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Hashtag Research, Analysis, Monitoring, and Management Tools for #Hashtags

A hashtag is a word or phrase preceded by the pound or hash symbol (#), used on social media platforms to group content or make it more discoverable by others who are interested in a specific topic. Hashtag was the word of the year at one time, there was a baby named Hashtag, and the word was outlawed in France (mot-dièse).

The reason why hashtags are so popular is because they allow your post to be seen by a wider audience who might not already be connected with you. It’s important to understand they were created as a service, as a way to shorten the process when it comes to finding more posts about topics you’re interested in.

Kelsey Jones, Salesforce Canada

Here’s a perfect example. I recently had my kitchen remodeled (it was 40+ years old) and the result has been amazing, but my kitchen window was a bit bare. I got on various visual platforms and searched for #kitchenremodel and #kitchenwindow to come up with some unique ideas. After viewing countless ideas, I happened across a great idea where the user used a closet rod to hang plants from. I purchased the supplies, stained the rod, shopped for hanging pots, and installed it. Almost everything I purchased was from a #hashtag search!

Hashtags are now a ubiquitous feature on many social media platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and others. Apart from social media platforms, hashtags have also been adopted by other software systems for different purposes. For example, some project management tools use hashtags to help users organize tasks and projects. Hashtags have also been used in software for organizing bookmarks, and some email clients allow users to add hashtags to their emails to help them quickly locate and sort messages.

What Are The Benefits of Hashtag Usage?

Hashtag research and use are important for social media marketing for several reasons:

  1. Increased Reach: Using relevant hashtags can increase the reach of your social media content beyond your existing audience. When users search for or click on a hashtag, they can discover your content even if they don’t follow your account.
  2. Enhanced Visibility: By using popular and trending hashtags, you can enhance the visibility of your content and increase the likelihood of it being seen by more people.
  3. Brand Awareness: Consistently using a branded hashtag can help build brand awareness and encourage user-generated content. Encouraging your audience to use your branded hashtag can also help you track and measure user engagement and sentiment around your brand.
  4. Target Audience: Hashtags allow you to target specific audiences with your content. By using niche or industry-specific hashtags, you can reach people who are interested in specific topics related to your brand.
  5. Competitive Analysis: Hashtags also provide valuable insights into what your competitors are doing on social media. By analyzing the hashtags they use, you can gain a better understanding of their content strategy and identify opportunities to differentiate your own brand.
  6. Trends: Being able to identify the trends associated with hashtag usage can assist marketers to time their own social media updates and campaigns to align with their popularity.

Overall, effective hashtag research and use can help you reach new audiences, increase engagement, and ultimately achieve your social media marketing goals.

Who Invented the Hashtag?

Ever wonder who used the first hashtag? You can thank Chris Messina in 2007 on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/chrismessina/status/223115412

Hashtag Humor

And how about some hashtag humor?

Hashtag Platform Features:

Hashtag research, analysis, monitoring, and management tools have an array of features:

  • Hashtag Trending – the ability to manage and monitor trends on hashtags.
  • Hashtag Alerts – the ability to be notified, in virtually real-time, of mentions of a hashtag.
  • Hashtag Research – quantified use of hashtags and key influencers that mention them.
  • Hashtag Search – identifying hashtags and related hashtags for use in your social media communications.
  • Hashtag Walls – Set up a real-time, curated hashtag display for your event or conference.

Some of these platforms are free and have limited capabilities, others are built for enterprise use to really drive your social media marketing efforts. As well, not every tool monitors every social media platform in real time… so you’ll need to do some research before making an investment in a tool like this to ensure that you get what you need!

Hashtag Publishing Tools

Remembering to include the hashtags that you’re targeting with your social media posts is important, so there are some great platforms that accommodate saved hashtags so that you can automatically publish them with each update.

Agorapulse has an amazing feature called hashtag groups. Hashtag groups are preset groups of hashtags you can easily save and reuse for your social media posts. You can make as many groups as you’d like with the tool.

Agorapulse also tracks your accounts’ hashtag usage and social listening metrics automatically.

Save hashtag groups in Agorapulse

Hashtag Research, Tracking, and Reporting Platforms

There are several hashtag research platforms that include trends and can help you identify popular and relevant hashtags for your social media content. Here are a few key examples:

  1. All Hashtag – All Hashtag is a website, that will help you to create and analyze fast and easy top relevant hashtags for your social media content and marketing. You can generate thousands of relevant hashtags that you simply copy and paste into your social media posts.
  2. Brand24 – Track hashtag popularity and your own campaigns on social media. Find influencers and download the raw data for further analysis.
  3. BrandMentions – Free Hashtag Tracking Tools to Monitor Hashtag Performance.
  4. Buzzsumo – Monitor your competitors, brand mentions, and industry updates. Alerts ensure you catch important events and don’t get smushed under the social media avalanche.
  5. Google Trends – Google Trends is a free tool that allows you to explore the popularity and trends of specific keywords and topics, including hashtags. It provides data on their search volume over time and can help you identify relevant and timely hashtags for your content.
  6. Hashatit – Searching for a hashtag couldn’t be easier. Simply type, and hit enter to see your results! If you’d like to filter the results or change the search parameters, you can do so with the tools at the top of the screen.
  7. Hashtagify – Hashtagify is a popular hashtag research tool that provides insights into the popularity and trends of specific hashtags. It also suggests related hashtags and provides data on their usage and engagement.
  8. Hashtags.org – provides essential information, research, and how-to knowledge to help individuals, businesses, and organizations worldwide improve their social media branding and intelligence.
  9. Hashtracking – Curate content, grow community, create award-winning campaigns and dramatic live social media displays.
  10. Hootsuite: Hootsuite is another social media management platform that includes a hashtag research tool. It allows you to search for hashtags and view their popularity, as well as analyze their performance and engagement.
  11. IQ Hashtags
  12. Keyhole – Track hashtags, keywords, and URLs in real time. Keyhole’s hashtag analytics dashboard is comprehensive, beautiful, and shareable!
  13. Keyword Tool – While this tool is primarily for Google Ad keyword research, it also provides the popular hashtags for keywords.
  14. RiteTag – RiteTag is another popular hashtag research tool that provides real-time insights into the performance of specific hashtags. It also suggests relevant hashtags and provides data on their engagement and reach.
  15. Seekmetrics – A free tool to research and build a hashtag group off of a topic.
  16. Sprout Social – Sprout Social is a social media management platform that includes a hashtag research tool. It allows you to search for hashtags and view their popularity, as well as track their performance over time.
  17. Tagdef – Discover what hashtags mean, find related hashtags, and add your own definitions in seconds.
  18. TrackMyHashtag – a social media analytics tool that tracks all the activities happening around a Twitter campaign, analyzes those activities, and provides lots of useful insights.
  19. Trendsmap – Analyse any topic globally or by region in detail. Create unique map-based visualizations showing tweet activity across a country, a region, or the world. 
  20. Twitter Search – most folks look to Twitter search to find the latest tweets on a topic, but you can also utilize it to find Twitter accounts to follow. You can click People and identify the top accounts for the hashtag you’re utilizing. It can also provide a target to work on if your competitors are identified for a hashtag but you aren’t.

Disclosure: Martech Zone is a partner of Agorapulse and we are using affiliate links for several of the tools throughout this article.

Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is CMO of OpenINSIGHTS and the founder of the Martech Zone. Douglas has helped dozens of successful MarTech startups, has assisted in the due diligence of over $5 bil in Martech acquisitions and investments, and continues to assist companies in implementing and automating their sales and marketing strategies. Douglas is an internationally recognized digital transformation and MarTech expert and speaker. Douglas is also a published author of a Dummie's guide and a business leadership book.

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