The power of the Hashtag

First of all…

What is a Hashtag?

A Hashtag is a word or phrase used to be label a post on Social Media, to help people find related posts.

 

The power of the Hashtag

  1. – Hashtag are automatically detected and become clickable once your post is published.
  1. – All Hashtags start with a # – don’t use spaces, special character or punctuation, as they “break” the tag.
  1. Add Hashtags as a comment to retain the impact of your photo and caption.
  1. You can only tag your own posts. Tags on other people’s post won’t work.
  1. – Used detailed tags- avoid tagging with vague words like #beatiful.
  1. Don’t spam, and don’t use tags that aren’t relevant to your post.

 

Comments…

As your business grow more competitive through digital marketing, boost the effectiveness of your efforts by making use of new and effective ways of generating interaction and engagement with targeted audiences. Hashtags proved to be a new and exciting way to do just this particularly in boosting your new or existing social media marketing campaign. When used properly, hashtags can be a very powerful tool for connecting with potentially thousands or even millions of targeted audiences worldwide.

The massive use of a label is what is called trending topic, hot topic, trend or issue of the moment: TT

You can find a list trends in the third module of the bar on the left of Twitter.