The Frugal Entrepreneur & Blogger’s Guide to Pinterest Traffic in 5 Simple Steps!
If you’re looking for a magic bullet, a “quick fix’ for overnight success on Pinterest, or how to get Pinterest traffic overnight, this ain’t your Cafe 
. This is your guide, to help you create Great Visuals within your blog, Pinterest Friendly images that will make your blog real Pinterest-friendly and help you leverage this visual search engine effectively for blog traffic, subscriptions and ultimately sales. In order to do this you gotta have the tools and strategies to get desired results. Talking of Tools, we shared a monster post on Various tools we use to improve oir workflow and create busienss success.You can read it here!
So let’s dive in for today’s Pinterest Worthy Tips
Pinterest Traffic in 5 steps Watch the video below
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Recap on Pinterest Traffic:
1. Optimize your Old Pins and Posts – If you have an old pin that’s gone viral or attracted lots of engagement yet its not such a great image. Go create a better Pinterest Optimized image via Canva add some text overlay and of course the text/Keywords that seem to have attracted engagement to the older pin. See you want to keep the repin count on this image. And this is called reviving the pin!
2. LIKE YOUR PINS – If you don’t how do you expect others to do so? And this is a simple way to get your pins seen more. When you get a notification that someone repined or liked your pin, go like it & Thank them too. Its only polite isn’t it! When your pins come across your feed, as they are doing more so lately, Like them too, Boosts them. Every little helps! This also tells Pinterest that your Pin is popular and your content is liked. Guess what happens, Its shown to more people not just your followers.
3. Your Pins are Weighted then Pinterest decides if it’s worth putting up on the Curated Smart feed – this shouldn’t surprise you. Your content has been ranked for a while since the last Algorithm changes and now the Feb Changes confirm it. This is how they are weighed, i.e. is your content liked by other Pinners:
- The number of repins you get on the same content
- How many people are pinning from your site.
- Likes and Comments your Pin/Content is receiving across Pinterest
- The amount of Click Throughs to your Site!
However, you could rise in ranks if an influential pinner shares aka Pins your content! Pinterest wants more quality content, no disrespect intended, It’s also now focusing more on how your followers engage with your content before it shows it to non-followers. So get active in Re-pinning your content, and also getting more people to do the same for you, like & comment too!
4. Your Pinterest Analytics – Lets assume you do have a Business account, and if you don’t its very easy to turn your Personal account into a Business account where you will have access to amazing analytics. Use your analytics to Create Content that your audience is interested in what you share and to do that you need to ask yourself these 2 Qns:
- Does my content match my audience needs?
- Am I serving the audience I intended my content for?
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Be sure to Pin MORE content in your niche, and some in Your Personal Interest always consider 80/20 rule. And not all pins should necessarily be yours use the 60/40 rule here, we talked about this in our post on the Feb Pinterest Algorithm Changes! Find similar Pinners with more success see what they’re pinning that you aren’t. Emulate and apply. You’ll start to see better results too! Keeping tabs on related successful brands is good for keeping up with the tide.
5. Clear Recent Searches – Yes you don’t want Pinterest to remember everything you do search esp. if it’s for personal purposes. Simply go into your Account via that Gear/cog link, Click on Settings, scroll down and “Clear Recent searches,” everything you have searched recently will be deleted. In the same way You can CLEAR RECENT CONTACTS… cool huh!When you ‘Send’ Pins, Pinterest will keep displaying profiles of people you recently interacted with to make it easy for you to send more pins. You can clear this so you can send to new people esp. new contacts!
PINTEREST TRAFFIC- PINNING FROM YOUR BLOG:
Since Feb, Your chances of getting more Pinterest traffic will also stem from encouraging your readers to organically PIN DIRECTLY from your Blog post. When you check your Analytics, you will see Activity from your website! The 50 top Pins from your site, top 20 Boards and how many clicks, pins & impressions you got! These Analytics will help you understand which posts or content is resonating with your readers that they take it a step further and actually PIN your images/content. To do this make it easy for them to do this with the Chrome Pinterest Add-on or Use the Sumome Image Sharer, amazing. See how all our Images are Socially shareable, example below!
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Hi Julie,
Great article. I stumbled it. I believe I take those tips. I am striving for multiple graphics and more sensory graphics.
Thanks for bringing your post to the Blogger’s Pit Stop last week.
Janice, Pit Stop Crew
consider my mind blown!
Kristin, That’s awesome. Go get em girl 🙂
This is great! Pinterest is a great platform for engagement and I like the “like your own pin” info the same for IG.
Hi Kiwi,
Indeed You gotta like your own Stuff in IG too it triggers other likes. No one wants to like an image that no one else seems to like, inc. the owner 🙂
J&PK~
thanks for the tips – the new algorithm has certainly changed the game hasn’t it? Pinning this for future reference 🙂
Hi Leanne,
Yes it has, The New Pinterest Algorithm has been set up I suspect for more Advertising on Pinterest…which is super exciting for businesses…! Thats our next post for this week.
Jules~
There are so many useful tips here. My Pinterest could use so much improvement. I have to stop putting it off as it is such a great tool for gaining traffic.
Hey Julie you are the Pinterest Goddess 🙂 Vitaliy
What awesome ideas. They will help out lots of other people.
Gla dyou found them awesome Nicole & ta for your time!
JUles~
Such a great resource for every one who is in to Social Media, very particularly for someone in to Business or any sort of brand promotions online. These are some wonderful ideas on Pinning as Pinterest has become a big player in the Social Media connections.
Wow, you have shared some wonderful ides! I need follow these to drive traffic from my pinterest account!!
Great tips! I find it very rewarding when other people repin my pins from my blog posts. 🙂
Question for you regarding tip #2…. I used to like/heart all my pins before, but for the last 2 months or so it doesn’t seem like I can do that.. was self-liking disabled? Or perhaps they are rolling that out so some users can still like/heart their own posts?
I’m not really very active in pinterest.. But it’s really good to know how to get more traffic.. Thanks a lot for sharing it!
THanks for stopping by Kylie 🙂
J&PK~
Power packed post Julie! These are great tips and strategies for Pinterest. I’m always looking to improve my repins so appreciate the information you shared here, thanks!
I am glad you got lots of value Lynn and I am happy to share 🙂 Cheers for stopping by!
Julie Syl~
I forget to pin my own pins sometimes! These are all great tips
Teheheeeee How do you expect others to pin then Erinn huni, get pinning already 🙂
Julie Syl~
awesome guide you shared to get more pinterest traffic
Hi Sheena,
Glad you fond it awesome, thanx for swinging by!
J&PK~
You really can’t deny that the key to a good pinterest post would be the photos, that’s where most users base it from and that’s how you make people interested in the other pins that you have lined up for them. These are awesome pointers as always!
The Image is the Eye Grabber or used to Elizabeth, Now they gotta see it to appreciate it..and thats where Optimization is Key…And if possible Advertising 🙂
Your Pins are no longer automatically landing at the top of the feed when you publish or even when repinned…unless this is in numbers 🙂
J&PK~
Love Pinterest and love this guide! 🙂
Hi Lisa,
I am super glad you do 🙂 thanks for stopping by!
Julie Syl~
Thanks for sharing these ideas. Very helpful.
You are most welcome David 🙂
J&PK~
Another great lesson on social media marketing Julie! Thanks.
And I am glad you are fully alert in session Claudette 🙂
Julie Syl~
Thank you Julie for an other valuable post. I’ve come to like using Pinterest for creating traffic to my website. Still trying to figure out where you get all this awesome info. lol
Thanks for sharing Julie.
Stephane
Hi Stephane,
I am glad you are getting value. I love sharing whats working for us and others. And We invest inn our Self discovery and development. So we have an endless supply of info, strategies, tips and tricks to share. Pinterest is my baby though 🙂
Julie Syl~
Wow, I had no idea I should be doing some of these things! I will have to start doing these. Thanks!
Absolutely April Go enjoy!
J&PK~
I find that Pinterest is my biggest driver of traffic. Great article!
Hi Jessica, Glad you agree and got value! 🙂
J&PK~
I haven’t really tapped into Pinterest yet.. Will do now!
Glad to inspire Carl 🙂
J&PK~
I really love Pinterest and I just keep pining like crazy sometimes. Thanks for these tips.
We do too, But we pin in moderation timed for our various followers time zones. There are a few Schedulers and we share them in our Monday Cafe 🙂
JUlie Syl~
These are great tips. I never thought about optimizing old pins. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Kenny,
Its great on any media, whatever worked before refresh it, and get it back on top feed for your newer followers to also enjoy and share 🙂
A great way to also Posture.
Julei Syl~
Thanks for sharing this! Im still learning about how to make the most of all my social media! This really helped me focus on Pinterest.
And feel free to check for more tips and hacks on our “YouTube Channel Pinterest playlist” Carrie. As well as our Facebook Fan Page Every Monday is Pinterest Monday 🙂
Julie Syl~
Whoa, never used pinterest but you now have me reconsidering. Need to find the time though since I have to run social media for 2 sites. Didn’t know they had a business account either, Thank you!
Hi Candes
Its very easy to set up. Let me know if you need help on that front. Lol I run multiple Social Media Accounts each growing at its own pace 🙂
Go get em!
JUlie Syl~
Just Liking your Pins makes a big difference Julie. I see it on Twitter daily. Like your stuff to set a precedent for others. If you dig it, they will dig it. Likeminded folks at least 😉 Super tips here. Tweeted.
Ryan
Yes it does Ryan,
What a pleasure to see you here today! Someone More of us should emulate and learn from.
And I love your take on things, If you dig your own stuff others will dig it too…Cool indeed! 🙂
Glad you found value and Thanks for tweeting 🙂
Julie Syl~
Pinterest has been driving tons of traffic for me lately… like it’s the new go-to social media for bloggers. Thanks for sharing all your tips!
Will have to give this a go! Thank you!
HI Sheena,
You are most welcome. Pinterest use dto drive a ton of traffic and if you optimised your content, it still does. Many internet marketers are so struck by Facebook they are missing out!
Julie Syl~
Thanks for sharing this I really needed to know more about how to optimize Pinterest!
Hi Amy,
Lots more where that came from. So keep an ear to the ground on our YT Channel or Facebook Page @Rise with Julie & Pauli Kalungi Ace Group”
Glad you got value 🙂
Julie SYl~
I love Pinterest as a social platform! I am slowly going through my old post and making more pinterest pretty pictures for them. It helped alot!
Thats exactly what one should do Jenn, Create clearer HD tall images, Optimize them and go share them across your boards and Repin other poeple’s content along the way..bingo.more people seeing your great content 🙂
J&PK~
Thank you Julie, a great video filled with five Pinterest tips. Number 5 was very interesting clearing the search, I did not know that before.
Clear, engaging photos are a must with Pinterest. No one want to pin a photo that looks like it was taking with a Polaroid!
Lolol a Polaroid…they do have some awesome piccies Scott 🙂 you are so very right!
J&PK~
Honestly pinterest is that social media i still dont have a hang of, thank you for breaking it down for me. I will start trying these tips.
SimplyUneeke
Hi hun,
Glad you got value, feel free to reach out if yo need further guidance and also grab more tips via the Pinterest Playlist on our YouTube Channel or Facebook Fan[age Videos 🙂
Julie Syl~