How to Search Multiple Hashtags on Instagram at the Same Time
Navigating the vast seas of Instagram content can be challenging. Especially, if you’re trying to find content that combines multiple hashtags to narrow down your results, to those you’re actually interested in.
However, there are some workarounds to get it done easily. And we’re going to show you how.
Buckle up as we’ll explore two practical methods to search multiple hashtags on Instagram and help you find — with laser focus — the posts you want.
Get ready to become an Instagram search pro!
Table of Contents
- Can You Search Multiple Hashtags on Instagram App?
- How to Search Multiple Hashtags on Instagram at the Same Time
Can You Search Multiple Hashtags on Instagram App?
Unfortunately, you can’t do Instagram search for multiple hashtags via the official app. We don’t know why, but Instagram doesn’t allow its users to search results for more than one hashtag at a time.
This comes in total contrast with Instagram hashtag usage data, of course. You know, using multiple hashtags on Instagram posts plays a key role in the visibility and reach of your content.
In fact, posts with 3–4 hashtags seem to get a 3.41% engagement rate, which is the highest compared to posts with more or fewer hashtags. That’s why it’s common for users to include 2 or more hashtags per post to get better performance.
Although, it’s a whole other story to search for posts with several hashtags.
Now that we set things straight — and shared our frustration, let’s dive into how to use third-party tools to search Instagram with multiple hashtags.
How to Search Multiple Hashtags on Instagram at the Same Time
Basically, there are two effective methods to do a multiple hashtag search on Instagram. We explain them in detail below.
Method 1: Using a Social Media Search Engine
To be honest, the most reliable way to search Instagram with multiple hashtags is through a social search engine.
Let’s see how you can do so in 3 simple steps by using Mentionlytics as an example.
Step #1: Set up your Account
First things first, you have to create an account on the platform and add your brand name, competitors, and any niche-related keywords you want to monitor on Instagram or other social media.
Immediately, the platform will start collecting social media mentions of the given keywords you just added.
Step #2: Go to Instagram Mentions
To continue, you have to go to the Mentions feature, from the left menu bar, and then select the Instagram icon from the Filters. Or just select Instagram Mentions from the drop-down menu of the feature. That way you’ll narrow down your results only to Instagram.
Step #3: Search for multiple tags on Instagram
After that, you can navigate to the search bar at the top right corner of the dashboard and search Instagram mentions with multiple hashtags using a method called boolean search.
All you have to do is just type the Instagram hashtags you want to be included in the posts’ captions right into that search bar, using the word AND to separate them.
See the example below.
For this example, we’ve used this query: #fashion AND #onlineshopping.
The results you’ll get will be all Instagram mentions relevant to your keywords, containing all the hashtags you searched for.
Furthermore, you can type there any Instagram search tag, like keywords without the hash symbol (#) to get more results that are probably relevant to want you’re searching for.
But we’re not done yet.
You can also go deeper into your Instagram results by clicking the double-circles icon next to the search bar to access the full feature of Mentionlytics’ Boolean Search.
There, you can set some boolean rules, using Quick References to drill down your results in case you want to be more specific with your Instagram research.
Additionally, you can preset the boolean rules you created to keep monitoring Instagram content for the hashtags you’re interested in, without having to do it all over again the next time.
Pro Tip: Don’t forget to check out the Keyword Cloud to find trending hashtags, relevant to your brand and niche and also check how your Instagram hashtags are performing.
Bonus: Learn how to do hashtag tracking like a pro!
And that’s it. This is the best way to search Instagram with multiple hashtags and get accurate results.
Nonetheless, we can show you how to search multiple hashtags on Instagram at once by using Google but the results you’ll get from the above-mentioned method are far more reliable.
Let’s take a look though.
Method 2: Google Search
In case you’re not ready to invest in any social media search engines, you can search for multiple hashtags on Instagram via good, old Google.
All you have to do is open Google and type in the search bar: site:instagram.com hashtag1 hashtag2 hashtag3, and so on, until you’re done with all the hashtags you want to find results for.
For example, if you’re working for a fashion brand based in Paris and want to see relevant results to get some inspiration and spy a little on your competition, you can type this query:
site:instagram.com #fashion #paris
And this will return all Instagram pages indexed by Google that contain both #fashion and #paris.
And that’s practically how to search hashtags on Instagram via Google.
Important Note: this method might not give very precise results because it doesn’t directly search for Instagram posts that contain both hashtags. It just searches for Instagram pages that have been indexed by Google and contain these words somewhere on the page.
Also, we shall note that all results will be from public accounts, due to privacy settings. But that’s a universal law of searching content via hashtags, whether you search on Instagram directly or not.
Bonus: Discover the top 1750 Instagram tags sorted into 84 Categories.
Conclusion
You now know some workarounds to search Instagram with multiple hashtags and bypass the official app’s limitations. We hope this will help you get some inspiration and create awesome content.
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Originally posted on Mentionlytics: www.mentionlytics.com/blog/search-multiple-hashtags-instagram
