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

PaulRD said:

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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I'm pinning 5 pins a day on average. My focus right now is making many blog posts. When i have eg. 500 posts, then i can easily and safely start pinning 20 - 30 pins a day.

Hey, everyone.
Here is an update on my Pinterest journey.
I started this journey two years ago, and I'm still failing, and losing money, given all the time and energy I put in this, (and paid tools).

Where do I start.
The Pinterest account mentioned in the early updates, the one that got hit by an update and spent months trying to recover, I've given up - I failed to recover it. (I believe the account was shadow banned or something). I've deleted the account and started a new one.
As long as the website isn't also shadow banned, then the new account should grow without any issues. (The website is monetized with Journey by Mediavine, I simply need to bring in the traffic).

This is how the analytics looked like before deleting the account:

I had false hope in the end of June, then it died again. Well, I won't be speaking of this account anymore - It's deleted now.

And this is the new account I just started:

I've started by adding pins slowly then will increase it gradually.
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And her is an update on a different site/Pinterest account.

If you've been following me long enough, then you may remember that I started this journey with an account in fashion niche. The website got banned/suspended on Pinterest, and could not succeed in appealing, so I abandoned the project. After a while, I made a new website (and Pinterest account), the same as the previous one - I only changed the domain extension from dot com to dot co, and transferred all articles to the new site. I tried to grow the Pinterest account with no success, then I abandoned it.
Tried to grow it again, then abandoned it - It's been on and off to this day.
Until recently when I though about deleting the account and even deleting the website and just forget about it. Now I just checked and it looks like the impression are going up, and now I'm confused.

See for yourself:

Now I'm probably going to start adding pins again until when impressions fall again.
This fashion site is not even monetized, so I don't care about it much.

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The only thing that's looking promising is this website/Pinterest account that I bought a while ago. My plan was/is to triple the traffic, and I think it can be done.
I've been adding a lot of content and pins, and I'll just keep doing that.
I think I did mention in my previous update that I was having a hard time getting it accepted in an ad platform (Adsense or Mediavine). I got rejected two times by adsense.
Then I had to use an ai to audit the site and give me feedback, after implementing all the suggestions, I saw a notification in the Mediavine dashboard that I have to resubmit the site, when I did, I got accepted right away - It was a relief given that I've been waiting for months.
Now this site is my first priority.
This is how analytics looks like:


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I'll also be starting another site/account in a different niche. (Actually my plan is to have multiple site/account in every popular niche on Pinterest.)
I've been working on semi pipelines and automation for the past months, that would make it possible to run multiple accounts without causing me a headache, or doing to much manual work.
So far I've created a Pinterest account with a couple of boards. And I've curated a list of over 100 articles that I'll make. The website is ready but blank. My plan is to have the articles published first - minimum 70 articles then I can start making pins. I can publish 10 fresh pins everyday, and do the rotation again after one week. (and of course I need to warmup the account a little bit before I start pinning 10 pins everyday).

If you're starting a new site/account, let me know so we can exchange ideas, the process and results.

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Like I said I plan to run multiple account, but I'll be starting one by one - Right now I just have domain names, and I'll be curating blog post ideas and learning everything I can.

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For the person who likes to ask if I do manual pinning - No I use bulk upload. I fill up a google sheet with all necessary info, download it then upload on Pinterest. I've been pinning like that for the past months and I'll keep doing that.

So far, I'm used to it, that I would fell uncomfortable using a scheduling tool.

Here is a quick update.
- I've hit a milestone (1M impressions on Pinterest)
- And I've achieved my goal ( doubling the traffic on my biggest account).
-I've also achieved this journey's goal. (500 visitors a day)

For the past month I've been prioritizing on this one account, so I didn't do much on other accounts.
Running multiple accounts is exhausting, even when I have systems and tools to do the work faster.
(I'm still working on my other sites, but slowly).

I've completely given up on my fashion niche account, and I do not plan to work with that niche again. There are many other niches that are as good.
In terms of revenue, I've made around 150$. And my biggest cost is Images, I've spent $108.18 just on images in the last 30 days.

From now on, my plan is still the same. I'll put more focus on seasonal content, and pinning raw images with no text overlay, they get impressions and saves very fast.
I had a pin get thousands of impressions in just 1 day. It never happens with text overlay image.

Here is the analytics:

johnson365 said:

Here is a quick update.
- I've hit a milestone (1M impressions on Pinterest)
- And I've achieved my goal ( doubling the traffic on my biggest account).
-I've also achieved this journey's goal. (500 visitors a day)

For the past month I've been prioritizing on this one account, so I didn't do much on other accounts.
Running multiple accounts is exhausting, even when I have systems and tools to do the work faster.
(I'm still working on my other sites, but slowly).

I've completely given up on my fashion niche account, and I do not plan to work with that niche again. There are many other niches that are as good.
In terms of revenue, I've made around 150$. And my biggest cost is Images, I've spent $108.18 just on images in the last 30 days.

From now on, my plan is still the same. I'll put more focus on seasonal content, and pinning raw images with no text overlay, they get impressions and saves very fast.
I had a pin get thousands of impressions in just 1 day. It never happens with text overlay image.

Here is the analytics:
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Great numbers. About the cost for the images, that the AI cost for generating them or?

BufferOver said:

Great numbers. About the cost for the images, that the AI cost for generating them or?

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Yeah, that's for AI images. I use an API and pay 0.08$ per image.

johnson365 said:

Yeah, that's for AI images. I use an API and pay 0.08$ per image.

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I don't know the model u use, but that's an overcharged price per image. You have pretty decent models these days for far less than that price.

alternox said:

I don't know the model u use, but that's an overcharged price per image. You have pretty decent models these days for far less than that price.

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I just checked to be sure. I pay 0.06$ per image. In the beginning I was using cheaper models (0.02, 0.03$/image), but the images were very bad. The pins were also very bad, so I opted for a higher quality model.

Try muse-image-1.0, $0.01 per image (1K, 2:3 ratio), decent quality. For image designs, gemini-3.1-flash-image is the king.

With the current traffic, are you making $150 per month, or is that the total since the start of the project?

What kind of control ai did you do to get Mediavine approval? It rejects my site, which is my area of expertise, for quality reasons.

alternox said:

Try muse-image-1.0, $0.01 per image (1K, 2:3 ratio), decent quality. For image designs, gemini-3.1-flash-image is the king.

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Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try out gemini-3.1-flash-image, and let you know

minad268 said:

With the current traffic, are you making $150 per month, or is that the total since the start of the project?

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That's what I made in September. The site has been monetized for only the past two months. First month was 69$

Drniche said:

What kind of control ai did you do to get Mediavine approval? It rejects my site, which is my area of expertise, for quality reasons.

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I used Claude ai to audit my whole site, and got suggestions on what to fix.

alternox said:

Try muse-image-1.0, $0.01 per image (1K, 2:3 ratio), decent quality. For image designs, gemini-3.1-flash-image is the king.

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Have you used gemini-3.1-flash-image API, if so how is the quality of the images?

GPT Image 2.5 Flare or Sunburst on low/medium. You get the best quality for the price (<1c per image). It's being abused on all the major SM platforms.

johnson365 said:

Have you used gemini-3.1-flash-image API, if so how is the quality of the images?

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The quality is on the level of muse-image-1.0, but too pricey when u compare both

I've managed to incorporate a cheap ai image model (1c per image) in my tools, and surprisingly the images are great. Pins are even better. Let's see how this new look of the pins perform.
I can't believe I've been paying premium for ai images all this time.
This also means that I can now scale my strategy. The cost of the images was holding me back a little.
Thanks.

johnson365 said:

I've managed to incorporate a cheap ai image model (1c per image) in my tools, and surprisingly the images are great. Pins are even better. Let's see how this new look of the pins perform.
I can't believe I've been paying premium for ai images all this time.
This also means that I can now scale my strategy. The cost of the images was holding me back a little.
Thanks.

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What AI image model did you end up using?