Instagram 101: Why You Should Never Put Hashtags in Your Posts
In this article, I am most likely going to humiliate myself by showing you all the horrible hashtagging I am wont to do. When it comes to hashtags, well, everybody knows if you desire any chance at all of getting noticed on Instagram, you got to hashtag.The thing is, within a post's caption, hashtags look really messy. Ever see those accounts that have just like way too many useless hashtags under a photo that isn't even that great? Yeah, that's me, and that's probably a lot of other people out there too.In the beginning of my IG career — that's about four Instagram accounts ago — I was known to use IG's 30 hashtag limit all the way to its shameful max: Don't Miss: How to Take Screenshots of Disappearing Photos on Instagram Direct Without Getting CaughtAs you can see, I filled up my hashtag limit in the post's body and then also continued to embarrasingly hashtag my way throughout the comments. Did I get more followers? Did I even get many likes? Not really.Instead, too many hashtags in a caption make your posts look terrible.Think about it, your image and its caption are the first thing people see on their feeds. You don't want to bombard them with a bunch of ####, do you? Have you ever wanted to read through someone's list of hashtags? Hmm, I'm going to guess that's a no.For instance, check out IG influencer Talia Richman's page. If you look through her posts, you'll notice that she never puts hashtags in a post's caption. Don't Miss: This Boomerang Hack Lets You Post Apple's Live Photos on InstagramInstead, by keeping hashtags out of her captions, her posts look much neater and more clean-looking overall.Rather, how you should handle hashtags, is to post all of them in a comment. That way you can get past Instagram's hashtag limit and post on to your heart's content. Your posts will not only look much better, but you'll probably stop coming off as some kind of bot throwing up hashtags everywhere too.After all, hashtags are not meant to be read, they are meant for people to find you. Use them for what they are worth.Don't Miss: Change Your Profile Name on Instagram to Increase Search Traffic to Your AccountFollow Gadget Hacks on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube Follow Apple Hacks on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest Follow Android Hacks on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest Follow WonderHowTo on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+
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Because Instagram posts appear chronologically in the hashtag search galleries based on the chronological time at which the post was shared (not when the hashtag was added). So, if you're using those super popular hashtags, every single second matters to your engagement. If you're wasting 30 seconds even to add a comment after posting, add
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When you use hashtags in your posts, you let Instagram know to put your post in the appropriate folder in case anyone searches for it. With approximately 70% of Instagram content going unseen and out of user's feeds, hashtags help increase discoverability.
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If you are a small account looking to get more followers and likes, then getting past Instagram's 30 hashtag limit may be what you need to increase engagement. While I don't recommend posting so many hashtags in your caption (it looks terrible), there are certain ways to add tags and still make your posts look super clean.
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