Well if you are stuck using bad hashtag sets, or worse banned hashtags – you wont appear in hashtags at all.
You need to be real here and target Hashtags with the right popularity for your account. Be smart about it and try testing out different hashtag strategies.
My personal favorite is the ladder strategy. It’s about utilizing smaller hashtags to get more exposure, which in return leads to more engagement – helping you rank on the bigger hashtags even at a smaller following.
To make things easier I made an explanation on what hashtag sizes you should use depending on your follower count:
Between 0 and 2.500 followers you should use 75% hashtags(with total post count 5k-250k) and 20% hashtags(with total post count 500k-1mil)
Between 2.500 and 15.000 followers you should use 70% hashtags(with total post count 5k-250k) and 25% hashtags(with total post count 500k-1mil)
Between 15.000 and 50.000 followers you should use 30% hashtags(with total post count 5k-250k), 30% hashtags(with total post count 500k-1mil) and 10% hashtags(with total post count 1mil-10mil)
Between 50.000 and 100.000 followers you should use 20% hashtags(with total post count 250k-500k), 40% hashtags(with total post count 500k-1mil) and 40% hashtags(with total post count 1mil-10mil)
Do you have a hashtag strategy? If not will you be using the ladder strategy from now on?
Do you know with what frequency you can use the same hashtags. Let’s say you post a group of hashtags Monday, can you use the same hashtags on thursday? @Alexnvo
I had never thought of this strategy… what do you mean by banned hashtags? Are they the hashtags where our posts don’t appear/our account gets shadowbanned? I think when i get shadownbanned, my post doesn’t appear in all hashtags I added.
If you use a banned hashtag your post won’t show up for any hashtag, simple as that.
Remember that there are two types of banned #s, permanent and temporary.
I would like to add also that if a hashtag you used and was OK later becomes banned the post will not show in hashtags anymore, you can fix it removing the banned hashtag…
Be careful with trendy hashtags as IG can ban them anytime, due to spamming or user’s reports.
question: is a hashtag banned when you go to it and there are no top posts, but it says “see a few top posts each week” an example is #hairyhunk you can see that message. I used it for my dog !
I can that see hashtag posts so the problem is that you used it for your dog and it is irrelevant to your post, also your posts might be reported, the posts are all related to hairy men with not much clothes. So I imagine that somebody from that community didin’t like to see a dog there
How do you check how much count a hashtag has?
Also, do you post the same hashtags in all or most of your posts? (I have heard you shouldnt be using the same hashtag for a week once youve used it…)
Between 0 and 2.500 followers you should use 75% hashtags(with total post count 5k-250k) and 20% hashtags(with total post count 500k-1mil)
Between 2.500 and 15.000 followers you should use 70% hashtags(with total post count 5k-250k) and 25% hashtags(with total post count 500k-1mil)
Between 15.000 and 50.000 followers you should use 30% hashtags(with total post count 5k-250k), 30% hashtags(with total post count 500k-1mil) and 10% hashtags(with total post count 1mil-10mil)
Between 50.000 and 100.000 followers you should use 20% hashtags(with total post count 250k-500k), 40% hashtags(with total post count 500k-1mil) and 40% hashtags(with total post count 1mil-10mil)
