Pinterest Mistakes You’re Making

 

Hey lovelies, it is bank holiday weekend and it gorgeous outside. Most of mine has been spent inside eating strawberries, drinking homemade vodka mango slushies and figuring out what mistakes I’ve been making with Pinterest. I think this is helpful to share because Pinterest can be a mindfield if you don’t know what you’re doing and you’re wondering why your starts/followers/views aren’t going up. I’ve been there too – I’ve had some bad days for traffic and I’ll be sharing that too, and I’ve made Pinterest mistakes. Check out my 2.2 million impression on Pinterest in 30 days

 

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Ever had pins that get a ridiculous amount of impressions and no clicks? This used to happen to me often where I would get 200K-400K impressions and less than a 100 clicks. The text wasn’t large enough, it didn’t have a clickable look. I had no idea what I was doing and it showed.

 

I changed this by making mutiple designs and checking with a friend if they would click on it based on the image/colour/text. If you’re struggling to figure it out then I really recommend doing this.

 

 

Keywords are what I struggled with the most when starting with Pinterest, there’s no list of what you should use and I found it hard to find ones that worked. I also found it really hard to find keywords that gained traction. I ended up taking some of the tips I’ve learnt from Nele’s Keyword Research For Bloggers and used this as a way of finding better hashtags – the course is for SEO but it worked for me. 

 

I really recommend checking the Trending Page when you’re looking for new content to make, as pins posted in the trending always gain an incredible amount of clicks in my experience. I personally always focus on the US one as most of traffic is from the states.

 

 

 

I know this is controversial because not everyone believes that group boards are worth it. But, I’ve always seen an increase in traffic and in impressions from posting. Niche specific boards will help most, but there are some really engaging group boards out there. If need some to join, here are the group boards I run.

 

Blog Post Share Group Board 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve mentioned this before in my Pinterest posts, but timing is literally everything. By deciding you’re going to use tags that are trending for the US then you need to make sure to be posting at US times. I rarely post on Pinterest during the UK day time because my pins gain fair more traction from an American audience.

 

If you’re using tags more aimed at an UK audience then you need to post at a UK time. I’ve also found consistency is everything – the more consistent I am the better my views are.

 

 

If you have any questions, leave them in the comments and I will get back to you! Thanks for reading. Also if there is any specific sort of blogging tips or Pinterest post you’d like to see please suggest them in the comments!