Social media traffic is great.
It’s even better when it’s consistent.Unfortunately, Twitter and Facebook are not consistent.
But Pinterest is a search engine and a social platform which will work great for you.If done right.
This post has your week 6 tutorial and homework!
How to send more traffic to YOUR Blog?
That’s the million dollar question.Blog traffic needs
- God’s Blessing
- Search engine
- Social media
- Own effort
Today I am going to share one easy way of getting Blog traffic.
#1 Start Pinning with us!
Top 10 Tips to start Pinning
- Open your account
- Make it a business account
- Verify your Pinterest account
- Always have vertical images.Longer the better.
- You can use Canva to make a Pinterest template for your Blog images
Just add a new picture-add the blog post title -your blog name/logo-name the image -download it -compress it-upload on your blog-You are done
- Always use the filter function in Canva to make the image pop
- One of your Board should be the name of your Blog Board where you will pin all your Blog post.This should be a Pinned Board.
- JOIN our group boards and other active group boards(Hacks to find great group boards which are active and right for you, will be covered in the Super Blogger Academy courses)
Rules of using the Group Board
- Always pin your Blog post pin from the main Blog Pinboard (Very important).
- Never spam a group board with the same pin.
- It can blacklist the board and get you removed.
- The ideal rule is not more than 5 Pins a day for our group boards.Take care to repin one pin from the group board to a board in your account with the proper category name.Like Fitness, travel, Books etc .Random and obscure names are not useful
Super Tip for Pinning right?
Pin content your audience loves!
Super Blogger Group board (Pin your posts here)
https://in.pinterest.com/drAmritaHWB/super-bloggers-group/
Lifestyle Group Board
https://in.pinterest.com/drAmritaHWB/lifestyle-group-board/
Blogging Moms Group Board
https://in.pinterest.com/drAmritaHWB/blogging-moms-group-board/
Health Group Board
https://in.pinterest.com/drAmritaHWB/health-group-board/
Even if you have fewer followers by joining group board your pins get more impressions.
You can track your analytics (only available with the business account )
You will know which pins are doing well and more.
Homework this week
Get your Pinterest account ready. We will hold a special session on Twitter with queries (if needed).
Join Pin Boards we shared (You will need to follow us and request to be added.)
Pin your #SuperBloggerChallenge posts and as many as those of your friends as you can on the #Super Bloggers group board after we add you.
We will pin together!
Lesson two Pinterest
Lesson 3 Pinterest
Skyrocket your traffic with Pinterest
Since we made the habit of writing and posting regularly.We will now start driving and attracting more traffic to our blogs.
First up Pinterest
Anyone who is interested in Pinning together needs to understand we have to do it systematically.
- Find the most popular posts on your Blog.This week top 3 posts are all you need.
- Update your most popular posts with vertical images.
- Check your brand name.
- The graphic on Pinterest is best when they don’t have faces and have the colors red and green accordingly Interest popular info.
- Check the Title and subtitle of your Pins.
- Change and tweak the names of your Post on the Pin image.
- Then first pin it on your Blog Board.
- Then pin the same pin on Super Blogger group Board.
- Use relevant hashtags on Pin Descriptions
- For every pin with your URL on the Super, Blogger Group Board pin another pin from a friend.You can also pin useful pin on your Pinterest feed.
- Name your Board appropriately with keywords.
- Remember your Pinterest account should be a Business account to be eligible for getting traffic insights.
