Reply To: What’s one social media growth lesson you learned way later than you should have?

[MatWade63]

I created an account for my dog and challenged myself to see if I made him famous. It took me a while to see which language was better for the captions if Spanish or English (I am Argentinean), also a while to learn about the best publishing time, the best hashtags, with or without emojis, 3 to 5 first seconds interesting, tell a short story, and some other things. Once all that was solved I reached 80 thousand views in a month and would have achieved more if… I did not repeat the same set of hashtags for too long (say about a complete month). Apparently Instagram takes it as spam if you repeat the same hashtags for too long.

All the sudden Instagram allowed me to enter only 3 hashtags and my views dropped from 80 to 60 thousand and declining because of that. I learned a way to bypass it but is not as efficient; besides, as I run my own account with the same phone, in my personal account I found also that I can’t put more than 3 hashtags.

Perhaps this is useful for somebody, and I don’t even know if it is the real reason but I was told so. My dog is a wirehaired teckel that plays with 3 dobermans, 2 border collies and a schnauzer, so certainly the reason for the 3### rule is not for inappropriate content.