Week 8 Part A: How to Expand Your Reach on Instagram by Using Hashtags

  Bella Dona seems to have Instagram working for them as they have more than 425K followers. Surprisingly, they do not use any hashtags on their postings. They seem to be posting more than twice a week. After searching for their business name on the hashtags I found they do have a great number of them, however, they don't use them on their postings. Their page gets an average of 1k-10k likes per page, and they receive an average of 5-20 comments per post. 

Viva La Bonita has a number of 325k followers on their Instagram page. They do not seem to be using the hashtags on their posts at all. The do seem to have posting on their page about 3 times a week. I searched the hashtag for Viva La Bonita and found their hashtags have all of their posting names. They post several quotes and they all fall under the hashtag under their name. The hashtags are used by their customers and followers. They seem to have lots of likes on the postings where they post quotes. The postings seem to get more than 2k likes. The number of likes does seem accurate to the number of followers they have. The posts receive an average of 5 to 20 comments. 

Lux Rosa Por Vida has a number of 175k followers and posts an average of 1-4 postings weekly. they have a number of 176k followers. The postings they have all also have an average of more than 2k likes per post. They do use hashtags on all of their postings, after looking at the hashtags they use I see the do have a great following on the hashtags. They seem to get the tagged with the same hashtags they use from their customers. The number of the followers they have does seem accurate to the number of likes their postings have. The comments they receive on each post are around anywhere 4-35, certain postings receive more likes and comments than others. This page seems to be positing lots of videos with their products. 

After the research I have found that consistency is the key. I use hashtags at the moment and they seem to be helpful to get my business name out there. I do need to keep posting more on my page. I should also work on posting videos more often. I have noticed videos/reels seem to be getting more attention. Reels along with using hashtags. My followers compared to my likes seem to be accurate they are anywhere from 3-10 comments per posting. I came to the realization that posting more frequently may help with becoming more known and having more followers.