How to Massively Increase Your Pinterest Views

**Updated Post May 2019– look for starred text**

One thing I know for sure is that Pinterest is a surefire way to get traffic to your blog. But, before you can start driving those click-thru’s you’ll need to increase your Pinterest traffic first. And that starts by upping your Pinterest profile views, impressions and engagements.

My strategies at this point are quite simple, but not everyone knows these tips and secrets, which is why I want to share them with you. So read on and find out how you can increase your Pin-profile traffic too!

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If you follow these same intentional, calculated steps I have (and that I continue to do), there shouldn’t be any reason you can’t also experience the same success with your own Pinterest profile and, in turn, with your blog.

Here are my key strategies:

#1- Pin Every Single Day

First and foremost, my biggest tip to increasing your reach on Pinterest is just to pin– Every. Single. Day. Seriously!

**And this is my biggest edit as of May 2019. Because Pinterest has been making more changes into how their algorithm works and what worked last year, won’t work the same way this year.

**For instance, everything that follows in this tip is still true. BUT, the change you want to take note of is that you need to keep creating FRESH pins, even if they link to the same content.

**Pinterest is going to reward the newest content by pushing them up in the views. You’ll also want to remember to mix up the design, colors, text, images and hashtags in your pins.

**Yes– Hashtags are a big deal on Pinterest now! It took them a while to catch up, but it matters now. But one thing to note, because Pinterest favors fresh pins, going back and adding hashtags to old pins will not help.

**Here’s a video that explains how you can find the best hashtags to use in your Pins:

I’m sure it does matter as to the times of day that you pin, to get the best, most optimal views. But from my experience, that matters less than just being consistent and pinning every day.

Just as you need to remain consistent with posting on your blog, updating and/or creating new products or working on your own business in any way, you cannot let Pinterest go by the wayside if you want to grow.

Before I launched my blog, I had primarily only used Pinterest when I was bored, or looking for sewing ideas or recipes.

It wasn’t until I started really learning about and getting into blogging, that I understood the power that Pinterest holds.

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I thought it was just to save my “virtual ideas”, like on a regular cork board. Because it’s actually a very powerful, visual search engine. It is that, but it’s also a way for you to start marketing yourself and your brand, to become known, if that’s what you want to do!

When I started REALLY using Pinterest again this past September, I very carefully, and purposefully started using it DAILY.

As I began consistently pinning, anywhere from 10-50 pins a day, I started to notice that my views and engagements were going up significantly every few days. (More on that below!)

However, I don’t recommend trying to pin everything each day, all at once. Just do some every few hours if you can. Like 5-10 pins at a time, and by the end of the day you’ll have pinned all you need to.

#2- Use a Scheduling Tool

There are so many posts on Pinterest about using Tailwind, and it’s super helpful, so I do have an account. However, I’m on the free plan and I only used the “full suite” of services there for the month of my 30-day free trial (which was worth it BTW).

If you click through my link, you’ll also get a free month of Tailwind Plus to try out– you can cancel after your trial period ends if you want, no strings attached. It’ll also help me out too, so it’s a win-win!

And, to be honest, it really does have a lot of value. The scheduling tool for your pins, so they get posted at the optimal times, is fantastic. You can bulk schedule all your pins for an entire week in just an hour or two, and then you’re set. You can further schedule out for several weeks or even months at a time. That’s how most people use it from what I can tell.

And it does help make pinning feel less overwhelming, when you can stop worrying that you aren’t getting enough pins posted every day, or at the right time. Because with the scheduling tool, that’s exactly what you can do.

However, after your first month, you’re going to have to pay to keep using that tool. And as a new blogger or Etsy shop or any business owner, that just might not be financially feasible for you yet. The good thing is, that’s okay!

I am making some money now, but personally I still feel like I don’t need to use the paid features yet, for the time being. Doing it manually definitely works too.

But, I definitely do recommend joining Tailwind Tribes though. You can still use that for free, even if you aren’t using the paid scheduling feature after the free trial.

Tribes are free all the time. I recommend joining all 5 tribes that you are allowed to with the free option. Try to join those that have several thousand members and are highly active, especially within your niche.

And yes, you absolutely want to take advantage of the 30 pins that you can post to your tribe’s boards for free every month. You can pin more than that with a paid account, but I feel like 30 has been sufficient for me so far.

If you’re more pressed for time during your day, and/or want more exposure, by all means, go for the paid account. And I know there are other scheduling tools out there too, but the one I’m familiar with is Tailwind, so that’s why I’m only mentioning that one here.

Otherwise, if you don’t want to mess with that, at least regularly plan out at what times of day you are going to post, how many pins you will post, and what kinds of pins or to which boards you’ll post.

You can even set yourself some reminders to do it, like on your phone’s calendar or a reminder app, to help you stay on track.

#3- Join Group Boards

**This is the biggest edit as of May 2019. Group boards are still out there and lots of people swear by them. But personally, I’ve found out that Pinterest is now NOT favoring pins posted on Group Boards and may even be disregarding them for pins placed on your personal boards.

**So take the following info with that in mind. I’m still a member of many Group boards, but it’s no longer going to be one of my main focuses. I’m definitely going to be working more on pinning new, fresh pins daily.

My next tip is to join lots of Pinterest group boards! It took me a few months to really figure out what group boards were and how to use them. But, I know now that they have been a significant source of my success so far.

As your own boards are primarily viewed by those who follow you, or who search for a specific keyword that your pin might have in it, your reach is more limited.

Group boards allow your pins to be seen by a considerably higher amount of people. That’s because you’re now connected to all of their followers as well, through them.

I’ve had a few of my pins go viral that way, and I think that’s your best bet to have that happen too. Unless you have just an enormous amount of followers on your own (which you might get!).

I would aim to try to join at least 5-10 group boards to start. You may not get “accepted” into all of them and that’s okay. People are changing their access to boards all the time. Don’t get discouraged, just keep looking for others and move on.

Look for boards that have several thousand members and go for those if you can. You will want to select boards that are in your niche as well. Or, you can go for general “blogger” boards.

In you need additional help in figuring out how to find and join group boards, let me know and I’ll be happy to post how to do that as well.

#4- Find People to Follow

You will naturally start to get more followers the more you use Pinterest and post your own pins, but there are other ways you can up the ante here too.

One thing I’ve tried that seems to be successful in two ways is this: Find someone who has a very successful Pinterest profile, tons of followers, and is preferably in your niche, and click on who THEY follow. Then follow those people too!

Not their followers, who they actually follow. Usually those people are not going to waste their time “following” someone that they don’t get any value from.

Then when you start following many of those, they may follow you back as well. Doing this has also given my own feed better pins, which I can save for my following.

I’m sure not everyone I’ve follow has followed me back, and that’s totally fine. But I have gone from about 500 followers at the beginning of September to about 5,220 followers as of today!

I can’t tell you whether I’ve gained that many due to my pins, my boards, or because I followed them or someone else, or if they’ve just found me organically. That’s the only stat I haven’t figured out attribution for yet.

But I’m going to keep up what I’m doing and I’m sure I’ll continue to see that number rise as well.

With all of the info above, you might be wondering about the proof from all of these activities, right? Well luckily, I started taking screen shots of my stats over the past few months as they grew, for that very reason. Proof!

My Results

Here’s what happened after I began doing the 4 steps I outlined above.

Keep in mind that I started using Pinterest regularly again about Sept. 1^st. The first graph shows the number details of my average monthly viewers and engagement as of Sept. 10^th, 2018. (See that bottom number in the middle of the image.)

Um, 342, really? Yeah, you are reading that right! I had about 342 monthly viewers to my profile at that time, and about 11 “engaged” users. Yikes!

(I don’t like to refer to the numbers on the left side as they are an average for the period of time range that you’re looking at, so they kind of skew things.)

This second graph below shows where I was by the end of October, after only two months of using Pinterest daily!

I went from 342 viewers to almost 38k monthly viewers! That’s crazy right? Well it just continued to get better. After another two months, at the end of December, look where I had grown to…

WHAT?? That is seriously crazy right?? In a matter of 4 months, I had grown my profile by 49,000%. That is not a typo….49 thousand percent, from 342 to 168k.

And I am pleased to say that it has continued, and this is where I’m at as of Feb. 9^th:

Conclusion

Now that you know my best tips, please note that I do not claim to be a Pinterest expert. (At least not yet!) And I know there are some fantastic courses out there that you can purchase and use and they probably have amazing information too. If you are interested in trying those out, please do!

I have not taken these courses personally, but I do hear that Pinterest Avalanche is really great and Melyssa Griffen’s Pinfinite Growth course.

But, I hope this has been helpful as you work on your own Pinterest profile improvement.

Lastly, keep in mind that Pinterest changes their algorithm regularly too, just like Google or anyone else, so dips will be a normal part of the process at times. Don’t worry though, if it’s happening to you, it’s probably happening to everyone!

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