Tips & strategies
What is working right now, and why.
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wrote everything in dutch for a year — the tradeoff nobody mentions
Dutch board names, Dutch titles, Dutch descriptions, Dutch site. Saves per pin went up a lot because the people seeing it were finally the…
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stopped writing descriptions for the algorithm, saves went down, clicks roughly doubled
I used to write the description as a keyword sentence. Switched to writing it like the opening line of the post — a specific…
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What I pin in January so the post-Christmas revenue cliff isn't as brutal
Three years of watching December do about 40% of my annual affiliate income and January come in at a fifth of that. The thing…
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Tips & strategies Solved
A UTM scheme for pins that doesn't fall apart once you're past 500 pins
For a year I tagged everything utm_campaign=pinterest and then had no idea which pin, board or month anything came from. Rebuilt it and it's…
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How I fake an A/B test when there's no real split testing
You can't split test organic pins properly, so stop trying to make it clean and make it honest instead. I change one thing. Same…
Mira K. 3
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took 9 weeks to get back from the june drop, here is what i actually changed
Lost about 75 percent of impressions between June 10 and early July. By late August I was back to roughly 85 percent of where…
Hannah L 3
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Your brand palette is probably why your pins disappear
Every pin the same muted sage and cream, every headline the same medium weight serif. Beautiful board, invisible feed. What fixed it for me:…
JayDee 3
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Tips & strategies Solved
I finally counted my evergreen/seasonal split and it explained three years of weird traffic
I always assumed I was roughly 70/30 evergreen to seasonal. I tagged every post and ran the numbers properly. I was 41/59. No wonder…
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charted 14 seasonal keywords and found out my whole calendar was 5 weeks late
Pulled the year-over-year view in Trends for things like fall porch decor, thanksgiving tablescape, christmas cookies. The lifts start way earlier than I'd assumed…
Jenna M 3
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what i check before panicking about a traffic drop, in order
Posting this because I have watched three people this month rebuild their entire strategy over what turned out to be a reporting lag. compare…
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Finance pinners: January is not a strategy. Here's what I run the other eleven months
Budgeting content absolutely explodes in January and then falls off. If your whole year rides on that spike you're building a business on one…
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The bridge page layout that doubled my affiliate conversion after testing four of them
Short version of what stopped being a wall of text: product image at the top matching the pin image exactly, one sentence on who…
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Put your URL on the pin, not your logo
Mild rant. Your logo is a shape nobody recognises yet. Your URL is an instruction. At feed size a small logo is a blur,…
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front-loading the keyword in the first 40 chars of a title — small change, measurable
Titles get clipped in the feed much earlier than the field limit suggests, so anything past roughly the first 40 characters is invisible to…
Jenna M 2
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What I do during the June-August slump instead of refreshing analytics
Fifth summer doing this. Every year my traffic falls off a cliff around mid-June and every year I briefly believe I've been penalised. I…
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My CSV bulk-create workflow for a 200-pin seasonal batch, and the three places it falls over
Sharing because I wasted a weekend on this. Native Bulk Create takes a CSV, caps around 200 items per file, and processing can take…
JayDee 2
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How I actually batch a month of pins without losing my mind
Posting this because the usual advice is "just use Bulk Create" and it skips the part that breaks. Spreadsheet, one row per pin: headline,…
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my keyword workflow, 20 minutes, beats every paid tool i've paid for
Nothing clever, but it's repeatable. Type the seed term in the app search bar, screenshot the autocomplete. Tap the seed, screenshot the guided search…
Priya R 3
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