How to Choose Relevant Hashtags with a Drafting Tool

Practical examples, limitations and corrections

Editorial correction: 7 September 2026 This article was revised to remove unsupported growth promises and inaccurate feature claims. Examples are editorial suggestions, not measured performance results. [How we handle sources and corrections](/editorial-policy).

A hashtag generator is a brainstorming aid. It can suggest topic words you might have overlooked, but it cannot prove that a tag is safe, currently popular or likely to bring traffic. This guide explains a practical review process for the RexxuLabs tool and the limits to keep in mind.

1. Describe the actual post

Write a sentence containing the subject, intended reader and any relevant location. “A beginner tutorial for repairing a loose shirt button” is more useful than “fashion”. A specific brief gives you a way to reject unrelated suggestions. Do not add a location, brand or event merely because it attracts attention.

For a fictional example, a local pottery workshop could describe a post as “a short demonstration of trimming a clay bowl for people trying wheel throwing”. That brief suggests process and learning terms; it does not justify tags claiming a competition win or a product sale.

2. Generate a shortlist, not a promise

Use the [Hashtag Generator](/tools/hashtag-generator) to draft candidate tags from your topic. Review each suggestion against the content. The RexxuLabs generator does not provide a verified banned-tag database, current post-volume counts or a guarantee against account restrictions. Earlier wording claiming those features was incorrect.

A useful shortlist has a reason for every tag. For a bowl-trimming tutorial, a process tag may describe the activity, a material tag may clarify the subject, and a local tag may be appropriate if the post concerns a real local class. Generic popularity is not a reason to include an unrelated term.

3. Remove claims the post does not support

Reject misspellings, irrelevant identities, unsupported locations and terms that imply an offer you are not making. Open Instagram to check how a proposed term is actually used, bearing in mind that search results are incomplete and can change. A missing result does not establish that a tag is banned.

Do not rely on fixed “low competition” volume bands unless you have a current, attributable source for the count and understand what it measures. This guide makes no claim that any example tag has a particular number of posts.

4. Keep a small experiment log

Record the post topic, format, date, chosen tags and what you intended to learn. Compare similar posts over a reasonable period instead of attributing a single unusually successful post to its hashtags. Content, audience, timing and other factors can differ.

Example note: “Tutorial A and Tutorial B explain related repairs. Both used clear captions; B used more specific topic tags. Results differed, but the footage and publication date also changed.” That is a useful observation without claiming causation.

Before you publish

• Read the current limits shown by Instagram rather than relying on an old tag-count rule.
• Remove tags that do not describe this post.
• Check spelling and unintended meanings.
• Keep the caption understandable without the hashtags.
• Do not reuse private information or another person’s identity as a tag without a legitimate reason.

The tool saves drafting effort; it does not replace editorial judgment or live platform checks. For the surrounding text, use the [caption editing workflow](/blogs/how-to-write-instagram-captions).