[Journey] Yet Another Pinterest Journey...

mirrorer said:

Hey guys, time for an update.

Completed tasks:

• Published new 3 Type B articles. Total 6 out of 50
• Published new 1 Type A article. Total 4 out of 50
• Scheduled ~40 pins for 2 existing posts.
• Cleaned up the account a bit. Deleted some old boards with no activity and deleted a lot (100s) of ugly looking pins with 0 impressions. This took me almost a day.
• Got the 15 new templates from Fiverr.
• Got all articles from freelancers. 1 quit, 1 was decent, giving one more chance. One meh, will not rehire and one was good. Just gave him 10 more to research.

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The ugly:

I do not think the website will recover from this update. It has been hit in the past and always recovered fast but this time looks different:

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So, I am giving up hopes on recovery.

The bad:

*Pinterest algorithm update: All new pins get 0 impressions now. They do not show up in your followers feed as they used to do.
*MV is cracking down on listicles and AI content. I do not have AI content or AI images but I have some listicles on the site. I’ve had them for a year + so I don’t think these are an issue but the fact that they’re cracking down on listicles, doesn’t help nor motivate me to keep writing them.
*Most of the traffic is coming from 5-6 pins ,despite having posted ~ 40 new ideas since Feb 25.


The good:

Impressions and traffic from Pinterest are up:

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At the beginning of this month I implemented the current strategy. As you can see impressions and outbound clicks are up. Although, a lot of those impressions are min I can’t help but check my account 15-20 times/day and Pinterest counts them

Traffic on site, from Pinterest is 46% up compared to last week:

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40% of the traffic comes from 1 pin. The rest is spread out quite well.

Next,

This week I will try to:

• Publish 3 articles from each category.
• Finish SOPs and have freelancers handle all my pin designs. I am still working on these because I haven’t decided the final designs yet.

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Are you sure ? Because if you scroll the Journey section, there are plenty of them.


They did not. Check again.

Also, I am not trying to game the platform. Just trying to learn how it works.

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kshatriya said:

What's the niche? Are you also doing link building? Usually, I tend to focus on three things to keep sites up. If you have traffic that's more skewed to one section than another, and you've got a high bounce rate, that's an indicator of not fulfilling search intent.

1) Traffic (CTR manipulation/Ads/actual real search engine traffic)
2) Social Media
3) Link Building

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spiralslam said:

Hi thanks for the insights. can you please explain what are Type A and Type B articles refer to? Secondly do you publish 20 pins for a single article from the same account?? As a newbie i need some help to start pinterest journey if you could please.
Regards

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BillyGene said:

How many pins u post a day ??

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ceceliaanne said:

how much did you buy the website with Mediavine?

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mirrorer said:

Time for an update.

I have not done much since my last update.
I have posted only 2 new articles on site and about 50 new pins.

It seems that what I am doing is not working as expected so far....

Since I started focusing on Pinterest, I have created more than 500 pins and published more than 300.... Most for existing posts (40 urls that didn't have Pin designed for them) and some for new posts.
So far only 1 pin gained a lot of traction and that faded out....

We can all see that Pinterest is changing, there is no doubt about it. What is changing and how it works remains unknown (to me) so far. One of my main competitors, who has always been at 10m views, dropped below 8m for the first time in the last 2-3y that I follow their account.

In addition to that, it is impossible to compete with the AI content and the rate that is being pumped. For every 1 manual and unique pin that I create, there are 1000s of AI pins being posted. This alone makes it hard if not impossible to keep up.

Now, some stats:

30 Days:
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It is up but mostly because of 1 pin:

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The traffic for this pin has dropped though......

Last 7 days:

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On the positive side of things, traffic from Google has started to recover starting last Friday, so far I am seeing 50% increase compared to previous period:

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I am not giving up yet but I have to figure out what actually works in order to scale....


Has anyone of you guys ever promoted his pins and seen gains in organic traffic?
I am thinking if promoting high quality pins would help with organic reach.

My theory is that paid ads=instant views/impressions & instant saves (assuming pin is good).

Save= more potential organic reach?
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I will not disclose that but when I bought the site, it didn't have any ads on it. I grew it and got it approved on Mediavine.

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ceceliaanne said:

I have a website with MV Monthly 60K Traffic . I need just to know market price of my website

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mirrorer said:

Does anyone have or know a tool that can find and delete pins with low to no impressions?

My account has over 8k pins (pinned from previous owner) with majority of them having low to 0 impressions..

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mirrorer said:

If you're earning more than 2k/month, you can list it for sale on Empire Flippers. If it's lower than that, then you can try Flippa.

The average multiple right now is 25x.

Cheers

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shijin said:

Unique images will set you apart since Pinterest hates stock spam

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alwaysgrinding said:

dont loose hopes, pinterest is strange these days but i have recovered multiple accounts

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