Using and Finding Popular Hashtags, Mentions, and Tags

Supported networks: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X

This guide will help you understand how to use and find popular hashtags, mentions, and tags across various social media platforms, including

Finding popular hashtags on X, Instagram, and TikTok
Tagging people and locations on Instagram
Mentioning people/brands/pages on Instagram, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn

Hashtags

Suggested Hashtags (Instagram, X, and Tiktok)

Using popular hashtags is a great way to increase your content's reach. On Instagram and X, the "Suggested Hashtags" feature helps you find trending and relevant hashtags.

When creating a post, click on the "Suggested Hashtags" button.
A pop-up will appear, where you can search for popular hashtags and add them to your post by clicking "Insert hashtag(s)".
You can also save these hashtags for future use.



Please note that Instagram has limitations on the number of hashtag queries. You can query a maximum of 30 unique hashtags within 7 days. "Unique" means 30 different hashtags, so you can search the same term multiple times without limitation.

Mentioning / Tagging

You can mention or tag other accounts directly from eclincher. You can select one or more mentions and add them to your post. Here's how you can do it on each social platform:

Instagram

Instagram no longer offers suggested mentions. To mention someone, type @ + the Instagram username or handle. Please note that the account must be public; if the account is private, the post will fail to publish. You can also use Recent & Saved Mentions to select previously mentioned accounts or Instagram accounts saved in the Handles of Saved Libraries.


You can tag people in an image by clicking the Tag Users button.


Type the correct Instagram account username. Click "Add," choose the tag placement, and click "Save."
Note: Instagram username should be accurate, as it appears in Instagram, and it should not contain "@".



You can also add a location tag to your Instagram post. Click Add Location, type the location, choose from the suggestions, and click "OK."

X

X no longer shows suggested mentions due to API changes, but you can still mention a profile by typing @ + the X username or handle.
You can also use Recent & Saved Mentions to select previously mentioned X accounts or X accounts saved in the Handles of Saved Libraries.

Facebook

To mention someone, type @ + the Facebook account name or handle. Choose mentions from the Suggested Mentions list, and you can also specify whether you want to search for pages or places.

You can also use Recent & Saved Mentions to select previously mentioned Facebook accounts or Facebook accounts saved in the Handles of Saved Libraries.
You can also add a location tag to your Facebook post. Click Add Location, type the location, choose from the suggestions, and click "OK."

LinkedIn:

LinkedIn tagging or mentioning works uniquely compared to other channels. You can mention company pages as well as personal profiles.

Please note, that personal profiles' mentions can be added as long as they are following any of your pages.

Adding mentions of company pages:

There are two ways to mention a LinkedIn company page.

To mention a company page that consists of one word, just type @name and click on the space bar. The mention will be automatically added.
Using this method would work with company pages that consist of one word.

You can also mention a company page by copying the LinkedIn company page URL and pasting it into the post editor. The mention will be automatically added.
Using this method requires you to select a LinkedIn profile in the post editor.

When selecting multiple networks in the post editor, the search feature for mentions will only populate mentions from one platform. The priority goes to Facebook. To mention in your posts, it is recommended to create separate posts for each social network.

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The eclincher Support Team

Updated on: 19/10/2024