# Engagement significantly down? **URL:** \ **Category:** Instagram Marketing\ **Created:** [March 11, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678 "2018-03-11T19:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/alexnvo/32/31498_2.png) [@Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/u/Alexnvo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/21 "2018-03-14T20:23:50Z")
Today follows and engagement is down for reasons probably a update. It will pass like other times every week. Been good last 4 days, today a crawl. They come and go ---
**Author:** ![Connor\_Lipke](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/connor_lipke/32/28035_2.png) [@Connor\_Lipke](https://mpsocial.com/u/Connor_Lipke)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/22 "2018-03-14T20:29:17Z")
> [@Alexnvo](#): > > Today follows and engagement is down for reasons probably a update. It will pass like other times every weeks. I’m personally seeing increased engagement and follows on my personal account. I posted a picture last night that has 3200 likes, and I’ve gained almost 1,000 followers in the past 3-4 days. Are your accounts experiencing issues? ---
**Author:** ![Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/alexnvo/32/31498_2.png) [@Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/u/Alexnvo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/23 "2018-03-14T20:29:57Z")
All accounts rocked last 4 days. Today a snails pace. ---
**Author:** ![blake97](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/blake97/32/43190_2.png) [@blake97](https://mpsocial.com/u/blake97)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/24 "2018-03-14T22:03:00Z")
I have an aquaculture instagram account, and I use the exact same hashtags, 3-4 times per day. All posts are reports of other people’s content. I write my take on it, have a section where I shout out the original poster, and max out the hashtags ( literally, 30). I have been doing this since November. My engagement frequently hits 15+ %, and I’m at 12.9k followers, growing by about 200 per day, on days that I post (sometimes I get maxed out elsewhere in life and let my scheduled posts run out). Then, I have other accounts where the engagement is about half that or less… but these differences, to me, seem to be more due to the geographic applicability of the accounts (local businesses vs hobby or topic accounts with global reach). I’m also pretty new to all of this lol. Oh, and I make it a POINT to respond to literally every comment with something that ties my comment to the initial comment, or the poster of the comment I’m responding to… I feel like the instagram gods shine favorably on my engaging people enough to negate my following and hash-tagging. ---
**Author:** ![Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/alexnvo/32/31498_2.png) [@Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/u/Alexnvo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/25 "2018-03-15T00:40:14Z")
If you are using same hashtags over and over, the shadow ban monster will get you soon ---
**Author:** ![abbecain](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/abbecain/32/320_2.png) [@abbecain](https://mpsocial.com/u/abbecain)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/26 "2018-03-15T00:58:03Z")
I have been experiencing a massive drop in engagement in the last two weeks. Haven’t found a solution yet and it’s really frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/alexnvo/32/31498_2.png) [@Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/u/Alexnvo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/27 "2018-03-15T01:26:05Z")
check to see you are not shadowed or throttled. ---
**Author:** ![abbecain](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/abbecain/32/320_2.png) [@abbecain](https://mpsocial.com/u/abbecain)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/28 "2018-03-15T01:27:41Z")
Oh I am ghosted like crazy. Just couldn’t find a way out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/alexnvo/32/31498_2.png) [@Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/u/Alexnvo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/29 "2018-03-15T01:29:42Z")
if you know when it started, delete all hashtags from one day before to present…don’t care where they are. Captions or comments. delete them. then wait till it lifts ( usually 14-15 days. This has worked for me often. I got tired of this so I stopped using hashtags and still grow at the same pace as before ---
**Author:** ![abbecain](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/abbecain/32/320_2.png) [@abbecain](https://mpsocial.com/u/abbecain)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/30 "2018-03-15T01:33:34Z")
Do you think avoiding hashtags all together -at least for a while- would help? ---
**Author:** ![Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/alexnvo/32/31498_2.png) [@Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/u/Alexnvo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/31 "2018-03-15T01:36:11Z")
First remove the source, I bet there is a banned or semi-banned one there. Second, if it workes for you, no keep them but make sure they are okay. A friend got shadowed because she used #romance, at that time a semi-banned one. ---
**Author:** ![abbecain](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/abbecain/32/320_2.png) [@abbecain](https://mpsocial.com/u/abbecain)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/32 "2018-03-15T01:39:59Z")
Thanks for the clarification. Will try that for sure. One thing that makes me think that this is caused by another issue is that I started experiencing this on most of my accounts simultaneously, with the least amount of footprints. The only thing that connects them is that they all use blazing proxies. I am guessing maybe IG is going hard on certain subnets. ---
**Author:** ![Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/alexnvo/32/31498_2.png) [@Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/u/Alexnvo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/33 "2018-03-15T01:44:32Z")
I used them and also Highproxies and was not ghosted just had the like/follow blocks. if they all used a hashtag gone astray…it will explain it. If a majority were PV’ed then that was the reason, the PV. From what I have seen, bad proxies do not lead to throttles or ghosting. That has been my experrience and others may be right and correct me. ---
**Author:** ![abbecain](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/abbecain/32/320_2.png) [@abbecain](https://mpsocial.com/u/abbecain)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/34 "2018-03-15T01:52:53Z")
Thank you for your answers, @Alexnvo. I have been doing some testing in the last week and I will post my experience when/if I find a way outta ghosting ---
**Author:** ![blake97](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/blake97/32/43190_2.png) [@blake97](https://mpsocial.com/u/blake97)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/35 "2018-03-15T12:54:58Z")
hahahah. agh! ok - so, question then, do those “have-i-been-shadow-banned” websites actually work? Also, this is a globally-active instagram account… so, I could just take all of the hashtags and translate them into a couple of languages, and let it randomly select from those? Kinda a same thing, but not same thing scenario lol… ---
**Author:** ![Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/alexnvo/32/31498_2.png) [@Alexnvo](https://mpsocial.com/u/Alexnvo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678/36 "2018-03-15T12:59:10Z")
search other thread for these websites, you will learn. Never translated before as I have no need to. [Previous page](https://mpsocial.com/t/engagement-significantly-down/38678.md?page=1)