Aaaahhhhh Pinterest group boards. Nifty little things that can explode your blog traffic but can they also make you wanna rip your hair out trying to get onto the good ones.

If you have no clue what a Pinterest group board is or why you should be sniffing out the good ones to join, you want to read through this post with my top 27 tips for using Pinterest to drive traffic to your blog. 

New bloggers struggling with blog traffic need Pinterest. If your blog targets topics that women are interested in, then Pinterest can be a gold mine for traffic. But you’ve gotta know how to work it. I have a whole course that teaches you how to set up your Pinterest to drive blog traffic and income so you can check that out if you’re clueless about Pinterest. Even if you already have the Pinterest basics down but want to learn and solidify your Pinterest game then this course is for you.

So, what is a Pinterest Group Board anyway? Let’s get into that.

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Pinterest Group Board Definition

A Pinterest group board is a board that belongs to someone who has opened it up to collaborators. These collaborators have accepted invitations to pin to this board.

If I have a board on blogging and I want to invite other expert bloggers to collaborate with me on this board, I can open it up to be a group board. Once they accept my invitation to join my board, it becomes a group board and now all my followers can see pins added to my board by these collaborators.

So there were several key elements there I want to make sure you understood.

A group board belongs to only one person, the person who created the board.

All other members of the board are collaborators. When you join a group board and pin to it, your followers do not see the pin unless they are also following this group board.

The followers that will see the pin are the group board owners followers.

This means then that if you have a small following, you can apply to become a collaborator on a board with a larger following. Once accepted, your pin will be seen by all those followers of the group board.

I hope I broke that down easily enough for everyone to understand. I know Pinterest can be a confusing place.

What Type of Group Board Should You Join?

There are several key elements that make a Pinterest group board good for blog traffic. You want to join a board that

1. has a good amount of followers
2. is in a niche that you write about
3. has high engagement or repin rates

Pinterest uses board names to help it determine what a pin is about. That means that adding your recipe pin to a board called “The Best of Pinterest” is probably not doing your pin any good.

Remember that in all things blogging, keywords are extremely important. This is the same on Pinterest since it can be considered a visual search engine.

The number of followers the board has is less important to me than the name of the board. For instance, on my lifestyle blog, I have several strong niches I write about. Natural hair being on of them. I tend to join any natural hair board I can get onto even those with a smaller following than I do because that board is so targeted that all of its followers are obviously very interested in that particular topic.

That means I want to make sure that my content gets a chance to be seen by them.

How to determine high engagement and repin rates of a board is something I teach in Everything Pinterest. You can grab that if you want to learn more about using Pinterest to grow blog traffic and income. Let’s get into the 4 ways to find Pinterest group boards to join.

How to Use Google to Find Pinterest Group Boards to Join

One thing that many people don’t realise is that if you simply search “join my Pinterest group board’ and you’ll find a bunch of blog posts, like this one, that are encouraging you to join a blogger’s group board.

You’ll need to skip back to maybe page 5 or 6 or so of the search results to find these posts because the first bunch of pages will be more along the lines of this post, telling you all about Pinterest group boards and how to find them.

You can also do a search for something like “Pinterest group board for mom bloggers” or “food blog Pinterest group board”

Using Facebook Groups to Find Group Boards

There are whole Facebook groups dedicated to nothing more than listing group boards and finding group boards that are open. Then there are Facebook groups dedicated to sharing Pinterest pins that have a day where they allow you to advertise open group boards.

Do a search on Facebook for Pinterest groups or download this list of Facebook groups for bloggers that help you to grow not only your blog traffic but your social media accounts as well.

Stalking Other Blogger’s Pinterest Accounts

One of the easiest ways to find group boards to join is simply going on your favourite blogger’s Pinterest page and seeing what group boards they belong to. This way you can apply to join the boards they are in.

The problem with this method is that very established bloggers tend to belong to large group boards that are no longer accepting collaborators so this method may not be the most fruitful. In fact, it can be so frustrating.

I like to use the first two methods more since the board owners themselves are the ones telling you their board is open and inviting you to join their board.

How Many Group Boards Should You Join

As much as you can! I am on over 200 and I’m still looking for more to join for different topics as I write. You can have over 500 boards on your Pinterest profile so don’t worry about having too many boards.

Pinterest has also recently allowed you to organise your boards by the date you joined, by name of the board and by drag and drop (so you can say … put your most important boards at the top of your profile) so this makes it easier for you to keep track of them all.

I also have a spreadsheet with all of my boards which assists me in my Pinterest strategy.

How to Create Your Own Group Board

To create your own group board, simply go to the board and click on edit. You will see the slot where you can invite a collaborator.

Owning a group board is a great way to get more followers on Pinterest since in order for collaborators to be added to a group board, they generally have to follow you first.

How to Leave a Pinterest Group Board

To leave a group board, navigate to the board you want to leave, click on edit then scroll down to your name in the list of collaborators and click remove. I leave group boards from time to time when they become spammy and off-topic. I wouldn’t leave once simply because the engagement is low, I’d simply stop pinning to it and focus on other boards.

This board may pick up again in the future and it doesn’t hurt to keep your access to it just in case. Schedulers like Tailwind will help you to monitor the health of a board so you’ll be able to quickly see which boards are doing well. All things I teach in my course.

I hope this post helps you on the frustrating quest to find great group boards to join. If so, please leave a comment below and share it with a friend.

If you’re a blogger, you know how important it is to create eye-catching and engaging content to promote your blogs and attract readers. Promoting that content can be just as crucial as having good writing and keyword research skills. That’s where Tailwind comes in.

Tailwind is a must-have app for bloggers because it allows you to schedule your social media posts in advance, saving you time and energy while also ensuring that your content gets maximum exposure.

Not only that, but Tailwind provides in-depth analytics and insights into your social media performance, allowing you to see what’s working and what’s not. With Tailwind, you can be confident that you’re promoting your content in the most effective way possible, helping you to grow your audience and drive more traffic to your blog.

This is one tool you need in your arsenal if you are serious about blogging and intend to make money with your blog. I am a big advocate for investing in yourself and your blog when you decide to take it to the professional level and this tool is absolutely worth the very minimal investment. 

As bloggers, we have a lot on our plates. Things that must be done if we’re to grow a thriving business and often when starting out we are all a one-man show. This tool takes some of your very important tasks, like sharing your content strategically around, and automates it for you so that you can concentrate on other areas of your business.

A must-have!

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Why You Need a Pinterest Scheduler

In order to grow your blog’s traffic quickly, I recommend using Pinterest to share your blog posts with millions of users searching Pinterest for content every day.

Pinterest is a visual search engine that will deliver large amounts of traffic to your blog if you know how to work the platform properly.

Getting traffic is much easier to do and the results are much quicker than search engine optimization which is why I always recommend that bloggers learn how to work the platform. Check out this post if you’re just getting started with Pinterest marketing or take my Pinterest course if you’re ready to uplevel your blog and really make some money online. 

 Tailwind is an app that allows you to schedule pins on Pinterest and posts to Instagram directly.

The features and analytics inside the tool are top-notch and allow you to strategize and make the most of the time spent blogging and marketing your content.

Imagine being able to spend a few hours each month scheduling your whole month out, freeing up your time to concentrate on other blogging tasks such as creating killer content.

Pinterest is my top traffic driver to my blogs and so I’m super grateful that I can schedule my pins using a Pinterest-approved scheduling tool to make my life easier and maximize that traffic even more.

I also make most of my affiliate income online through Pinterest so you can be sure that Tailwind is a huge part of my income-earning strategy.

Here’s how I integrate this Pinterest scheduling tool into my blog marketing efforts to get the most bang for my buck.

How to Automate Pinterest Using Tailwind

Head to Tailwind and sign up for a free trial. You’ll be given 100 pins to schedule and no set time to use them!

After you’ve signed up, you’ll be prompted to connect your Pinterest account to the tool and download their browser extension. The extension makes scheduling super easy so grab that.

The Tailwind dashboard has a few insights that are very useful to help you keep your Pinterest account in top shape and a bird’s eye view of your analytics.

It’s a good idea to look at these first before you begin scheduling anything.

If for instance, you have a board that is without a description, Tailwind will highlight this for you in the dashboard as I’ve shown above. This post explains why your board descriptions are a critical part of your Pinterest SEO strategy.

I can also see right away how many repins I have received this week versus last week and how many of those repins are from my website. This gives you a quick look at your growth from week to week.

First Step: Set Up Board Lists 

Board lists allow you to group all your related boards in one list. This helps you to schedule one pin to many related boards, whether group boards or your own boards, in one click. 

Your pins will go out to all your boards in an interval set by you. This helps to avoid having your profile look spammy by sending out your pins to all your boards at once. Instead, this makes it super easy to trickle it out over time and in between other pins.

You can find boards lists on the menu to the left under “Publish”

You can see that I have all my relevant boards grouped by niche and I also have my general niche boards in several of the same lists. This means I can schedule my parenting pins to all my mommy and general group boards in one go.

Take some time to set up your board lists inside Tailwind once you sign up for your account. (Using that link not only gives you your first 100 pins free, it also give you your first month free should you love Tailwind as much as I do and choose to sign up for a paid plan! SCORE!)

You’ll notice that I highlighted the iOS mobile app and browser extension buttons on this screen. These will come in quite handy later on in this Tailwind tutorial.

Step 2: Set Up Your Tailwind App Smart Schedule

After setting up your board lists, you’ll want to head over to your schedule and set things up. It’s right above the board lists under “Publish” in the menu. Mine is already all setup but when you’re new it will take you through a few things in the getting started menu to the right to help populate your time slots.

Over time, Tailwind will analyze your account and begin to give you suggestions to add to your schedule for times that you usually get high repins. You can simply click on these to add them to your schedule.

If you’re on the yearly Tailwind plan, you can pin an unlimited number of pins so you can add these to your heart’s delight. The monthly plan gives you 400 pins per month.

Step 3: Filling Up Your Pinterest Scheduler

Now, you’re ready to fill up your schedule and begin pinning automatically. You can schedule pins from anywhere with the Tailwind browser extension, quite a nifty tool. In the image above, I am scrolling my Pinterest smart feed and notice a pin that could use some love.

It’s been a while since I’ve pinned this pin and it’s very important to keep repinning your own pins so I’m going to schedule this pin to go out over all of my “How to Blog” boards on my blogging boards list. Click the little Tailwind button highlighted in the pic above and this screen will pop up:

Clicking in the “Type a Board Name” box shows me all my board lists at the top. It also shows you how many boards are on each list.

I click on my “How to Blog” list and it populates the field with all the boards in the list. This allows me to remove any boards that I may have recently pinned this pin to. You can see here that I’ve already pinned this pin to a few boards, highlighted by the yellow box around them.

By clicking on the yellow exclamation button highlighted in the above screenshot, Tailwind will tell you when last you pinned this post to this board.

That’s great to help you determine whether or not it’s OK to go ahead and pin it to this board again, depending on how much time has passed.

At the bottom of the list of boards, it will have two buttons: Schedule Now and Interval. Click on interval first so that your pins do not go out one behind the other to all your boards. Interval has several options.

It allows you to utilize either the next available time slots in your queue, only optimized time slots, or exact time slots if you want to control this.

Click on one, set your interval, and schedule your pin. I have my interval above set at every 12 hours. You’ve now scheduled one pin to go out across several boards over time and won’t have to worry about adding it to your group boards individually.

Once you’ve installed the browser extension, the Tailwind icon will come up not only on Pinterest but also on any blog or website that you are on, allowing you to quickly and easily schedule 3rd party pins to your Tailwind queue.

Even Better Than Pinterest Automation: Tailwind Tribes

Inside the same little schedule window, there’s a button to add your pin to tribes. Before clicking on schedule, click on this button to also submit your pin to your tribes as well.

What are Tailwind Tribes?

Tailwind Tribes are like Pinterest Group Boards on steroids. A tribe is a group of people who commit to sharing each other’s pins. Whereas a group board is great for exposing you to one group board owner’s audience, a Tailwind tribe will expose to a whole group of pinners who have committed to pinning your pins.

It’s much easier to stay fair in a tribe since the tribe owner can easily see your ratio of pins submitted to the tribe vs pins from other tribe members that you have shared. If they’re like me, they stay on top of kicking out people who are unfair, adding pins to the tribe but not sharing equally.

I get a good amount of traffic from my Tailwind Tribes! Here’s an invite to join my tribe for all niches. This is a Tailwind summary email showing a snapshot of what my Tailwind Tribes were doing when they were new.

Notice that some tribes get way more repins than others. These are probably tribes you want to join to boost your traffic!

Shuffling Your Tailwind Queue

When I just started using Tailwind, I always forgot to click the interval button when scheduling my pins so would have all my pins lining up one after the other inside my Tailwind queue.

To quickly fix this, go to your Tailwind schedule and hit the shuffle button, then all will be right inside your Pinterest non-spammy profile world again.

Above you can see inside my queue that the same pin is scheduled to go out today to a couple of my boards but will be separated by other pins so my profile won’t look like a spammy repetitive profile.

Getting Your Pinterest Strategy Right for High Blog Traffic

Believe it or not, there’s still so much more to utilize inside the Tailwind app.

Things like the board insights and a 3rd party pinning strategy I use to pin to the right boards at the right time for the most bang for my buck.

As bloggers, especially if you’re a blogger who isn’t yet making enough money on your blog to outsource all the things yet to a virtual assistant, it’s important to have a solid strategy for all your efforts.

This is especially important when using a paid tool so you’re not just shooting the air hoping that something gets hit, potentially wasting money.

My complete Tailwind strategy can be found in my Pinterest course. I include video demonstrations to show you exactly how to use Tailwind to automate Pinterest and grow your blog traffic rapidly. 

If nothing else, invest in Tailwind and a good Pinterest course to grow your blog into a serious, profitable business. 

If you’re tired of creating incredible content every day that’s not being discovered or making you any money, this course will help you to tip the scale in your favour, finally.

I truly hope you found value in this post and will pin it to your audience! Do you currently use Tailwind to help you with Pinterest? Whats your current Pinterest strategy like?

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You may or may not have heard that Pinterest can drive massive amounts of traffic to your blog.

It’s true.

Pinterest is the one social media platform that doesn’t make it excruciatingly difficult to get your content out in front of hundreds of thousands of people relatively quickly.

When you’re a new blogger, you need traffic relatively quickly.

When I was on the come-up, I scoured hundreds of blog posts, took Pinterest courses, and read Pinterest e-books to get my traffic game on point. I was determined to get the numbers other bloggers bragged about getting from Pinterest.

When I finally cracked the code, it felt good as hell. My efforts were finally paying off and my pocket was loving it. So I wrote the guide I wish I had when I was just starting out. It would have saved me A LOT of time and a whole lot of money.

Let’s Start With Getting Your Profile Pinterest Everything Ready

Read this post first if you’re completely new to Pinterest. It explains what Pinterest is, why you need it and how to set it up properly to get the most out of all the features.

Now let’s get into some tips.

1. Remove Off-Topic Boards

If you’re like me then you’re converting a personal Pinterest account to a business one to use for your blog. If not and you’re starting brand new, then you can skip this tip.

I had a bunch of boards on my personal profile that were very random and had nothing to do with what I blog about. Things like home decor, wedding and my vision board. I still wanted these boards for my own personal use but I made them secret so I would be the only one with the ability to see what’s on them.

Tidy up your boards by removing the unwanted or off-topic boards, either deleting or making them private.

2. Create More On Topic Boards

While you’re tidying up your boards, you’ll want to create more boards that are relevant to what you blog about or things your audience would find interesting.

Fill them in with at least 15 high-quality pins from other people to get them going.

3. Create Your Best of Board

Create a board where all of your blog’s pins will be housed. You will use this board as the hub for several campaigns and other marketing efforts further down, but you also want a place where you can quickly and easily find all your pins.

You also want a board that you can showcase the best of your blog right at the top of your Pinterest profile so anyone visiting your profile will have something to check out to quickly see your content.

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4. Arrange Your Boards at the Top of Your Profile

Your boards are moveable. Drag and drop them in order of importance with your best of board as your very first one.

5. Add a few board covers.

This is not incredibly important but it is very useful to me to quickly identify my board in a long list of boards when I’m pinning. It also makes my profile look pretty when it’s visited by anyone, which people who are considering adding you to their group boards will do as well as anyone considering to partner with you for a paid social media post. I only do this for my most important boards at the very top of my profile.

I went lazy and just did my logo on my covers, you could have yours designed in Canva to fit what each board is about. Either way, it’s not that important so don’t spend forever on them.

6. Add Keywords to Profile Name, Bio and Boards

The importance of keywords are explained in my Everything Pinterest course where I give you the breakdown of Pinterest SEO. You’ll need to understand Pinterest SEO in order to get your pins at the top of the smart feed for relevant search terms. Here are a few basic tips.

7. Make your profile picture on brand

I use this same profile picture across all my social media platforms to keep things recognisable. If I change it on one, I will change it on all.

My profile pictures used to be my logo however I find that putting your face out there helps to personalise the brand and build a connection with my readers and greater community.

8. Make Your Profile a Business Profile

I spoke about how to do this in my Pinterest post here. Converting your existing account or setting up one as a business profile from the get-go gives you access to analytics and rich pins. You’ll need these.

You can also promote pins via a business profile if you need to.

Adding Pinterest Group Boards

Once you’ve set up your profile and have filled it out with your own pins and pins from other people onto your relevant boards, it’s time to start applying to group boards.

Group boards will be the key to your traffic success on Pinterest. It gives you access to someone else’s audience, which might be quite larger than yours. To get on a group board, you’ll need to ask the owner to add you as a contributor to their board. If they agree to do so, you will now have the ability to pin your pins to their boards with their much larger audience.

Here are the tips you’ll need to know when it comes to group boards.

9. Finding Relevant Pinterest Group Boards

When I just started out, I jumped on all the general niche group boards I could find, as long as they had a larger audience than I did. These catch-all boards can be great. There’s one of them I love because it sends me a ton of traffic and has over twenty-three thousand followers, but it will be beneficial to also find group boards in your niche.

Now I am in group boards that relate to all the various topics I write about and I am seeing much more traction. The easiest way to find group boards is to visit the profile of a blogger in your niche and see which boards they are in. This will take you down a rabbit hole of boards to apply to. I give you all the details of finding relevant, quick moving group boards with high repin rates in my Everything Pinterest course. Not all group boards are worth your time.

10. Start Your Own Group Board

Having your own group board is a great way to get more followers. On Pinterest, if you’re on a bunch of bigger group boards you can get great traffic without a large following, but you still want to slowly build your own following so that your own boards do well too.

Having your own group board and promoting it in Facebook groups for Pinterest group boards in one way I have steadily built my Pinterest following to over 2500 currently.

Perfecting Your Pin Design

Your pin design will be the crux of your success once all of the above is applied. It’s no use being on big group boards if no one ever repins your pins or clicks on them because they’re hard to read or otherwise unattractive. Here are a few tips for nailing your pin design.

11. Choosing the Right Fonts

The fonts you choose can make or break a pin. As a girly girl, I chose a lot of script fonts when I was just starting out. They look great on a design but can be hard to read, especially if they are light in colour and appear too small on a mobile device, which is probably where your pin is most likely to be seen.

That said, you can still utilise scripts as highlights if you choose. Just make sure that the essence of the pin is clear and legible.

This pin, for example, is very simple in design. The most important words are the biggest. The words “right now” aren’t the most essential part of what I’m saying but is a nice addition. Yes, I want to grow my blog, and even sweeter if I can do it right now. So the script simply adds a nice cherry on top.

12. Choosing the Right Size

Vertical pins perform best on Pinterest. The smallest dimensions I recommend that your pins be are the default dimensions that Canva uses: 735*1102. Stay away from square or horizontal pins.

13. Choosing the right colours and images

This is an art that you really need an eye for. Since I am not graphically gifted, I tend to scan my feed to see what catches my eye and use it for inspiration when creating my pins. After a while, you begin to develop your own personal style which should also be influenced by the type of pins that you notice performing really well for you.

Pinks and reds tend to do really well on Pinterest, however I have lots of pins that are darker that take off. Same with the rule of not using faces. I am a lifestyle blogger blogging about hair and fashion so faces are on lots of my pins. One of my most popular viral pins is this one:

So experimenting is key. Bottom line: Make your pins easy to read. Do not try to add text over busy images without some sort of background for the text itself and stay away from too much script.

Unsplash and Pixabay are two places that I like to get free stock images to use for my pins.

14. Brand Your Pins

Always make sure to add your logo or website to your pins. This will help to build your brand. People who are familiar with your brand are more likely to repin and click through to your pins.

It can also help to deter people from stealing your pins, though this is very possible still.

SEO For Pinterest

Pinterest is a search engine and so should be optimized for similarly to Google. Here’s how to do that. This is my basic Pinterest SEO strategy. You can get the full picture within my Everything Pinterest course.

15. Find Good Pinterest Keywords

When you start to enter a search on Pinterest, some suggestions will come up. Take note of any that matches your content as you will want to use this in your pin description. Once you’ve hit enter and completed the search, some more keywords will be at the top of the Pinterest search result page.

The buttons that run across the top show the most popular keywords relating to gardening. Choose one or two relating to your post and add them to your pin description.

16. Create Catchy Headlines

The title of your post will be pulled as the headline for the pin so make sure it is keyworded as well. You want to have a good mix of your Google SEO keyword as the first couple of words and your Pinterest keyword being in there as well (if it’s not the same thing)

Refer to this post on how to identify your Google SEO Keywords.

The headline that you use on the image itself should make an impact and inspire that repin and clickthrough. Here’s where you can test a different headline than your blog post title, since that title may work better on Google than social sharing.

17. Add your Keywords to your Alt Tags

When you read the SEO post above, you will be able to identify your alt tags and know why they are important. Pinterest pulls the alt tag as part of your pin’s description, so make sure your keyword is in there as part of a flowing sentence or two.

Your Pinning Strategy

Now that you’ve done the legwork of getting your profile and pin design ready and even done some SEO, you’re ready actually get your pins in rotation.

It’s important to manually pin as much as you can so that Pinterest recognises that you are active on their platform. As a blogger, everything you do should be driven by strategy. So it’s not just hopping on Pinterest pinning all willy-nilly, there’s an art to manual pinning that will bring you the traffic that you deserve so check out my book.

You won’t have time to manually pin every single day though but you want your pins to be going out to your group boards every day! For this, I automate my pinning in different ways.

19. Tailwind

I use Tailwind mainly for Tribes and to automate pinning third-party pins. I explained how Tailwind works fully here.

Tribes are like one big group and everyone’s pinning everyone’s pins. It keeps everyone accountable since on group boards you have no idea if anyone is even pinning from the board even when it says so in the rules.

It also opens you up to a much large audience since a bunch of people can be pinning your pins instead of you adding your pin to just one group board with one set audience. Check out Tailwind here to get a free trial of 100 scheduled pins.

Optimizing Your Site for Pinterest Sharing

There’s no use to do all of this work if you’re not encouraging your readers to share on Pinterest. Here’s how I recommend doing that.

20. Adding Share Buttons

Use a social media share button plugin on your blog so that your posts are easily shareable to all the top platforms. I use Shareaholic, Social Warfare is good too. Add buttons to both the top and bottom of your posts as people rarely make it all the way down to the bottom of your posts.

I even have one floating on the side so wherever you are, if you feel to share, you can.

21. Adding Your Pins to Your Posts

People ask all the time where they should add their pins to their posts. Should it be top or bottom or looming there looking large in-between?

To that I say, it really doesn’t matter.

Yes, pins are rather large and obnoxious on a blog post when viewing on a laptop/desktop. But what many people aren’t realising here is that they can change the size of the image inside the post without having that affect the size of it when it’s shared to Pinterest.

All my pins are generally to the side of the words in my posts unless you’re viewing it from mobile which then it really doesn’t look that large anyway.

22. Create Multiple Pins

Create more than just one pin. This is how you’ll know what works best for your audience, by testing what colours, headlines and images work well you’ll best know how to design pins in the future.

Also, when a pin eventually dies down, you’ll want to create another to stir more traffic to that post.

Multiple pins also give you the option for adding your post to many different group boards without having your Pinterest profile looking spammy.

23. Experiment With Pinterest Follow Boards or Popups

One way to experiment with getting more Pinterest followers is by adding your Best Of board to your sidebar or footer or even trying one of those social media popups that bring attention to your Pinterest profile and a chosen board.

I have not tried the popup, I like to use the methods above for getting more traffic and feel like my pop up is best used to encourage sharing rather than follows but you can certainly give this a try.

General Pinterest Tips to Boost Traffic

24. Pin Often and A Lot

You should be pinning every single day just like you want to get traffic every single day. That’s why I use the above tools to help me automate when I cannot pin every day.

You also want to be pinning multiple times throughout the day, not just at one particular time.  Tailwind is quite handy for helping with this. Around 30 pins per day is optimal but with lots of pins and posts now, I pin way more than that.

25. Remember to Repin Your Own Pins

Especially if you’re not using Boardbooster to loop your pins, you want to remember to repin your own stuff to your relevant boards often.

But not your pins from your own boards, pins of yours that other people pin. You find these in your Pinterest notifications where it says “10 of your pins were saved”  or similar.

Go to those boards that they were saved on and repin them to your own relevant boards or other group boards.

26. Keep Track of Your Analytics

In my free blog traffic challenge, I show you how to track your pins inside Google analytics to see what’s trending.

You also want to keep an eye on your Pinterest analytics to see what the demography of your users are, what else they’re pinning and what types of accounts they’re following so you can get ideas for future posts.

Ok. That is Pinterest everything!!! If you couple your Pinterest marketing efforts with affiliate marketing, you will begin to earn significant income from your blog.

I do hope you found this post helpful! Let me know if you did in the comments below and please pin to Pinterest if you liked it!

Thanks so much.

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What is Pinterest? You may think you know, but you have NO idea!

Was that a little cheesy? Sorry.

Pinterest is a powerhouse when it comes to driving traffic to your blog. It’s a good idea to master Pinterest rather quickly if you want to monetise your blog and grow quickly. Don’t worry, it’s not hard to grasp.

What is Pinterest?

Firstly, let’s clear the notion that Pinterest is a social media platform. When was the last time you wanted to connect with a friend and said hmm, let me hit them up on Pinterest? Nah.

What Pinterest is, is a robust search engine made up of visual images that pop up when you type your search query into the search box.

Pinterest’s user base of over 250 million people is 71% female.

What that means for you is holy cow that’s a lot of people who could see your pin and hey, if your blog speaks to a female audience, this is your new play area.

Bloggers need Pinterest because it can drive an immense amount of traffic to your blog very quickly if you master the platform. It’s as simple as that.

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I’ve been pinning i.e. adding pictures to Pinterest from my lifestyle blog for quite a while now and get some amount of traffic from it even though I never took the time to understand Pinterest.

I knew I needed to sit down and figure it out one day because I saw the benefits of using Pinterest. When I finally did, this is what happened.

What are you seeing here? I grew my Pinterest page connected to my lifestyle blog from 29k monthly views to over 115k monthly views in 30 days.

Imagine what having 115,710 people see your pins from your blog each month could mean? And this was simply with some experimentation. Since then, I have actually taken a few Pinterest courses and whoa traffic!

To get started on your Pinterest page, the first thing you want to do is create a pretty profile page. It’s the first thing that people will see when they click over to your page when deciding if they should follow you or not.

Just like everywhere else, a high follower count on Pinterest helps. Even though there are ways to get around this which I love and will talk about further down in this post.

Building Your Pinterest Profile Page

If there’s a section to be filled out, fill it out. Remember, Pinterest is a search engine so you will need to take every opportunity presented to add keywords related to your blog on your profile page.

This means your name, your description, your board names and board descriptions all need to have been filled out thoroughly with keywords that are relevant to your blog niche.

Have a look at my profile page. You’ll see that the name is also filled out with keywords that are directly related to what I blog about. If anyone were searching for people who pin on your relevant keywords, you’ll want to be in the mix. (Update: This is not limited to only 30 characters so make the best use of it as you can.) 

You’ll notice that my description is also a well-thought-out sentence that has to do with my blog. It’s not just a bunch of hashtags or keywords stuffed together. All a part of the strategy.

My profile picture is also a part of this strategy. For the longest while, it used to be my logo. But I realised that on Pinterest, people like to be able to connect with a person. It helps to build trust that I’m not spam but a real person blogging and offering these tips.

Notice that I still stuff my logo in their by way of my t-shirt. All about the branding baby.

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Organizing Your Pinterest Boards

Using board covers as an opportunity to brand your page is an extra step that’s not completely necessary but is aesthetically pleasing. It also offers another opportunity to brand.

You’ll also want your most important boards at the top of your page. See below I have the board that I pin all my blog pins on as the very first board and my first group board I created is there as well.

You can find the option to choose a board cover on the settings page of each board. Simply hover over a board and the pencil will appear to allow you to edit the board.

Claiming Your Blog, Your Pinterest Business Page

I’m able to see all these analytics from my Pinterest page because I have connected my blog to my Pinterest account and turned my Pinterest profile into a business profile.

This also gives you the added bonus of enabling rich pins. Rich pins have more information below the pin than regular pins, giving you a better chance of standing out by way of your branding, description etc. Like so:

If you compare the bottom of these two pins, one has a lot more information than the other. The angry bird pin has no snippet from the blog post where mine does.

You’re also able to see my Pinterest Profile name there so if this person wanted to click over to see what other amazing pins I have, they could. Every bit of information is important to help inspire a click on your pin instead of its neighbour.

Here, let’s zoom into the bottom of my pin so you can see what I mean.

The top part has more information about where this pin originated from and the first few lines of the blog post. The bottom part has the description that I set for this image so that if anyone pins this image from my blog, that’s the description that will go with it.

See how it has the keywords that people will use if I want them to find this pin? Spongebob themed birthday party. All keywords on their own. Then there’s Spongebob party games and decor.

And now I see a type-o in the description so great job there, Mo! (Runs to go fix)

How To Activate Rich Pins

When you started your blog, you would have more-than-likely installed the Yoast SEO plugin to help you to optimize your blog and each post for search engines. This plugin can also help you to activate rich pins on your blog.

Click on the social tab within the settings of the plugin and ensure that the open graph metadata is enabled, like so:

Once that is done you can head to the Pinterest Rich Pin validator and put in the URL (direct link) for any blog post on your blog. Hit apply once it’s been validated, and you’ll receive an email from Pinterest once it’s approved, usually within a day or two.

If for some reason you try to validate and it doesn’t work, it’s probably because the open graph isn’t set up properly. I had this issue when I first tried and had to install a separate open graph plugin altogether.

However, if this is a fresh WordPress install, you should have no issues.

You notice that the frontpage settings of the Yoast plugin are fully filled out as well? This ensures that if anyone is sharing my blog’s homepage and not necessarily a page within my blog, all the information and an optimised Facebook image size is shared.

Take the time to go through all the settings of your Yoast plugin, it is invaluable!

How to Find and Join Group Boards

So remember above when I said that followers are important but there’s a great workaround until you build your own following? It’s the infamous and elusive Pinterest group board.

A group board is a board that has multiple contributors. That’s it really. Well established group boards have thousands of followers which means if you manage to get onto these group boards as a contributor, you instantly have access to these thousands of followers without having thousands of followers yourself.

So even when you do get to thousands of followers, group boards can still be a great resource because it’s a whole new audience altogether.

You’ll know a group board is a group board by the icon on it depicting multiple people. Have a look at what I mean below. There’s a circle with three profile pictures on the group board cover image.

How to join a group board is a whole different ballgame. Some group boards have contact information right in the description, making things super simple.

This is my group board for bloggers of any niche. You can see it here (and request to join.) Two things to note, instructions to join the board are clearly listed in the description.

However, if they’re not, you can also message the group board owner to see if they’ll add you. You’ll know who the board owner is by looking at the list of contributors.

Related: 4 Unique Ways to Find ACTIVE Group Boards to Join

Notice that my profile image is the first one in the list of the three contributors you can see? That’s because it’s my board. Simply click on the first profile image you see in the list to follow the board owner (because it’s always a polite necessity to follow board owners before requesting to join their board) and then you can use Pinterest’s messaging platform to send a message if no info was listed.

They won’t always add you, but it doesn’t hurt to try. Some boards will directly say they’re not open to more contributors. You can still try your luck but I usually simply move on.

There’s always another board to join. By the way, I have since grown my following to over 4000 and have a bunch of other group boards here. See if you’re a good fit for any.

How to Create Fantastic Pinnable Images

So you have your profile all set up, you’ve created several boards in your niche and already filled out these boards with at least 15 pins from others. This gets your profile and boards all filled out and robust and now you’re ready for the next step.

This is to work on some of your own pins. Go to your Pinterest feed and see what kind of images make it to the top of your page. Take note of which ones make you want to click through to their pages or blogs.

What is it about these images? Chances are, it will be the colour scheme, the images they use within the scheme, the size of the pin and the clarity of the words (if any) on the image.

The optimal image size for your pin should be at least 735×1102 pixels. This is the smallest pin you’ll be using, feel free to go a little wider and much longer if you please.

I use Canva to create my images as they have fantastic free layouts ready to be customized. Take some time to go through the fonts and colours to create a template that matches your blog’s brand.

Use this template, tweaked for each post, again and again, to create a branded, recognizable pin style.

Whenever someone sees your pin, they’re likely to recognize and click through if they’ve done so before and enjoyed your content or found it helpful.

Create Multiple Images

Within the context of the branded pin template you’ve created, use different images and headlines to create multiple images for the same post. Test to see which one sticks and receives the most repins and click-throughs.

If you’re on lots of group boards, you’ll want to create several different images so that you’re not pinning the same image over and over to different boards.

Later on, you can assess the success of your pin and decide whether you want to create a separate pin altogether for the post or continue to repin the same image to people who may have missed it the first time.

Add two or three pinnable images to each blog post that you write. Make sure you add the description of the blog post in the alt tag of the image as this is what is used as the description on Pinterest when someone shares your post.

You’ll also want to make sure that you’ve installed social share plugins on your blog to make each post super easy to share. Check out this blogging blueprint where I list all my plugins including my favourite for social media sharing to all platforms. (And plugins you should be using to prevent hackers!)

Two Manual Pinning Strategies

If you’re not using a pin scheduler, you can manually pin daily to get great results.

Simply keep tabs on your pins by adding them to a spreadsheet. On another spreadsheet, you’ll want to keep your list of group boards.Every day, add three pins to these group boards, more if they allow, but space them out.

That way all your pins will be added in rotation to your group boards.

You’ll want to do this at high traffic times for your blog. Usually, that is around late evening but watch your Google Analytics to find this information for your own blog as for me it’s actually around noon.

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Another manual pinning strategy is to pin from your Google Analytics. That’s where the gold is! It’s always best to have data behind your efforts so you’re sure you’re getting the best results from your time, especially if you’re putting manual effort into your pinning. I share my exact strategy using videos in the above-linked course.

Scheduling Pins

Yes, you’ll want to repin your pins over and over again, maybe once monthly or at least once every other month. You’ll also want to break up your pins with helpful pins from other people and pins that you’ve found in other niches that complement your own. How do you do this as efficiently as possible?

By using a pin scheduler. Tailwind is my scheduler of choice because of ease of use, it’s robust analytics machine and tribes included in the platform. I wrote a full breakdown of how I use Tailwind here and all the benefits of using it to schedule your pins.

Tailwind easily lets you schedule hundreds of pins per day and helps you to determine which pins, boards and tribes are doing well for you. It’s how I managed to grow my Pinterest so well in so little time! It’s free to try up to 100 pins so give it a test run.

Tailwind Tribes

So what are these tribes I keep talking about anyway? It’s like a group board, but to me even better. A Tailwind Tribe is a group of people who have committed to sharing each other’s pins.

I’ve joined a bunch of all niche blogger tribes and a few specific tribes relating to my genres of the Caribbean, blogging and fashion. What’s so great about Tribes is that the owner usually has at least a 1:1 sharing rule, meaning you must share one pin to your own boards for every pin that you add to the tribe.

This keeps things fair as it is almost impossible to track this on a group board which can become dumping grounds for pins if not regulated.

On Tribes however, the Tribe owner and their admins can easily see the ratio of each Tribe member and warn or kick them out of the Tribe if they’re not complying with the rules. Here’s an invite to my all niche Tribe for bloggers.

Here’s one all niche Tribe I’m in. From this shot, you can see that I’ve had 25 reshares so far with 1 repin. My reshares have the potential to reach over 99k people based on the follower count of the people that have shared them from the Tribe.

Repins may be low here because all of the reshares may not have actually been published yet. When you hit reshare on a pin inside your Tribe, it is scheduled, not published immediately.

I have quite a few scheduled already so it can take a while for my reshares to actually be published. Or, it could just be because my pins suck, who knows.

At the bottom of the screenshot, you see my pin ratio. I have added 32 pins so far in this tribe and have shared (scheduled) 29 pins from others.

Tribe admins can see this for all members of the Tribe and decide who to boot out, making it very reciprocal. Ready to take the Tailwind dive? Sign up for your free trial here.

Need more Pinterest tips? Get 27 tips to drive traffic from Pinterest to your blog here. 

I hope you found this guide super helpful. If you did would you be so kind as to pin this post? That would be awesome, thanks so much! Please let me know if there’s anything I can help you with on your blogging journey. You can find me helping other awesome bloggers out in my Facebook group here. Come join!

Here to help

~Mo

P.S., Pinterest is great for blog traffic but SEO is better. Check out my best Blog SEO Tips for beginners here. 

P.P.S., More of a Facebook person? My best tips for using Facebook groups to grow your blog traffic plus my 50 favourite groups here. 

One of the most effective ways to achieve this is by joining or creating Pinterest Group Boards. These boards allow multiple users to collaborate and share content related to a specific topic or niche.

In this article, we’ll explore the basics of Pinterest Group Boards, including what they are, how to find them, how to join or create them, and best practices for success. Whether you’re a seasoned Pinterest user or just getting started, understanding the benefits of group boards and how to use them effectively can significantly enhance your Pinterest marketing strategy.

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Go read it right now then come back here for your access to my list of group boards.

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Pinterest Group Boards

Pinterest Group Boards are collaborative boards on Pinterest where multiple users can share and contribute to a collection of pins centered around a specific theme or topic. These boards can be public or private, and they provide an excellent opportunity for businesses and individuals to expand their reach on the platform.

The purpose of group boards is to allow users to discover and share relevant content with a broader audience. Members of the group can add their own pins to the board, as well as repin and engage with other users’ content. This collaborative approach can help increase engagement and visibility for all members, leading to more followers and website traffic.

Using group boards for your Pinterest marketing can offer several advantages, such as:

Reaching a broader audience: By sharing your content on a group board, it can reach a much wider audience than your individual boards. This increased visibility can help grow your followers and increase your reach on the platform.

Building relationships: Group boards allow you to connect with other users who share similar interests or niches, providing an opportunity to build relationships and collaborate with like-minded individuals.

Driving traffic to your website: Group boards can be an effective way to drive traffic to your website by sharing content related to your products or services. This increased traffic can lead to higher conversion rates and more sales.

Overall, Pinterest Group Boards are an excellent way to expand your reach, build relationships, and drive traffic to your website. In the next section, we’ll explore how to find group boards on Pinterest.

How to Find Pinterest Group Boards

First up, the Help a Blogger Out Pinterest group board. This group board is for bloggers of all niches and is the native group board for the Blog With Mo Pinterest account.

My blog’s Pinterest account is very niche specific, as yours should be too if you want your profile to be an authority in your niche. However, it’s important to share content other than your own on Pinterest. That’s the social part of its claim to be a social media network.

When I find interesting content outside of the blogging niche that I think my audience will like, I pin it to this board. Now, you can too. If you’re a blogger and you want to join this board with the other amazing group of bloggers, click here to join.

Note that the link takes you to my Facebook Group as the board is only open to members of the group. The group is very helpful to bloggers, you’ll be glad you joined. I share my best blogging tips weekly plus upload videos showing how to do things like keyword research, SEO and Pinterest strategies.

My lifestyle profile has a few group boards, you’re welcomed to join if you fit into any of these categories:

• Caribbean Bloggers Pinterest Group
• Fashion Over Style – for fashion bloggers
• Loving This Life(Style) – a lifestyle bloggers board
• Blogging Fulltime Tips – For bloggers who blog about blogging, social media, business and the like.
• Parenting – All things mommy blogs.

You must be following my lifestyle Pinterest profile here first.

The Blog With Mo Pinterest account also has a few other group boards that are currently accepting collaborators:

• Recipes to Try
• Crafting and Science With Kids
• Side Hustles and Work From Home

How to Find Other Boards to Join

Finding Pinterest Group Boards can be a little tricky, but there are several ways to locate them. Here are some methods for finding group boards on Pinterest:

Pinterest search: One of the easiest ways to find group boards is by searching for them on Pinterest. Simply type in a keyword related to your niche or industry, followed by “group boards” in the search bar. Make sure to change the drop down in the search bar to “boards” from “all pins”. This should bring up a list of relevant group boards that you can explore.

PinGroupie: PinGroupie is a free online tool that allows you to search for group boards on Pinterest. You can filter your search by keyword, category, number of followers, and more. This method can be hit or miss as it’s bring up loads of archived and old boards.

Social Media: Another way to find group boards is by searching social media platforms like Facebook. Many Pinterest users will promote their group boards on these platforms, so it’s worth exploring. Look for Pinterest Groups on Facebook to start your search.

Collaborate with other users: Finally, you can connect with other Pinterest users and ask to join their group boards. If you have a good relationship with another user, they may be willing to invite you to their board. Facebook groups for bloggers is where you’ll find other people to connect with.

When looking for group boards, it’s important to consider your niche and target audience. Look for boards that are relevant to your industry or interests, and that have a significant number of followers and active engagement.

Tailwind

Tailwind is an amazing pin scheduler that makes it easy to get your pins out on a consistent schedule.

Tailwind Tribes is a feature within the social media management tool that allows users to share and promote their content with other users. The tribes are made up of groups of people with similar interests who share each other’s content to help increase reach and engagement. Make sure to check out my post on how to use Tailwind to increase your blog traffic.

Using Tailwind Tribes can be an effective way to get your pins in front of other people and increase your reach on Pinterest. Here are some tips for using Tailwind Tribes effectively:

Join relevant tribes: When searching for tribes to join, look for ones that are relevant to your niche or industry. You want to connect with other users who share similar interests and can help promote your content to a wider audience.

Share high-quality content: When sharing your content in a tribe, make sure it’s high-quality and relevant to the tribe’s theme. You want to provide value to other users and encourage them to share your content with their audience.

Follow tribe rules: Each tribe will have its own set of rules and guidelines. Usually these are simple, make sure to stay on niche and keep your ratio of contributed and shared pins equal. That means make sure you also share the pins of your tribe members to your own Pinterest audience. Read and follow the rules to avoid being removed from a tribe.

Engage with other users: In addition to sharing your content, engage with other users in the tribe. This can help you build relationships and increase the chances of your content being shared.

Track your results: Use Tailwind’s analytics tools to track your results and see which pins are performing well. This can help you adjust your strategy and focus on the types of content that are resonating with your audience.

Overall, using Tailwind Tribes can be a valuable tool for increasing your reach and engagement on Pinterest. By connecting with other users and sharing high-quality content, you can expand your audience and drive more traffic to your website.

What I love about Tribe is how much easier it is to keep everyone accountable. Reshare possibilities are high with a tribe that’s run well and has tribe members that follow the rules. If you want to try this feature, join the Help a Blogger Out tribe here. It’s for any niche of blogger. You should definitely join a bunch of tribes in your niche as well.

Best Practices for Pinterest Group Boards

Joining and creating Pinterest Group Boards is just the first step in using this feature effectively. To maximize your results, it’s important to follow best practices for managing and participating in group boards. Here are some tips for success:

Choose the right boards: As mentioned earlier, it’s important to choose boards that are relevant to your niche and target audience. Make sure the boards you join or create align with your brand and the content you want to promote.

Be an active participant: To get the most out of group boards, you need to be an active participant. This means regularly pinning and engaging with other users’ content, as well as responding to comments and messages.

Pin high-quality content: When adding pins to group boards, make sure they are high-quality and visually appealing. Use high-resolution images and informative descriptions to capture users’ attention and encourage engagement.

Follow group rules: Every group board will have its own set of rules and guidelines. Make sure to read and follow these rules to avoid being removed from the board.

Engage with other users: Like with Tailwind Tribes, engaging with other users in the group board can help you build relationships and increase the chances of your content being shared. Take the time to comment on and repin other users’ content.

Monitor your results: Use Google analytics to track your results and see which boards and pins are performing well. This can help you adjust your strategy and focus on the types of content that are resonating with your audience.

By following these best practices, you can make the most out of your Pinterest Group Boards and achieve your marketing goals on the platform. Don’t be afraid to experiment and try new things to see what works best for your brand and audience.

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