Top Hashtag Tips – updated May 2020

𝗛𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗦… I’m often asked what are you hashtags, do I need to use them ? ⁣ ⁣ Short answer is 𝗬𝗘𝗦 !! ⁣ ⁣ 𝘏𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 & 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥.⁣ ⁣ Firstly though, lets talk about 𝗛𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗧𝗔𝗚 𝗚𝗢𝗔𝗟𝗦 ? ⁣⁣Do you have any ? Do you even know why you might need some..? ⁣⁣⁣Your hashtag goals are super important for effective instagram usage and growth and should aim to be as follows; ⁣⁣1) to make your post and account discoverable⁣ ⁣
2) to enable your posts to trend in 𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝟵 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 ⁣⁣3) to help you gain exposure to new accounts over a period of 1-2 days⁣⁣4) 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻! ⁣⁣For hashtags to even work on Instagram your profile HAS to be public, otherwise don’t bother using them 🙂 .. ⁣⁣𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗪𝗛𝗬 you want to be using hashtags and how important they are here are my 𝘁𝗼𝗽 10 hashtag tips…
⁣ ⁣ 1) Use Hashtags in both your grid posts & your Instagram stories, for exposure. ⁣ ⁣ 2) Think of hashtags as 𝗞𝗘𝗬 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗦. Use ones specific to your business niche and brand. ⁣ ⁣ 3) Avoid using hashtags with too many uses, if an account is under 10k followers try sticking to hashtags that have under 100,000 uses.⁣ ⁣ 4) If you add your hashtags to your 1st comment make sure these are posted 𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗽, within the1st 1-2 minutes for the algorithm to take them into consideration. ⁣ ⁣ 5) Make sure you are using all 30 of the hashtag allowance per post, 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 golden chances to be discovered in the recent & top post feeds. ⁣ ⁣ 6) Don’t use hashtags in your bio unless they are very specific to you, otherwise you are sending traffic to other’s content! ⁣ ⁣ 7) To find hashtags use instagram’s internal search bar. Choose those relevant to your image OR use Google’s keyword planner to help you select key words – find those that fit your niche and are key to your business. Consider; location, colour, branded, topic, time, specific to niche, emotions, YOU & your business (stay relevant), those describing & detailing events.⁣ ⁣ 8) Watch out for banned hashtags as these will affect your post reach.⁣ ⁣ 9) Create multiple lists of 30 and use them alternately so that you aren’t competing with yourself each day.⁣ ⁣ 10) Be Unique – try unique campaign or giveaway hashtags to enable easy winner selection, to track content.

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