A Blogger’s Guide to Twitter Hashtags

The social network that sends me the most links, by far, is Twitter. No surprise there, because it is my favorite social network and gets the lion’s share of my attention. Social media is definitely a get-what-you-give area of marketing, and getting clicks means building relationships. But even if you’re brand new to Twitter, retweet accounts can help you get your blog in front of eyeballs.

I decided to put together this list of blog tags for my own education, and figured I’d share my research with my blogging followers.

#allthoseblogs

Follow and tag All Those Blogs for a retweet. They are currently active.

#bblogger, #bbloggers

I’ve seen a few book blogs in these very active tags, but they’re swamped by beauty bloggers.

#blog, #blogger

These are such fast-moving hashtags, full of everything under the sun. After reviewing these tags and how quickly they move, I’m not sure they’re worth spending characters on when I tweet.

#blogandbeyond

Blog and Beyond is a retweet account/blog community with 1305 followers. This is an active account.

#bloggerclan

The retweet account associated with this tag is no longer active. It’s still pretty active.

#bloggermode

This tag has a double purpose: fashion (mode=French “fashion, style”) and bloggers talking about the work of blogging. Very slow.

#bloggerrequest, #bloggerswanted, #journorequest, #prrequest

These tags seem to serve two purposes, as they’re full of WANNA GET YOUR BRAND IN FRONT OF MY FOLLOWERS? I HAVE A DA OF SIX AND A HALF! as well as requests for bloggers to answer questions or work with brands. #Journorequest is slightly different, as it has mostly UK journalists paying for stories or offering work to UK writers.

And then there are the poor lost souls tagging their blog posts with these. Please, Brenda, why do you require bloggers when you’ve already done the blogging for us?

#bloggersblast

The account associated with this hashtag hasn’t posted since January, despite their 22.7k followers. Still gets a bunch of new blogs in the tag each day, possibly out of sheer habit.

#bloggersoc

Associated with the Bloggers of Colour retweet account, this is fairly active, even though the account hasn’t been used in over a year.

#bloggerssparkle

An active tag for a semi-active retweet account. They do have a schedule, but I don’t think they really follow it.

#bloggerstyle

Mostly selfies autoposted from Instagram.

#bloggeusemode

French for fashion blogger, and that’s exactly what’s here. Not very active.

#bloggingbridges

The retweet account has disappeared, but several bloggers a day still use this tag.

#blogginggals

Blogging Gals is an account that aims to unite bloggers and brands. Tag is pretty busy during UK afternoons and evenings and is mostly full of fashion and beauty bloggers.

#blogginggoals

A little spam, a lot of income reports, follower counts, and blogging tips.

#bloglife

This tag contains not only posts, but also general life chat.

#blogpost

I like scanning this one when I’m looking for something to read. It’s fast-moving, but a fairly high quality tag. Not that much spam.

#blogshare

Only a few accounts use this one, and there is no current retweet account associated with it.

#blogtour, #blogtourstop

Blog tours are #bookblasts or #bookboosts that usually occur within a short period of time. #Blogtourstop is rarely used. #Booktour is also a heavily used tag, by which I mean heavily spammed.

#bookblogger, #bookbloggers

#Bookblogger is busier and #bookbloggers has more spam.

#dadblogger, #dadbloggers

#Dadblogger is slightly busier. Neither gets a ton of posts.

#fashionblogger, #fashionbloggers

There seems to be a lot more spam in #fashionblogger, no S. That tag also moves much faster than #fashionbloggers.

#fblogger, #fbloggers

What does the F stand for? Fashion? Food? Female? There are posts representing all of these and more. #Fbloggers seems slightly more active.

#fiercebloggers

I am making a pledge to use this more, after chatting  little with the blogger this weekend. Follow the retweet account here. It’s a pretty active tag.

#hsblogger, #hsbloggers

For parents who blog about homeschooling. #Hsbloggers is much busier.

#lblogger, #lbloggers

For lifestyle bloggers. #Lbloggers is more active.

#lifestyleblogger, #lifestylebloggers

#Lifestyleblogger is more active.

#mamaswhoblog

This is used by one person, but it’s a great tag name, no?

#mbloggers #pblogger

The M stands for mom/mum and the P is for parenting. #Pblogger is usually more active. Adding an S will get you on a slightly slower-moving tag.

#menblogger

This is 99% Indonesian.

#momblog, #momblogger, #mombloggers

#Mombloggers is the least used, but the other two are very busy. #Mombloggers usually has the least spam, too.

#mommyblogger, #mommybloggers

#Mommyblogger is the more active tag, although it also contains more spam. Stop tagging your used onesies as blogs, eBayers!

#MondayBlogs

Associated with the retweet account MondayBlogs, this tag has a few rules (no porn, no book promos), but it looks very busy on Mondays.

#savvyblogging

Only used occasionally, does not seem to have a cohesive theme or retweet account linked to it.

#sharemypost

I have also seen people @ing sharemypost_. The tag gets a few posts a day, the account linked to the tag has been inactive since May.

#tblogger, #tbloggers

Travel blogs. Both are pretty neck-and-neck in activity level.

#techblog, #techblogs

One person spams #techblogs, but #techblog is fairly busy.

#thebloggercrowd

A retweet account that connects brands and bloggers, they seem to be very choosy about what they retweet. Semi-busy tag. Update December 2018: Inactive.

#travelblogger, #travelbloggers

Both are busy, but #travelbloggers has more spam, mostly from one account. Isn’t that always the way?

#travelblogging

Less busy than the two tags above, but not slow by any means.

#womenblogger

Rarely used. Kind of a potpourri of everything.

Active Geographical Tags:

#indianblogger

#indianmomblogger

#NYBlogger

#philadelphiablogger

#phillyblogger

#ukblogger

#usblogger

This is so far from an exhaustive list. I am planning to continue the hashtags in a future post. Sign up for my email list here so that you don’t miss it.

And please leave me any Twitter tags that you use in  the comments below.