Instagram is a large social media platform filled to the brim with entertaining aspects and business potential. Regardless of whether you’re looking to simply pass the time or monetize and expose your talent and potential to your world, Instagram is for you. There’s not much mystery for the former group: just sign up on the platform and find out exactly what appeals to you. Trust us; there’s a creator out there working on something you’ll love, so all that’s left to do is explore away.
On the other hand, the latter group has to do the hardest work, but that’s just because their audience hasn’t found them yet. As long as you have some talent, patience, uniqueness, and grit and give it your full effort, there’s no reason why your content wouldn’t take off.
Instagram understands how intimidating doing such a passionate thing is and offers free analytical tools to ensure your content reaches the end of the platform.
It’s normal not to want to pay for something until you’ve seen some growth or result without you. Well, Instagram analytics can help you with that, but you’ll first need to have a business or professional account for it.
You’ll get the professional dashboard to check exactly how your content performs. You can then easily modify your methods, optimizing your content for your target audience. Tracking is also important to let you know where you are and what is to be done.
You need to start with a Unique Selling Point: something no one has. We know the online content is also much saturated, but uniqueness never goes out of style. Pick a favorite quirky phase, and create something Gen Z would love but won’t do on its own.
Another tip that can help you get a higher reach much faster is using hashtags and doing so correctly. Those who’ve extensively researched how this tool works can assure you it’s the best booster.
Don’t worry; we’ll discuss them in detail for our blog today, where we’ll talk about why you can’t search for hashtags on Instagram.
Before further ado, let’s just get to it: why can you not search for hashtags on Instagram? Well, one of these is happening: that particular hashtag has been banned, or your internet connection isn’t working.
Searching for hashtags on Instagram is extremely easy, so there isn’t much scope for failure here.
However, it is possible for new users to feel a bit stuck in the beginning. Don’t worry; we’re here to help you, and that’s what we will do.
Firstly, let’s briefly see the use of hashtags, just to give you a slight idea of the total web hashtags spin on social media.
We know this is a bit confusing, so bear with us: hashtags are there to help people find exactly what they’re looking for. For instance, a user needs to look up the new Gen Z fashion trends stat. Google is not the most reliable answer, so they turn to the trendiest platform: Instagram.
When they put in #genzfashion on the Instagram search bar, several more hashtags relevant to the search will appear. When they tap on one, all the posts that have mentioned that hashtag in the captions will appear.
As it’s now easier to understand, content creators enter hashtags in the captions of their pictures so that it appears when people need them. However, they aren’t always the easiest tool to play around with.
The number and type of hashtags that should be used on a post for maximum reach efficiency are not easy to figure out. For starters, you can’t use more than thirty hashtags on one post. You want to use as many hashtags as possible for maximum reach, but each one should be relevant, or it’ll do more harm than good.
If you add an irrelevant hashtag to a post, it’ll look out of place, and users will immediately report it as an inappropriate hashtag. If this happens more than a few times, Instagram AI will remove your content from hashtag searches altogether.
The same will happen if you use banned hashtags, including those pertaining to violence and inappropriate topics. After a few times, Instagram will link your page to such content and start flagging all your posts.
We know it looks like a lot in theory, but in practical life, remember each hashtag should be related to the image. So, why is it that you can’t find a particular hashtag on Instagram? Can you think of any reason this is happening?
Well, if it’s by design and not a glitch, we’re willing to bet that that hashtag has been banned. You can look it up on Google to verify this.
Here’s how to search for a hashtag on Instagram
Step 1: Open Instagram and go to the Explore section by tapping the magnifying glass icon next to the Home icon.
Step 2: At the top, tap on the Instagram search bar, enter the word/phrase you wish to see, and hit enter.
Step 3: You’ll notice that the Top tab is open by default, right under the search bar. Tap on the Tags tab instead.
Step 4: Now, you’ll see the answer to your search, along with more than a few similar results, depending on the topic’s popularity.
Step 5: Tap on the result that describes your search the most, and ta-da! Here’s what you wanted to see.
But if it’s a glitch, that’s a different thing altogether. There are a few measures to fix an Instagram glitch:
- Close and remove the Instagram app from your smartphone’s Recents tab and open it again.
- Log out and then back into your Instagram account.
- Uninstall and then re-install the Instagram app on your smartphone.
- Reboot your smartphone.
- Let the issue be; it’ll probably fix itself in 24-48 hours. In the meanwhile, use another device to go into your account.
We’re sure that by now, you’ve found the perfect fix to your problem.
In the end
At the end of our blog for today, we’d love to quickly recap all the points we’ve discussed today.
Instagram is a high-functioning social media platform with over two billion monthly active users. As you can guess, small technical glitches should not be an unusual appearance on such a large scale, but they are. If you’re facing such an issue, it’s best to ensure it’s not meant to be so by design.
Take, for example, not being able to search for hashtags on Instagram. We understand how it can be distressing, but a very reasonable explanation is probably behind it. Case in point, it’s quite possible that the hashtag you’re looking for has been banned by Instagram.
And if that’s not the case, then it’s a technical issue, and we’ve mentioned a list of hacks that might fix it quickly. We’ve also discussed how you can search for a hashtag on Instagram.
If we can help you with any others questions related to this topic, just let us know in the comments section!
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