Review on SpamGuard: cleaning Instagram from bots and spam

SpamGuard is a cloud service for cleaning Instagram accounts from bots, commercial accounts, non-reciprocal and inactive subscriptions. Blocks spam. It works even when a browser is turned off from any device (mobile phone, tablet computer or laptop).

Content:

• What can SpamGuard do?
• How to use
• Registration and adding an account
• Account verification
• Cleaning
• Protection
• Setting up
• The number of deleted users
• Filtering
• How much does it cost
• Partner program “SpamGuard”
• Promo code for SpamGuard service

Service characteristics

The most serious problems, which every Instagram user and other social networks clients faces nowadays, is “garbage” in subscriptions. As usual, it is used as “abandoned”, inactive profiles, fakes, commercial pages created for promoting some products or services. Often such subscribers leave advertising comments under posts, spam with search queries, links to a page of some store or product.

This is not critical for an ordinary Instagram user. However, if you keep a blog on this social network or use it for business, such subscribers are not only useless, but can also do harm. Firstly, because of fakes and inactive profiles, it is difficult to track statistics for real users. And secondly, due to them, you may lose your audience: real, live users, seeing that the page has many inactive subscribers or bot subscribers, begin unsubscribing from it.

If you haven’t got many subscribers, you may delete unnecessary ones manually. But with a large number of them, this is very difficult. This is where SpamGuard service comes to the rescue. It allows you to analyze your page, identify spam subscriptions on it and delete them.

What can SpamGuard do?

This service will help you clear your account of the following unwanted subscribers:

• bots;
• commercial profiles;
• inactive accounts;
• non-reciprocal subscribers;
• subscribers who speak a foreign language.

How to use it?

Registering and adding an account

To start using this service, you will need to register in it and add your Instagram account.

For registration, you must specify a valid email address, as well as come up with a password. After that, an email will be sent to your e-mail with a link that confirms the registration.

Once your registration procedure is completed, you need to add your Instagram account. To do this, click a green “plus” sign on top of the page, specify your nickname and password in Instagram.

Adding a profile will require confirmation of these actions – Instagram will ask if you are actually conducting operations with your account and trying to access it using a third-party service.

You can add several Instagram pages at once, and their number is not limited: there can be as many profiles as you want.

Checking your account

To start checking your account, on the main SpamGuard page, you need to click “Test analysis” or “Full analysis” button.

After that, this service will begin the procedure of studying your profile for spam subscriptions. It may take some time, especially if you have many subscribers. After finishing the verification procedure, you will see the result on your screen, which will display detailed statistics on unwanted subscribers.

You can immediately delete them using some standard Spamguard settings, or you can sort them manually and leave some of your subscribers that the verification algorithms considered undesirable. To do this, in the right part of the statistical window in “Selection” column, you should move the switch slider, and then select those people who you do not want to delete.

Clearing

When you have chosen which of your subscribers to leave and who is not, it can be clicked “Start cleaning” button. After that, Spamguard will start deleting unwanted subscribers found by it from your account.

Protection

SpamGuard checks and cleans a certain account not only on the user’s initiative – it can do this automatically. This feature becomes available after the first complete your profile analysis. For enabling it, click “Enable protection” button.

The protection works thanks to a self-learning neural network developed by SpamGuard, which allows you to automatically block the activity of certain categories of users on the client’s account, including

• people who leave comments in foreign languages;
• users who spam with links, product names or search queries in their comments;
• inactive users;
• various stores and accounts that conduct commercial activities.

Setting up

In Spamguard there is a possibility of flexible configuration of this service, which allows you to delete only those accounts categories that you really want to delete, as well as determine their number. This setting is necessary so that as a result of cleaning your profile, the coverage does not drop significantly due to too fast unsubscribing of a large number of users from your page.

There are several configurable parameters. Let’s talk about them in more detail.

Number of deleted users

SpamGuard independently determines how many accounts to delete from subscriptions per day. However, their number can be changed manually. To do this, there is a menu at the page bottom called “Manual cleaning”. You can choose three different positions in it:

1. Default settings. With this parameter value, our service will continue to independently determine how many unwanted subscribers need to be deleted daily.
2. Unsubscribe from a certain number of accounts. When you select this option, you can specify the number of subscribers from whom SpamGuard will unsubscribe you every day. To do this, you must set the necessary number in a special window.
3. The percentage ratio. In this case, they do not specify a specific number of accounts, but their percentage of the total number of subscribers. SpamGuard algorithm itself will calculate the numerical value of percentage specified by a page owner and delete a required number of subscribers.

Filtering

SpamGuard allows you to set a filter for comments depending on the language in which they were left. For doing this, in the right part of security settings menu window, in a language filtering section, you can specify any following parameters:

• allow all comments, regardless of what language they were written in;
• allow only comments in English;
• allow only comments in Russian.

For selecting any desired parameter, you just must put a check mark next to it.

The parameters of other filters of this service are configured in similar way: necessary value is selected in the right part of the menu. In future, Spamguard will remove unwanted subscribers exactly in accordance with specified value of a particular filter.

How much does it cost?

SpamGuard service is paid. There is no fixed price for its use: our service cost is determined based on the complexity of their implementation, which is estimated by the popularity of any client’s account and an amount of subscribers. In order to find out how much it will cost to clean your Instagram profile with SpamGuard and protect it, you need to enter your account name in a special field on this service page and click “Find out price” button located at the bottom.

If you use our service for several pages on Instagram at once, the price for using the full version of SpamGuard will increase in proportion to their number. Also the cost of servicing each account will also be determined individually and will differ for each profile.

You can pay for four periods during which your account will be protected and cleaned:

• one year;
• six months;
• one month;
• one-time inspection and cleaning.

There are two ways to transfer money to SpamGuard:

• using a bank card (Visa and MasterCard cards are supported);
• using famous electronic payment system PayPal.

SpamGuard will offer to pay for this service immediately after you click on “Full verification” button. In a payment window that opens, you can immediately select any method by which it will be made.

SpamGuard also has a trial mode, which allows you to get acquainted with all its functions for free. However, with its help, you can test up to 30% of your account and delete no more than one thousand spam subscribers. In addition, there is no automatic account protection function in the trial mode.

SpamGuard Partner Program

As in many other services, SpamGuard has an affiliate program. It is very easy to become a member of it – to do this, after registering on this site main page, you should click link “Affiliate program”, and then agree to its terms. After that, the user will be given a referral link, which he can share with others.

The amount of remuneration of this partner program participant is 20% of the order of each referral attracted by him, which is quite good. Money can be withdrawn to a YandexWallet.Money, Qiwi or to any bank card. For doing this, you must add a wallet in a personal account of this partner program.

The withdrawal of money received as a result of participation in the affiliate program can be made monthly on a certain day – every second Monday in a month. If you have accumulated more than a thousand rubles on your account, an early payment is possible, which occurs within three days after the withdrawal request is made.

SpamGuard is a great tool for managing your Instagram page, cleaning it and protecting it from spam, which is the best fit for business. Thanks to flexible settings of all our service parameters, you can choose the most suitable mode in which SpamGuard will work. This service is the best fit for those who have many subscribers, and it has become impossible to filter live people from bots and advertising profiles manually.

Promo code for SpamGuard service

This service will have promo codes in near future.