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4 practices you should avoid on Instagram

It is evident that Instagram has a huge problem with SPAM on its platform. We have already discussed this topic several times on the blog and the consequences of Instagram considering your behavior as a SPAM attack.

Every day we receive dozens of comments from blog followers complaining that Instagram has disabled some of the basic features of the platform, such as: the button «Follow, continue«, Comments or your account have been blocked.

The point is that in 99% of the cases the problem originates from a misuse of the platform by the user and that on many occasions it borders on SPAM according to Instagram's criteria. That is why, to explain a bit what these criteria are and so that all this does not happen to you in the future, we are going to talk about the 4 practices you should avoid on Instagram if you do not want to be considered SPAM.

What are they and how to avoid bad practices on Instagram

Even though a priori some of these practices may seem harmless to you and that you are not doing anything wrong, the truth is that Instagram is becoming very strict about it and often We pay only for the sinners.

For Instagram, the great objective to beat is the bots, those third-party applications that are used to get hundreds of fake followers and likes and then trade them by selling them for a handful of euros or dollars.

What we mean by this is that, for Instagram, any behavior close to that of a Bot, it will be considered as SPAM, even if it is a real user who is doing it unconsciously.

That is why, to avoid surprises in the future, we explain below 4 practices that you should not continue using on Instagram if you have already done it:

  1. Do many Pleasures followed in no time. You have to avoid getting carried away and have a little discretion when making What.
    Often you start to do Pleasures to all the photos of you feeding and when you want to realize it you have 100 Pleasures done in less than 5 minutes. Apparently I do Pleasures on Instagram is not a practice, what we do not suggest, is to do a lot Pleasures in a very short time and repeat it several times a day.
    Honestly, if you do this, it's normal. that Instagram contemplates you SPAM, so control yourself and do What of natural form.
  2. Register many accounts from the same phone. If you are addicted to creating Instagram accounts for every web portal you do or for all your businesses, be careful because once the famous message «too many accounts have been created on this device recentlyWhich means you have created too many accounts from your smartphone and the consequences are drastic.
    Once the message is shown to you, Instagram deactivates the option to create new accounts from your terminal and it doesn't matter if you uninstall and reinstall the application, the option to register accounts will remain blocked.
  3. Mass follow/unfollow. This is undoubtedly the most delicate of all. It is the main method used by bots to get followers automatically, so if you use the same technique of follow unfollow To attract new followers, be very careful because Instagram can not only temporarily disable the « buttonFollow, continueBut you can even delete your account.
    As with the Pleasures, in this case there is nothing wrong with doing follow unfollow, the problem is when you do it often and very usually.
    Therefore, avoiding this practice will avoid don't let you follow someone else on instagram.
  4. Repeat the same text in the comments.. Another problem that usually appears a lot in comments is that of "I write a comment and when I give it to publish, Instagram does not show me«. again the bots They seem to be largely to blame, and it is that these applications also use a system with which they can generate hundreds of automatic comments in a few hours and almost always repeating the same text.
    Therefore, it is very important to make comments spontaneously and naturally, being original in the text, including mentions to other users from time to time and always avoiding copying / pasting. It is also not recommended that after several days or weeks without commenting, suddenly one day you write dozens of comments in a row, this is also likely to be considered SPAM by Instagram.

It is true that Instagram is incorporating new account verification systems to avoid SPAM, such as: verification by SMS or captchabut they still don't seem to work very well. So until these verification systems improve, what we suggest is that you be very clear about the 4 practices you should avoid on Instagram and start taking them into account from now on.

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