HashTags 101 Guide
Hashtags have become a trend setting attribute of Social Media. We all must have used it by now, at least once. Yet most of us fail to understand the technical aspect of what actually happens every time a hashtag is used.
Here is a quick guide that will give you some cool insights about hashtags.
Where do i use #Hashtags ?
One of the best way for efficient search results is making use of Hashtags. With the help of Hashtags one can find content related to a specific topic and also learn about the people talking about those topics.Nowadays search is not just restricted to the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing. In fact, the various social media sites such as Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, YouTube etc make widespread use of Hashtags as a search query.
Optimize your search results with Hashtags
Optimizing a content, a conversation or an update with hashtags makes them more visible to other users of the social media platforms and the search engines. In order to figure out a target audience with common interests, one simply needs to click on a suitable hashtag, and all the data associated with that hashtag will appear on your user screen.
Searching your way through Hashtags
With the latest Google updates leading to much expected commotion in the online market,Hashtags have lead to a major amplification of organic Google search results.
A # tag followed by a search query is simply all you need to type on the search engine.Thereafter, a list of the most accurate data pertaining to your hash query will appear in no time.
Every time there is a trend setting story with some “meaty data”, it gets promoted on Twitter with the help of Hash tags. Once clicked, the users get redirected to a page full of updates with that hashtag followed by some promoted tweets. This same functionality holds true for search engines as well.
But who owns a hashtag ?
You can be the creator of a hashtag. Websites such as Hashtags.org and Twubs.com allows users to register hashtags. Nevertheless one can’t simply prevent others from making use of the hashtags.
How to optimize the use of Hashtags?
In order to obtain the best from hashtags for a specific event or cause, don’t forget to include it on social media profiles or on a related website in a post. Hashtags help mould an apt environment that starts building up traffic eventually.
Initially Twitter was the only social media website where Hashtags were used. But nowadays almost all of the social media platforms make use of Hashtags so as to seek maximum user engagement.