When I starting fourth dimension started blogging dorsum inwards 2010 I didn't conduct maintain a clue how to exercise Pinterest to convey traffic to my blog. In fact, I thought of it equally a house to save/hoard cute puppy images in addition to equally some other social media platform for people to follow me on.
Fast forrad to 2016 in addition to I lastly realised that Pinterest is real much a search engine in addition to was a tool I needed to live using! Since in addition to then I conduct maintain constantly experimented alongside what industrial plant in addition to what doesn't in addition to tin instantly happily say that Pinterest brings a huge 7,000-10,000 pageviews to my spider web log every month! This is a figure I'm beyond pleased although I aim for it to increase over the coming months in addition to years equally traffic from Pinterest genuinely is limitless in addition to is all almost the consistent endeavour y'all set in!
So, of course, I wanted to portion what I conduct maintain personally learnt over the yesteryear 2-3 years so that y'all besides tin conduct maintain a piece of the Pinterest pie - genuinely I conduct maintain wanted to write this post for the yesteryear half dozen months! From optimising your profile to creating eye-catching pins in addition to fifty-fifty increasing your chances of having your real ain viral pivot that volition convey endless traffic to your blog. I promise this post tin live used equally an in-depth guide to lastly creating Pinterest traffic success!
Setting upwards the basics
If you're a blogger y'all volition starting fourth dimension desire to acquire a gratis trace of piece of employment organisation trace of piece of employment human relationship here (don't worry y'all tin merely upgrade your personal account) equally it volition give y'all access to y'all ain Pinterest analytics. You also desire to ready something called 'Rich Pins'. Rich Pins are great, they brand your pins stand upwards out from other people's pins in addition to it's totally gratis - discovery out how to laid them up here.
You volition also desire to optimise your Pinterest account. This way including keywords inwards your Pinterest hollo (mine is - 'Makeup Savvy | Makeup Ideas, Beauty Hacks & Blog Marketing Tips'), renaming boards alongside keywords instead of fun titles, making certain each board has a description (include your keyword board championship inwards in that place if possible) in addition to making certain your most pop boards, including i for pinning your spider web log posts too, are at the real move yesteryear of your Pinterest profile
Lastly, brand certain to add together a widget to your spider web log so that readers tin hover over your spider web log post images in addition to pivot them direct to Pinterest!
STEP 1: Get Pinning (other people's stuff!)
One of the biggest misconceptions almost Pinterest is that it tin convey success yesteryear purely sharing your ain pins. This couldn't live farther from the truth equally Pinterest inwards fact loves an engaged user that it sharing to a greater extent than pins from others than that of their own. I personally similar to select the 80/20 approach to pinning, mostly pining a mixture of pins from the smart feed, the accounts I follow in addition to the trending page. I also conduct maintain my ain Pinterest boards inwards heed (maybe my 'Office Inspiration' board could practise alongside to a greater extent than pins) in addition to if there's a vacation or novel flavor coming up. I also brand certain I'm re-pinning viral or pop pins most of the fourth dimension along alongside pins that are helpful in addition to aesthetically pleasing to continue my ain Pinterest boards interesting in addition to of exercise to others.
How ofttimes should I live pinning?
This is the surprising affair - equally much equally possible! For the best results, I recommend pinning 30-40+ pins, daily, addition a handful of your own. This may seem a lot but it volition yield results in addition to boost how ofttimes your ain pins are seen yesteryear others in addition to volition 100% grow your Pinterest followers. There is the selection of paying monthly or yearly for a scheduling service called Tailwind that y'all tin batch pivot with, say an sixty minutes on a Th evening, in addition to and then schedule them pins to live pinned throughout the calendar week or fifty-fifty calendar month ahead (receive a gratis 30-day trail here using my special link!). However beingness someone that has paid for this service inwards the yesteryear I volition say I personally constitute it to a greater extent than of a chore in addition to prefer to pivot 10-20 pins twice a day, most days, when I'm sat having a pause in addition to at nighttime for to a greater extent than or less 5-10 mins at a time. However if y'all would prefer to acquire a calendar week or months worth of pins out of the way inwards 1 sixty minutes in addition to then Tailwind is for you. For casual pinning-on-the-go/when you're procrastinating I highly recommend downloading the Pinterest app for this quick fashion of pinning equally it makes pinning super easy!
With the tips inwards this post which I of course of teaching exercise myself, I instantly have an average of 280 daily click-throughs to my spider web log in addition to over 1.2 i K 1000 people encounter my Pinterest trace of piece of employment organisation human relationship in addition to pins (+800k increment inwards 12 months) per month!
STEP 2: Join grouping boards
Next is a chip of training move for the pins y'all volition live creating inwards pace 3! While this is i of the to a greater extent than piece of cake tasks y'all volition do, it volition assist y'all acquire your ain pins noticed in addition to repinned on a constant basis. This is a cardinal pace inwards your Pinterest success!
What is a grouping board?
A grouping board industrial plant precisely similar a regular Pinterest board. The alone divergence is that along alongside the board creator, other invited members are also allowed to pivot their ain pins. So piece y'all may alone conduct maintain a depression amount of followers seeing your ain boards y'all tin bring together a grouping board that is followed yesteryear a much larger audience, therefore getting your pins inwards forepart of many to a greater extent than eyes. Plus swain members are much to a greater extent than probable to repin the pins on that board, including your own!
PINTERESTING FACT!
Pinterest industrial plant on an algorithm that takes the collective publish of repins per user in addition to creates a undercover repin rate. The higher a pinner's repin rate, the to a greater extent than Pinterest volition value them, in addition to the to a greater extent than probable their pins are to acquire shown on the smart feed in addition to inwards Pinterest search results!
Finding grouping boards
The starting fourth dimension pace is to discovery appropriate grouping boards to bring together that conform your ain blogging niche in addition to enquire to bring together them. For me this would live finding beauty boards in addition to blogging tip boards equally I write posts that would agree inwards alongside these sort of boards well. However, finding grouping boards to bring together tin live tricky because there's no obvious way to discovery them! So for this argue it's skilful to discovery pop bloggers inwards your niche on Pinterest in addition to encounter if they belong to whatever grouping boards. To practise this y'all volition demand to move their profile (generally constitute through their blog) in addition to await towards the terminate of their ain boards to encounter if in that place are whatever grouping boards there. These tin live detected equally grouping board either yesteryear the hollo of the board or yesteryear the fact in that place volition live a round down thumbnail higher upwards the board hollo containing to a greater extent than than i profile moving-picture demonstrate - showing it's a board that has to a greater extent than than i member. Side greenback - equally the Pinterest profile I'm looking at is helping me discovery some grouping boards to bring together I volition follow all of their boards equally a sort of give cheers you!
Next, y'all volition desire to read the rules of the grouping board y'all conduct maintain clicked on in addition to discovery out the requirements to join. This to a greater extent than ofttimes than non consists of next the board's creator on Pinterest in addition to emailing them through the provided electronic mail address to enquire to bring together the board. The creator of the board is ever the starting fourth dimension round down profile prototype y'all encounter side yesteryear side to the grouping board description so brand certain to click on their photograph in addition to follow all of their boards starting fourth dimension earlier contacting them.
As for sending grouping board electronic mail requests I think creating a template that y'all tin re-use/edit is a skilful fourth dimension saver. Keep the electronic mail brief, asking politely to bring together their specific grouping board in addition to alongside the information they require, to a greater extent than ofttimes than non a link to your Pinterest profile or your profile name. Generally it volition select a calendar week or so for most grouping board creators to acquire dorsum to y'all or to transportation y'all an invite asking via Pinterest which y'all volition discovery inwards your Pinterest inbox. Once y'all conduct maintain accepted the asking y'all are gratis to pivot your ain pins to the grouping board, piece proverb aware of the boards pivot bound per day. You don't desire to acquire kicked out for spamming!
How many grouping boards should I join?
The to a greater extent than grouping boards y'all tin bring together the better, so when y'all conduct maintain fourth dimension search for to a greater extent than grouping boards to join, particularly equally y'all won't necessarily live accepted to bring together all grouping boards y'all apply to. I'm a fellow member of 21 grouping boards, however, I currently aim to bring together 1-3 novel grouping boards per calendar month alongside the destination beingness to live a fellow member of to a greater extent than or less 60-80 eventually!
If y'all write beauty or spider web log tip type posts in addition to then experience gratis to cheque out my ain Pinterest profile to discovery grouping boards in addition to asking to bring together my ain Pinterest grouping board 'Beauty Bloggers Exposure' which has 4,400 followers.
Step 3: Create your ain eyecatching pins
Onto some other of import pace now, getting your images/blog posts re-pinned on Pinterest in addition to maybe going viral!
The starting fourth dimension most basic pace is to ensure that all of your spider web log post images are vertical equally vertical images that are pinned to Pinterest have to a greater extent than re-pins than horizontal images in addition to merely select upwards to a greater extent than 'real estate' on Pinterest therefore grabbing other users attention.
What is the optimum size for a Pinterest pin?
Next, y'all desire to start creating longer eyecatching pins that aren't just a pinned prototype but an prototype alongside text - these merely acquire much to a greater extent than repins equally people desire to click on them! The text tin live the championship of your spider web log post or something to a greater extent than attending grabbing! The ideal pivot size is 735 pixels (px) yesteryear 1000+ pixels long. Pins tin live created alongside Canva - inwards fact, they conduct maintain gratis Pinterest templates for this real purpose! Or y'all tin exercise Photoshop or similar.
To start I would propose using Canva equally they conduct maintain over 520 gratis Pinterest graphic templates where y'all merely driblet inwards your spider web log post image(s) in addition to modify the text in addition to coloring scheme. From in that place y'all tin progress to using Photoshop to give to a greater extent than blueprint flexibility. You also desire to continue inwards heed the fashion of pins that practise good on Pinterest in addition to figure out what makes them stand upwards out!
As y'all tin encounter the higher upwards pins are from the same skincare dupe spider web log post but the longer pivot I specifically created for Pinterest has done much improve than the principal prototype I included inwards my master copy spider web log post. In fact, it's instantly at 840 re-pins equally it's beingness repinned yesteryear Pinterest users daily! Side greenback - While checking how many re-pins the pivot y'all conduct maintain pinned has received is fun also live aware that this isn't the existent full publish of re-pins equally readers may conduct maintain also pinned the prototype from your spider web log in addition to gained repins from their followers. While I can't discovery the exact publish of repins a unmarried spider web log post receives I tin exercise Google Analytics to tell me how many pageviews its brought to my spider web log (Pinterest savvy tip below!). So far the higher upwards pins from the spider web log post that's alone 35 days onetime conduct maintain brought an extra 2,748 pageviews to my spider web log - non bad at all!
But, what next?
Next, y'all volition desire to either pivot this designed pivot manually to your Pinterest spider web log board using the '+' sign inwards the move yesteryear toolbar on Pinterest in addition to and then 'upload image' making certain to move inwards the URL link of the spider web log post so that people tin click on it. Or yesteryear including the pivot at the bottom of the spider web log post it's for (like I conduct maintain done below) to pivot it yourself in addition to for others to pin. If y'all exercise Wordpress y'all tin include a hidden pivot inside your post that alone becomes visible when someone clicks to pivot whatever i of your other images inwards that post - discovery the tutorial for this here.
Step 4: Start pinning to grouping boards & your ain
Pinning to your ain boards
Once your spider web log post is alive volition desire to boost your pivot or at to the lowest degree i of the images inwards your spider web log post (if y'all determine y'all don't conduct maintain fourth dimension to create an extra designed image/pin). This tin live done yesteryear pinning your ain prototype from your spider web log post using your built-in widget or going to Pinterest in addition to uploading the images direct (remembering to include the spider web log post URL). This pivot should starting fourth dimension live pinned to your dedicated spider web log post board. From in that place y'all desire to determine if the pivot fits inwards alongside whatever other boards y'all have, for example, an prototype from a Winter beauty post could live pinned to my 'beauty' board in addition to my 'Winter' board. Giving me an instant three repins on that pin.
Pinning to grouping boards
Next, y'all desire to pivot your particularly created pivot to a few of your grouping boards. Then alongside the aim to pivot it to the other grouping boards it volition conform over the side yesteryear side few days or week, due to the 80/20 dominion I mentioned inwards pace 1. This volition hateful that without anyone else pinning your spider web log post images y'all conduct maintain secured quite a few repins on your ain in addition to increased the chances of how many ppl volition encounter in addition to repin your pivot dramatically. This is what volition acquire your pivot to select off in addition to ultimately tin Pb to them going viral. My ain most viral pivot has received over 85,000 repins in addition to brings daily traffic to my blog! However, piece that doesn't move on ofttimes y'all are looking for lots of your pins to practise fairly good so that collectively they convey y'all a steady menstruation of traffic.
PINTEREST SAVVY TIP!
To rail your daily traffic from Pinterest via Google Analytics (to encounter if your efforts are working!) click 'Acquisition' > 'Social' > 'Overview' > Pinterest. Here y'all volition also live able to encounter which pins are bringing y'all the most traffic.
PIN FOR LATER!
BONUS PINTEREST SAVVY TIPS
Create pins for existing pop spider web log posts
If y'all discovery creating pins for every spider web log post a chip besides fourth dimension consuming (or maybe y'all desire to move the extra step!) in addition to then it's a clever thought to await through your Google Analytics or spider web log stats to discovery your most read posts. They are your most pop for a argue so they are probable going to live enjoyed on Pinterest too. To create an eye-catching pivot y'all may desire to salve the images from the spider web log post you've decided to re-promote in addition to exercise these inwards Canva or Photoshop along an eye-catching text overlay. Then house it inwards your spider web log post in addition to pivot it equally y'all would a novel pivot to both your ain board in addition to the grouping boards that the pivot suits best!
While y'all tin practise this whenever y'all desire if the spider web log post is vacation or flavor related I would hold off until a calendar month or to a greater extent than earlier that holiday/season has arrived to upload the novel pin, inwards promise that content volition live to a greater extent than electrical flow in addition to valued yesteryear Pinterest in addition to it's users at that time.
PINTEREST SAVVY TIP!
To encounter precisely what your spider web log readers in addition to Pinterest users are pinning inwards existent fourth dimension to acquire a experience of what's doing well, see https://www.pinterest.co.uk/source/yourblog . com. My ain looks similar https://www.pinterest.co.uk/source/makeupsavvy.co.uk
Create to a greater extent than than i pivot (in dissimilar styles) for pop spider web log posts
Once y'all know what is good received on Pinterest y'all may desire to experiment alongside creating to a greater extent than than i pivot for each spider web log post (though soundless include alone i pivot at the bottom of your spider web log post in addition to non both pins). These should incorporate dissimilar images in addition to text, something that's non the championship of your spider web log post, in addition to basically don't await the same! This effectively increases the chances of your post/pins beingness re-pinned. Often i pivot out of the 2 y'all conduct maintain created volition practise much improve than the other fifty-fifty though they Pb to the same post. Side note - This is also a non bad way to encounter precisely what fashion of pins move best for you, so y'all tin recreate it alongside farther pivot designs.
Similarily, in i lawsuit a pivot that has done good starts receiving less repins y'all tin ofttimes recreate that success my creating some other novel pin. For example, this pin received 16,000 repins, in i lawsuit I started to encounter slower growth I created this pin for the same post in addition to it has so far received 2,300 repins in addition to counting!
Add a description to your pins
Lastly, pins alongside descriptions are ofttimes said to practise improve than those without! This tin live done when writing your spider web log posts inwards the 'search description' champaign of your spider web log editor in addition to volition appear on pins that are pinned inside that post in addition to Google searches. Or y'all tin move to an existing pivot on your Pinterest profile, click the pencil icon, in addition to add together a description including keywords from the championship inwards a natural way to assist give it an extra SEO boost.
While this spider web log post has covered a lot I practise promise this has been helpful to anyone that wants to convey to a greater extent than traffic to their blog!
If y'all conduct maintain enjoyed this post I'd honey if y'all could re-pin the higher upwards image!
Fee xo.
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