Using same picture, caption, hashtags, location and tagged accounts for multiple posts. Dangerous?

[willyw]

Dear members,

For the promotion of my company I will promote my –botted- main company account with 4 – 10 ‘sub IG’ accounts.

The niche I’m in is food.

I was thinking of the following setup:

Main account: companies account

Sub accounts own/original content:
· Account 1: Desserts Rome
· Account 2: Seafood Rome
· Account 3: Italian Food Rome
· Account 4: Food Rome (Personal and Mix of everything)

These accounts I will use my own personal content. Pictures that are made by us. However I will use the same picture and probably the same caption 2 – 3 times. Example I have a picture of a lobster spaghetti, I will post it on 1. Our main companies account, 2. Our seafood account and 3. Our Italian food Rome account. This will be done in a time span of 1 – 2 months. Example: beginning of 2 months, so in the case that users follow a few of our accounts, that they don’t see the same picture 3 times in a day. Probably I will delete 1 of the pictures after a month as well, so I don’t spam the tagged location.

All accounts will be running on a different proxy. I want to do as much as possible that IG doesn’t connect the accounts to each other. And here is where the problem lies…

Because I use the same:
1. Picture
2. Caption
3. Hashtags
4. Tagged location

Three times; is there any chance that IG will link the accounts to each other? Or am I to paranoid now?

To promote our main account; I also want to tag or repost our main account in 20% of the posts of the ‘sub accounts’ is this dangerous?

What steps can I take to reduce the chance that IG will link the accounts to each other and ban them all? Or is that not possible with the setup mentioned above.

Advice is much appreciated.

Best,

 

[Akanagi]

Don't know how instagram's algorithm works

but

I would totally say that you can use same location and same hashtags but not the same pic and caption. That would mean a loss in potential visitors and customers. My advice would be to have a different angle view of (in this case) lobster spaghetti, and try to change a bit captions.

 

[knopper]

An hour back, I've copied the same bio, url & post with same hash tags and images of an action blocked account. Within seconds, when i started following users the account got disabled.

 

[willyw]

Don't know how instagram's algorithm works

but

I would totally say that you can use same location and same hashtags but not the same pic and caption. That would mean a loss in potential visitors and customers. My advice would be to have a different angle view of (in this case) lobster spaghetti, and try to change a bit captions.

Thank you for your reply.

The case is, creating one post takes me about 15 - 25 minutes.

I put quite a lot of effort in creating a good caption as well as the post shows quite a lot of specific information about restaurants (price, opening hours, address, phone number, etc.)

So if I could reuse my posts, 1 or maybe 2 times. That would save quite a lot of time.

That's why I was thinking that I use different follow sources for each account, so most of the users of each account are different.

In the case of when a user follows both accounts where I post the same image to; there will be 1 or maybe 2 months between first post and second post. So hopefully user don't mind or even can’t remember.

But looking purely at; what will get me banned or not. What things I should do and shouldn’t do?

 

[willyw]

An hour back, I've copied the same bio, url & post with same hash tags and images of an action blocked account. Within seconds, when i started following users the account got disabled.

Thank you for your reply!

For me; each bio will be different, and for now I won’t put any links in them.

As far as I know I can change picture UI.

What mostly worries me is: hashtags, caption, location and tagging the accounts.

Anyone knows if I should be worried about this? I will post every post only 2 times.

 

[rootjazz]

No one knows.

But we do know
1) It is a footprint
2) ISG "could" detect it
3) It is a risk.


Test it, see if it works / fails. Report back. That is the only way to know. Know one will know exactly unless they have done exactly. Even then, it will depend (probably) on your account (age / IP / reputation / unknown ISG black marks) and probably some randomness as well

 

[willyw]

No one knows.

But we do know
1) It is a footprint
2) ISG "could" detect it
3) It is a risk.


Test it, see if it works / fails. Report back. That is the only way to know. Know one will know exactly unless they have done exactly. Even then, it will depend (probably) on your account (age / IP / reputation / unknown ISG black marks) and probably some randomness as well

Hi Rootjazz,

Thank you for your reply!

Do you mean this with all parameters I mentioned above? They are all risky to use/do?

Especially my main company account, I cannot afford to lose.

So I try to rule out as much risk as possible.

So if there is anything I really shouldn’t do with the setup I mentioned above.

Then I would appreciate if someone points me in the right direction.

 

[mbreti3gut]

I always use the same caption template on my feature account. Never had any issue

 

[willyw]

I always use the same caption template on my feature account. Never had any issue

Thank you for your message.

For how many posts do you use this caption?

Are picture and hashtags also the same?

 

[rootjazz]

Hi Rootjazz,

Thank you for your reply!

Do you mean this with all parameters I mentioned above? They are all risky to use/do?

Especially my main company account, I cannot afford to lose.

So I try to rule out as much risk as possible.

So if there is anything I really shouldn’t do with the setup I mentioned above.

Then I would appreciate if someone points me in the right direction.

Real accounts seem to have more leeway than fake spam accounts. I am sure ISG maintains a score on a each account. They know bulk created / purchased accounts, they know proxies, they know typical usage, but allow (to an extent) fake / spammy accounts to keep their user numbers up. But get enough of a bad score and your account is gone.

However, depending how safe you want to be. Leaving footprints is a risk. At the end of the day, using a bot is a risk, it is against the ISG TOS in which they say they will ban you. However that risk is small. Are these small risks worth it? Well only you can can tell.