Is Pinterest Dead?

[tyvm-yw_]

might jump back into interest im too busy with other things....
if spamming has gone harder its all the better

 

[abdouarj]

You should give it more time .. you cant say its dead after a couple of fails

 

[Scraper9]

IMO Pinterest is pretty good. I would not judge it based on just 2 days worth of following for a start. Pinterest is slow and people following you back on Pinterest is even slower. You need to have a nice full profile with plenty of boards. Then you also need to pin all the time. I set up about 100 pins a day to go out on each account. I rarely bother to follow on there because I use group boards which do generate some decent traffic. Its far from instant though most of the pins take months to gain traction but when they do and you have done it for months on end the results catch up quick.

I would say that's very normal figures for the amount of time that has passed. When I follow I tend to try to follow people who have lots of pins which shows they are active. They normally have more followers too so its worth my time and I get better results from the low following limits on Pinterest.

I used to use an app called tailwind for promoting and scheduling pins, there is a bloody good video on YouTube which is about 10 minutes long by an internet marketer using it. I used to be an affiliate of theirs but funnily enough I stopped just two days ago. Sadly it was producing the revenue that some of the things I promote do so I stopped but as a user and as a tool I would recommend it to people looking to get the most out of group boards. I could set up 100 pins on each account to go out throughout the day to all the group boards i selected and then I could randomize it so it looked pretty normal if you looked at the accounts pins. the video on YouTube explains that better. I posted about 50 promotion pins or pins to items in my shops and the other 50 were fodder just to look nice to random boards of my own to grow the account. I still see results 7-8 months on, i get hundreds o repins each week because i made a few pins for a week 8 months ago. all it takes is for a few pins to go viral on there and the account gets lots of organic growth. I say lots i mean more than it would normally, its far from lots.

Just get access to a ton of group boards, automate the pinning and the results will speak for themselves. Pinterest is very much not dead! The type of thing you are trying to promote on Pinterest makes a HUGE difference too, some things do very well by default. I would not give up on it yet, its not that much work honestly.

What tools do you use for automation and other Pinterest related tasks?

 

[William702]

What tools do you use for automation and other Pinterest related tasks?

The tool in my signature allows me to schedule pins for any day and any time to any board and have it repeat as many times i want for literally years if I want it to. Its also my automation tool for Twitter.

 

[MageNet_]

Hello guys,

I wanted to drive traffic for my website. I set up 5 accounts, all looking legit, have followed 200 people with each one of them for 2 days now.

And all I gathered was around 20 followers for all 1000 follows made.

Is this normal? I'm following people from boards.

I don't how it is for you but I can't see who has "liked" a certain pin.

On Pinterest, like on other social networks, people choose whom to follow according to their interests, e.g. if my interest is Building I will not subscribe or like the board Nails, you see. Try follow not all people you see, but group them by interests and correlated

"Likes" on your pins are seen in your account, as for other accounts, there are notifications on a board.
Check your account settings.

 

[PineappleCrush]

Hair trigger bans have calmed down? After quitting due to updates in 2014 I tried a manual account 6 months or so ago and they suspended it when I didnt even have a link on profile and was only doing manual 'normal' user interaction. Nothing aggressive just normal.

I emailed them saying they got it wrong and they apologized and opened the account again. But that is not a good sign for botting which I intended to do.

I guess I'll try but I have strong doubts. I hear they have the most advanced anti spam known to man according to some of their promo vids which was supposed to be a 'learning algorithm' and that was in 2014 so I dread to think how much it advanced in the meantime.

 

[xinga]

1. The only thing that is dead is Follow or Unfollow, as people are not even notified anymore, if you follow them.
2. In fact, I predict that the whole idea of following somebody is very close to dying as well. Even accounts with major followings (1m+) do have loads of pins with none or less than 10 repins, simply cuz they are still following the same old strategies that are no longer working.
3. The same goes for group boards. These are dead as well more or less - except for marketing them to idiots who'll pay to gain access to them (whatever for).

grow up, like the rest of the network does, any you can easily get anything between 1,000 and 10,000 referrals per day.

 

[info.seeker]

looking in to that, but I don't think it is dead

 

[maryseowinston]

Naah....... everything works great for me no issues in my case.