comments on the photo. So that worked in that we got awareness but not a lot of rub off with regards to followers. However, the followers it did generate were genuine fans of the photography style on his page plus we notice that even though followers were not growing and likes were still small comparatively, we noticed that some of the “likes” were coming from followers with large followings themselves. Doing some quick calculations, our editors’ page engagement rate is slowly creeping up to 1% (again) after being punished, now we use the word punished here loosely but maybe not. You see after we began the experiment and saw how bad the engagement level was we did some digging and and came across the term - Shadowban... there’s a very comprehensive article here on Shadowban -
name and press Get Tested... shadowban.azurewebsites.net When we tested, we were “safe” so that means either our content is not good, our hashtags are terrible (yeah we know) and not working or, and this is probably it, a combination of bought users that are not engaged plus poor hash tagging. So in conclusion to our experiment our editor now has thousands of followers, a low engagement rate but he’s seeing different types of “likes” and he hopes to build on that. He did threaten to delete this account too and start again, but after another bunch of Red Bulls, a few donuts and some advice from friends, he’s decided to keep it and work on getting the engagement rate up.
thepreviewapp.com/avoid-instagram-shadowban/
It points out that there are 4 things you can do to avoid this Shadowban situation including avoiding using buying apps/sites like we used. Plus they mention banned hashtags! With regard to Shadowban we did some more digging and found the respected website - Petapixel has an article on Shadowbans and even has a link to this site that claims to test if you are “banned” You can see the site here and you simply paste in your Instagram
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