What is a Shadowban on Instagram and How to Avoid It?

Justas Kuzma
3 min readJan 4, 2021

Learn how to protect your page from being shadow banned

Instagram is growing really fast right now as a social media website. New users come in every single day. This leads to competition being much higher than a couple of years ago. So people try to find ways how to avoid it but those ways are not always legal.

Those ways may lead pages to get shadowbans. A lot of Instagram users don’t even know what is a shadowban and how to avoid it completely, so in this article you will learn what is a shadowban and how to protect your account from getting it!

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WHAT IS A SHADOWBAN?

Basically, a shadowban on Instagram refers to the platform limiting your content reach by restricting visibility. The primary “indicator” of a shadowban is your hashtagged content not appearing on Explore pages to anyone but your followers. This just makes it impossible to grow your page further! And the worst part is that you don’t get a notification or anything that would notify you about being shadowbanned. The number just starts getting lower and lower until your account basically becomes dead.

WHY WAS SHADOWBAN CREATED?

A lot of people may just ask why was the shadowban even created at all? Well, Instagram shadowbans were created because more and more people started using various bots to grow their page automatically. The creators of Instagram didn’t want their platform to be full of bots, so they started lowing the exposure for people who were doing too many tasks in a short period of time.

HOW TO AVOID BEING SHADOWBANNED?

As I said before, Instagram started shadowbanning pages that were performing too many tasks in a short period of time, for example, followed 1000 accounts in 5 minutes. This means that the most important thing to do if you don’t want to get shadowbanned is to not spam! Don’t follow a huge amount of people at once, don’t violate Instagram terms of services, don’t comment too much, when writing DM’s never copy and paste the messages, write them yourself. These things will keep your page away from getting shadowbanned.

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I really hope that my article helped you to get a basic understanding of what the shadowban actually is and that you won’t ever get it! Good luck and chase your dreams!

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