Free hashtag generator for contractors
Pick your trade and your city, and get a ready-to-paste set of local, trade and project hashtags for Instagram. For pool builders, landscapers, hardscapers and remodelers.
What this job has. Pick the ones that match.
What you do. Use three or four.
Wide reach, lots of competition. Use one or two.
How to use contractor hashtags
Hashtags tell Instagram who a post is for. The goal is not the biggest tags, it is the ones a homeowner near you might follow or search. That is why the generator leads with local tags built from your city, then tags for the specific job, then your trade, and only one or two broad ones.
- Use every local tag. They are the ones that bring homeowners in your area.
- Pick the specific tags that match this job, and drop the rest.
- Add three or four trade tags and one or two broad ones.
- Name the town and the scope in the caption itself. Hashtags help, captions help more.
What to post them on
Hashtags work best on finished-project videos, which Instagram shows to people who do not follow you yet. Make a free before and after post, a Google review post or a project spotlight, and see 40 contractor post ideas for more.
Questions
How many hashtags should a contractor use?
Ten to fifteen relevant ones is plenty. A few local tags, a few for the specific job, three or four for your trade and one or two broad ones. Thirty generic tags look like spam and bring followers who will never hire you.
Do hashtags still work on Instagram?
They help Instagram understand what a post is about and who to show it to, but they matter less than the post itself and the caption. Name the town and the scope in the caption too.
Should I use the same hashtags on every post?
Keep the local and trade tags the same, and change the specific tags to match each job: a pool with a spa gets different tags from a pool with a sheer descent.
Where do the hashtags go?
At the end of the caption or in the first comment. Both work. On Facebook and Google Business Profile, skip them or use two or three.