Hi Helen. Thank you for your comments. I will definitely look at photographing more images as you suggest. Also thank you for pointing out my error re. 3 weeks/ 3 days. That could have got me into all sorts of problems! Some of the pictures I use have been taken by friends or family. Those that I use from other sources are used according to licence. It’s never worth taking risks with copyright issues.
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Hi Kim. Thanks for your reply. I must admit, I use the twitter link on another site. When I use instagram I always give the link to my Folksy shop and upload to Pinterest e I mvery time I create something new. I must admit more people are saving pins from my board recently! I am quite new to Twitter and Instagram and really don’t understand the use of hashtags!
Hashtags are the most important on Instagram because you can only search by hashtag (or location) there, so if you don’t use any then only people already following you are likely to see your photos. It doesn’t really matter on Facebook/Twitter because search will bring up any public posts containing the word you searched there, but on Instagram your photo of a hedgehog will only come up in search if you write #hedgehog on the post.
Use them like you’d use tags here, but obviously you need a # at the front of each one, and you can’t use spaces. So if you put up a photo of your Valentine’s card then you might write a little comment and follow it with #sheep #cutesheep #valentinescard #handmadecard #madeincardiff #folksy
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Thank you soooo much for explaining that to me Kim! so much to learn! I will certainly give that a go. I was wondering why I get so few likes, and as you say, only from the people who are following me! So glad I’m now using the forum its a hive of information thanks to people like you and explained in very ‘easy to understand’ way!
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