When I started my Pinterest in December of 2018, I was barely pinning. I had NO IDEA how to use Pinterest to grow my blog traffic.
My friend Karya and I were on a weekend trip on Whidbey Island when I confided in her that I didn’t even use the platform. She urged me to convert my profile to a business account and encouraged me to start pinning. So one of my 5 blog goals was to focus on Pinterest in 2019.
In January of 2019, I had 139 followers and I drove 188,000
monthly views. In October of 2019, I have over 2,400 followers and I drive over
1.3 million monthly impressions organically.
Pinterest has helped my blog jump from driving 10,000 monthly views to 40,000 monthly views.
So focusing on Pinterest as a platform has definitely paid off. After seeing an Instagram story question sent in by @miss_tara_sun who asked “How do you increase your monthly Pinterest views?”, I was inspired to share more.
If you’ve already read 6 Pinterest Tips for Beginners, you know that you should be pinning every single photo from your blog posts and your bio should be set up. If you’re ready for more Pinterest tips, here is:
How you can use Pinterest to grow your blog traffic:
1. Create Pinterest boards that are consistent with the content you create
If you are a fashion blogger, you should have fashion
related boards. If you blog about food, you should have food related boards.
I’m a fashion and lifestyle blogger so if you head to my Pinterest you’ll find
boards like: Everyday
Style Edition and the Travel
Bucket list Edition.
If you dive into Everyday Style Edition, you’ll find my style
related blog posts that I’ve pinned to the board.
Example: 7
Cute Fall Sweaters to Add to Your Wardrobe
If you scroll through Travel Bucket list Edition, you’ll
find my travel blog post pinned to the board.
Example: 10 Tips for Going to New York for Your First Time
2. Create Pinterest Boards with a Search Term
Another Pinterest hack I’ve discovered this year is to
create a few Pinterest Boards with a search term. My “Fall Fashion Edition”
board does pretty well because I know people search for “Fall Fashion…..” My
other Pinterest boards also follow search term titles like “Everyday Style”,
“Travel Bucket list”, and even “Fashion Week”.
3. Create Pinnable Fliers
If you’re looking to share travel content like weekend
guides or food content like recipes, meal prepping, or etc., I highly recommend
creating pinnable fliers that showcases the content of your blog post. It will
give people a preview of what they can expect in your blog post or article that
you’ve shared on Pinterest.
I use Canva to create
all my pinnable fliers. Canva has a ton of free Pinterest fliers templates you
can use.
4. Pin your pins more than once
You may have already known this, but I had no idea it was a strategy to repin your pins over and over again. If you have a top performing pin, I recommend repining it back to your personal boards and across any group boards that you might be a part of.
5. Enable your audience to pin your website images to Pinterest
Make sure you install a plugin to allow people who visit
your blog or website to be able to pin your images directly to Pinterest. If
you aren’t sure how to do that, you can hop on to Google and search “how to
enable pinnable images on “wordpress” or “squarespace” or “wix”.
If you’re self-hosting your blog through WordPress.org like
me, you can add the “Pin It” button with this Pinterest
plugin.
6. Create high quality pin images
Photos that clear, in focus, and typically in a vertical
format do very well on Pinterest. I read on Digital
Trends that photos in color/more saturated also perform better than black
and white photos.
This article also shares that photos without people’s faces in them (so food, landscape, travel photos, etc.) perform better. Personally, this doesn’t apply to me as all my top performing pins include photos of me and my face.
What are your tips to use Pinterest to increase your blog traffic?
Thank you for reading!
Love,
Emma
Photos:Holly Phan
I really need to work on this!
Briana
https://beyoutifulbrunette.com
Thank you for this! I came across your blog from a search on working with brands and saw this post and knew I had to read it. A friend recently told me that her views increased significantly through Pinterest, and even keeps her views up when she’s not actively posting.
I’m excited to get into pinning for my blog and not just personal use!
This is so helpful!
These are great tips and I need to clean up my boards! I also found out from reading a few articles on Pinterest to pin your top performing pins over and over again. I was actually surprised to learn that too.
Maureen | http://www.littlemisscasual.com
Excellent article with helpful hints to start a fashion blog. I appreciate your writing. It will be very helpful.
Another great and informative post on Pinterest! It’s absolutely incredible just how much you were able to grow your numbers (following and engagement) on Pinterest within less than a year. So inspiring!
I took plenty of notes and even started applying certain tips as I was reading through. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!
xx
Key
https://storiesbysuddreth.com/