The Instagram algorithm is always changing and making it increasingly difficult to get your photos seen! A great way to increase your reach is to use some carefully selected hashtags.

You should use a variety of hashtags. Thik about what is in the photo, feelings associated with the photo and the intended audience.

However it isn’t just as simple as finding a few hashtags and adding them to all of your photos.

Shadow Banning

Have you heard of shadow banning?

Instagram doesn’t like people ‘spamming’ a hashtag. So if you keep using the same hashtag on every post – they will ‘ban’ your image from appearing under the hashtag.

So that means you need to change your hashtags up regularly (every post really!).

So trying to think of new and different hashtags for each photo is a good idea.

There are two easy ways to add some new/different hashtags to your posts.

1. Location
2. Day

Thinking about the location of the photo, and using hashtags targeted at this, is a good idea. It is likely that at least some of your photos will be taken in different locations (home/beach/park/shopping/playgroup/holiday)

The best tip for changing up your hashtags is use some time/day/month/season hashtags! The time and day changes all the time so you will have seven different sets of hashtags to use!

There are some popular, generic day hashtags and some more specific to your niche! Make sure you still keep this relevant i.e. don’t use #Caturday for a photo of your dog – you may upset the large Instagram cat community.

Here are some suggestions below for some popular days of the week hashtags:

#Mondaymadness – 395k

#Mondayssuck – 287k

#Mealprepmonday – 239k

#Mondaymemories – 99.2k

#Messymonday – 56k

#Whatmamaworemonday – 28.8k

#Traveltuesday – 963k

#Tuesdaymorning – 856k

#Tuesdaythoughts – 604k

#Takemebacktuesday – 301k

#Tuesdaytip – 195k

#Tuesdayshoesday – 135k

#Twinningtuesday – 85.5k

#Tuesdayboozeday – 65.5k

#Trendytuesday – 42.8k

#Tunetuesday – 13.4k

#Winewednesday – 1m

#Weddingwednesday – 867k

#Wellnesswednesday – 732k

#Wednesdaynight – 637k

#Humpdayhumour – 259k

#Wednesdayworkout – 156k

#Weightlosswednesday – 106k

#Thursdaythoughts – 980k

#Thankfulthursday – 914k

#Thursdaythrowback – 115k

#Thickthighthursday – 43.6k

#Thursdaythrowpillows – 13.2k

#Fridayfunday – 871k
#Fridayfeels – 864k

#Followfriday – 764k

#Throwbackfriday – 527k

#Fashionfriday – 402k

#Funnyfriday – 136k

#Fridayreads – 113k

#Fridayfood – 53.5k

#Saturdayselfie – 786k

#Helloweekend – 725k

#Saturdaynightfever – 416k

#Saturdaystyle – 161k

#Saturdaysareforthegirls – 79.5k

#Saturdayswag – 66k

#Saturdaysweat – 51.8k

#Sundayfun – 936k

#Sundayroast – 609k

#Sundayservice – 582k

#Selfcaresunday – 473k

#Sundaysesh – 433k

#Sundayfootball – 407k

#Sundaylove – 290k

#Sundayrun – 243k

#Sundaybaking – 165k

#Sundaystyle – 190k

I hope you found these useful – If you know of any other great days of the week hashtags, let me know!