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I too have experienced a really big dip in likes and follows recently. I was using a liker bot, but at a very slow speed on 2 accounts, and my likes have gone from almost 400 per post to barely scraping up 100. I switched back to personal and unlinked my facebook page, and so far nothing but it's only been a few days. I also turned off my bots for now. Would def like to hear feedback on results from you as well.
 
TheArtist7 said:
I too have experienced a really big dip in likes and follows recently. I was using a liker bot, but at a very slow speed on 2 accounts, and my likes have gone from almost 400 per post to barely scraping up 100. I switched back to personal and unlinked my facebook page, and so far nothing but it's only been a few days. I also turned off my bots for now. Would def like to hear feedback on results from you as well.
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How many accounts do you have, and was this account on muliple IPs or VPNs?
 
Ok! So I've done a ton of reading, and I felt like this article was really helpful, bit.ly/2tuCtya except for the part about deleting hastags...my instagram dates back to 2013 or some such thing and deleting hashtags on every post would be impossible. I just deactivated my account, so I will report my findings in a bit!.
 
but no one has a tip how to come actually out of the shadowban ???
 
W9go said:
but no one has a tip how to come actually out of the shadowban ???
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So far the methods outlined state you need to delete hashtags from previous posts. For me this probably isn't viable, I have nearly 5000 posts over the last 2 years. I disconnected everything from my API including iconosquare. The sad thing is I dont give 2 shits about hashtags, all my followers are organic and I dont even need new ones, I just want my posts to be seen. I have 50k followers right now
 
TheArtist7 said:
Ok! So I've done a ton of reading, and I felt like this article was really helpful, bit.ly/2tuCtya except for the part about deleting hastags...my instagram dates back to 2013 or some such thing and deleting hashtags on every post would be impossible. I just deactivated my account, so I will report my findings in a bit!.
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I am trying this myself too. Haven't touched my IG account for a good 4 days and just logged back in. Apparently, without any tags at all, I get 50 likes out of 1000 followers. With tags I was only getting 100 likes lately.
 
karlx117 said:
I am trying this myself too. Haven't touched my IG account for a good 4 days and just logged back in. Apparently, without any tags at all, I get 50 likes out of 1000 followers. With tags I was only getting 100 likes lately.
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Hrm, I can't delete my hastags either (it's too much work) but I disabled my account. I'm going to wait a week and will let you know my findings.
 
you have to post a impressive post to impress your followers that would help once in a while in your niche, it might get rid if it, it works with impressions so the more you get the better.

and also sometimes the followers that you have likes different type of things it is not always the same niche you have to figure out what they are currently liking either by looking at their activities or the people they follow and you find awesome content for them.
 
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Ok so I waited a little less than a week, and changing my password and disabling my account for a bit lifted the ban. However, engagement is absolute shit. So theres that.
 
TheArtist7 said:
Ok so I waited a little less than a week, and changing my password and disabling my account for a bit lifted the ban. However, engagement is absolute shit. So theres that.
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yeah I found after temporarily disabling my account the engagement dropped significantly ... took a few weeks to climb back up again, though its still shit. lol
 
I have the exactly same problem and i am running my personal photo page. I read a lot about this, i think ig has messed up the algo too much and we have to deal with hit. I'm gaining like 200 followers per day but my er is very low.. don't know what to do, maybe is better stop the bot..
 
karlx117 said:
Guys, what type of botting activity did you use prior to the 50% drop started to creep in? For me, I know that I bumped up the number of follows per day as well as number of likes per day a few days prior.

I am not sure if this is related to the Instagress shutdown, but I can say that I signed up for a trial on their site before.

Maybe we could try some different techniques here and report the results to help each other out.

Things I tried so far:
1) Reverted from business to personal account
2) Deleted all tags from 6 recent posts
3) Deleted all spammy followers that I was following via Massplanner's algorithm
4) Moved all hashtags from comments into description area for new posts
5) Using new hashtags in new posts

I haven't posted any new content in two days. I am going to try to keep at this for a week.
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What has been the out come? Did you fix it??
 
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TheArtist7 said:
Ok! So I've done a ton of reading, and I felt like this article was really helpful, bit.ly/2tuCtya except for the part about deleting hastags...my instagram dates back to 2013 or some such thing and deleting hashtags on every post would be impossible. I just deactivated my account, so I will report my findings in a bit!.
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how did you go?? Any thing positive?
 
Mod Edit - Member banned for selling outside the marketplace.

Do business with him and you have no BHW protection if he scams you.
 
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JackMagic said:
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how did you go?? Any thing positive?
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I was able to get out from under the hashtag shadowban, but even though I switched back to a personal profile instagram is suppressing my posts so not many people see them. I am at a loss as to what to do at this point. People with 400 followers are getting more likes than my almost 8k account...
 
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