Prevent your Instagram account from being Shadowbanned: Never kill your engagement

How to prevent your Instagram account from being Shadowbanned?

First of all, you need to know about Instagram Shadowban. If you know, that's OK. If you don't then please read this - What is Shadowban on Instagram?

Alright, If you want to grow on Instagram then make sure your actions and strategies are with terms and conditions of Instagram. If your actions violets the Instagram community, 

Instagram will shadowban your account for 15 days. And in these 15 days, your engagement rate would decrease. 

So the question is, how to prevent your Instagram account from being shadowbanned?

Let's see...

1. Don't use broken hashtags in your posts and stories.

The strategic use of hashtags can boost your growth on Instagram. On the other hand, if you failed to use hashtag properly. You might get affected by shadowban.

So always be honest and organic. Never use hashtags that are against the community guidelines, or those which are banned by Instagram.

2. Avoid being reported by other users.

Posting highly engaging contents on Instagram is very important for your growth. But always make sure your post or uploading content is not playing with your followers.

If your followers report any kind of issue with your post. You would definitely be targeted by Instagram. They would cross check your posts and uploaded contents. If they found you guilty, they would shadowban you.

3. Don't use bots and automated software to grow your account.

Using bots and software is the biggest mistake you're doing. Growing organically by using strategies is all time growth.

If you are using any kind of bots or software. Stop using them. It will kill your account's growth for a long period. Instagram not supporting such kind of things. They would shadowban you definitely if you use them.

4. Avoid surges of activity.

There is some sort of limitations for different types of accounts on Instagram.

There are limits on how many posts you can like, comment and follow or unfollow others. Your account limitations grow with a period of 3 months.

In any case don't try to exceed 150-200 likes, 60 comments, or 60 follow/unfollow per hour.

The reason behind the limitations for your account is only to crack down the use of bots. 

So, if you doing surges of activity - like follow/unfollow above the limits, Instagram considers it like activity of bots. As a result - SHADOWBAN.

So, these are the things that you have to follow to being avoided by Instagram shadowban.

Now, I'm going to tell you how you can check your Shadowban status.

How to know if your account is Shadowban?

1. Use other accounts to check your Shadowban status.

The best way to find out your account is a shadow ban or not. Simply by testing your posts appears on the hashtag searches or not. Follow the process...

1. Make a new post and include 2-3 unpopular hashtags or you can create your own hashtag.
2. Then use another account that not following the testing account.
3. Now, search for one of the hashtags that you used or created on your post.

If your post appears on the top or recent section of the hashtag then you're safe. If the hashtag not showing your post, then it likely meant that your account has been shadowbanned.

2. Use a Shadowban Analyser.

Well, you can check your Shadowban status by using many websites out there. The websites doing the same thing as fetching hashtags you used and searches for your post on the top or recent section. But in the background and faster way.

NOTE: If any of the websites ask you to log in. Don't log in there. There are several websites only asking for your Instagram user ID and that's OK. You can provide your user Id anywhere.

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