I feel like Instagram has become more and more like facebook in that posts are not well viewed no matter how many hashtags one places on them. It's become a big corporate sales pitch. Not Indie author friendly at all IMO. So, I have to disagree with the optimism of this article. Sorry. :P
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...irectly which is great.
Another thought. If you are an active blogger or Pinterest-er (and to a lesser extent, a Instagrammer or Tweeter) and use hashtags and labels and key words in t...
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Thank you for the quick tutorial, I need all the help I can get! However, when I click on #hashtags "check out this post" it directs me to your LinkedIn blog. The use of #hashtags for me is the most confusing thing about twitter!
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I always pull back a little from hashtags because I think a lot of people overuse them. I often feel the same way about hashtags as I do about promoting my wo...tags to use. I will re-dip my toes into using hashtags with them!
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Thanks for this. Writing friends have been urging me to try Twitter. I didn't realize hashtags are used in FB too. I'll have to give it a go... Are they also useful on blogs?
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Kelly, exactly! The hashtags are specific to the social network, though. So anything you post with that hashtag on twitter will only show up on twitter, same goes for Facebook and...
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Hi Kelly!
No problem! Hashtags drive traffic to a specific feed based on the words you used in the hashtag. there is no way to 'choose' your link. The hashtag simply just organiz...
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Helpful! But I'm a Luddite and still confused. Are hashtags about improving odds of being found in google searches? Or are they about driving traffic somewhere? And, if the latter,...
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I totally agree with you. I think hashtags are hard to understand at first, but once you get them - they are valuable tools. People mistakenly just put the # symbol in front of every word, not realising this is not how hashtags work. Thanks for the sample hashtags to use.
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Almost the only time I use hashtags is on Twitter, and then, mostly, for live-tweeting television programs, specifically crime dramas, and most specifically, Sherlock. #SherlockPBS ...
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