The Proper Use Of Hashtags??

12 years ago

Where, how many do I place into each blog posting, tweet, Facebook post and Google+ posts?

Place your hashtag in the beginning and use only 1 per tweet.

Should I start putting the Hashtags into my Wordpress blog tags?

Can't hurt. Just leave off the "#."

In any post should the tags be located at the beginning or the end?

The beginning is better. All the hashtag does is make your post show up when someone searches for that particular hashtag at www.search.twitter.com or any of the hashtag search engines. Putting it in the front of your message just makes your tweet appear neater.

To find active hashtags use www.hashtags.org or Hashtagify.me

Use www.buzzsumo.com or similar sites to find viral content in your niche. Tweet this content out to hashtags in your niche to get real, targeted followers.

Once you have followers just keep doing what you're doing only now you can sneak in a self-promotional tweet at a 1:5 ratio. Just don't link your followers directly to a sales page. Always link them to your content. They aren't in buying mode so linking to a product page will just cause them to unfollow you.

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cldnails

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ghoster

Place your hashtag in the beginning and use only 1 per tweet.

Can't hurt. Just leave off the "#."

The beginning is better. All the hashtag does is make your post show up when someone searches for that particular hashtag at www.search.twitter.com or any of the hashtag search engines. Putting it in the front of your message just makes your tweet appear neater.

To find active hashtags use www.hashtags.org or Hashtagify.me

Use www.buzzsumo.com or similar sites to find viral content in your niche. Tweet this content out to hashtags in your niche to get real, targeted followers.

Once you have followers just keep doing what you're doing only now you can sneak in a self-promotional tweet at a 1:5 ratio. Just don't link your followers directly to a sales page. Always link them to your content. They aren't in buying mode so linking to a product page will just cause them to unfollow you.

Thanks a ton for that buzzsumo link, I've never used that tool. This gives me some great ideas for content! Thumbs up, thanks.

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Ghoster 12 years ago

Originally Posted by cldnails

Thanks a ton for that buzzsumo link, I've never used that tool. This gives me some great ideas for content! Thumbs up, thanks.

No problem I love that site. Great sites like these tend to become membership sites over time but this is one I wouldn't mind paying for.

There are others like this one too.

Hashtags amm... Nice but i normally use these hashtags carefully because if we use hashtags on every single tweet then people don't give much importance to our tweets.

I've never lost followers from using hashtags. It's expected. Just make sure the hashtag is relevant to your tweet.

The goal with Twitter isn't to sell products. The goal is to build a brand. You want people to think of you when they need a product you sell, ie, when they go into buying mode.

The best way to do that in a social-meda setting is to make their lives a little bit easier.

Don't underestimate the power of association. You might not be exposing them to your product, but over time you will create a subconscious effect whereby they always see your brand associated with good information on your niche.

Niche authority always = money.
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writeaway

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ghoster

Place your hashtag in the beginning and use only 1 per tweet.

Can't hurt. Just leave off the "#."

The beginning is better. All the hashtag does is make your post show up when someone searches for that particular hashtag at www.search.twitter.com or any of the hashtag search engines. Putting it in the front of your message just makes your tweet appear neater.

To find active hashtags use www.hashtags.org or Hashtagify.me

Use www.buzzsumo.com or similar sites to find viral content in your niche. Tweet this content out to hashtags in your niche to get real, targeted followers.

Once you have followers just keep doing what you're doing only now you can sneak in a self-promotional tweet at a 1:5 ratio. Just don't link your followers directly to a sales page. Always link them to your content. They aren't in buying mode so linking to a product page will just cause them to unfollow you.

Great tools but do you have a site that lists trending Hashtags or hot hashtags (measured by number of mentions)? The list you sent just mention content based on hashtag.

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melvinsh

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ghoster

Place your hashtag in the beginning and use only 1 per tweet.

Can't hurt. Just leave off the "#."

The beginning is better. All the hashtag does is make your post show up when someone searches for that particular hashtag at www.search.twitter.com or any of the hashtag search engines. Putting it in the front of your message just makes your tweet appear neater.

To find active hashtags use www.hashtags.org or Hashtagify.me

Use www.buzzsumo.com or similar sites to find viral content in your niche. Tweet this content out to hashtags in your niche to get real, targeted followers.

Once you have followers just keep doing what you're doing only now you can sneak in a self-promotional tweet at a 1:5 ratio. Just don't link your followers directly to a sales page. Always link them to your content. They aren't in buying mode so linking to a product page will just cause them to unfollow you.

You seem to know a lot about this, I would like more details, can you give example of how a post containing hashtags would look?

So if my business deals with social media do I do it like this?

#social media "retweet viral content related to social media" "my link here"

?

ALSO do you only use on Twitter?

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Ali Alvie

12 years ago

Hashtags amm... Nice but i normally use these hashtags carefully because if we use hashtags on every single tweet then people don't give much importance to our tweets.
If you like to use hashtags then just follow some rules:

Just use on Twitter
Do your research (use popular one)
Don't use too many words in Hashtags
Don't use too many Hashtags in one tweet
Don't use the same Hashtags in every other tweet

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Faaiza

12 years ago

Originally Posted by bstar

Should I start putting the Hashtags into my Wordpress blog tags?

In any post should the tags be located at the beginning or the end?!!

You need to understand that hashtags and tags are different thing. using hashtag in wordpress blog will not give you results of twitter hashtags is a feature of twitter. for wordpress content you need to choose right keyword to tag (not hashtag)

people who are looking for information doesn't bother where the twitter hashtag is placed in a sentence. But i think placing hashtag in the beginning of the sentence looks good.

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bstar

12 years ago

I've noticed people are using hashtags on Google+ and Facebook.

What is the benefit of this?

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Faaiza

12 years ago

The same benefit as twitter hashtags, by clicking the hashtag you will go to related posts.

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Muhammad Saleem Malik 12 years ago

Hi
Hash tag same on all like Facebook, Google+ and twitter. you just need to do it properly.
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John Jonas Phil VA

12 years ago

The hashtage was originally intended to help Twitter index their content. But ever since they've adopted broad matches for keyword targeting
https://blog.twitter.com/2013/introd...word-targeting
, using your keyword as a hashtag really doesn't matter. You can still use it for branding though, just keep it relevant.

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robertsullivan1 12 years ago

Hash-tags are very useful for giving additional information about your post and related context.
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Moneymaker2012

12 years ago

Hashtags are important to reach more people with similar interest who are not friends with, but to keep value of your hashtags you must use less hashtages at proper times. using more than 2 or 3 hashtag in one status update or tweet is not good.

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johnstepen

12 years ago

Hi, You can add hash tag in all social networking site before your brand keywords..

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Adamlee123

12 years ago

you can use hashtags to include your post into the different categories but be carefu dont use same hashtags in other tweets otheriwse it will be annoying

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