Making Pinterest My Top Traffic Referral Site
When I first signed up for Pinterest in 2012, I set up a personal account and used the program for the pure sense of the word fun. I mean, who didn’t get that initial feeling of “Holy crap! How cool is this thing?” when you first logged on?
As I continued to pin a few of my favorite things, I started dropping in a some blog post pins into one of the business boards I set up. Every month, I would check my Google Analytics and every time I’d check my stats, I’d see clicks coming from Pinterest. Within six months, Pinterest quickly beat out Facebook and Twitter as my top traffic referral site.
I was just pinning for fun at that time. I didn’t have a Pinterest marketing plan or a pinning strategy worked out. I didn’t even have a business account!
When I hit my first 1,000 followers, I realized that it was time to get serious about how I was using Pinterest. My site traffic was growing as a direct result of posting on this visual site and I could easily see the potential that this powerful social program could do for my blog and business.
Let’s Be Honest
There’s a ton of people writing about Pinterest to give you tips and tricks to grow your Pinterest followers. And I know, because I read the articles and tried out almost every bit of advice that I could find.
I kept detailed notes and tracked what worked and tweaked the best of the pinning recommendations to fit my schedule. I kept working and changing and shifting my Pinterest strategy until the day came that I finally hit 10,000 Pinterest Followers.
{ I believe I heard the sound of trumpets go off when I saw my followers hit that 10,000 number! }
It didn’t happen overnight or even in just a few short months.
It happened because these steps I discovered worked. I used this process to create my Pinterest strategy and I follow these steps every week.
Because to make Pinterest work for you and your business, first you need to understand how Pinterest works. And now I want to share this process with you!
Why You Should Join the Pinterest Challenge
With so many people pinning to Pinterest, it’s easy for your content to get lost in the thousands of images that get uploaded everyday. And if you’re pinning without a plan, your pins may not be reaching new people or even worse, NOT showing up in the Pinterest feed of the people who have already followed you.
In the 10 Day Pinterest Challenge, we’ re going to walk through the steps to grow your followers and get more traffic to your website. We’ll do more than just give you a list to help you create more engaging Pinterest images. We’ll get into the details of my process to get your content noticed in that overcrowded Pinterest feed AND get more of your pins shared!
One BIG thing to note – this isn’t a beginner Pinterest Challenge! We’re not going to talk about how to set up a business account or to verify your website.
This is for the small business owner and bloggers who are way past that point and want to take their Pinterest account to the next level to grow your followers and Pinterest traffic.
Here’s what we’ll do together during the 10 Day Pinterest Challenge:
- Learn how to use your boards and pins to grow your followers.
- Understand how Pinterest’s SEO (search engine optimization) works to get your account, boards and pins get found.
- Identify which Group Boards work for your business or blog to get more Pinners to share your content.
- Develop your own Pinterest strategy that works for you and your schedule!
Here’s How This Works:
The 10 Day Pinterest Challenge will run for 10 days, Monday – Friday on March 7 – 11, 2016 and then we pick back up on March 14 – 18. It’s a lot to take in so I’ll give you the weekend to digest all the information.
To sign up for the Pinterest Challenge:
1. Join my Peace, Love & Pinterest Facebook Group at facebook.com/groups/peaceloveandpinterest
2. Starting on March 7, check into the Peace, Love & Pinterest Facebook Group for the daily challenge. You’ll get the Pinterest lesson for the day as well as a downloadable daily Pinterest Challenge Resource Guide.
The downloadable Pinterest Challenge Resource Guide will give you more details that include information links, step-by-step processes to follow and worksheets that will help you work through the Pinterest Challenge.
3. You don’t need to give me your email address to sign up! There will be no lists to join or daily messages in your inbox. You just join the Peace, Love & Pinterest Facebook Group at facebook.com/groups/peaceloveandpinterest
4. Not only will you get the daily Pinterest Challenge lesson and additional tips and resources but you’ll also get the support from the other members in the Facebook Group! You can move through this process at your own pace and we’ll all be there with you whenever you have any questions.
Interested in growing your website traffic from Pinterest?
Just join the Facebook Group to sign up for the 10 Day Pinterest Challenge:
facebook.com/groups/peaceloveandpinterest!
