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How much text is too much on a pin? I keep going back and forth
I write long-form gardening stuff and I keep wanting to cram the whole promise onto the pin. Right now my designs have a headline,…
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pinterest trends has nothing usable for my country — what do you actually use instead
I'm in Portugal writing in Portuguese. Trends gives me basically nothing for pt-PT terms, and switching the region to US just shows me what…
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new business account, 60 pins in, still basically zero impressions after 3 weeks
Started fresh on August 28. Business account, domain claimed, 9 boards with keyword descriptions, 60 pins published at 3 a day. Total impressions to…
Aisha B. 2
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Direct affiliate links on pins vs sending them to a blog post - which actually makes more?
I've been running both side by side for about four months on a home decor account, roughly 40k monthly views so nothing huge. Pins…
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Is Pinterest's own RSS auto-publish actually bad, or is that just scheduling-tool marketing?
Every "turn off auto-posting" article I can find is on the blog of a company that sells a scheduler, which makes me suspicious. The…
Priya R 3
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1,800 outbound clicks to my Etsy shop last month, 3 sales
Handmade ceramics, average order around $48. The click numbers look great to me and reach is fine, but that's under 0.2% conversion, which is…
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20 pins targeting the same phrase — am i competing with myself
One blog post, twenty different images, all titled some variation of "budget bathroom makeover". In Google that's textbook cannibalisation and you'd consolidate. On Pinterest…
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Connected my WordPress site and it keeps grabbing the wrong image
Set up the site connection so new posts generate pins automatically. Roughly one in three picks the wrong image - usually an inline screenshot…
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a pin i made in march 2023 is doing 30k impressions a day out of nowhere
Dog training niche. This pin did maybe 300 impressions a week for two solid years. Nine days ago it started climbing and it is…
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Is "small-space balcony gardening in hot climates" too narrow to ever get anywhere?
That's genuinely all I write about. 31 posts, all containers, balconies, heat, drought-tolerant stuff. I'm at about 900 clicks a month after 10 months…
Nadia R 1
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do pins published through a scheduler get less distribution than ones i post in the app
My numbers dipped about a week after I moved everything to a scheduler and I cannot shake the feeling that the two are connected.…
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Can't get the cover frame I want on a video pin
Longer video, about four minutes. The frame I want as the thumbnail is around the 40 second mark and the picker will not land…
Nadia R 1
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Which affiliate programs actually accept Pinterest as a traffic source? Keep getting rejected
Rejected from two networks this month and both times the reason was some version of "we don't accept social traffic", even though I applied…
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Printables seller: do I send Pinterest traffic to the Etsy listing or to my own site?
I sell budget planners and meal planning printables. About 80% of my sales are Etsy right now. I also have a Shopify store with…
Priya R 1
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B2B SaaS. Is Pinterest just not for us, or am I missing something obvious?
We sell project management software to agencies, ~$79/mo. Marketing lead here. My CEO keeps forwarding me articles about untapped Pinterest reach and I keep…
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switched to video pins, impressions tripled, outbound clicks dropped 40 percent
Three months of testing. Monthly impressions went from about 90k to 280k. Outbound clicks went from 5,100 to 3,000. On paper the account looks…
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Are tall pins still safe or do they get cropped now?
I have a handful of step-by-step posts where a long pin genuinely works better - six steps stacked, one image each. They're around 1000x2100.…
Hannah L 0
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How many different pin designs per blog post are people making now?
Old advice was 5-10 designs per URL rotated over months. But what counts as a genuinely new pin seems to have tightened, and I…
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does one off topic board drag down the pins on my good boards
I run a gardening account and I also have one personal board that is basically a dumping ground, about 400 saves of other people's…
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renamed 30 boards from cute names to boring keyword names, can't tell if it did anything
My boards were things like "Cozy Corners" and "Plate Envy". In early July I renamed everything to stuff like Small Living Room Decor Ideas…
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does my blog's domain authority affect how my pins rank or are they totally separate systems
Site is nine months old with essentially no backlinks. A competitor with a much stronger domain in the same niche outranks me on Pinterest…
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Is running affiliate links through a /recommends/ redirect going to get me flagged?
I use a link plugin so I can swap merchants later without editing 200 posts by hand. Someone in a Facebook group insisted that…
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is there an account level quality score or is that just something bloggers made up
Every Pinterest article talks about account trust or a quality score like it is a number sitting in a dashboard somewhere. I have never…
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My text looks fine on export and crunchy after upload. PNG or JPG?
Fine line type, dark text over a light photo. Clean in the export, looks like it's been faxed once it's live. I've been exporting…
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Send the pin click to a freebie opt-in or straight to the money page?
With a decent freebie I can get maybe 8% of Pinterest visitors onto my list. Sending them straight to the post with affiliate links…
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