Chris.Roark
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We are all aware of the issues faced on Instagram.
There are countless of threads with guys crying that IG blocked some of their accounts. Yet, I haven't seen on any of these threads a valid justification why these things happen.
After doing some research, I came across this article, posted in November by TechCrunch which quotes an IG blog post from 19 November 2018 (that note of this date).
Here are the articles:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/19/instagram-fake-followers/
https://instagram-press.com/blog/2018/11/19/reducing-inauthentic-activity-on-instagram/
Checking the article posted by Instagram, here's what they are saying about account activity:
On other threads I saw a lot of people reporting their block as having one of several of the following causes.
Block causes mentioned by people:
Well, the cause isn't tied to a particular proxy or bot type. Even accounts managed manually or on home IP address have this issue.
The only so-called correlation between these accounts is that they have high-engagement settings.
On these same threads, some of these users reported their accounts doing follow/unfollow with these settings:
Here's what IG says on that same blog post.
Bottom line, the issue is nor related to certain proxies, bots or accounts.
The issue seems to be caused by the settings of these accounts.
What to do going forward?
There isn't a straight answer.
In the same way SEO guys do not know when Google updates its algorithms and when these updates take place and how they will impact their websites, Instagram is doing updates constantly (or as they like to say: "measures will be ongoing").
So, these issues should be expected from time to time. But as SEO guys adapt after every update, I think there is a way to adapt IG accounts too.
There are countless of threads with guys crying that IG blocked some of their accounts. Yet, I haven't seen on any of these threads a valid justification why these things happen.
After doing some research, I came across this article, posted in November by TechCrunch which quotes an IG blog post from 19 November 2018 (that note of this date).
Here are the articles:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/19/instagram-fake-followers/
https://instagram-press.com/blog/2018/11/19/reducing-inauthentic-activity-on-instagram/
Checking the article posted by Instagram, here's what they are saying about account activity:
On other threads I saw a lot of people reporting their block as having one of several of the following causes.
Block causes mentioned by people:
- Datacenter proxies
- Residential proxies
- 4g proxies
- Jarvee
- GMT2
- Other bots
- Accounts blocks that were managed manually (no bot, no proxy)
- Accounts blocks that used home IP
Well, the cause isn't tied to a particular proxy or bot type. Even accounts managed manually or on home IP address have this issue.
The only so-called correlation between these accounts is that they have high-engagement settings.
On these same threads, some of these users reported their accounts doing follow/unfollow with these settings:
- 400 Follow/Unfollow per day
- 600 Follow/Unfollw per day
Here's what IG says on that same blog post.
Bottom line, the issue is nor related to certain proxies, bots or accounts.
The issue seems to be caused by the settings of these accounts.
What to do going forward?
There isn't a straight answer.
In the same way SEO guys do not know when Google updates its algorithms and when these updates take place and how they will impact their websites, Instagram is doing updates constantly (or as they like to say: "measures will be ongoing").
So, these issues should be expected from time to time. But as SEO guys adapt after every update, I think there is a way to adapt IG accounts too.
