Hashtags not working

I had up to "28% not following you" in my analytics - those hashtags worked. I got results on average around 12 to 15%.

But I tended to use the same basic 20 over and over again plus 10 that were more detailed about the photo.

Now I did hashtag research to better target the audience. I included smaller hashtags (under 100k occurrences) as recommended.

My first two posts with the new hashtag strategy were a disaster. "1% are not following you". That's the worst hashtag performance in two years. All hashtags I used were check out on Instagram, so there are no banned ones.

Could it be that when you use hashtags you have never used before, you are getting fewer results? In one both posts I used hashtags in regard to swimwear, which I barely used before, in the other I used steampunk hashtags because the photo had that look, and none of those 6 or 7 hashtags were ever used by me before.

I did everything that was recommended and the results are worse than what I had done before on my own without research. I'm truly puzzled.

The hashtag problem continues. I don't think I have a shadowban, as I'm still getting 1 - 2 % of traffic.

I don't automate, never bought followers, stopped buying even the low amount of likes I did (and when I still bought some likes, I had 12-28% traffic from hashtags)

So weird!

Anybody experiencing this, too?

try to change all tactics

It's been known to be best if you use 3 "sets" of hashtags, so you never use the same lot for at least 2 posts after
I think Insta prefer you to mix it up. Again, smaller hashtags wont get you the engagement but they will get you higher chance of ranking Top

reissxr said:

It's been known to be best if you use 3 "sets" of hashtags, so you never use the same lot for at least 2 posts after
I think Insta prefer you to mix it up. Again, smaller hashtags wont get you the engagement but they will get you higher chance of ranking Top

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So you're saying that smaller hashtags won't increase engagement when they are pretty much mandatory for the organic growth of smaller accounts trying to grow?

My hashtags and engagement has t.a.n.k.e.d!

I had several posts go to the explore pages back in July, now I am lucky to get over 200 likes!

Still nothing from hashtags. So I did one of those shadowban tests, and the tests said I'm OK.

But I'm not.

The strange thing is: reach and number of impressions are consistent with my past posts with good hashtag functions (e.g. 32% were not following you).

None of my recent posts show up under the hashtags, and older, mis-tagged posts from junk accounts show.

They don't even show up when I look for the photos clicking on the hashtags in the post itself.

Looks like a super shadowban. I can't even see my own work.

PS: Can you get shadowbanned for longer periods of not logging in?

I had two 10-day periods and a one-week period of no-login in the past 6 weeks.

I don't think you can get shadowbanned for not logging in

This all started when I switched to the creator account.

Usually people who get shadowbanned see their own posts, but others cannot.

I can't see my own posts. I just did a test with a tiny 1k hashtag. My post is not there.

I know that Insta has changed the algorithm of the recommendation and hashtags are not working. Better read the new Insta policy to find the answers