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How to grow blog traffic with pinterest. Before I started blogging, I used to think that Pinterest was a “picture platform”, yes that’s how I referred to it. I didn’t understand how it worked but all I knew was that it had great pictures. I am sure I am not the only one who viewed Pinterest like this. I never knew that Pinterest was the biggest source of traffic for bloggers until I was a new blogger who wanted to drive traffic into her website. Here’s some few tips and tricks to do well on Pinterest even as a new blogger.

How to create a Pinterest business account?

Before we even discuss the Pinterest monthly impressions, how do you create a successful vusi account on Pinterest that will set you up for success?

Step 1: How to grow your blog traffic with pinterest.

The first step is to download the Pinterest or access it through their website. Click on ‘join as a business’.

Step 2

Insert your email and password and click on the “creat account” button.

Step 3

Insert required information according to the next following steps. Now you should set up your language and country. Insert your business name and select your business type. The next thing you want to do is so link your blog website to your Pinterest business account and then claim your website. You can further connect your other social media accounts to your profile.

Step 4

The nnext step is about running ads on Pinterest. You can click “yes” and if you are not sure yet click “I am not sure yet”.

Now it’s time to choose topics that are related to your niche. Depending on a topic you choose and your interest, Pinterest will add pins to your home feed. Lastly, make sure that you confirm your email so that you can start using your pinterest profile.

How to create good boards on Pinterest

Since you have created your business account, congratulations. You are a few steps away from driving massive traffic to your blog Website or your shop.

Step 1

Ten to fifteen boards is a good start. You don’t want to overwhelm yourself by creating too many boards as a beginner. However creating less than 10-15 boards can be limiting and can cause your growth on Pinterest to be very slow which will result in a lot of frustration.

Name your boards accordingly

When naming your boards, you need to be very precise and try by all means to not use cute or meaningless names or informal names. My particular niche is pregnancy, parenting and lifestyle and I have named my boards :pregnancy tips, breastfeeding etc. When making your boards, you need to make sure that you use keywords in their names to make your boards searchable and easy to find on Pinterest.

A lot of people aren’t aware that SEO is equally as important on Pinterest as it is on Google. Just like you want your articles to rank on Google, you should also want your Pinterest boards to rank in search. There are three important places to include keywords when you are setting up your boards. Put keywords in your board title, category and boards descriptions.

It is highly important to assign each board you create a content category because it affects where your pins will appear on Pinterest search. Like I have mentioned before, boards have the capability to rank on Pinterest search. Therefore you need to think about the keywords that people in your niche are searching for.

How to write keyword-rich board descriptions

Board descriptions explain the content of a Pinterest board in less than 500 words. The are also extremely important for SEO. Your board descriptions must have relevant keywords to help Pinterest rank it in search results. Have a clear descriptive and simple language in your board description whilst putting in keywords. If you are having a hard time coming up with a description, think about what you and your target audience would be searching for around the title of your board. For instance, if your board name is “pregnancy”, your targeted audience could be searching for “pregnancy announcement, pregnancy shoot, pregnancy outfits, pregnancy meal plans”, etc. Now that all your boards are all set and rich in those keywords, you need to start pinning!

How tto create attractive clickable pins

By now I am sure all of you want to know, how do you create clickable attractive pins that will attract your Pinterest viewers to your website.

Step 1

Use clear images. It is so important that you use clear and high quality images in your pins. If you are just putting blurry images, I am sorry but no one will have the interest to see what else you have to offer. For free stock pictures you can use Pexels, Pixabay, Unsplash or Canva.

Step 2

Once yyou have good quality pictures, you need to start creating your pins. Pins with different fonts and font sizes really thrive on Pinterest. Text pins instead of image pins also have a higher potential to go viral on Pinterest. You can play around with colours and figure out which colours your audience likes. Create vertical pins, they do quite well on Pinterest. Try to make catchy captions on your pins that will make people eager to find out more about the topic. Use keywords in your pin descriptions related to the topic that’s mentioned in your pin.

The type of pins that do well on Pinterest are: “how to…”, “list of…” Pinterest has over 290 million users on the platform and they are all searching for answers. If your pins are structured in a way that they answer people’s questions in your niche, then you will most likely succeed on Pinterest.

Make sure that you also post idea pins on your account.. Idea pins usually have the highest number of impressions. However, you can’t insert your website url on an idea pin hence its important to also pin image pins. Before you pin your own image pins, fill out your boards with relevant pins of other users in your niche. Pin about 36 pins to each board before you start pinning your own pins. This should be everything you need to know about how to grow your blog traffic with Pinterest. I wish you all the best in your Pinterest journey.