Anyone can start a blog nowadays. But, after you publish your blog to the world, there is a common question that every blogger should have.
How do I grow my blog traffic?
And the quick answer is using Pinterest traffic!
When someone has started a Blog, almost they tend to do SEO to grow their blog traffic.
Learning and doing SEO is a must for long-term success but it may take time.
But, Pinterest will really help you to drive traffic to your blog.
Seriously, it doesn’t cost you any money. It would be a perfect place for you to target a good audience related to your niche.
In this article, I walk through to show you how you can also grow your blog traffic using Pinterest without spending your hard-earned cash on paid ads!
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1. Make Your Pinterest Profile Perfect
First, If you are going to use Pinterest traffic as your blog traffic source, you have to convert your personal Pinterest account to a business account. Click on the Menu icon (triple dots) at the left top corner and choose “Add a free business profile“. Complete up your business account for free by giving your profile a name and all the related info.
Or, directly Go to pinterest.com/business/create.
- Choose your name: You must set two names on Pinterest: your profile name and the username. I used my blog name as my default username and my profile name is something different here. It will really help me to get more from Pinterest because people are knowing what kinds of things are related to my Pinterest profile. That will help you increase your followers as well.
- Profile bio: Briefly introduce your blog and what you’re doing on Pinterest. Use some keywords in your bio.
- Claim your blog: Claiming your blog really important to you to get verified and Analytics for your content pinned on Pinterest. To do this, follow this simple guide. It’s a must-do thing on Pinterest for bloggers. Yes, it’s a must!
2. Create Pinterest Boards Related to Your Blog
You Can create Pinterest boards related to your blog content. This will help you get more traffic to your site and increase your reach.
To create Pinterest boards related to your blog, first, choose a catchy name for your board. Then, decide what kind of content you want to include on the board.
For example, if you have a cooking blog, you could create a board called “Recipes” and pin all of your recipes onto it.
Once you’ve created your board, start pinning content from your blog onto it. Be sure to include a link back to your blog in each pin so that people can easily find your site. You can also share your boards with other bloggers and ask them to share their boards with you.
3. Create Pins That Getting Pinterest Traffic
There are different kinds of pins are available on Pinterest. Maybe if you create a pin about chicken recipes, see how many recipes you can find out on Pinterest. You could see so many pins.
That means your pin should look great and catchy to drive more traffic to your blog.
Moreover, I always use Canva to create Pinterest pins easily. It’s totally free and you’ll be able to direct posting to Pinterest via Canva.
Create more pins and pins every day to drive more Pinterest traffic.
The free version of Canva allows you to use the main features with a kind of limitation. But, I highly recommend you to go with Canva Pro 30-Day free trial to get more from it.
Also, you can use free stock images to create your own pins. But there are many same pins with the same stock image, you can choose different angles and positions when you’re using stock images or you can use a stock images market like Shutterstock to purchase stock photos for the lowest prices.
4. Use Rich Pins
Rich pins are great for users to think if they should click on your pin for more details on a product, article, and recipe published on your blog.
It’s easy to identify rich pins by the extra information above and below the pin on a closeup and the bold title in the grid. See how to apply for rich pins.
5. Install Save Button on Your Blog
Using this save button, any visitor can able save any image from your blog to Pinterest directly using it. If someone saved an image to Pinterest, another Pinterest user will come from that saved image easily to your blog.
Get it from here.
6. Make Your Site Mobile Responsive
Most of the Pinterest traffic will come from mobile devices worldwide. So, you should have to make sure your blog is responsive to every device. If your blog is not mobile responsive, users will be probably left your blog usually.
Astra WordPress Theme is one of the best themes for WordPress I have ever used.
It is free to install and run on every kind of WordPress site that offers amazing performance and customization options.
7. Join Group Boards to Get More Pinterest Traffic
Group boards can show up your pins in front of more users on Pinterest. A board is shared by multiple Pinterest bloggers, and users, and each one can add or save a new pin to the board.
Group boards are a great way to help you gain more traffic to your blog.
You can simply use pingroupie.com to find relevant group boards to join you.
Final Words
Now you know how to use Pinterest to grow your blog traffic effectively. I’m also still growing on it. So, never lose any good readers from Pinterest, start pinning today, and make value for your content.
Don’t forget to follow @talkbitz on Pinterest!
Happy pinning!
Great info! I'm trying to focus on Pinterest to grow my blog at the moment, so I really appreciate all the tips you shared here! 🙂
Thanks for your kind words, Brandi!
Thanks for this post! I’m just getting started with Pinterest – I heard somewhere that adding popular relevant pins to your boards can get the board more exposure. Is there any validity to that?
I think there will be a good chance of exposure. I’m also pinning other good relevant pins to my boards every day. It really helps to grow your Pinterest profile and board quality.
Thanks for your suggestions. I used Pinterest as a tool to save my favorite images and didn’t understand how the system worked. Later, I found many people visit and link the image. This SNS may bring more benefits than I’ve thought.
Glad to hear that, Chloe!
Minosh this is a really rich guide. I have been Pinning frequently recently. Super way to work my travel images into driving traffic for my blog.
Thank you, Ryan, Pinterest is one of my main source of blog traffic. Creating pins is fun.
Great info. I was just researching Pinterest today on youtube. Thank you for the great info. I really needed this.
Hi Jay, Keep Going.
Thank you so much for sharing these tips! We have been working on growing our pinterest to, in turn, grow our blog. These tips will definitely come in handy and we will for sure be trying them out!
You’re welcome! Happy to you help you.