading, leave location blank unless relevant. Enable all recommended settings (comments, reuse, copyright, visual search, high-quality uploads) and disable audience controls.
3 02:51 Create photo or carousel posts with 4-6 slides, a strong hook, consistent theme, and a call to action.
4 05:19 Use an AI tool like contentbuddy.ai to find trending keywords and recreate successful videos with provided scripts and hashtags.
5 07:36 Repost successful videos: download without watermark, change thumbnail, description, and hashtags. Wait at least two weeks between reposts, max three times.
6 09:12 For underperforming posts, run the checklist: trending in last 72h? Right format/length? Better than trending post?

Study Flashcards (5)

What is the first step to check for account issues on TikTok?

easy Click to reveal answer

Use TikTok Studio's 'Account Check' feature.

00:40

What is the recommended number of slides for a carousel post?

easy Click to reveal answer

4 to 6 slides.

03:43

What are the three checks in the post-performance checklist?

medium Click to reveal answer

1) Was the post trending in the last 72 hours? 2) Was the format/length similar to trending videos? 3) Was the post genuinely better than the trending one?

09:12

How many times can you repost the same video, and what is the minimum wait time?

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Maximum three times, with at least two weeks between reposts.

08:30

What settings should be enabled for uploads?

medium Click to reveal answer

Comments, content reuse, copyright check, sound copyright, visual search, and high-quality uploads.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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Photo and carousel content is a growth hack

Shows a low-effort, high-reach content format that many creators overlook.

02:51
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AI tools streamline trend research

Demonstrates how to use AI to reduce content creation time and increase relevance.

05:19
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Reposting is a legitimate strategy

Challenges the notion that every post must be original, offering a way to maximize content ROI.

07:36
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Diagnostic checklist for underperformance

Provides a systematic method to identify why a post failed, moving beyond guesswork.

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[00:01] before for you to be able to grow because now you don't have to post have to post one time a day or not even one time a day in order to grow faster implementing a strategy like that, you

[00:14] everything else I'm going to share with you in this video like uploading with the right account settings turned on, and so much more because I will warn it's going to be the reason why you struggle to grow right now. So, change

[00:27] you have the right settings enabled when you go to upload something on TikTok and Here's how you do that. Now, here are those things that we need to make sure that you were doing correctly. The first one is you want to come over into the

[00:40] want to click on TikTok Studio. You want to scroll down a little bit and what you are going to find is account check. You want to make sure that you were clicking on this and seeing whether or not you're shadow it. If this come back and tells

[00:53] something is wrong with your page, leave a comment below because I want to try to issue is. But, we could see right here, I have no outstanding issues. So, from here, let's say that we wanted to upload a post. We could come over here and then

[01:07] going to choose that piece of content. So, we click over here, we could choose this piece of content, we could click on next right here, and there's several you're doing correctly. First and foremost, we need to make sure that this

[01:20] location right here, leave that blank. You should only be adding in a location you're posting about. For example, I'm in Montana right now. If I'm posting restaurant, posting about a coffee shop in Montana, then I would obviously want

[01:35] don't want to do that. Like, if I'm uploading a video about ChatGPT, don't going to do is actually decrease the amount of people that are eligible to to that, you want to make sure that you are coming over here and you want to

[01:49] make sure that under more options right here, allow comments is turned on, allow reuse of content and is turned on. You want to make sure that content check because it will actually catch violations before you get any auto check

[02:02] sound copyright should also be turned on. Allow visual search should be turned on. Allow high-quality uploads should be turned on. And then you want to make sure that under audience controls, that that is not turned on. Then you want to

[02:15] make sure that you have the correct language actually selected right here. make sure that you have it turned on so that Tik Tok is going to be showing your speak your language. And you want to make sure that it's translating your

[02:27] content into all the languages possible. And then in addition to that, you're adding in a description, you're adding in hashtags, and that you are choosing as the thumbnail of your post. In order to do that, you're simply just going to

[02:39] click on edit copyright here. You could come over here and change this out. You want to make sure that you're doing that because it's going to increase your odds that somebody actually clicks on your video and watches your content. And

[02:51] sure that you're not only relying on uploading video content on Tik Tok content that is absolutely crushing right now are going to be photo content and carousel content. But when you do these, you need to make sure that you're

[03:04] doing something very specific. Let me explain. Okay, so when it comes to those talking about. This page right here was able to gain over 500,000 followers in a very short period of time simply by uploading these carousels. And a few

[03:18] things that you are going to notice here. They all follow these same exact dark, they're using white and red text. And I'm not saying that you need to do that in yours, I'm simply just saying that you want to make sure that yours

[03:30] also follow a very similar theme. And in fact, if we see the most viewed ones psychology, this one's about psychology tips. And there are a few things that this creator is doing correctly inside of these. If we click on this right

[03:43] different slides. You want to make sure that you have anywhere from four to six slides because that's actually what gets you the most reach. Secondly, you want hook right here. For example, how to confuse somebody with psychology. In

[03:56] addition to that, you want to make sure that you have a good sound enabled here. So, we could see that the sound here is a {quote} dark sound, which kind of going on here. And now, we could actually click through these, see

[04:09] exactly how this works. It's simply just text, and they have a call to action on everything right here. So, the person actually goes through and does this. In action at the end right here, which is where they're actually selling a book.

[04:23] a book. You could sell anything that you want at the end of these, or just have your call to action be to share with somebody, or to follow. And it doesn't of posts right here are going to do three things. One, they're going to

[04:38] allow you to mass produce them with AI, so that you could post way more content they're going to allow you to actually reach a totally different audience, with your niche only engage with carousels or photos, and this is

[04:51] actually what they're interested in. And then finally, this is going to allow you because you're not always going to be forced to create a video, and you probably have a huge backlog of content that's done well. Like, any post you've

[05:03] what? You could go through and make a carousel post directly outside of that number three is you want to make sure that you understand exactly what your videos are actually trending under those searches, because this is by far the

[05:19] best way to find exactly what kind of content you should be making right now in order to maximize your views. And there's actually an AI tool that makes new AI tool that I'm talking about is going to be contentbuddy.ai, because if

[05:32] research and insight, you're going to see keyword finder right here. You could you actually want to post about. For example, we come over here and type in something like cooking hacks, and then what this is going to do is find out

[05:46] exactly what terms our audience is going to be searching for about this topic is tell us the competition score and how many times they're actually searching for that month, and it pulls it up in seconds. Because just like that, we know

[06:00] exactly what people are searching for, what the competition score is, and all dinner TikTok ideas. If we actually click on this, find trends, this will go through and find us every trending piece of content that has this search term and

[06:15] we could see that this video right here, in just 38 days, got 2.7 million views. in just 38 days, got 2.7 million views. Or this one in 1 day, got 710,000 views. actually want to recreate one of these videos, for example, this one right

[06:29] here, we simply just click on recreate. This is then going to use AI to go through and analyze the video and give us the exact script, the exact hooks, the exact description, the exact hashtags that we should use in order to

[06:41] recreate this piece of content, which makes it way easier for know exactly what our audience is searching for, exactly who what posts are trending, exactly what we need to do in order to recreate that video. Gives us a script,

[06:54] gives us what B-roll we need to put in here, gives us our hooks right here, hashtags. And we could go through and do this for several pieces of content, and boom, you just got a day's worth, a week's worth, a month's worth of content

[07:07] in just a few minutes that you know is going to do well because these are things that are actually trending inside of your niche. And this is going to make your life way easier and instantly going to help you start going viral quicker.

[07:19] that if you go to the pin comment below, you can get started today with a 7-day no-brainer. If you want to spend less time creating content, get more views, grow faster on TikTok. In fact, it's helped me get over 160,000 followers

[07:36] while spending less than 5 minutes a day trying to grow my account. And change that you're using more reposts whenever you go to post on TikTok. And you're mean by a repost? What I mean by this is literally going through your content,

[07:50] could be anything that did above average, and then reposting that video. All you need to do is download the original video without the watermark. the thumbnail. You want to make sure that you change the description. You

[08:04] hashtags, and then you could post that piece of content again, and this will increase your odds that TikTok actually shows that piece of content to a wider also want to make sure that you follow. So, first and foremost, do not have a

[08:18] watermark on that piece of content. Second, make sure that you're changing thumbnail, the description, the hashtags. And in addition to that, you want to make sure that you don't repost the same video more than three times.

[08:30] And in between each repost, you want to wait at least two weeks. But this is a less time creating content and to get way more out of the content you've already created. Because think about it, if you're allowed to do three reposts

[08:44] that you could literally post that same video four times every two weeks, and and quite frankly, TikTok's algorithm loves this. In fact, I've seen so many times where a creator has a video that performed really well, they reposted it,

[08:59] and it does even better and goes even more viral. Now, the last thing you want checklist so that you could actually why it didn't do well. And you need to walk through this every time you have a

[09:12] post that didn't perform good. Okay, so item number one that you need to be able to answer is going to be check one. Was the post trending in the last 72 hours? If you cannot say yes to this, then more likely than not, the reason that your

[09:24] post didn't do well is because the topic isn't something that was trending in the that your post will always do poorly, because guess what? If that topic you posted about actually begins to trend later on, your post could get a delayed

[09:37] explosion. But this is just check number one. Check number two is you want to be able to answer the question of was my post in the right format or the right length compared to the video from check number one. So essentially what you want

[09:50] the piece of content that you made to the other piece of content that was want to make sure that it was in a similar format and in a similar length. And yes, just a few seconds in how long your video is could make the difference

[10:03] between your video doing well video doing poorly. For example, let's say the trending video was 60 seconds long and you made your video 3 minutes or you made your video 90 seconds or you made your video 30 seconds, that would

[10:15] actually reach a completely different audience on TikTok because TikTok is breaking people up based on two things. One, what kind of content they watch, length is. So people that watch ChatGPT videos that are short get shown more

[10:29] ChatGPT short videos. People that watch ChatGPT videos that are long get shown more ChatGPT videos that are long. And the same goes for your niche or whatever final thing you want to be checking on this checklist is going to be check

[10:41] number three, which was was your post genuinely better than the post from check number one. And if you cannot answer yes to that, then this is the reason that your content didn't do well because one, it wasn't trending, two, it

[10:53] was in the wrong format or the wrong length and three, your post just wasn't TikTok. And the last thing you want to do is create content that is worse than obviously they're not going to show your content. Instead, they're going to show

[11:07] that's better and that's resonating with their audience. Now if you enjoyed this video and you want to learn how to get 1,000 followers on TikTok as fast as suggest you check out this video right here that walks you through exactly how

[11:19] you could do that. If that sounds interesting, I'll see you over there.

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