The hashtag is a word preceded by a hash mark (#) that is used to tag the photo or video that we have uploaded to the Instagram social network in a category, as we can do on other platforms that use some other features such as stickers. But in recent years, if you want to be famous on Instagram you must use them in the best possible way.
These hashtags are one of the most important elements when using Instagram . Currently, the Instagram of Paula Echeverria or Sara Carbonero, nationwide, and the Instagram of Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber and even the Instagram of Kim Kardashian are the ones that best use hashtags for Instagram in order to promote their posts and show the whole world your photos, stories and even the responses to those stories or photos.
Currently, there are 250 million people who have downloaded Instagram and who use this social network often. A figure that gives an idea of the large number of photos and videos that are published throughout the day on this popular social network.
And, in addition to the company’s efforts to keep its social network clean, periodically identifying and eliminating false accounts and spam, the publications must also be properly labeled so that they are useful for those interested in a specific subject or person.
Therefore, it is vitally important to properly tag the publications that are posted on Instagram, using the most popular Instagram hashtags related to the theme of the photograph or video that is published.
If you also want the publication to achieve greater visibility and reach, it is good to take into account some of the best and most popular hashtags that are used in this social network and that are valid for almost any topic.
For this same reason, we show you the 30 hashtags (maximum number of hashtags that Instagram can use in each publication) that are currently most used.
This is the list of the 30 most used hashtags on Instagram according to the Websta page , which also works as a web viewer for the social network.
We leave you the list with the 30 hashtags so that you can copy and paste them:
- #love, #instagood, #photooftheday, #beautiful, #fashion, #happy, #tbt, #cute, # like4like, #followme, #follow, #picoftheday, #me, #selfie, #summer, #instadaily, #friends , #art, #repost, #girl, #fun, #nature, #smile, #style, #instalike, #food, #family, #likeforlike, #tagsforlikes, #fitness
The first hashtag on the list, #love, is by far the most used to tag photos on Instagram, with more than 1.1 billion posts where this word appears, almost doubling in number to the second on the list, #instagood.
In addition to Websta, there are a multitude of pages and mobile applications that are responsible for collecting the most popular hashtags of the moment, such as TagsForLikes, Top-Hashtags or InstagramTag.
But this is not all, since they not only serve to know the most used and popular hashtags of the moment. Some of the applications and pages such as TagsForLikes or Tagstagram also order the most popular hashtags in categories to facilitate the tagging of photographs of different themes such as nature, animals, food, fashion, etc.
Keep in mind that copying and pasting all the previous hashtags in a publication will not result in better likes or followers. There are generic hashtags that can be used for almost any type of publication, but it is also important to use hashtags related to the theme of the photo or uploaded video.
Many people use these tags without really knowing what they mean, just because they are popular, which ends up being very annoying for some popular tags that are affected by post SPAM.
Some hashtags are used to tag photos of a certain day and highlight it, such as #PhotoOfTheDay, #PicOfTheDay or #InstaDaily to refer to our photo of the day.
If what we are looking for is to republish a publication that someone has made and has found it funny or that is useful for your fans, do not hesitate to use the #repost. Many companies and institutions such as football teams often use it for their players’ publications.
There are popular hashtags such as #TBT, #Follow4Follow, #Follow, #Followme, #TagsForLikes or #Like4Like, #InstaLike… that are often used to follow an account or give a like in exchange for a reciprocal action from the other user.
There are also hashtags used to mention the community of active users on Instagram such as #instagramers, #selfie, #art or #food, a form of photography well known to all and that has managed to sneak into the top 30.
But here is not the thing, since we also have to use the appropriate hashtags for each type of emotional situation with #beautifull, #happy, #cute, #fun, #smile…
We also have hashtags for the different seasons of the year, so we will be able to add the #summer, #winter, #autumn or #spring to our publications depending on the season we are in or if the object we take the photo of reminds us of it. In addition to these, the typical ones are also used, #beach, #holiday, #nature…
And if there is something Instagram differs from the rest of social networks, it is that there are users who upload their outfits, the clothes they are wearing and how their stories fit in order to inspire new people to use that style of clothing. These users use hashtags like #fashion or #style and even names of clothing parts like #dress, #heels, #model, #jewlery,…
Many of us realize the power that social media has today, both for the young and not so young. And we see this with a very clear example from recent years, the fitness phenomenon. If we visit the hashtag #fitness , we will be able to see a multitude of users uploading photos and videos in gyms and on the streets around the world.
They also use hashtags like #nevergiveup, #cleaneating, #instafit, #gym… with which they show their workout routines and their diets.
Finally, you have to take into account the hashtags that refer to the people with whom you take the photo or video that you share with your followers, a clear example of the most used are #me, #friends, #family…
Instagram Banned Tags
But, just as there are widely used and popular hashtags, there are also hashtags whose use is not recommended or that are banned by Instagram.
It is very important not to add the hashtags to the photos that are shared if they are not related, since Instagram itself strives to eliminate inappropriate hashtags from the social network or that do not provide information to users.
An example of the latter were the hashtags such as #Photography, #Iphone, #Popular, etc., which were blocked by Instagram, as they did not provide relevant information to the uploaded photographs.
In addition, hashtags that refer to inappropriate activities such as pornography, violence, etc. are prohibited. or words related to weight issues such as #proanorexia, #probulimia, #loseweight.
In addition to everything we have discussed, there are web pages like Display Purposes that help us find the ideal hashtags for each photo we are left to publish. For example, if we publish a photo of a beach, simply put the word beach in the web search engine, and the best hashtags with which we could accompany the image will be shown.
As we can see, being famous on Instagram with our publications is not an easy task, since we have to compete with true publication professionals. In addition, we have to take into account the new fashions and the new hashtags that are created, so you have to constantly update yourself to be number 1 on the social network.