My first ban experience

iamthesuark · Jul 14, 2015

Hi everyone,

so today is a sad day for me, since my IG account got banned for the first time in my Instagram journey.

Thankfully it was not my main account, but still it was an account that was growing very nicely.

The weird thing about it is, that I did not change any settings recently and I was running it like this for at least 2 weeks.

It is weird and unsatisfying, but still we all have to go through these struggles.

If any of you have any suggestion, tips or trick of how I might get my account back or what would be a good thing to do, please let me know.

Thanks and good luck to you all,
-iamthesuark

bcoz4u · Jul 14, 2015

What you mean IG its instagram account?

bcoz4u · Jul 14, 2015

you can check in google how to reactive instagram account they have wiki solution for this

iamthesuark · Jul 14, 2015

bcoz4u said:
What you mean IG its instagram account?

Yes, IG is a shortcut for Instagram.

bcoz4u said:
you can check in google how to reactive instagram account they have wiki solution for this

I checked, however I wasn't able to find any proper solutions to this, but thanks for your reply

radis · Jul 14, 2015

what were your settings

iamthesuark · Jul 14, 2015

radis said:
what were your settings

Nothing crazy for a 2 months old acount, however I was using the comment feature without spintax, so I assume that this was the issue.

radis · Jul 14, 2015

ya most likely, I don't even use comments. Great results but way too risky for me

iamthesuark · Jul 14, 2015

radis said:
ya most likely, I don't even use comments. Great results but way too risky for me

Well, for me personally the comments didn't bring as much positive results as I initially expected.

It usually only gave me one follow, from the person on who's picture I commented on and sometimes not even that.

Sometimes the user started a discussion based on my comment or started asking my why am I commenting on their picture, haha.

loshara · Jul 14, 2015

there's a very slim chance of your account being recovered. wouldn't raise your hopes on somebody helping as well

HoNeYBiRD · Jul 14, 2015

move on OP, i know it sucks
how many followers did the acc have? i assume it was still too small to even get a reply from instagram

radis · Jul 14, 2015

loshara said:
there's a very slim chance of your account being recovered. wouldn't raise your hopes on somebody helping as well

if you're willing to pay you can definitely get it back, is it big enough that you would pay to get it back though?

iamthesuark · Jul 14, 2015

loshara said:
there's a very slim chance of your account being recovered. wouldn't raise your hopes on somebody helping as well

Unfortunately I know, but thanks for your reply anyways

HoNeYBiRD said:
move on OP, i know it sucks
how many followers did the acc have? i assume it was still too small to even get a reply from instagram

Thanks for the motivation. Yes it was very small, around 1.5K followers, but it still sucks losing an account, haha

radis said:
if you're willing to pay you can definitely get it back, is it big enough that you would pay to get it back though?

It was not that important to me, so I am not interested into getting it back as much.

prinse · Jul 14, 2015

How many comments did you do daily?

duceduc · Jul 14, 2015

If any of you have any suggestion, tips or trick of how I might get my account back or what would be a good thing to do, please let me know.

Don't bother. Slim chance you will get it back.

DiscoHat · Jul 14, 2015

Might be worth trying to get it back depending on the followers.

growmyinsta · Jul 14, 2015

How old was the account, account age is very important now a days.

Paper-Boy · Jul 15, 2015

About a week ago, I had an account banned that had 10k followers .

It's just part of the game OP, just move on.

Windmill · Jul 15, 2015

When something like this happens, it is a kick to your morale.

That is OK. Sit down, and look at what you did right, what you did wrong, and learn lessons. If you did this once, you can do it again!

It is also a very important lesson that you need to diversify your traffic sources. What are you doing with your instagram accounts? Directing traffic to affiliate/CPA offers? If that is your strategy, I'd recommend you reconsider this strategy and direct the traffic to a squeeze page and collect your leads.

Will you make less money upfront? Yes. But in the long-term, 12 months from now, you'll have a solid subscriber base that you can use to recover from any bannings.

When I got my first strike against me in YouTube (successfully appealed but still), I was very happy I had my email list separate from YouTube's subscribers that I could always use to recover with if YouTube banned me.

loshara · Jul 15, 2015

radis said:
if you're willing to pay you can definitely get it back, is it big enough that you would pay to get it back though?

seriously? tell me please whom shall I pay, to have a 100% chance of getting my account back

iamthesuark · Jul 15, 2015

prinse said:
How many comments did you do daily?

About 60 maximum

duceduc said:
Don't bother. Slim chance you will get it back.

I know, but still it sucks losing your account.

DiscoHat said:
Might be worth trying to get it back depending on the followers.

It is not worth it in this case and the chances of getting it back are super slim.

growmyinsta said:
How old was the account, account age is very important now a days.

It was about a month or two old.

Paper-Boy said:
About a week ago, I had an account banned that had 10k followers .

It's just part of the game OP, just move on.

Windmill said:
When something like this happens, it is a kick to your morale.

That is OK. Sit down, and look at what you did right, what you did wrong, and learn lessons. If you did this once, you can do it again!

It is also a very important lesson that you need to diversify your traffic sources. What are you doing with your instagram accounts? Directing traffic to affiliate/CPA offers? If that is your strategy, I'd recommend you reconsider this strategy and direct the traffic to a squeeze page and collect your leads.

Will you make less money upfront? Yes. But in the long-term, 12 months from now, you'll have a solid subscriber base that you can use to recover from any bannings.

When I got my first strike against me in YouTube (successfully appealed but still), I was very happy I had my email list separate from YouTube's subscribers that I could always use to recover with if YouTube banned me.

Thanks so much for this post! Made my day better

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