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After you follow a hashtag you will see posts of people appearing in your home feed (people you don’t even follow). It will look like you are following them – which is amazing. It allows you to discover and interact with new people, from all around the world, directly from your home page.
What does following a hashtag on Instagram do?
Following a hashtag is just like following a friend. To get started, search for a topic you’re interested in or tap on a hashtag from any post. You’ll see relevant hashtags displayed in your search results along with related accounts. When you find a hashtag you like, open the hashtag page and tap on the follow button.
Stories and posts that use the hashtag will be featured in a user’s newsfeed alongside the content they already follow. Once users follow a hashtag, Instagram’s algorithm will have to decide which stories to feature in users’ feeds based on a variety of factors, such as quality, recency and engagement.
How do you benefit from a hashtag?
How To Use Hashtags To Your Advantage On Instagram
- Use relevant hashtags.
- Use branded hashtags.
- Make Sure To Do your Research.
- Search Related Hashtags.
- Use a combination of popular and niche specific hashtags.
- Save Your Hashtags.
- Top Hashtags Are Money.
- Timing Matters.
Why won’t Instagram show me who Im following?
The only way to get it to show again is to wait it out. Your following list will be re-enabled after some time, up to 24 hours. In the meantime, you should continue using Instagram normally (e.g. liking, commenting). The temporary block could last for an hour, several hours or more.
Should you use trending hashtags on Instagram posts?
Only post using a trending hashtag if it really makes sense for your business, and for the specific content in your post.
Like on Twitter and other social media platforms, Instagram hashtags work by organizing and categorizing photo and video content. Every post you create can be accompanied by an Instagram caption and a few hashtags (up to 30), and these hashtags help in the process of content discovery.
Should you create a hashtag for your brand?
Creating a hashtag for your brand is simple and can easily carry over into your other social media platforms. For EcoTools, their branded hashtag is their name. To encourage the use of it, the company put the hashtag into their Instagram bio and paired it with a call to action.
How to do it in a comment: Upload your content as usual but leave out the hashtags in the caption box Once your post is published, simply click the speech bubble icon under your post to leave a comment Now write out or paste the hashtags you want to include in the “Add a comment…” box and tap Post