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Can you still build a dropshipping store on organic pins alone, or is that a 2021 story?
General store, no ad budget. I've made about 40 pins over six weeks and I have 12 outbound clicks total. Every guide says Pinterest…
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saves tripled this quarter but outbound clicks are completely flat
Craft and sewing blog. Saves went from about 1,200 a month in June to 3,900 in September. Outbound clicks have been parked between 3,900…
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are hashtags dead on pinterest or just not recommended, because those are different things
Pinterest pulled hashtag advice out of their own guidance a while back and as far as I can tell never explained why. But every…
ninapins 4
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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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rich pins putting my post title in the description field and leaving the title blank
Started maybe three weeks ago on everything new I publish. og:title and og:description are both present, I've checked the rendered HTML not the plugin…
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sections inside one big board vs 8 separate boards — does pinterest treat them differently
My "Crochet Patterns" board has around 900 pins and is completely unusable for a human. I can either break it into sections (baby, blankets,…
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Is 2:3 still the actual recommendation or am I following a 2021 blog post?
Every guide I open says 1000x1500, but half of them are recycling the same paragraph from years ago and I genuinely can't tell what's…
Hannah L 4
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Faces in pins - I've now read both that they help and that they hurt
Found a study saying images without faces get repinned more often, then found three recent posts saying the opposite, that pins with people in…
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People keep telling me to have Christmas pins live by August. That cannot be right?
I write a gift guide blog. Last year I published my main guides October 20th and they did basically nothing until December 8th, at…
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does renaming the jpg before upload do anything or is this a 2014 tip that won't die
Every checklist still has "name your file easy-banana-bread.jpg" on it. I've never seen a single person show evidence it matters, and I'd assume the…
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Feature idea: auto-pause the queue after two publish failures in a row
Token got revoked on a Monday. My scheduler kept happily firing 30 pins a day into the void until Friday. 140 pins gone, and…
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i have about 1,400 pins with under 50 impressions, does deleting them help or hurt
Five years of pinning, a lot of it from the group board era when I did not know what I was doing. Roughly 1,400…
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8 months in: 3,047 outbound clicks, $61.40 in affiliate commission. The unglamorous version
I see a lot of screenshots of monthly views and almost none of the actual money, so here's mine. Niche is budget home office…
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Do UTM parameters make each pin look like a different link to Pinterest?
I tag every pin as ?utm_source=pinterest&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign= so I can tell in GA4 which specific design drove the click. My worry: if the destination URL…
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Wedding photographer, I only shoot one metro. Is Pinterest pointless for me?
Everything I read about Pinterest for weddings assumes you want national reach. I don't. I want maybe 22 bookings a year from people who…
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has anyone actually measured a before and after from claiming their domain
I claimed my main site two years into blogging so I have no clean comparison. Every guide asserts that claimed domains get more distribution…
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What is the real daily pin ceiling before Pinterest throttles you?
I've now read that the safe number is 5, 15-25, "under 50", and one guy on Quora swearing he does 1k/day across accounts. I…
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Pinterest put an AI label on a photo I actually took myself
I shot it, edited it in Lightroom, healed out a power cable, cropped it. That's the whole edit. It's now carrying an AI modified…
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One month of AI images on a real account, and the comments I got
Small travel blog. I tested AI hero images for a month, mostly because I couldn't afford to actually fly anywhere. Twelve pins, marked as…
Jenna M 4
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Introduce yourself: what you pin, how long you've been at it, one thing you wish you'd known
Figured we could use a proper introductions thread. Me: Priya, three years in, I pin about capsule wardrobes for people who hate shopping. Started…
Priya R 5
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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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impressions went from 410k to 58k in about three weeks and i changed nothing
Home decor blog, been at this since 2023. Around June 10 my daily impressions started sliding and by the first week of July I…
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how do you tell a real penalty from the algorithm just reshuffling you
Down about 70 percent over five weeks with no notices, no removed pins, no emails. Half the internet says shadowbans are not real and…
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how long do you wait before deciding a pin is a dud
I check every new pin at 48 hours and mark the ones under 100 impressions as flops so I know which designs to stop…
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