{"id":138,"date":"2017-04-25T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T15:51:48","slug":"instagram-hashtag-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/news\/instagram-hashtag-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Hashtag Tracking. Complete Guide."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we launched <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/features\/instagram-hashtag-analytics\/\">Instagram Hashtag Analytics<\/a>. Hashtag analytics allows you to track brand or advertising campaign with certain hashtag.<\/p>\n<h2>Why hashtags are so important?<\/h2>\n<p>Hashtags attract more people to your content and increase engagement rate of your posts. Posts with hashtags get 50-70% more likes and comments. Also hashtags is a way of categorisation of content in social networks like Instagram and Twitter. Search engine inside of Instagram is based on hashtags so adding hashtags you are increasing discoverability of your posts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-139\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tag_search-1024x424.png\" alt=\"Instagram Search and Hashtags\" width=\"640\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tag_search-1024x424.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tag_search-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tag_search-768x318.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Who needs hashtag analytics?<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; Brands<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0Advertising agencies<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0Anybody who uses hashtags for their business<\/p>\n<p>More 75% people on Instagram use hashtags. Tracking of hashtags allows you increase your performance and get more insight into your audience.<\/p>\n<h2>Which metrics of hashtag are the most important\u00a0to track?<\/h2>\n<h3>1. Count of public posts<\/h3>\n<p>Count of public posts shows a dynamic of growth: more post means more impressions. But only count of public posts does matter. Posts on private accounts are hidden from anyone searching media by your hashtag (or associated hashtags). Instagram shows only total count of posts, including private and public posts:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-144\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_posts_on_hashtags-1024x224.png\" alt=\"instagram posts on hashtags\" width=\"640\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_posts_on_hashtags-1024x224.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_posts_on_hashtags-300x66.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_posts_on_hashtags-768x168.png 768w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_posts_on_hashtags.png 1998w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hashtag Analytics tools like smartmetrics.co show you real count of public posts with dynamic of change:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-145\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/smartmetrics_public_hashtag_posts-1024x518.png\" alt=\"smartmetrics public hashtag posts\" width=\"640\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/smartmetrics_public_hashtag_posts-1024x518.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/smartmetrics_public_hashtag_posts-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/smartmetrics_public_hashtag_posts-768x389.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see that Instagram cares of content and removes spam bots and spam posts about once per two weeks:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-147\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_hashtag_clearing-1024x520.png\" alt=\"instagram hashtag clearing\" width=\"640\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_hashtag_clearing-1024x520.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_hashtag_clearing-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_hashtag_clearing-768x390.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>2. Count of posts and their impression<\/h3>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to get detailed insights about your performance. You can find count of photo and video posts and impression of them (splitted by likes and comments).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-148\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_hashtag_posts_and_performance-1024x676.png\" alt=\"instagram hashtag posts and performance\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_hashtag_posts_and_performance-1024x676.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_hashtag_posts_and_performance-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_hashtag_posts_and_performance-768x507.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have a representation of our performance but what is KPI metric for performance? We suggest to use average count of likes per post on your hashtag. It shows how audience interacts with your content.<\/p>\n<p>We can see a chart with big splash \u0449\u0442\u00a0April 1st (<em>April Fools&#8217; Day Jokes?<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-149\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/average_posts_success-1024x325.png\" alt=\"average posts success on hashtag\" width=\"640\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/average_posts_success-1024x325.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/average_posts_success-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/average_posts_success-768x244.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>3. Sentiment Rate<\/h3>\n<p>How people feels about your brand? Smartmetrics uses AI and machine learning technologies to analyse text and determine\u00a0emotional reaction.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-150\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_sentiment_analysys-1024x331.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_sentiment_analysys-1024x331.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_sentiment_analysys-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_sentiment_analysys-768x248.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Positive average sentiment rate means that people are happy with your brand.<\/p>\n<h4>4. Picture processing and filters<\/h4>\n<p>Using\u00a0Normal images (no filter) represents\u00a0that people like how picture looks. Also people not use filters for pictures made with professional camera and processed on computer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-151\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/photo_filters_instagram-1024x401.png\" alt=\"photo filters instagram\" width=\"640\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/photo_filters_instagram-1024x401.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/photo_filters_instagram-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/photo_filters_instagram-768x301.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>5. Top posts<\/h3>\n<p>Easy way to find the most popular posts. Looking at most liked posts for selected period you can understand, for example, what product of your brand or what part of some event was most interesting. Reading comments to the most commented posts you can get live feedback.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-152\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_top_hashtag_posts-1024x926.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_top_hashtag_posts-1024x926.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_top_hashtag_posts-300x271.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/instagram_top_hashtag_posts-768x695.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nJust click on the preview picture and page with post on Instagram will be opened in your browser. Read comments and communicate with your audience.<\/p>\n<h3>6. Community size around your brand<\/h3>\n<p>This chart represents the growth of your community and shows people contributed to your hashtag ever.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-155\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/explore_the_globe_contributors-1024x580.png\" alt=\"instagram hashtag contributors\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/explore_the_globe_contributors-1024x580.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/explore_the_globe_contributors-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/explore_the_globe_contributors-768x435.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>7. Activity of contributors<\/h3>\n<p>How many people posted photo or video day by day. This bar chart shows real size of active community around your brand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/activity_of_hashtag_contributors-1024x361.png\" alt=\"activity of hashtag contributors\" width=\"640\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/activity_of_hashtag_contributors-1024x361.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/activity_of_hashtag_contributors-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/activity_of_hashtag_contributors-768x271.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>8. Geo distribution, demography and languages<\/h3>\n<p>This data allow you to choose proper content for your brand audience. Very important to track. You can improve content not only for hashtag but for account too. This analytical data become especially powerful with enabled <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/features\/instagram-analytics\/\">account tracking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-160\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_geo-1024x1005.png\" alt=\"hashtag geo\" width=\"640\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_geo-1024x1005.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_geo-300x295.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_geo-768x754.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-159\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_gender_and_languages-1024x792.png\" alt=\"hashtag gender and languages\" width=\"640\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_gender_and_languages-1024x792.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_gender_and_languages-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hashtag_gender_and_languages-768x594.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>9. Top contributors by post count and impressions<\/h3>\n<p>They are a core of your audience. Track active contributors and encourage them. Also data about active contributors can be useful at events or quizzes, just filter data by necessary period of time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-161\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/top_hashtag_contributors-1024x931.png\" alt=\"top hashtag contributors\" width=\"640\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/top_hashtag_contributors-1024x931.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/top_hashtag_contributors-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/top_hashtag_contributors-768x698.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>10. Associated Instagram hashtags<\/h3>\n<p>By analysing associated hashtags you can improve discoverability of your posts. You also track top associated hashtags and extend brand audience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-163\" src=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/associated_instagram_hashtags-1024x1021.png\" alt=\"associated instagram hashtags\" width=\"640\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/associated_instagram_hashtags-1024x1021.png 1024w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/associated_instagram_hashtags-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/associated_instagram_hashtags-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/associated_instagram_hashtags-768x766.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We reviewed only 10 most important metrics but Smartmetrics.co provides 20+ metrics for\u00a0full control of your hashtag. Track it, analyse it and make your campaigns better! We wish you the best social presence!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/accounts\/sign-up\/\">Track your Instagram Hashtag<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we launched Instagram Hashtag Analytics. Hashtag analytics allows you to track brand or advertising campaign with certain hashtag. Why hashtags are so important? Hashtags attract more people to your content and increase engagement rate of your posts. Posts with hashtags get 50-70% more likes and comments. Also hashtags is a way of categorisation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[12,14,11,7,13],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-instagram-analytics","tag-analytics","tag-hashtag","tag-hashtags","tag-instagram","tag-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartmetrics.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}