YouTube is embracing the hashtag. The company has been quietly working on a new feature that allows users to better discover content using hashtags — either by clicking on a hashtag on YouTube or by ...

To use or not to use hashtags? For many people, that is the question. So here’s the answer from Kevan Lee of Buffer, the tool that lets you schedule, automate, and analyze social-media updates.

They’re no longer a growth hack or a shortcut to discovery. Platforms now treat hashtags as contextual signals — one of many inputs they use to understand what content is about and who it’s relevant ...

I don't think it matters if you use hashtags in meta descriptions or not. I mean, it might be more eye catching if Google uses your meta description for the search result snippet - but maybe Google is ...