Snowbabe
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I'm just afraid that my account gets shut down, it already happened once (and I didn't even do anything).
What's your Pinterest strategy?
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Yes I know, I've lost many in this way
Exactly. If you only have one account and you get banned, you lose 100%. If you have 50 accounts and they ban one, you lose only 2%.
Snowbabe
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UPDATE: Hello guys, after I believe 2 months I still have no idea how Pinterest works... I now have 70k monthly views with no clicks to my website, I've been thinking about automating everything (seems like a better and more worthwhile option) but I still don't know how proxies and such work. I've been reading a lot and I should have a couple of dollars to do so because it costs money. I don't know at this point. What do you suggest?
TheOverlord
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- Sep 1, 2014
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This is because Pinterests definition of views is distorted, and really you don't see traffic to your website until the Pinterest view counter goes into the millions. Automation is good, rotating residential proxies seem to be best for Pinterest as they are easier to bot than other social media sites
Snowbabe
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Is there a website you'd recommend? I see a lot of people here say the best is when its private bot but I can't afford it yet.
vewyher
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- Nov 30, 2020
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Yes, that is exactly what i use it for, and i found out that it is the most effective for indexing among other social media platforms
BlackStar81
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- Nov 3, 2020
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Yes you are right. I know that many people here get excellent results, but here you need to really get people interested in useful content and develop a very correct strategy that will start bringing traffic from Pinterest
seojen
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- Dec 2, 2018
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This tool seems to do miracles but it cost a lot.
Healthzor
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- Nov 16, 2017
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I just bought and installed the plugin and I can't activate it.
On my WP dashboard I have this message: Pinner : Error invalid Token
(Trying to connect to server...)
Are you experiencing the same thing? Or this is some scam promoting app here on the forum?!
Surewin
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- Jan 21, 2009
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Success on Pinterest is all about user engagement. So keep an eye on your stats like closups, saves, and link clicks (you'll need a Pinterest Business account...which is free...to see these stats. If you're using a personal account, you can convert this to a business account in Settings). Looking at views is a start, but that just shows how many times your image has been displayed. So, obviously you want good impressions, but you expecially want good user engagement...otherwise you'll find your views will start to decline to almost non-existant (because Pinterest will determine your images are not good or just not liked by other users).
It should go without saying...but I'll say it anyway...you need to be pinning quality images. Clear and pleasing to the eye but also clearly conveying your idea/message. Along with your images, you need great titles and descriptions. They need to be good English (or whatever your chosen language is), and be relevant to the image. Don't be afraid to include CTA's in your titles/descriptions...you need to give people a reason to click your link...and this is a great place to do it. But don't overdo it. Take some time to look through other Pinterest users pins to see what looks good to you, and what seems to be liked by others. Nothing wrong with modelling your posts on what works for others.
Lastly, take a look at the links you are pinning to your website. Are the page(s) you're linking to relevant to the images/titles/descriptions? They need to be relevant. And are the pages of good quality, and useful for your visitors? Be honest...maybe even get friends/family to give you a critique.
That really is the basics. There are black/grey hat techniques you could use...which do work...but they do carry some risk. And I'm guessing you'd prefer not take the risk with your main account. But nothing wrong with having other (disposable) accounts you could test the riskier techniques with...so long as you make sure they can't be linked (literally and figuratively) to your main account/site. And that includes trying out automation.
Anyway, hope this helps.
It should go without saying...but I'll say it anyway...you need to be pinning quality images. Clear and pleasing to the eye but also clearly conveying your idea/message. Along with your images, you need great titles and descriptions. They need to be good English (or whatever your chosen language is), and be relevant to the image. Don't be afraid to include CTA's in your titles/descriptions...you need to give people a reason to click your link...and this is a great place to do it. But don't overdo it. Take some time to look through other Pinterest users pins to see what looks good to you, and what seems to be liked by others. Nothing wrong with modelling your posts on what works for others.
Lastly, take a look at the links you are pinning to your website. Are the page(s) you're linking to relevant to the images/titles/descriptions? They need to be relevant. And are the pages of good quality, and useful for your visitors? Be honest...maybe even get friends/family to give you a critique.
That really is the basics. There are black/grey hat techniques you could use...which do work...but they do carry some risk. And I'm guessing you'd prefer not take the risk with your main account. But nothing wrong with having other (disposable) accounts you could test the riskier techniques with...so long as you make sure they can't be linked (literally and figuratively) to your main account/site. And that includes trying out automation.
Anyway, hope this helps.
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GoDesignerNetworks
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After conducting a study of my own, I've realized that the best strategy for creating infographics is to be as creative and concise as possible.
If you want your work to make an impact with viewers then it's important not only do something different but also appeal aesthetically.
If you want your work to make an impact with viewers then it's important not only do something different but also appeal aesthetically.
MartinRaymond1999
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- Dec 30, 2020
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Lol sounds like my experience. Try for months at a time, do manual approach, few unique pins a day 1 or 2 hits of traffic in the whole time, try with bot 50 or so pins a day, same result. Have no idea what the fuck they want and they seem to deliberately hide the pin stats of good pins so you are kept in the dark as to what works. They used to show the amount of repins other pins had but they have long since hidden it. I can only think it is because they deliberately don't want you knowing.
MartinRaymond1999
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What do you suggest to get views? I am trying again and almost 100% of my pins just get just a '-' mark on view count! The account after 1+ month shows 238 and looking through the few hundred it only came from like 2 pins. No idea what made them different?
Surewin
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- Jan 21, 2009
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My experience has been that accounts take anywhere between 4-6 weeks before showing any real traction. So don't worry too much about the stats before at least 6 weeks have passed. Just be consistent with your pinning...and make sure everything is genuinely good quality.
Generally speaking, getting views is not dissimilar to getting visitors from search engines like Google. Just like a search engine, your pins (images/videos) need to be in a niche that is actually searched for often enough, and "rank" in Pinterest. And just like Google, Pinterests algorithm is a thing of mystery...and ever changing. The basics though include the keywords you use in titles and descriptions. You need to use keywords that other users use to search Pinterest for images like yours. But don't keyword stuff. And make sure the keywords are actually relevant to your images. Pinterest recently started to allow alternative text for images you upload...like the alt value on an html tag. I've started to experiment with adding keyword laiden text in that too (don't just use the same as your title/description though...that's just a wasted opportunity).
Other than title/descriptions (and alt text), your images need to be great quality (as I said before). Typically portrait, but don't eliminate landscape completely, and 1000x1500 pixels (as recommended by Pinterest themselves). And of course, related to your title/description and target link. Your image doesn't need to be completely unique, but obviously an image that has never been seen before on Pinterest is a good idea. Uploaded (from your machine) images are a better idea than images saved from a website.
I have no evidence that suggests the domain/pages you link to play a part in ranking, but it kind of makes sense that Pinterest would want domains/pages to be high quality, and relevant, for their users. So make sure your pages are high quality/relevant and visitor friendly.
And getting followers still holds some weight (mostly because your followers are served your images in their feeds). The old tactic of following others to get them to follow you does still work, but is such a well known one (and therefore frowned upon) that it is easy to get labelled as a spammer. So...do it by all means...just don't go overboard.
Hope that helps.
Generally speaking, getting views is not dissimilar to getting visitors from search engines like Google. Just like a search engine, your pins (images/videos) need to be in a niche that is actually searched for often enough, and "rank" in Pinterest. And just like Google, Pinterests algorithm is a thing of mystery...and ever changing. The basics though include the keywords you use in titles and descriptions. You need to use keywords that other users use to search Pinterest for images like yours. But don't keyword stuff. And make sure the keywords are actually relevant to your images. Pinterest recently started to allow alternative text for images you upload...like the alt value on an html tag. I've started to experiment with adding keyword laiden text in that too (don't just use the same as your title/description though...that's just a wasted opportunity).
Other than title/descriptions (and alt text), your images need to be great quality (as I said before). Typically portrait, but don't eliminate landscape completely, and 1000x1500 pixels (as recommended by Pinterest themselves). And of course, related to your title/description and target link. Your image doesn't need to be completely unique, but obviously an image that has never been seen before on Pinterest is a good idea. Uploaded (from your machine) images are a better idea than images saved from a website.
I have no evidence that suggests the domain/pages you link to play a part in ranking, but it kind of makes sense that Pinterest would want domains/pages to be high quality, and relevant, for their users. So make sure your pages are high quality/relevant and visitor friendly.
And getting followers still holds some weight (mostly because your followers are served your images in their feeds). The old tactic of following others to get them to follow you does still work, but is such a well known one (and therefore frowned upon) that it is easy to get labelled as a spammer. So...do it by all means...just don't go overboard.
Hope that helps.