Instagram posts show up in Google search now! Does that mean hashtags still matter? Let’s dig in! This bite-sized episode is your guide to Instagram SEO in 2026.

Instagram’s algorithm is smarter than ever and your content is being indexed, analyzed, and ranked in ways that simply didn’t exist a year ago. The rules have changed. Has your strategy?

In This Episode:

• How to improve the Instagram SEO for your small business (and the big bio SEO mistake clever copywriters are making)
• The most important way to optimize your Instagram bio for SEO — based on which parts of your bio are actually “searchable”
• The types of questions to start answering in your content to help your Instagram content come up in a Google search
• Whether hashtags are dead as an SEO signal in 2026
• How Instagram SEO and traditional Google SEO overlap

The Instagram SEO Basics You Can’t Skip

We break down the Instagram SEO fundamentals: what it actually means for your account to be “search-optimized,” how the platform’s algorithm reads your content, and why Instagram SEO strategy in 2026 is no longer optional for business accounts.

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Music by Jordan Wood

Hosted by Jenna Harding (Warriner), Creator of Magic Marketing Machine