Ask Me Anything About Pinterest (Pinterest AMA)

[danoseo]

I have just started out with pinterest (properly at least, ive been pushing images from instagram using IFTTT for a year or so). From my understanding, automation doesn't really work on pinterest as having followers is fairly useless (or is it?). If you are looking to use pinterest to promote a personal blog, it seems like you need to put some thought and effort to reap the rewards of pinterest. Was hoping to get some answers about getting started for someone who isn't great at creating original images but wants to try and get some traffic to a blog from pinterest.

Is there any benefit in creating a bunch of boards and repinning a load of content to get started? - The reason I ask is say you have a movie blog. I might make boards for genres, popular franchises and various other things related to movies. When I make a new blog post about something like harry potter on my website that i want to push traffic to, i can post it to a harry potter board and then all the related genre boards. Is this effective?

Can automation do anything to help grow your audience in 2019? By this i mean a silver bullet like things like the follow/unfollow strategy for instagram.

Group boards seem impossible to find these days. Whats the secret? All guides I read say to repin to group boards.

 

[annebolinger]

Does pinterest commenting works?

 

[William702]

Hi William. Sorry for being stupid I'm really new to pinterest and trying to rank my pins.
I have read your thread and i don't really get it. Perhaps it's due to my poor english

So, would you please answer these?

• Do you mean I have to pin my post again and again? in one board or in many boards?
• Couldn't be dangerous/risky to pin the same post many times in the same board?
• Or, do you mean I have to repin the pins(that I want to rank) in many boards? or only in one board?

Please help me sir..I'm almost frustrated in ranking my pins..

Both, I pin things over and over in the same places, not straight away in a row, I pin other things inbetween.
Yes it could if you do it over and over again in a row.
Many boards is best.

What is your way to get/create high traffic boards?

Getting lots of contributors to pin there helps them grow. once a board is then big you can start to monetize it.

My views are very high, but what can I do with my clicks?

Vies = impressions, impressions mean diddly squat!

I have just started out with pinterest (properly at least, ive been pushing images from instagram using IFTTT for a year or so). From my understanding, automation doesn't really work on pinterest as having followers is fairly useless (or is it?). If you are looking to use pinterest to promote a personal blog, it seems like you need to put some thought and effort to reap the rewards of pinterest. Was hoping to get some answers about getting started for someone who isn't great at creating original images but wants to try and get some traffic to a blog from pinterest.

Is there any benefit in creating a bunch of boards and repinning a load of content to get started? - The reason I ask is say you have a movie blog. I might make boards for genres, popular franchises and various other things related to movies. When I make a new blog post about something like harry potter on my website that i want to push traffic to, i can post it to a harry potter board and then all the related genre boards. Is this effective?

Can automation do anything to help grow your audience in 2019? By this i mean a silver bullet like things like the follow/unfollow strategy for instagram.

Group boards seem impossible to find these days. Whats the secret? All guides I read say to repin to group boards.

your best bet is to join tribes and other groups of people who want to exposure. trading posts is a great way to build links back to your blog on profiles relevant to your blog.

Does pinterest commenting works?

Work in what way?

 

[danoseo]

Are boars sections worth creating? For example, should i make a "cooking" board and inside have sections for healthy, desserts, dinners, breakfast etc. or is it better to create dedicated boards for each main topic?

 

[coleslizzy]

Do you think it's better to have one account per niche or a general account with a lot of boards for a bunch of different niches?
Also, what's a good amount of group boards to be part of?

 

[przemo123]

How to find ideas for boards in your niche which are trends right now to increse impression and engagment?

 

[fastz]

I am very new to Pinterest this information from you is very useful

 

[coleslizzy]

Scratch my last question. I found my answer.

What I'd really like to know is how do you determine if a board is even worth joining or not? What criteria do you look for? I see boards with a lot of followers but they haven't been posted to in a month. I see boards on PinGroupie that are active but have low re-pin rates.

 

[ghost0007]

Here is a good video i watched on Youtube about using it. Its not my video and I don't know this person. The video gave me a better understanding and gave me some ideas for twists so its worth the ten minutes to watch it.

To set up thousands of tweets in minutes I use the extension to load up some images. I add the description, price tags and press save for later. I gather up ten different pins and get them all ready. I then go to the app and select the boards I want them to go out to in one click. I have a group of boards that I set up so that when I select it, it then adds those group boards as boards I want the pins to go out to on each pin. So for example I have a batch of group boards I have selected for ecomm products. 68 of them. i select the 10 listings i added and press the button to add all 68 boards to them. So now i have 10 pins all going out to 68 boards each which = 680 pins. that takes me literally 5 minutes to do so if i want to set up a few thousand it might take 20 minutes to set up 2500. However if i had 500 group boards in my list i could have done 5000 pins in 5 minutes.



That's great news. I hope it converts for you

Hi, thank you for all these info
where can I find this extension please

 

[William702]

Are boars sections worth creating? For example, should i make a "cooking" board and inside have sections for healthy, desserts, dinners, breakfast etc. or is it better to create dedicated boards for each main topic?

Yes they are worth making, pins in specific sections will obviously have some sort of boost in the rankings when it comes to that particular topic. on huge boards it also makes it easier to find things. However with the ranking pins method I shared it does effect that and boards with sections do tend to send less traffic under that method than before. in part because the general section of all the pins is pushed down and is no longer the first thing people see. Create dedicated boards for each topic but have sub topics so for the deserts board, you could have chocolate, lemon, cakes, fruit etc.

Do you think it's better to have one account per niche or a general account with a lot of boards for a bunch of different niches?
Also, what's a good amount of group boards to be part of?

It depends what you are promoting and what you intend to do with it. the more boards you can be a member of the better. however i think there still may be a 500 board limit.

How to find ideas for boards in your niche which are trends right now to increse impression and engagment?

You just have to do the leg work and search around a few profile. try and find some big tribes to join or groups that share content, you can usually find some great resources there.

I am very new to Pinterest this information from you is very useful

I'm glad you are finding it useful

Scratch my last question. I found my answer.

What I'd really like to know is how do you determine if a board is even worth joining or not? What criteria do you look for? I see boards with a lot of followers but they haven't been posted to in a month. I see boards on PinGroupie that are active but have low re-pin rates.

I have covered this, maybe in this thread or one of my other threads, in fact i have covered it a few times with some different info in different posts so they are well worth a read.

Hi, thank you for all these info
where can I find this extension please

Do you mean the tailwind extension. just go to tailwindapp.com and I'm sure they link to it there or just search google. You will have to be using tailwind for it to work though.

 

[coleslizzy]

It depends what you are promoting and what you intend to do with it. the more boards you can be a member of the better. however i think there still may be a 500 board limit.



I have covered this, maybe in this thread or one of my other threads, in fact i have covered it a few times with some different info in different posts so they are well worth a read.

I found a few of those posts that you were talking about. Thanks.

 

[nadhull]

Thank you for this AMA thread, you are the best!

I have 1 internet connection with dynamic IPs, I use it to run 4 accounts with no problem.
I want to add another connection with dedicated IP (for another purpose actually).
In your experience, is it safe to use it to run 2-3 Pinterest accounts?
Do you have experience running multiple accounts on 1 IP address?
Thanks a lot.

 

[Vincenzo Udinesi]

Can we actually track the ranking of our pins?

thanks in advance.

 

[William702]

Thank you for this AMA thread, you are the best!

I have 1 internet connection with dynamic IPs, I use it to run 4 accounts with no problem.
I want to add another connection with dedicated IP (for another purpose actually).
In your experience, is it safe to use it to run 2-3 Pinterest accounts?
Do you have experience running multiple accounts on 1 IP address?
Thanks a lot.

I have no experience with IP's or proxies I'm afraid. I have more than 3 accounts and I do run all of my accounts from my home network if that answers your question. If by experience you mean have I dont it, then yes, over a dozen but i am not constantly logging in to them every day one after the other so it all depends what you are doing with them and what you are promoting. You could be doing everything seemingly by the book and all it takes is one report so you have to do a lot of tests.

Can we actually track the ranking of our pins?

thanks in advance.

What sort of thing do you want to track? Other than the analytics on Pinterest there are not many ways to do it. There are probably a few apps and sites out there that offer some sort of ranking system but I don't use any. There were a few in the past but with algorithm changes some transitioned to offer other services.

 

[Vincenzo Udinesi]

I had 5 of my pins went very successful (like 2,000 clicks and 100K impressions per pin). I wish I could replicate the same pins to get more traffic but nothing helped. I created new pins with the same hashtags and keywords targeting same/new posts and posting in the same group boards etc but they did not skyrocket like the first ones.

Any suggestions?

How much time does a pin take to reach its full potential ranking? The ones I had success with brought me traffic quickly within 72 hours of posting them.

 

[coleslizzy]

I finally made the decision to pay the annual fee for Tailwind. I was thinking about going the Jarvee route but decided against it this time around and I just found out that BoardBooster got shutdown so this was pretty much the only option, lol. Really, Pinterest is the only platform that I've actually made money on organically (meaning without ad spend) so it makes the most sense. Tribes is my favorite feature so far but I'm still finding my groove with this thing and figuring out the routine that works best for me. I've also hired a VA to send out group board invites for me. I'm apart of 27 so far. My goal is 100-120.

 

[playersJ]

how to drive traffic from pinterest?

 

[coleslizzy]

Now that you have a good looking profile you can go out and get invited to boards. Go to Fiverr and buy access to some for $5 bucks. use a bunch of providers to get some. I have never done this as i have not needed to as I built mine up over time. However If i was starting today that would be the way i would get access to a bunch to begin with. Once you have a few you can then use my favorite method of asking people if they want to trade. Once you have 10 or 20 solid boards you can reach out to people......

I'm on Fiverr now and I see a bunch of gigs for Pinterest group board invites that look tempting. The price is not that bad either compared to what I'm paying my VA now. Actually it's great. If you were starting now would you still go the fiverr route?

 

[jdeeze]

This has been a really really interesting thread @William702 ...Unfortunately, a large majority of the responses in the thread are looking to be spoonfed on questions you answered earlier in the thread. I have a pinterest account for years and never really took it seriously...like I only have 10 pins lol, but one ended up going viral and just thought "oh cool" at the time....

anyway, this thread has really opened my eyes and want to try somethings mentioned here.

I had some questions

1. If you have a branded account for your website, is it ideal to have board dedicated to your content or have one that follows the 80/20 rule you spoke about? Searching on Pinterest, I see accounts like Dr Axe, who has boards only with his content....then other top notch boards who have the mixed content, other people's vs their own. Is it that it doesn't matter? Once the content is good?
2. Working with clients, have you seen people been adverse to allowing brands/vs real people accounts into group boards, or end of the day it is the content of your board that matters?
3. Does having a verified red check matter in the grand scheme of things?
4. End of the day content is king and volume,..right?

 

[coleslizzy]

I'm in 60 group boards right now. I just need 40+ to reach my goal. I have a list of 500+ boards in my niche and I'm going to give that to my VA to handle so I should reach it in no time. I'm finding my groove with Tailwind as well but I have a quick question. I've been using Interval Scheduling to space out my product pins but this has them going out over the course of 4 days. From what I understand with your method, you send out 60-100 product pins a day. Should I be scheduling my pins to go out for the next 24 hours or spacing them out like I am currently (over the course of a few days)? I'm still split testing to see what works best but wanted to get a second opinion.