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What does Instagram’s new indexing policy mean for travel agents?

Marketing
Andy Headington
26 August 2025

In July, Instagram quietly rolled out a change that expanded how content from their platform was indexed in Google. But what impact will this have in the travel industry? Adido chief executive Andy Headington takes a look

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It's now worth making Instagram a key part of your SEO thinking (Credit: iStock)

First thing: this is big news. From July 2025, Google can now index all Instagram content – not just what it found via links. Millions of extra posts are suddenly visible in search, giving travel brands a bigger stage to get noticed.

For many in the industry, though, it’s not a complete revolution. Public reels and posts from January 2020 onwards were often discoverable already. Nonetheless, this change ensures your content is far more likely to appear in Google results, broadening reach well beyond the Instagram app.