5 Little-Known Secrets to Getting More Traffic from Pinterest with Kyla Sims
Excited to have Kyla Sims with us she is an amazing Pinterest teacher and today she is giving us her Top five tips for getting more traffic with pinterest!
1. Design amazing pins!You need to make sure you’re creating well design vertical pins. (No small orhorizontal images). In order to get traffic from Pinterest, you need to get that 'click'so you should also put a lot of focus on coming up with curiosity-inducing headlinesthat make people want to find out what's on the other side of that pin.Not sure how to create pinnable images for your blog? There is an amazing freedesign studio called Canva.com that I use to create my pins. They have templatesand premade layouts that make it as easy as possible for you to create amazingpins (even if you’re not a designer).
2. Join as many group boards as humanly possible when starting out.Seriously, you can never belong to too many group boards.I cannot stress this point enough! Contributing and engaging with group boards onPinterest will help you reach thousands of followers when you don’t have a ton offollowers of your own. It’s super important that you search for group boards withinyour target niche.When you find a group board in your niche, make sure you browse through thepins and see what kind of content is being pinned to that boards. Be on the lookoutfor spam and off-topic pins. This signals that it’s not a healthy board. If you decideto join group boards like this then the chances of your pins getting seen will be verylow.There is a whole chapter on how to find and join high-quality group boards in theManual Pinning Simplified eBook along with a winning group board strategymasterclass that walks you through it all.
3. Don't just pin your own content.
Repinning other quality pins that are helpful to your audience (that they will repinand click on) is a great way to get Pinterest to start showing your own pins more. Ilike to call this “Pinterest Clout.” Pinterest is always grading you as a pinner. Themore you contribute value to the platform the more Pinterest will reward you bymoving your pins up in the search and smart feed. And more eyes on your pinsmeans more traffic to your site.
4. Optimize your pins and account with keywords.Pinterest is a search engine with a sharing culture built in. Getting your pins shownin the search is one of the best ways to get more traffic to your site. Think of it likeGoogle on steroids. You can easily find targeted keywords by doing a search onPinterest. In the manual pinning simplified eBook I show you how to easily findkeywords that will get you amazing results.
5. Use a mix of manual and scheduled pinning to get the most out of theplatform.Pinterest will give your pins a higher ranking and show them to more pinners whenyou signal to them that you’re an engaged pinner that has lots valuable things toshare. A lot of people get hung up on how many times they should be pinning everyday and if manual pinning is better than using a scheduler? I say that you canbenefit from using both.In the Manual Pinning Simplified eBook, I show you my easy-to-follow manualpinning system that I developed for busy bloggers. The word manual stirs up allkinds of feelings. Like, “ain’t nobody got time for that!” and I get it. Our time isvaluable and scarce.I’m a single mom to three small kids, so I thought I would never find the time to pinmanually. However, I recently discovered a time-saving system that uses only thePinterest app on my smartphone.Using my smartphone to manually pin a few times a day has literally tripled thetraffic to my blog, not to mention I’ve also seen an increase in email subscribersand sales. I go into Pinterest when I’m waiting in the mommy line, cooking dinner,
or right before I go to bed (among other places). It takes me about 3-5 minutes eachtime I jump on and gets me BIG results.
Inside the eBook, there is also a short 15-minute video that shows you exactly howI manually pin (inside the app) and keep track of my pinning right on mysmartphone. You don’t need to use time-consuming spreadsheets or pin tracking,all you need is the Pinterest app and a smartphone.If you want better results from your efforts on Pinterest (or you’re just starting outon the platform) then you need to get your hands on the Manual Pinning SimplifiedeBook. Go ahead and grab your copy today for only $24.