I cannot claim to be a social media maven however, I am fairly proficient with Pinterest. With only a small blog I have achieved over 3 million monthly views on Pinterest, and over 14K followers and increasing daily! I was originally considering creating this as an e-book but instead decided to share my knowledge and experience for free.
I started my current blog Musings of an Average Mom back in 2014, and prior to that I had another blog 101 things to do which I have since sold for six thousand US. So I have been in the blogging game a while. When I try to learn something new I research a lot about the subject and well a lot of it comes down to trial and error of what works (and what doesn't) so in order to save you a year or more of effort I am going to detail exactly how I achieved getting 3 millions views monthly and nearly 14K followers.
Well and if you're there you might as well follow me 😉
Pinterest is my main source of blog traffic which in turn earns me money
through advertising such as Google Adsense and affiliate sales.
So I'll show you my Google Analytics stats so you can get a sense of what
the percentages are.
So the chart above is showing that I get 72.7% of my traffic through social
media.
And here is a breakdown of that 72% - as you can see Pinterest accounts for
99% of my acquisition of viewers. So over 70% of my blog traffic comes directly
from Pinterest.
So now you're like okay we feel you, Pinterest is a great tool for driving
blog traffic but how can I get as many views/followers as you?
When I first started on Pinterest I found Pinterest link-ups and group
boards helpful, now I still use both of these sources to get more pins but my
main method of more than tripling my Pinterest views was Tailwind.
Maybe you have heard of
Tailwind, maybe you haven't but essentially it's a social media scheduler. You
can schedule your pins to post during optimal times throughout the day
automatically. It has saved me so much time!
Tailwind does cost money but if you want to try it out you can get 30 days
for free without entering and payment details here.
LINK
But personally I found the monetary value of Tailwind well worth the cost
as it has given me 5 times the return on what I paid for it - monthly!
I make about $500-$600a month from Goggle AdSense alone and that’s not counting my other advertisers and affiliate income.
How to Install
Tailwind (and Chrome Extension)
So how exactly does Tailwind work?
Well it's simple.
Click on this link - https://www.tailwindapp.com/i/kristenanne28 and you will get $15 off on your plus
membership!
Go to Drafts
Install the Chrome Extension
Choose add to Chrome
Choose Add Extension
And it will be added to
Chrome, to the right of your top search/ address bar
This will also add the schedule icon to Pinterest
Then choose which boards you
want to pin it to.
You can also create Group
Boards in order to save time.
Go to Board Lists > Click to Add a List
Tailwind Tribes
I heard about Tailwind
tribes but didn't really know what they were when I first joined or how to use
them, after seeing my Pinterest views sky rocket I am kicking myself for not
joining Tribes sooner!
Tribes are basically groups
you can join with similar interests, and they expect you to pin at least one
pin for everyone of yours. So you get tons of exposure and also rich content to
pin, as you don't want to pin only your own pins.
Go to Find Tribes
And then you can choose from
popular tribe categories, tribe topics or search your own keywords.
Then you can see how many
members and the activity levels.
For instance I chose Kids
Activities
You can then request to join, or some let you join instantly.
Mine says Add Power Up to
Join because I’m already at 5/5 of tribes which it what comes with your
membership unless you upgrade.
I may actually purchase the
Tribes Pro shortly, as it increases you 30 submissions monthly to 80 as well. But that will be for a future post.
Also don't forget to Pin this as I will be adding Part - two within the month which will be an updated version of my how to double your Pinterest Followers in 30days as well as how to create Pinterest images.
If you join Tailwind using my affiliate link, feel free to ask me questions on my Facebook page, not PMs unless personal info is shared so I can answer questions once. Thanks!
