To promote groups today it is popular to use the hashtag "VKontakte". What's this? Hashtag (the name comes from English: hash - lattice and tag - tag) - a label that is necessary to simplify the search for records on a given topic. Consists of asign followed by a word or phrase.
History of Appearance
The tag was first used by Chris Messina, who became the father of hashtags. On August 23, 2007, he introduced them to facilitate navigation and communication on social networks. The first tags of this kind were used on Twitter. Not all users liked them, and they won their recognition only in 2010. Over time, users have liked the convenience of hashtags, and today they are found more and more often on different social networks.
On May 16, 2011, the first hashtag appeared in VK, which was called “vkontaktetestiruethashtagi”. At that time, it was possible to create labels only from the letters of the Latin alphabet. Today they can be written in any language, as long as the rules for their creation are followed.
Spelling ruleslabels
Before you make the hashtag "VKontakte", you need to familiarize yourself with the rules for writing it, otherwise the tag will not work and will not bring the desired results.
Tag rules:
- Hashtag or, as it is also written, a hashtag begins with asign. Anything written next to the hash will be considered a tag and will automatically turn into a link to search for posts with the same word or phrase.
- Today you can write labels in any language.
- Hashtags can be placed in any part of the post, and their number for one note is not limited, although it is recommended to use no more than 2-3 tags per post.
- If the hashtag consists of several words, they cannot be separated by spaces, otherwise it will include only one word. To visually separate a phrase, it is better to use an underscore or use uppercase for the first letter of each word.
- Before you make a hashtag "VKontakte" or any other social network, you need to choose keywords for it. They should be simple, unique, and relevant to the particular post. This will improve their efficiency.
What are the hashtags "VK"?
"VK" represents 2 types of tags:
- Work all over VK.
- Work within the community.
Global tags are used throughout the social network. They are very useful for promoting pages and groups, since users who have not previouslyheard and did not even know about the existence of this community.
Before you make a general purpose hashtag "VKontakte", you need to choose its name. The keyword to be used must be generic, spelled correctly, and suitable for notation.
Intracommunity tag
Creating unique tags that will be used only within your community will allow you to attract more visitors to it. By clicking on such a hashtag, users will see the posts of only one community. The only exception is if someone uses the same label in their post. To prevent this from happening, you need to spell the name correctly.
There are 2 ways to make the hashtag "VKontakte" for a group so that when it is clicked, only the posts of a specific community are shown:
- Come up with a unique name for the tag, which is not yet in "VK". You can check it by typing in the search bar on the site.
- Write a generic tag with @ followed by the abbreviated name of the community. It will look something like this: “Statuses_about_love@serdce_v_rejime_online”, where serdce_v_rejime_online is the short name of the group.
The first method is not very acceptable, since it can be difficult to find a unique name, and even if it does, it is not a fact that someone else will not use the same label in the future.
The most successful option for how to make the hashtag "VKontakte" inside the group would beusing the short name of the community in the hashtag. Do not forget that when writing a tag, words cannot be separated by spaces, otherwise only the first word that belongs to generalized tags will act as a hashtag, and your entry may be lost among others.
