Hello, hello, beautiful people, and welcome back to my channel.
My name is Ortal Levitan, aka, the Workout Unicorn on all social media platforms.
So, today I want to talk to you guys about commenting, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
And yes, there are good and bad sides to all of it.
So, I'm gonna cover it today and trust me, you guys want to stay tuned for this video
because at the very end, I'll kind of explain why you shouldn't over comment.
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Okay, so let's dive in.
Commenting.
As you guys know, especially with Instagram's new algorithm commenting is very, very important.
Comments actually rank higher than likes do or than impressions and reach and if you guys
have no idea what I'm talking about, make sure to go check out my YouTube video, the
Instagram algorithm explained, I break it down for you all there.
But, basically, comments count and they're really important in establishing the relationship
according to the algorithm.
And so, that's why when people comment on your page, it really make sure that they see
more of your content and they're more likely to engage with your page and your page ranks
higher.
Now, that is the good side of commenting.
And, of course, when you comment on other people's content, you're also telling the
algorithm you really care about their content, you like their page, you're more likely to
see their content more often.
So, that is the good side of commenting.
Now, there is also a bad side to commenting.
There's something called, over commenting.
And, I'm sure you've come across this.
If you comment too fast, let's say you I don't know go through hashtags and you're commenting.
And, you comment too fast, Instagram's algorithm is gonna block you.
The same thing happens if you're responding to comments on your own page.
You're just responding to the comments.
You're also going to get blocked if you go too fast or you comment too many comments
in a specific time frame.
Now, the reason Instagram did this is because they want to prevent bots or automated services
from engaging on the app.
So, this is one way that they do that.
Bots will literally like or comment very, very fast.
They'll drop like 10 comments in like a span of a second or something.
And, Instagram is trying to combat all these third party services and these bots and these
automated services and so, they're limiting how fast you as a human being back.
So, that's one side.
They don't want you to comment back too fast or they don't want you to drop too many comments
because they're flagging your account as like suspicious activity.
They want to make sure you're not a bot.
The second thing that can happen is like I said, you're accounting is going to get flagged.
So, if you comment too fast once or twice, you'll get that notification and you won't
be able to comment back for like 15 minutes or you won't be able to leave any comments
for 15 minutes and then it'll go away.
But, if you keep getting these like flag or these warnings on your page, Instagram is
gonna start flagging your account for suspicious activity.
And, we don't want that to happen.
Because, essentially, what it could do is accidentally, this is again, all an algorithm.
There's no real person looking at this.
The algorithm could flag your account and assume that you are a bot or a fit count.
They could deactivate you, they could block you, they could just flag your account for
you know more scrutiny and we never want that.
We want to go way, way, fly way under the radar when it comes to the algorithm.
So, if you over comment too much, or if you comment back too fast, you're going to get
flagged multiple times.
And, we want to avoid that.
And so, the best way to do this is to either make sure that you comment a certain amount
of comments.
And, if you get blocked, don't just wait 15 minutes, wait like an hour, wait two hours.
Make sure you're giving enough of a timeframe so that the algorithm's not going to be like,
wait, you literally just got this like flag removed and now you're doing it again?
This is really suspicious.
That's one thing.
Now, taking this a step further, and this has actually happened to me.
So, if you guys go to my post, you'll notice that I comment back on all of my comments.
Unless, it's like a pervy comment or someone's commenting on my butt or something.
I always respond to comments.
Sometimes, I comment back too fast.
So, I used to get like those notifications like, hey, you're temporarily blocked, whatever.
I didn't really notice it.
Kept commenting back, I got those like five or six times a day.
Another thing is when part of the message that I teach in the Instagram guru is active
engagement.
And so, back in the day before I knew about this, I would just keep commenting and commenting
until I got blocked.
And then, it would just you know block me from commenting.
I found out the hard way that if they block you from commenting and you keep commenting
once the flag is removed.
You're gonna get blocked from being able to even post.
So, what happened is I was commenting, I was like for four hours on the app that day.
I was just going Hampton, I had a lot of time, I was excited.
So, I commented, I commented, I got blocked.
Commented, got blocked.
And then, I think it was like an hour after the last time that I got flagged or something.
And, I went and I tried to upload a picture.
The picture would upload but I couldn't upload a caption.
No caption.
Now, at this point, I can't comment, either.
I can't respond to comments, I can't comment on anybody else's page.
I couldn't even upload a caption.
So, the picture would upload.
In the box I could type out my caption.
Once I hit share, nothing.
No caption.
Nothing.
And so, at that point, and this happened to me twice so I knew it wasn't just a glitch.
And, so at that point I realized, okay, over commenting can be really, really, really bad.
So, here I am sharing my expertise with you.
Don't over comment.
Don't overdo it.
And, I kind of explained in this video how to avoid overdoing it.
If you see that you're getting blocked more than twice, just chill.
Give it an hour to chill, go do something else.
So, I hope this video helped and I hope you guys are not going to go on a commenting spree
and then get blocked and never be able to post again.
Well, not be able to post for the next 24 hours.
So, I hope the video made sense.
If you guys have any questions or you want me to address anything else, make sure to
drop a comment below or shoot me a message @workout_unicorn I always answer all of my
DMs.
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