[Journey] Growing a Pinterest Account from 0 to 500+ Web Visitors a Day.

I usually apply to Ezoic at around 5-10k monthly visits.

Did you get the account banned for spam? Pinterest typically bans the acc and blocks the domain shortly after (a few days max). It's risky to reuse the domain because a penalty (shadowban, suppression in reach, etc.) might carry over to it. I'd buy a new domain and potentially duplicate the content from the old domain.
I havent got banned yet. i m doing 3 pins a day. I was just curious and want to setup counter-measure if something not cool happens
 
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Pinterest seems to have made a new update recently.
Pins with text over images no longer appear at the top.
When I search for keywords, the top results are now either video pins or pins with only images.
It seems to have slightly reduced traffic to my site.
That happened to one of my accounts recently. Image-only pins dominate the top 50 pins. I can't get a single text overlay/collage pin to rank anymore. I'm pivoting my content/pins to another niche in the hopes of getting some traffic flowing back to this account as the original niche is very bad for traffic now.
I havent got banned yet. i m doing 3 pins a day. I was just curious and want to setup counter-measure if something not cool happens
Ah, okay. The scenario where your account gets banned but your domain isn’t blocked is very unlikely. Pinterest likes to kill two birds with one stone. :)
 
That happened to one of my accounts recently. Image-only pins dominate the top 50 pins. I can't get a single text overlay/collage pin to rank anymore. I'm pivoting my content/pins to another niche in the hopes of getting some traffic flowing back to this account as the original niche is very bad for traffic now.

Ah, okay. The scenario where your account gets banned but your domain isn’t blocked is very unlikely. Pinterest likes to kill two birds with one stone. :)
I see. Btw if i didn't miss anything are you using AI blog content? If so how is it doing against AI detectors? If not ignore my question
 
I see. Btw if i didn't miss anything are you using AI blog content? If so how is it doing against AI detectors? If not ignore my question
Yeah, I use AI exclusively. I don't really care about detection.
 
I like the approach you are taking here, keeping things manual and within Pinterest guidelines usually leads to more stable growth in the long run. I have seen accounts struggle when they try to scale too aggressively early on.
I'm not keeping things manual anymore. I've gone full ai.
 
A little update.
My site got approved for Journey ads by Mediavine.
I applied on the 08 March/2026 and got approved on the 14/March.
The site has 9.1K views, last 28 days. (as of 18 March)

Mediavine has added an extra step where we have to verify our identity in order to get payed. This step wasn't there last time.
Perhaps I wouldn't have to verify my identity if I had simply added the site to my other Mediavine account, instead of making a new account.
 
Wow, sounds like you have everything planned out, and I wish you good luck with your new Pinterest page. I have a question: I have a Pinterest page too, but it is about electronics and programming. It got some views, but not a lot. Maybe I just should have kept going and soon it would grow, but I always thought that Pinterest was for women, not men, and men like electronics and programming more than women. So I was thinking that Pinterest is not good for topics that men look at more. Is this true?
 
I think AI can definitely speed things up, especially for pins and content ideas, but I have seen Pinterest still respond better when there is a bit of human touch in design and titles. Are you fully automating everything now or still reviewing/editing before posting?
I've gone full ai, meaning pins (images, titles, descriptions), and blog posts are ai. But I'm still manually posting/scheduling pins and choosing what pins to post.
With my setup, I can have the pins and blog posts made in short time.
 
Another small update:
I just hit a milestone. Yesterday (22/March) I got 520 visitors (active users) as per Google Analytics.
It appears that I always get spikes in traffic during weekends (Saturday and Sunday).
 
You do the pinning all manualy ?
 
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I've gone full ai, meaning pins (images, titles, descriptions), and blog posts are ai. But I'm still manually posting/scheduling pins and choosing what pins to post.
With my setup, I can have the pins and blog posts made in short time.
Hi bro, what is your niche??
 
Apparently, I did make an update but, I mistakenly did it on a different thread.

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Here is another update.

- Looks like my main account is starting to recover. It got hit in April just like many other accounts, it went from 30K impressions a day to almost zero. Now all the work I've been putting in last month is starting to payoff (I hope). Looking at the screenshot, you can tell that it takes around 1 - 2 months to start seeing good impressions on pins.

- My second website/Pinterest account that i bought is also doing well, bringing in around 17K impressions a day. It's not monetized yet, I've applied for both AdSense and Mediavine, it's been almost a week and no answer. When it's monetized, then i can start growing it.

- My third account looks dead (It's an old account). But, I haven't posted many pins either, only around 300 pins. I'm hesiteting to keep posting on this acount if it's likely to be penelized, my pins cost me alot of money.

- I have many other account, but I did not really work on them, it's too much work. I've also spent to much time working on workflows and outomations, to make it easily to create many blog posts and pins.

- All pins are created by ai.
- I'm not posting pins manualy, I'm instead using the CSV file upload. I've created scripts that fill up the info on the excel sheet.
- I've also created a script that makes long form content with images together. Before I was making images separetery, then manually adding them into a blog post, it was time consuming.

*The image show the last 90 days impressions.

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How's your save rate?
It's below 0.5. That is very low, but I'm also pinning only text overlay images. Those kinds of images have low saves.
Outbound click rate is around 1% which is normal. (That data is for the last 30 days)
 
Here is another update.

- Looks like my main account is starting to recover. It got hit in April just like many other accounts, it went from 30K impressions a day to almost zero. Now all the work I've been putting in last month is starting to payoff (I hope). Looking at the screenshot, you can tell that it takes around 1 - 2 months to start seeing good impressions on pins.

- My second website/Pinterest account that i bought is also doing well, bringing in around 17K impressions a day. It's not monetized yet, I've applied for both AdSense and Mediavine, it's been almost a week and no answer. When it's monetized, then i can start growing it.

- My third account looks dead (It's an old account). But, I haven't posted many pins either, only around 300 pins. I'm hesiteting to keep posting on this acount if it's likely to be penelized, my pins cost me alot of money.

- I have many other account, but I did not really work on them, it's too much work. I've also spent to much time working on workflows and outomations, to make it easily to create many blog posts and pins.

- All pins are created by ai.
- I'm not posting pins manualy, I'm instead using the CSV file upload. I've created scripts that fill up the info on the excel sheet.
- I've also created a script that makes long form content with images together. Before I was making images separetery, then manually adding them into a blog post, it was time consuming.

*The image show the last 90 days impressions.

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Wow. Good stats. How much do you pin a day? I do 5 a day with some 2-3 days gap after a week. Its been 4 months and only at 4-6k impressions a day
 
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