If you’ve seen an insane drop in the Instagram engagement reach, you might be shadowbanned, and in this article, we’ll find how you can fix it

If you’ve been using Instagram for a while, you might have heard the word shadowban and you might have searched for information on Youtube or Google. But in reality, there’s a lot of misinformation out there about what the shadowban is and how you can fix it

So today I’ll explain to you exactly what the Instagram shadowban is, how you can prevent it, how to know if an Instagram account is shadowbanned and what you can do eventually if you’re shadowbanned

But before we dive into the actual tutorial, we have to understand how the Instagram algorithm works

This is so crucial and this is exactly what most people overlook, searching for the magical solution or some form of trick or hack

So, let’s start with the basic

I’ve talked about this topic more in-depth in this article, I will link to it here if you want to check it out, but now I'll summarize for you how the Instagram algorithms work, especially when it comes to showing your content to your followers

Because, if you don’t know, Instagram doesn’t just show your posts to all of your followers as soon as you upload it

What happens instead is that, once you post something, Instagram will show it to a small percentage of your followers (generally your most loyal)

These are the people that are always liking, commenting, and sharing your photos, the most active people who are following you.

So, if your most loyal followers engage with your content and like it, Instagram will understand that your content is good, and will show it to more of your followers

If they like and engage your content too, Instagram will show your post to your other followers and eventually will push it in the explore page

Here your content will be seen by people that don’t follow you and these are the kind of posts that generally blow up and get a ton of likes and comments

Here you can attract more and more potential followers and customer almost for free

But, what has it to do with the shadowban?

Well, I’ll explain it to you in a second

When Instagram shadowban you, it stops showing your content on the explore page and in the hashtags to people that don’t follow you

Plus, it stops showing your posts to your less loyal followers, so your engagement rate drops drastically

Your posts are shown only to a few percentages of your followers and your chances to grow organically are practically equal to 0

So, how can I understand if my account has been shadowbanned?

Well, as I said before, you have to first understand how Instagram works

Most people think that you get shadowbanned because the algorithm hates them or something like that, but that’s not true!

You can get shadowbanned only for 1 reason:

• You’re breaking the community guidelines

This is so crucial but most people don’t understand the importance of following all the rules, because otherwise, Instagram won’t think it twice to shadowban you or even delete your account!

But what are these community guidelines that we have to follow?

Well, I’ll link here to the official Instagram website where they are all explained clearly

I know that’s boring to read all of these rules, but I promise you that this will be so crucial for your Instagram growth!

The most common reasons why people get shadowbanned is for abusing the follow for follow strategy (if you don’t know what it is or how to use it properly to gain 1’000 followers per week, check this article) or for posting copyrighted images

Also, another common situation is to get shadowbanned for using Instagram bots

Instagram hates every type of bots, so avoid them at all costs!

But first of all, make sure to read all the Instagram rules and follow them religiously!

Now, what can you do if your account is shadowbanned?

How long does shadowban last on Instagram?

Is there an exact solution for Instagram Shadowban?

When you see these kinds of engagement drop, you can do only one thing:

• Waiting

How long does shadowban last on Instagram?

Well, generally it lasts for 2 weeks

If for example you post something that breaks the community guidelines or you do something sketchy, like abusing the follow for follow method, they use these 2 weeks as punishment.

During this period, it will be almost impossible for you to grow organically because you won’t be able to reach out to new people with your posts and I highly recommend you to stop every kind of Instagram growth strategy that you’re using for this period.

Sometimes it could take more or less than 2 weeks, but if you see that after this period you don’t see any changes or maybe you don’t wanna wait all this time without doing anything, there is another thing you could try

If you are shadowbanned, your reach has dropped drastically, but if you don’t wanna wait 2 entire weeks, or maybe 14 days are already passed but your reach hasn’t returned to normality, here’s what you can do:

• Pay Instagram to promote one of your posts

If you have been shadowbanned for a long time and your reach is still really low, this is something you could try

If you think about it, Instagram doesn’t want to show your content to the people that don’t follow you, but now you’re paying them specifically for that!

This could trick the algorithm and get you out of the shadowban

This doesn’t work every time, but it’s something you should try

There are no other ways you can solve a shadowban

Everyone that is saying something else probably is trying to sell you some kind of course or sketchy trick, so be aware of that

I hope this article has been useful for you and the informations inside could help you solve your Instagram shadowban

To summarize everything:

• If your reach is going down slowly over the weeks or the months, generally speaking, the problem is your content

Try to create new and engaging formats, jump on the new trends and look at what your competitors are doing

• If your reach drop in a few days, chances are that you’re been shadowbanned by Instagram

What can you do?

• Wait 2 weeks

• Pay like 5 dollars to Instagram to promote your content and try to trick the algorithm

These are the only 2 ways to get out from an Instagram shadowban

The absolute best thing you can do is to avoid at all cost being shadowbanned

You can do it by reading carefully at the Community Guidelines of Instagram and by using the follow for follow strategy (or any growth strategy you are implementing) carefully

If you want to learn how to use this strategy the right way, check this article

Now you know everything you need to understand if you’re shadowbanned by Instagram or you’re having a problem with your content

You know what to do to avoid getting Shadowbanned

And you also know what to do if you already are shadowbanned

So, now it’s your time

Go out there and dominate the Instagram world!

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