The Last Guide to Instagram Hashtags You'll Ever Be Needing

 

If you had told my 10 previous years that I'd be writing a guide on hashtags, I'd have probably had a laugh at. (Sorry!). Just thinking about the extent to which the hashtagging community has advanced in the last couple of years is inspiring... I can remember exactly when I first learned of the foreign concept that is "hashtags." This was in the year 2010 and , at that time, I believed hashtags were an absurd small-scale technology. My friends and me began using hashtags to have fun of the hashtag community. #Sports #Dominoes #MoreWinePlease

Okay, maybe #MoreWinePlease is an honest game.

Today, fast forward and the game of hashtags have drastically changed. I am fully aware of how crucial and essential hashtags are to the strategies for social media that all advertisers employ.

If you're still enjoying the fun of Instagrammers with hashtags stuffed with #'s in their comments , or aren't quite sure what these tags do, then you're in the right spot I'll go over everything you'll need to know about hashtags on Instagram. In this thorough guide on how to utilize Instagram hashtags you'll learn:

• What is a hashtag?

• Why you should use hashtags on Instagram

• How can you make the most out of your hashtags?

• Best techniques for hashtagging on Instagram

• Which 20 Instagram hashtags are most well-known?

Let's get started!

What exactly is a hashtag in the first place?

This hashtag also known as the symbol of the pound (#) was used throughout the web prior to the month of August 2007. Then, Chris Messina, a product designer from Silicon Valley, brought the hashtag to Twitter and was acknowledged as the creator of the hashtag on social media.

"He was in awe of the idea of using hashtags that were used in Internet chat rooms which had"pound" as a symbol "pound" before them," says Erin Black from CNBC. "He decided to pitch the idea to Twitter but Twitter said it was too nerdy and that it wouldn't be popular."

Jokes about them, surely?

Fortunately, Messina was persistent, and the hashtag was adopted with a ferocious manner. Messina was able to convince his followers to use hashtags in their Twitter posts. Later, in 2009, Twitter launched a service which allowed users to look up hashtags. #PrettyCool!

It's essential to use hashtags in every Instagram post: Here's the reason.

So why are hashtags so vital to be used in Instagram promotional campaigns? Marketing campaigns on Instagram? In fact, Instagram posts that include hashtags see an 12.6% increase in engagement opposed to posts that don't.

"Not just do hashtags aid social users categorize and organize content, but they're also the primary drivers behind the most effective campaign marketing," declares Maddy Osman on Sprout Social.

Hashtagging is extremely effective because it lets you classify similar content, making it even more accessible and probably that's why hashtagged posts are more popular than those that don't.

"When used in a smart way hashtags can provide you with an array of benefits," says Olivia Ryan. "They can be used to get your content to an audience that is larger, boost the visibility of your brand, target a very narrow group of people, enhance your SEO, as well as use trending themes that are trending to benefit you."

In turn, hashtags can give you search results, which is an great Instagram SEO technique.

What are you waiting for? If you want your followers to be able to see your Instagram content, now is the perfect time to increase the Instagram hashtag game! More on Inflact!