--- title: 'How to Use Instagram Hashtags Properly' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZVBVMnPSKe4' video_id: 'ZVBVMnPSKe4' date: 2026-08-04 duration_sec: 225 --- # How to Use Instagram Hashtags Properly > Source: [How to Use Instagram Hashtags Properly](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZVBVMnPSKe4) ## Summary This video explains how to use Instagram hashtags effectively to grow your page and reach a wider audience. The creator emphasizes the importance of compiling a list of niche-specific hashtags and selecting those where your post is likely to appear in the top posts, based on comparing likes with top posts in your niche. The video also touches on trending hashtags and the placement of hashtags in captions versus comments. ### Key Points - **Importance of hashtags** [00:01] — Hashtags are one of the most important parts of growing your page on Instagram, but many people use them incorrectly. - **Compile a list of hashtags** [00:28] — To optimize growth, compile a list of hundreds of hashtags within your niche, even though Instagram allows only 30 hashtags per post. - **Analyze top posts** [00:42] — Go through the top nine posts for each hashtag and check the number of likes they have. Find hashtags where the top posts have a similar number of likes to yours. - **Example with #carsluxury** [01:23] — For a page averaging 100-300 likes per photo, find hashtags like #carsluxury where top posts average around 150 likes, making it likely your post will appear in the top posts. - **Update hashtags as you grow** [02:03] — As your page grows, update your hashtags to target higher like ranges: 500-1,000 likes per post, then 1,000-2,000, etc. - **Use trending hashtags** [02:32] — Find trending hashtags relevant to your niche and make your post relevant to them. Scroll through the explore page to see what's blowing up. - **Placement of hashtags** [03:01] — The creator puts hashtags in the caption, but many put them in the first comment. Both work within the first 10 minutes for traffic. ### Conclusion Using hashtags strategically—by targeting hashtags where your post can rank in the top posts and leveraging trending tags—can significantly boost your Instagram growth. Regularly updating your hashtag list as your engagement grows is key to sustained success. ## Transcript today we're going to be talking about Instagram and it's hashtags now hashtags are very important when it comes to Growing your page and and today we're going to be talking about Instagram and its hashtags now hashtags are probably one of the most important parts of growing your page on Instagram now unfortunately a lot of people don't use hashtags correctly today in this video I'm going to show you how you can use hashtags correctly to optimize the growth of your page and reach a wider audience now the following thing I'm going to tell you is very timec consuming and rather boring but it growing your Instagram what you're going to want to do is compile a list of hundreds of hashtags within your Niche now I know Instagram only allow 30 hashtags per post but bear with me you're going to want to go through every nine top posts now you want to have a look at each of these posts and you want to see how many likes they have now this depends on the size of your page but you're going to want to find the top posts which have a similar amount of likes to yours what you're going to want to do is to find oh what you're going to want to do is to find all the hashtags where the top nine posts have a similar amount of likes to yours now for an example let's Instagram you hit your first 500 followers and you're averaging on followers and you're averaging on roughly 100 to 300 likes per photo now is what you're going to want to do is to find hashtags who average around the same amount of likes so here I found the hasht cars luxury and as you can see the post are averaging on about 150 likes that's exactly where you want it to be you having a page where you're averaging between 100 to 300 likes per post this is perfect this would mean for that hashtag you are very likely to get your post from the top posts now yes this hashtag may not get a lot of traffic but click on it they will see your post first which is brilliant news for you now obvious obviously as your now obviously as to now obviously obviously now obviously as your page grows you are going to want to update the hashtags so when you hit uh 500 to 1,000 likes per post that's the margin you want to go for when you hit 1,000 to 2,000 likes per post you want to upgrade them again and make sure you're in that 1,000 to 2,000 likes per post range now obviously your post but obviously you're going to want to have the main ones relevant to your post such as cars luxury cars Sports cars Etc now another big thing to look out for guys is trending hashtags if you can find a trending hashtag which is relevant to your Niche go for it you definitely want to do this um if you can make your post relevant to any trending hashtag again that is a must trending these trending hashtags is what you can do is you can have a scroll through the explore page and see what has been blowing up recently now one last thing I myself put my hashtags within the actual caption of the post whereas a lot of people I know put their 30 hashtags within the first comment of their post first 10 minutes it's fine you will still get all the traffic for those hashtags but I was just wondering what you guys think do you put them all within the caption or do you put them all within the first comment let me know in the section below now if this video helped you in any way at all with your something new or even if you just enjoyed watching the video please hit that like button And subscribe below um I'm going to have a lot more content to come on how you can grow your Instagram page peace