Hashtag Strategy for Instagram (lengthy post ALERT)

Are hashtags still relevant?

Yes, they’re very well relevant!

Let me give you the reason why we use hashtags in the first place - then we will be able to understand why we need a separate strategy

Reach and Visibility: Expand your audience beyond your followers.
Engagement: Connect with people who share your interests.
Discoverability: Help others find your content in a sea of posts.

I want you all to create hashtag sets - minimum 3 so you can use them in a repetitive cycle!

*Also, do you know you can get shadow-banned if you post the same hashtags on consecutive days?*

Refer to this post to learn different types of hashtags

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3NUXetLpuW/

Now I want you all to select many hashtags which are the first four categories from the Instagram post which are 1) Niche 2) Audience 3) Personal hashtags 4) Location hashtags

Select 100 Niche based # - eg: #socialmediamarketer, #copywriter
Select 100 Audience based # - eg: #coaches, #solopreneurs
For personal #s, come up with #dakshinaspeaks, #talesofdakshina
Use location-based #s when you’re locally providing your services.

Now this is a set I have created for an SMM serving coaches and small businesses. Likewise, you have to create sets. You can also use this tool - https://predis.ai/free-hashtag-generator/

1 set of hashtags for INSTAGRAM - 30 Hashtags (Use minimum of 25)

1k to 10k Search Volume: