Pinterest tips?

[dresden]

Trying to get my leak on. Been pinning legit stuff I don't own like crazy and commenting, following, requesting invited to big boards with many contributors... Nothing.

I know it works well in this niche but I'm failing hard. I pin and can find my pins in the search so I do not think I'm ghosted. Any tips?

 

[Sutra]

I used Pinterest for a bit a while back. It took about a month of pinning stuff to start getting people to notice and repin my stuff. Now I get repins daily but I'm not in that niche anymore, haha, so it doesn't matter. Eventually I would like to use Pinterest again for my current niche so I'll be watching this thread.

There was another poster here who was doing great with Pinterest, forgot his name. I posted in his thread to get an update but didn't hear back. He's probably too busy makin that caaash money. Hopefully he'll pop in here with some wisdom.

 

[juliantrueflynn]

How much are you pinning though really? I got thousands of followers on accounts just from doing some heavy ass repinning/pinning, 20-40 each day (dog niche so it's easy mode). Also I like to have 20+ boards at least.

Follow back rate for Pinterest has always been miserable for me so I just use it as a tool to follow people who are really obsessed with the profile.

 

[dresden]

How much are you pinning though really? I got thousands of followers on accounts just from doing some heavy ass repinning/pinning, 20-40 each day (dog niche so it's easy mode). Also I like to have 20+ boards at least.

Doing on avg 15-20 per day for the past week or so. I have 0 followers, 0 repins.

I only have 2 boards. I guess I could get granular and really specific on the boards and build out several.

Edit: The niche on this one is fashion. Both males and females - it's a specific fashion accessory that works for both sexes.

 

[Sutra]

How much are you pinning though really? I got thousands of followers on accounts just from doing some heavy ass repinning/pinning, 20-40 each day (dog niche so it's easy mode). Also I like to have 20+ boards at least.

Follow back rate for Pinterest has always been miserable for me so I just use it as a tool to follow people who are really obsessed with the profile.

Do you pin and re-pin anything in your niche? Or do you do it strategically, pinning and repinning only certain types of people? For example people that run large boards.

And are you pinning 20 to 40 pins a day per category or just total?

 

[MeEatBrains]

Pinterest is slow in the beginning, on my biggest account I start to see some ''decent'' numbers of repins on my own boards after I hit 20k followers. I personally find Pinterest to be the most laid back platform, according to limitations. The thing is, the serious traffic is in the group boards, but when your acc is small they don't want to hear from you.

Once you become big enough, they start to beg you to be part of their retarded communities.

I got a suggestion for you. Why don't you got to fiverr, there you can find people who sell board invitation, get in and join your main acc, then invite in (when possible) your secondary accounts. The schema would be: main acc invites acc 1, then acc1 invites acc2 and so forth. The safest variant for you is to pin with the last account and repin with the others except the main one.

 

[juliantrueflynn]

Do you pin and re-pin anything in your niche? Or do you do it strategically, pinning and repinning only certain types of people? For example people that run large boards.

And are you pinning 20 to 40 pins a day per category or just total?

Nah just 20-40 pins a day. Pinterest has a pinning cap but I forget the number.

The pin boards are niche yes. I put the more general ones towards the bottom of the profile. I focus more on niche though.

No strategy really in what I pin besides content that is 'pinnable'. Like scraping the stuff with most repins and doing that.

 

[dresden]

Do you submit only your own pins (even dups of top content) or do you repin others? Wondering if that is where I am going wrong and I should clickthrough on some and add it myself.

 

[Phenom]

So when I do Pinterest I try to set everything up in the beginning so I can automate it. I am not doing a ton with Pinterest at the moment, but wanted to share how I have done things even just recently.

Board Setup -
Do your keyword research, check out how other top boards are set up and emulate. This to me is the biggest error I see from people. If you do not have the board set up correctly, you will not benefit as much.

(Keyword targeted name, filled out description, and links to pages or if you are a physical store with physical products... put your address on boards that make sense.)

Building The Boards Out -
I always start by doing the first week by hand. This forces me to learn about the term I am optimizing the board for and I get a good idea of what people like and are sharing the most.

After that I bring up an excel sheet and make a tab for each board. I use 2 columns, 1 for the pin I am going to make, and the 2nd column is for the top current pin (from competitors) for each pin I plan on making. This makes it easy to create a similar pin to one that is already doing well without having to do the research process all over again.

Automation -
Now I am not recommending that you guys go buy a bot and start spamming shit unless you know what you are doing. But I use a bot that I have set up to like, re-pin to boards and auto post.

The bot setup is something that will take a bit of research depending on what you get. But here are a few tips to help you:

• - Get a proxy for the state/country the website operates from. This will allow the bot to look like an employee and if they ever review where the activity is coming from they will see the state the website is operating in
• - Set your bot to run like a normal human being during business hours. So don't turn the thing on and have it running all night. The goal of automation is to make everything look as natural as possible, and a typical social media employee might only work Mon-Fri 8-5. So make the bot work those hours as well
• - Do not over kill it. Start slow, just like a natural human would do things. So do not "re-pin" or "comment" on something every 30 seconds, think about it, who does that? Slow and steady is the key to natural growth.

 

[dresden]

Now I am not recommending that you guys go buy a bot and start spamming shit unless you know what you are doing. But I use a bot that I have set up to like, re-pin to boards and auto post.

Would you recommend buying one (is there a good one out there?) or just heading off to code my own with sikuli?

 

[Phenom]

Would you recommend buying one (is there a good one out there?) or just heading off to code my own with sikuli?

This is the current one I am using http://pinblaster.com/. But if you have the skills to code one yourself, I would buy one and see what they are missing and make your own. But pinblaster has worked for what I have needed to do.

 

[juliantrueflynn]

@dresden yea I use some software. I usually don't like to share SMM bots in public forums so just PM me if you want to know it. I don't recommend making your own unless you are already expecting for it to be a higher amount of maintenance on your end for repairs/updates.

Also what @MeEatBrains said is really important and what I should have included. Pinterest starts out slow and then gets a lot easier. I like to hit the 1k pin mark quickly before expecting any traction.