Bots with launch from a comment is a basic and very strong tool that will take your blog to a new level. You can choose any suitable option: comments will work not only under regular publications, but also under reels and even under a live stream.
The simplest and most effective option is to create a bot with subscription verification and lead-magnet giveaway and set a comment as a trigger. You can choose all your publications or only specific ones and run the automation.
Use in conjunction with auto-replies to comments to maximize results. Thanks to user activity, Instagram algorithms will start working and your post will be promoted in recommendations. Which means more potential customers will see it, and some of them will definitely visit your blog and subscribe.
But those bots have their own specifics:
1. Comments under your publications, reels and live streams will not activate the dialog box.
If a comment is used as a trigger - the bot can send only 1 message (Instagram limitation). This is because comments under your posts, reels and live streams do not activate the Instagram dialog box.
In order for the bot to be able to send more than 1 message - you will need to make a button in the starting block of a bot
Clicking on the button will activate a 24-hour dialog box and the bot will send out the full chain of messages.
The link button is not a full-fledged button and does not update the timer of the dialog box.
The delay from the first message will not work, communication can only be established from the button.
Delay cannot be the initial block in such automation.
If the user writes only a comment, the dialog box with it will not be active, in this case Instagram does not transmit information about the user, such a user will always seem unsigned until he is active in Direct, so it makes no sense to use subscription verification as the initial block.
2. It is important that Instagram does not like when a link is sent in the first message, especially if the automation starts from a comment, so never use links in the first message, some users will not receive this message, or it will be hidden in direct and the user simply will not see it.
If there is a need to send a link - you can use this option:
In order to fix those who clicked on the link, you need to enable click tracking in the settings of the button with the link and assign a specific tag when clicked.
Thanks to this, you can apply tag filtering in the "Clients" section and get a list of all users who clicked on the link in this automation.
3. Collaborative publications (like live streams) have only one author, other users are co-authors, the co-author has no rights to the publication.
If you are not the author of a particular publication - you will not see it in the list when setting up the trigger. Comments under publications where you are a co-author will not activate automation.
Therefore, if you want the bot with a comment trigger to work under such a post (or live stream), you must be the author of the publication.
If you are the author of a joint publication, then automation will be triggered even if users write comments containing a trigger under the publication in the co-author's profile.
4. If a user leaves only a comment and no longer shows any activity in Direct, you will not be able to interact with this user through the service, you will not be able to send him chat messages or mailing lists. In order to send automatic messages to the user, the user must activate the dialog box by showing any activity in your direct.