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[erickishere]

Hmm. It's an interesting thread. I am new to the Pinterest game, started it barely a month ago. Quick note about my strategy that has seemed to work...

1) Make your money page a Pinterest clone site. Make it look as much like pinterest as possible
2) Absolutely NO redirects or cloaking. You won't need ANY of it with this method
3) Use PinBlaster. I has a LOT of options other than just the multi-account shotgun method. I only have ONE Pinterest account. Barely a month old. Brand new. I have received NO warnings. No copyright issues, no bans, etc. And I Pin >1,000 pins per day, sometimes more. They key is ... I do not FOLLOW anyone. I just let my stuff trickle out there and let follows come to me.
4) Go on Fiverr and get a couple of custom plugins written for WordPress. They key here is you need those plugins to receive any posts you are sending from PinBlaster, then post on their individual POST URLs (obviously), then insert Adsense code above and below, then use the Pinterest API to post it as a UNIQUE picture to Pinterest with its own UNIQUE URL on your site
5) Make sure you verify your site with Pinterest. Host it on your own domain you have control over. Pinterest loves that.
6) Watermark EVERY SINGLE PICTURE you send with your official domain/logo lock. Make it look PRO. Not cheesey. Make it a vertical strip on the right like 9gag does it, but with a logo somewhere. Even make it a little too small to read. Trust me. It won't matter.
7) Make sure to run your batch watermarking program on EVERYTHING you scrape, whether off of pinterest or wherever. TSR Watermark is free. Use it. It does very weel and takes about 25 seconds to surgically watermark ~1,000 images
8) Occasionally, and FROM A MOBILE DEVICE login to your account daily and repin 5-10 images in your niche organically. No comments needed.
9) If Pinterest does contact you, take an aggressive whitehat attitude. Present your money site as a like-minded, inspirational / educational portal for people who need help find certain imagery in that niche. Do not back away from ANYTHING on your site. Acknowledge pinning large quantities per day using API automation. Make sure you VERIFY your site with them with a verification file! Let them know that every single image you have there will be pinned on pinterest because your IT department set it up that way. Do NOT be afraid of them! They will latch on to anything weak you say in an email and will ban your ass so quickly it will make your head spin.
10) Do NOT follow ANYONE. buy followers on PinWoot or a trsuted Fiverr vendor if you want to, in my experience, doesn't really help that much persay.
11) Post to group boards, but NOT with spam. Only good quality shots that are relevant. Trust me. That will get the job done easily.

That's it. Pin like crazy at that point. 1,000/day is what I am doing. No worries. You can even scrape other photos FROM Pinterest and feed them back INTO Pinterest watermarked, AS LONG AS THEY SHOW UP IN THEIR OWN UNIQUE URL ON YOUR OWN VERIFIED MONEY PAGE WITH YOUR WATERMARK. You see at that point, I don't think Pinterest CAN issue a copyright warning, because they won;t know whose picture it really is, and you got a unique URL, verified site, and a matermark on yours. Only a directed copyright claim would be respected and those are RARE.

I am less than a month in. I have only 50 followers total. I make $40/day on Adsense. Go figure.

UPDATE! Sorry! I forgot,... Use hashtags! Go to Tumblr and see what hastags are used there for your keywords, and use the same ones on Pinterest. There is a difference in some cases, and using the slightly varied ones brings in better mroe unique traffic I have found. Also, use AT LEAST three hashtags in each post. All different (they can be the same 3 for 1000 posts obviously).

that's it!

Great method/Tutorial, I also have pinblaster, its a pretty sick and easy bot to use. I haven't been pinning but instead i repin instead, i'll try out the pingrabber

 

[ubeyou]

Is there anyway to purchase pinblaster? It said sold out and the pinpal bot too

 

[giveitlegs]

I am surprised at domains getting banned, if they are posting totally 100% automated via API direct from the domain. Usually the bans happen (as I have gathered anecdotal) when someone gets PISSED OFF. So the key is,... keep a low profile. Don't follow people like crazy. Don't choose a niche where ripping off too many photos will get someone pissed off. Don't MIX niches (because that WILL piss people off and then they can identify you as a spammer). Ripping 1000 pictures per day and then feeding them through your own machine is the exact same thing (almost) as re-pinning 1000 pictures a day. If copyrights were that easy to raise, then they shouldn't be putting pictures on Pinterest in the first place to be repinned. If you dial it in tight with this method and treat it like a whitehat business and just treat 1000 pins a day as if it's just business as usual (no aggressive action on your part), then I think you should be fine. The key is, DON'T PISS PEOPLE OFF.

 

[xpesos]

I was always afraid of putting up a pinterest Clone theme, i am amazed that it is working well for you..
How many UV's are you getting from pinterest...
BTW i don't have heart to put things that way, because whenever there is pinner pinning images having no description just Ads block above and below image they usually get reported, not that you can run in long terms..
Just my 2 cents

Hmm. It's an interesting thread. I am new to the Pinterest game, started it barely a month ago. Quick note about my strategy that has seemed to work...

1) Make your money page a Pinterest clone site. Make it look as much like pinterest as possible
2) Absolutely NO redirects or cloaking. You won't need ANY of it with this method
3) Use PinBlaster. I has a LOT of options other than just the multi-account shotgun method. I only have ONE Pinterest account. Barely a month old. Brand new. I have received NO warnings. No copyright issues, no bans, etc. And I Pin >1,000 pins per day, sometimes more. They key is ... I do not FOLLOW anyone. I just let my stuff trickle out there and let follows come to me.
4) Go on Fiverr and get a couple of custom plugins written for WordPress. They key here is you need those plugins to receive any posts you are sending from PinBlaster, then post on their individual POST URLs (obviously), then insert Adsense code above and below, then use the Pinterest API to post it as a UNIQUE picture to Pinterest with its own UNIQUE URL on your site
5) Make sure you verify your site with Pinterest. Host it on your own domain you have control over. Pinterest loves that.
6) Watermark EVERY SINGLE PICTURE you send with your official domain/logo lock. Make it look PRO. Not cheesey. Make it a vertical strip on the right like 9gag does it, but with a logo somewhere. Even make it a little too small to read. Trust me. It won't matter.
7) Make sure to run your batch watermarking program on EVERYTHING you scrape, whether off of pinterest or wherever. TSR Watermark is free. Use it. It does very weel and takes about 25 seconds to surgically watermark ~1,000 images
8) Occasionally, and FROM A MOBILE DEVICE login to your account daily and repin 5-10 images in your niche organically. No comments needed.
9) If Pinterest does contact you, take an aggressive whitehat attitude. Present your money site as a like-minded, inspirational / educational portal for people who need help find certain imagery in that niche. Do not back away from ANYTHING on your site. Acknowledge pinning large quantities per day using API automation. Make sure you VERIFY your site with them with a verification file! Let them know that every single image you have there will be pinned on pinterest because your IT department set it up that way. Do NOT be afraid of them! They will latch on to anything weak you say in an email and will ban your ass so quickly it will make your head spin.
10) Do NOT follow ANYONE. buy followers on PinWoot or a trsuted Fiverr vendor if you want to, in my experience, doesn't really help that much persay.
11) Post to group boards, but NOT with spam. Only good quality shots that are relevant. Trust me. That will get the job done easily.

That's it. Pin like crazy at that point. 1,000/day is what I am doing. No worries. You can even scrape other photos FROM Pinterest and feed them back INTO Pinterest watermarked, AS LONG AS THEY SHOW UP IN THEIR OWN UNIQUE URL ON YOUR OWN VERIFIED MONEY PAGE WITH YOUR WATERMARK. You see at that point, I don't think Pinterest CAN issue a copyright warning, because they won;t know whose picture it really is, and you got a unique URL, verified site, and a matermark on yours. Only a directed copyright claim would be respected and those are RARE.

I am less than a month in. I have only 50 followers total. I make $40/day on Adsense. Go figure.

UPDATE! Sorry! I forgot,... Use hashtags! Go to Tumblr and see what hastags are used there for your keywords, and use the same ones on Pinterest. There is a difference in some cases, and using the slightly varied ones brings in better mroe unique traffic I have found. Also, use AT LEAST three hashtags in each post. All different (they can be the same 3 for 1000 posts obviously).

that's it!

 

[Equality]

it's great that you guys are testing different methods.

 

[Equality]

giveitlegs, do you pin to big boards?

 

[vinclancy]

From what you have seen, do you know what it takes to make it to the "popular" board? It used to be 5 repins, 5 likes and 1 comment, but the algorithm seems to have changed.

 

[emperorjones]

Do you need more or less proxies per account with Pintrest compared to Twitter?

 

[atticanibal]

Do you pin into your own boards or into group boards you have been invite to ? Or both ?

 

[Taker101]

Do you need more or less proxies per account with Pintrest compared to Twitter?

I usually have one proxy for every two accounts. I pin between 25-50 pins per account everyday, and haven't had any problems. I'm sure you could pin a lot more than that on one proxy, but honestly I wouldn't push it. Pinterest is always changing it's algorithms for spamming, since it's growing so rapidly.

 

[Taker101]

Do you pin into your own boards or into group boards you have been invite to ? Or both ?

I like to just use my own boards now. When you first start an account you can get tons of followers and traffic from group boards, but you risk the owners kicking you off for any reason. Plus if the board is deleted by Pinterest from to many spammers, you'll lose a ton of traffic. Maybe the best way is to join group boards early for the initial traffic, then once you have enough followers (1k+) you can start working on your own boards and just pin to them.

 

[Equality]

I usually have one proxy for every two accounts. I pin between 25-50 pins per account everyday, and haven't had any problems. I'm sure you could pin a lot more than that on one proxy, but honestly I wouldn't push it. Pinterest is always changing it's algorithms for spamming, since it's growing so rapidly.

how much accounts do you have? XX or XXX? And how many accounts post the same domain? same url? thank you.

 

[Taker101]

how much accounts do you have? XX or XXX? And how many accounts post the same domain? same url? thank you.

200 accounts. 1 proxy for every 2.
Every account pins from unique urls from 10 different domains. They all look exactly the same theme wise (Pinterest type theme), but the content on the sites are all unique. I download popular images in my niche from Pinterest, then upload them to my sites. One image for each post. That image still directs you to the original url, so it's all white hat. I just put adsense blocks before and after the image for monetizing.

 

[Equality]

200 accounts. 1 proxy for every 2.
Every account pins from unique urls from 10 different domains. They all look exactly the same theme wise (Pinterest type theme), but the content on the sites are all unique. I download popular images in my niche from Pinterest, then upload them to my sites. One image for each post. That image still directs you to the original url, so it's all white hat. I just put adsense blocks before and after the image for monetizing.

so 200 accs pinning from 10 domains is safe?

 

[Nickmitov]

Taker101,I are doing pretty good.I just want to ask you what bot do you use?Do you make XX or XXX from adsense and Is there a chance to get banned from adsense,because the traffic you receive is only from pinterest?

 

[vinclancy]

I'm still trying to find a good way to find collaborative boards... the best I've found is googling '[subject] community siteinterest.com' or on Pinterest searching "community [subject]" - what other methods have you found? Are there big lists somewhere?

The community boards that I have pinned on have been doing great and are bringing loads of traffic.

 

[EmpireQuality]

I'm still trying to find a good way to find collaborative boards... the best I've found is googling '[subject] community siteinterest.com' or on Pinterest searching "community [subject]" - what other methods have you found? Are there big lists somewhere?

The community boards that I have pinned on have been doing great and are bringing loads of traffic.

there is a thread here on BHW that has a list of group board accounts, find it
for a method, i just followed a lot of people, so then people naturally invited me to their group boards.
get 100 accounts and mass follow, you should soon get invited.

 

[vinclancy]

Found the method, thanks! There still has to be a better way to find them than looking at lists, but that's OK.

 

[susanscott11]

Hi,
I would like to buy invitations for Pinterest boards that have 80000+ pins.
Please quote with PM
Thanks

 

[Equality]

there is a thread here on BHW that has a list of group board accounts, find it
for a method, i just followed a lot of people, so then people naturally invited me to their group boards.
get 100 accounts and mass follow, you should soon get invited.

pinblaster is good for that?