200/Day Growing Instagram Followers

CThomasRaging said:

Hey,

I was growing an Instagram account around 100-200 followers per day. I was only reposting a viral niche videos - on my phone. Everything was done by my hand except I've run autorounds on a Fuelgram. (engagement groups)

It worked smoothly - gaining followers day by day since I hit almost 3000 and I got the message that I need to enter my phone number to secure my account.

I entered mine number.

After this one, my organic reach went down by 80-90%. What is that? Is that some Instagram update or did somebody reported me? Anything else?

I've been giving credits all the time.

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ThaiDreamer said:

You've been shadowbanned mate, most likely.

Check if your posts are displayed for hashtags you put inside them.

If not, give the account a complete rest for 14-21 days and then start again although speaking from my own experience, you should volume down the number of daily actions at least for the first few weeks.

Good luck!

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kantaenos said:

Thats basically what happened to me except now I have created a new account. I suspect they identified you as someone breaking the TOS with the autorounds and decided to give you a phone verification. If you do it, then they simply lower your reach. If you didn't, they might have banned the acc. Thats what I think anyway.

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Aulig said:

Thats because youre using fuelgram, unless it gave you a message that a post was removed for violating community guidelines.

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CThomasRaging said:

I will try this. Thanks! Have this happened to you?

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ThaiDreamer said:

Yes, it has.

Have you checked if you are displayed for the hashtags you pun into your posts already?

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CThomasRaging said:

Yeah, you were right. I am not ranking for any of the hashtags.

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ThaiDreamer said:

Yup, so that's your answer to why you've experienced such a drop in engagement.

As said previously, give the account a full 14 days rest and start again.

Make sure you change hashtags for each post, you can have 20-30 hashtags but make sure it's not 30 every time and not the same ones as well (at least change syntax).

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CThomasRaging said:

Okay, I will try. Do you mean that 14 days without posting as well?

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