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Why Are Your IG Posts Not Popping Off? Optimum Number Of Hashtags Found To Be More Than You’d Think…

today26 November 2021

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Picture this, you’re scrolling through Instagram, looking at whatever algorithm-driven content is being fed to you, and then something catches your eye – a post by a small business perhaps.

You click the comments icon, and see hashtags upon hashtags left by the poster. Some are what you’d expect – #Fun or #Business – while some are downright irrelevant.

Why do people do this, you wonder?

A classic example. (source: @esmeeweering (Instagram))

Well as it turns out, flooding your IG posts with hashtags – be it in the caption or comments section – actually leads to better user reach and post engagement on the platform.

In fact, the optimum number of hashtags is actually the maximum – 30!

This is according to popular social media managing app Later, after an analysis of over 18 million unique postings on Instagram.

The company found that using five hashtags on an individual post will see a…

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Written by: Ahmad Hamizan