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  • 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
  • ...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...
  • 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!
  • 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! 
  • 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?
  • Janay Lampkin commented on her article Don't Hate on #Hashtags
    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...
  • Janay Lampkin commented on her article Don't Hate on #Hashtags
    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...
  • 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,...
  • 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.
  • 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 ...