# Checking whether your hashtags are banned or not **URL:** \ **Category:** Instagram Marketing\ **Created:** [January 20, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/checking-whether-your-hashtags-are-banned-or-not/3486 "2017-01-20T15:50:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aleksandr](https://mpsocial.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@aleksandr](https://mpsocial.com/u/aleksandr)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/checking-whether-your-hashtags-are-banned-or-not/3486/1 "2017-01-20T15:50:34Z")
When I go to [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/) I just get a “Sorry, this page isn’t available”. I’m guessing this is an indicator that the hashtag is banned by IG? However if I put the same hashtag in hashtagify it does show 35.7 popularity 😕 ---
**Author:** ![hvp17](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/hvp17/32/26629_2.png) [@hvp17](https://mpsocial.com/u/hvp17)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/checking-whether-your-hashtags-are-banned-or-not/3486/2 "2017-01-20T16:05:30Z")
Are you even typing in the hashtag? for example : [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/lol/](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/lol/) works just fine ---
**Author:** ![aleksandr](https://mpsocial.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@aleksandr](https://mpsocial.com/u/aleksandr)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/checking-whether-your-hashtags-are-banned-or-not/3486/3 "2017-01-20T16:11:38Z")
Ah, the forum edited it for some reason or I made a typo… what I meant to say is when I go to [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/myhashtag](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/myhashtag) (not “hashtag” per se obviously, just using “myhashtag” as a placeholder.