This thread will monitor my attempts to resolve most extreme and strange shadowban I ever get.
I have 3 Instagram accounts from same niche (fashion).
Account 1 have 162k followers and is almost 4 years old.
Account 2 - 64k - 3 years old.
Account 3 - 42k - 8 months old.
Average daily stats of accounts before shadowban:
From december 2018 to february 2019 I was absolutely dominating all hashtags in my niche. Every third post on all my accounts was getting 5000-10000 likes and around 100-150 comments and I was gaining 1000 new followers a day on account 1, 200 on acc. 2 and about 500 on acc 3.
Then it sudenly dropped from day to day to my actual numbers which are:
What is strange for me is that number of likes (my engagement) doesnt dropped that much and i think its because my followers still like my content so they are engaging but on the other hand on acc. 1 and 2 I am losing them.
How i know i am shadow banned: I tested it on multiple devices with multiple other profiles on VPN and any of my 3 profiles wasnt showing under my hashtags even when they was number one on that hashtags before. Total 0 for all 3 profiles.
Why I call it "extreme" shadowban in my title: I noticed that when I try to type name of my profiles in IG search bar it doesnt show my profile even when 9 out of 10 characters are written, it just isnt in results. But when i write my full profile name there, my profile is even then down on last place of search.
This never happened to me when i was shadowbanned before (2 times) I always was on 1. place of search, only # wasnt working then. Now it looks like they are totally blocking people from all access to my profiles.
Possible causes:
Now its 2 weeks after and i started posting first posts without hashtags but i am still banned from search and any of my old posts isnt on hashtags again so it didnt helped me at all. And i am still losing same amount of followers.
Please share your experiences and methods here. Also tell me what yout think about that strange search block.
I will update this thread after 2 weeks i am going to totally stop all activity.
I have 3 Instagram accounts from same niche (fashion).
Account 1 have 162k followers and is almost 4 years old.
Account 2 - 64k - 3 years old.
Account 3 - 42k - 8 months old.
Average daily stats of accounts before shadowban:
- : 200-300 new followers, 2500-3000 likes per post, 50-70 comments per post.
- : 100-200 new followers, 1000-1500 likes per post, 30-50 comments per post.
- : 100-200 new followers, 1000-2000 likes per post, 30-50 comments per post.
From december 2018 to february 2019 I was absolutely dominating all hashtags in my niche. Every third post on all my accounts was getting 5000-10000 likes and around 100-150 comments and I was gaining 1000 new followers a day on account 1, 200 on acc. 2 and about 500 on acc 3.
Then it sudenly dropped from day to day to my actual numbers which are:
- : -35 followers/day, 2000-2500 likes, 20-30 comments.
- : -15/day, 800-1000 likes, 5-15 comments.
- : +50-100/day, 800-1000 likes, 10-20 comments.
What is strange for me is that number of likes (my engagement) doesnt dropped that much and i think its because my followers still like my content so they are engaging but on the other hand on acc. 1 and 2 I am losing them.
How i know i am shadow banned: I tested it on multiple devices with multiple other profiles on VPN and any of my 3 profiles wasnt showing under my hashtags even when they was number one on that hashtags before. Total 0 for all 3 profiles.
Why I call it "extreme" shadowban in my title: I noticed that when I try to type name of my profiles in IG search bar it doesnt show my profile even when 9 out of 10 characters are written, it just isnt in results. But when i write my full profile name there, my profile is even then down on last place of search.
- Example: My profile name is: "blackhat". When I write "blackhat" in search it shows results as: 1.whitehat 2.red_hat 3.blacktshirt.. bla bla bla.. and then on last palce my profile.
This never happened to me when i was shadowbanned before (2 times) I always was on 1. place of search, only # wasnt working then. Now it looks like they are totally blocking people from all access to my profiles.
Possible causes:
- I was doing followliker automation (only likes and follows) on accounts num. 1 and 2,started about 3 month after they was created, untill november 2018. From that time I doesnt touched them with any automation. Account 3 was never touched by automation.
- I was manually reposting about 70% of my posts. Authors/photographers was always properly credited and tagged. Other 30% of posts was photos from girls which wanted to be shared.
- There wasnt any nudity or sexual photos in my posts but you know how IG girls sometimes pose so I am writing it here. But they was all normaly dressed I did not even add bikini photos because of this rule.
- I found out one of my hashtags i used from beggining was recently added on Temporarily
Banned Hashtags list. - I was doing daily cross shoutouts for my pages (photo tags, caption mentions, stories tags) this way I grew account 3 without using automation.
- all 3 accounts have link of my eshop in bio. (its https, normal link, no url shortener used) This link is there from march 2019 and its legit shop.
- As many people adviced me here i stopped posting for 2 weeks. In this 2 weeks i only posted 2 storeis without hashtags (i read here that its good to post stories). After first week i noticed that i stopped losing followers and even gained about 100 new but after few days i was losing again..
- Deleting that blocked hashtag from circa 150 last posts. (i cant delete all because there is more than 2000 of posts on accounts 1 and 2)
- Deleting all hashtags from some posts (i done about 50 maybe)
Now its 2 weeks after and i started posting first posts without hashtags but i am still banned from search and any of my old posts isnt on hashtags again so it didnt helped me at all. And i am still losing same amount of followers.
Please share your experiences and methods here. Also tell me what yout think about that strange search block.
I will update this thread after 2 weeks i am going to totally stop all activity.
