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Boost Your Blog Traffic With This One Simple Pinterest Hack

Are you wondering why your Pinterest views and blog traffic from Pinterest have been going down? Or maybe they’re just not going up?

Pinterest is great for promoting your blog but with all the recent changes, it can be hard to know if you’re using Pinterest the right way.

Let’s look at some basics you need to know to make Pinterest work for you and one simple Pinterest hack to boost your blog traffic.

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Get the Pinterest Basics right

There are a lot of factors that will affect your Pinterest marketing success. Let’s quickly go over some Pinterest basics with a checklist of everything your account needs.

If you’re new to Pinterest and you could use some guidance, grab my FREE guide: Pinterest Set Up For Success. This guide will not only help you set up your account correctly, you’ll also learn how to implement SEO and best pinning practices.

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Let’s look at the basics your Pinterest Account needs to be successful:

  • Set up a business account
  • Claim your website
  • Use keywords in your profile name & bio
  • Use keywords in your board titles & descriptions
  • Use keywords in your pin titles & descriptions
  • Set up Rich Pins
  • Create click-worthy pins
  • Only pin content that’s relevant to your niche

If you need more details on how to do all this correctly, I highly recommend getting my free Pinterest guide here.

Once you know your account is set up correctly and you have implemented SEO, it’s time to start pinning.

Let’s have a look at how you need to pin to boost your blog traffic.

One simple hack to boost blog traffic from Pinterest

What is the biggest Pinterest hack in 2020?

To create fresh content.

Often.

And by often, I mean OFTEN.

Creating fresh pins on a daily basis will really boost your impressions and click-through rate.

How many pins should I create?

I literally just saw this question pop up in one of the Facebook groups I follow and one girl said she’s been consistently pinning 5-10 new pins a day and her impressions went up from 1.3k to 79k and her clicks went up from 3 to 229 in one week!

So I guess there’s your answer. Start with pinning 3 fresh pin a day and try to increase this number to 5 or even 10. It all depends on how much time you have.

Find out here how you can create a week’s worth of pins in 1 hour!

So what is a fresh pin?

Here’s a list of things that you can create a pin for, every new pin that you create is a fresh pin:

  • a new pin linking to a new blog post
  • a new pin linking to an old blog post
  • a new pin linking to a landing page
  • a new pin linking to your services page
  • a new pin linking to an affiliate product
  • a new pin linking to a shop page
  • a new pin linking to a digital or physical product
  • a new pin linking to an affiliate course or service

As you can see there are plenty of things you can create fresh pins for, so go to Canva and create a ton of new pins. If you’re not familiar with Canva and would like a design tutorial, Check out this post, it includes a Canva video tutorial with tips on how to design multiple pins quickly.

To save yourself time, I recommend batch designing your pins and creating 10-20 in one go.

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An easy way to design multiple pins in Canva quickly:

  • Design one pin
  • Give it a name (include your keyword/keyphrase for the relevant post)
  • Save it
  • Download it

To design the next pin for the same post:

  • Copy the first pin: File > Make a copy

  • Rename this copy or add a number behind the title. (blog post title 2)
  • Change the pin title to new title or leave the same title
  • Change the background photo
  • Save this pin
  • Download it

Repeat this for all the pins you’re making for this post. To design a new pin for a different post, simply repeat this process and change the pin name and the title overlay and the photo. Remember to always copy and re-name your pins.

If you would like to design Pinterest pins even quicker than with Canva, read this:

How to Create Tons of Pinterest Pins Super Fast

Pin Images

Adding new photos to your pins is a quick way to change the look of your pin and Pinterest will see this as fresh new content. The free plan on Canva comes with free stock photos. However if you’re creating 20-70 pins per week, you might run out of quality photos to use. If you sign up for Canva Pro you’ll be able to access the complete photo library for only $9.95 per month.

For more places to get beautifully styled stock photos, check out this post:

7 Best Sites for Free Feminine Stock Photos.

The quickest way to upload you pins to Pinterest

When you’ve created a batch of pins, you need to upload them to Pinterest. The quickest and easiest way to do this is with Tailwind.

Tailwind is a Pinterest approved scheduler that lets you upload your pin to several boards at the same time whilst spacing them out and pinning them at optimal times when your audience is online.

Because you can pin to multiple boards at once, Tailwind is a huge time saver. You only have to write your title and description once and pin it to 10 boards with one click.

Especially now I have to create and upload fresh pins on a daily basis, I really rely on Tailwind to always have plenty of pins lined up in my queue. I think I would lose my sanity without it.

You can now use Tailwind for free so make sure to sign up for their free plan here!

Am I pinning the right way?

If you don’t know how often you should be pinning or you’re worried you’re pinning the wrong pin to the wrong boards at the wrong time… Tailwind has a new feature that will put your mind at ease, it’s called SmartGuide.

SmartGuide monitors how you pin and alerts you if you’re pinning in a way that might reduce your overall reach or put your account at risk. It also keeps you up-to-date with the latest best practices on Pinterest.

It’s basically like having a Pinterest expert looking over your shoulder that let’s you know when you’re doing things wrong or right!

Another feature in Tailwind is Spam SafeGuard. This feature monitors the frequency of your pinning and will warn you if you’re pinning too much in one day or if you are pinning the same image too often.

According to Pinterest the best amount to pin per day is 15-25 pins. If you pin more than this your distribution might suffer and that’s the opposite of what you want!

So basically if you’re worried about your pinning strategy or you want to save a lot of time scheduling your pins, I highly recommend trying Tailwind.

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This is the Pinterest hack to boost blog traffic

I hope this post has helped you understand Pinterest better and you can now adjust your pinning strategy. Good luck creating new pins in Canva and make sure to try out Tailwind to keep your sanity!

If you have any questions leave a comment below and if you need some help getting started with Pinterest make sure to grab my free guide: Pinterest Set Up For Success below.

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9 replies
  1. Boost Social
    Boost Social says:
    September 19, 2021 at 11:53 am

    Good article! I agree! Thanks for the information.Keep it up.

    Reply
  2. Brie
    Brie says:
    June 2, 2020 at 1:19 am

    Yes this is totally true! I was repinning beautiful photos everyday and was stuck at 80,000 viewers. THEN I started posting my own quotes using a pretty background I created on Canva and literally overnight my audience went up. And 3 days later, I hit my highest view count yet of 180,000!!! It really works. Pinterest is definitely tamable (:

    Reply
    • Lisa
      Lisa says:
      June 2, 2020 at 5:10 am

      Yes my views and blog traffic have been going up too, just by creating fresh pins daily. Cheers to taming Pinterest!!

      Reply
  3. Michelle | Bliss from Balance
    Michelle | Bliss from Balance says:
    April 18, 2020 at 11:08 am

    Thanks for this! I feel like Pinterest is frequently changing their rules, so having an idea of the best “new” number and what qualifies as “new” is so helpful.

    Reply
    • Lisa
      Lisa says:
      April 23, 2020 at 1:20 am

      Yes, I know what you mean, it is hard keeping up with Pinterest! Glad I could help.

      Reply
  4. Cassidy
    Cassidy says:
    March 25, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    Fabulous info, thank you!!

    Reply
  5. Ava James
    Ava James says:
    March 18, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    I need to really read this helpful post and try get my pinterest going. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • Lisa
      Lisa says:
      March 19, 2020 at 10:40 pm

      Yes! Good luck Ava!

      Reply
  6. Lynyadia
    Lynyadia says:
    March 17, 2020 at 3:51 am

    You are absolutely correct. Fresh pins has boosted my traffic a whole lot.

    Reply

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