How to Boost Your Pinterest Traffic in One Hour a Week!

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Growing your Pinterest traffic doesn’t need to take you hours every single week.

I understand the hassle and the time it can take to create pins each week, but there are ways you can speed up the process!

Optimize your Pinterest Account

The first thing you need to do is optimize your account by setting it up with keywords.

Keywords are important because that’s how your pins will get found in search and show up on people’s home pages. (Which will give you more views)

The easiest way to start keyword researching is by using the Pinterest search bar to look up some keywords in your niche that you want to rank for. So, for example, let’s say your niche is personal finance:

The first thing you should see before you hit enter is keywords in the drop-down menu. You can start there with those keywords to refine your search if you want to.

But for more keywords, hit “enter” to search for the word.

If you’ve searched a broad enough keyword, you should start to see little keyword bubbles at the top:

Those are the words you want to place all over your profile. You’ll end up getting a ton of options, and not all of them will make sense for you, so make sure to only use relevant ones for the board you are starting!

For example, if you’re starting a board in personal finance about saving money, you may not be talking about “printables” or adding any “Quotes” onto your board, so those words aren’t relevant to you in this case.

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You’ll need to search around a bit and do this for all the keywords you’re targeting to get as many ideas as possible.

It’s important to keep track of all the keywords you find because you’ll need to add them in a few different places:

• Your Pinterest board descriptions & titles
• Your individual pin titles & descriptions
• In your bio
• in your profile name

Each of the blog posts you create will need to be keyword-researched so you can write proper keyword-rich descriptions for them, so this will end up being a ton to keep track of!

Start creating Pinterest pins

Next, it’s time to start creating pins! This typically can be the longest part of the process because you have to design eye-catching pin templates (Or you can just use these pin templates!) and then create all your pins for the week.

But, I’ve done this enough times that I have a super simple strategy for creating all the pins you need!

1. Decide how many times a day to pin

The first step is deciding how much you’re going to pin a day. You don’t need to pin a lot per day. I recommend doing between 2-5 pins a day.

But, we’re going to batch create them all at once, in one sitting, and schedule them out for the week, so this isn’t something you’re going to need to worry about doing daily!

When you get the hang of it, creating and pinning should take about an hour!

2. Choose your links

Next, you need to choose your set of links that you’ll promote for the week.

The idea here is that you’ll pick a few blog posts to promote for this week, and then next week choose a different set of links. That way, you’ll be rotating through all of your blog post links and driving traffic to different posts each week.

You don’t want to pin the same link too many times in a row, otherwise, Pinterest may get bored of sending the same link out to your audience (since they would have seen it so many times in a row already)

This step is where a keyword research doc will come into play.

I organized all of my blog post links inside the doc so they are easy to keep track of, and I know what I want to pin.

If you want to make that process easier, check out the freebie below!

3. Create your pin designs

The next step is to create all of your pin designs for the week.

I use Canva to create all of my pins, which I highly recommend learning how to use as a blogger, and I’ll create 4 pin designs for the week, which will cover all the pins you need to create for that week.

If you’re not good at pin designs, I’ve got a ton of different Pinterest pin packs in my shop that you can utilize! Pin template packs are great, I buy them for my own pinning as well, because it can take a lot of time to create your own.

And if you’re new to Pinterest and not great at designing, you can have someone else design the pins for you! Which makes things so much quicker and easier.

>>Check out my pre-made Pinterest templates right here!

All of the pin packs I have available are designs that I have used for past clients and have gotten great results with, so I know they work and convert really well! Which is great for you, because you don’t have to do the hard work of creating pin designs that work!

Templates are really what’s going to save you the most time when it comes to creating.

Once you’re done creating all 4 of your pin designs, create all your pins for the week using them and get ready for pinning!

4. Schedule your pins out

Scheduling your pins out is going to be super easy because, if you’re using the keyword doc I give away, you’ll also have a spot for planning out your pins for the week, creating the pin descriptions, and all the information will be ready for you.

So all you’ll need to do is copy over the titles, links, and descriptions for each of the pins you’re scheduling for the week!

I use the free Pinterest scheduler (So no TailWind needed!) and you’ll schedule them all at once so that your pins are done for the next week!

I personally schedule all of my pins out on Saturday to prep for the next week, and it is so much less hassle to do it all at once, so you can set it and forget it.