I asked Twitter Party expert Kelli Miller @momof3boys3702 of 3boysandadog to share with us her best tips on How to Increase Your Pinterest Following.
Here are her tips – and do check out her Most Popular Pinterest Boards.
Someone asked me recently how I grew my Pinterest followers so quickly. You see, this person knew that I was kind of late to the whole Pinterest Party. However, I now consider myself pretty stinking good at it. My following isn’t huge and I really wish it were, but I am happy with it.
Here is a checklist of things you should be doing to increase your following on Pinterest. Do each item on a regular basis and watch your following increase! Unless I say “daily”, I do it a couple times per week!
Step #1 – Daily, I pin things that interest me and tweet that I have pinned them. I try not to go too overboard, but when I am looking for something in particular, I can fill my readers with TONS of fun things. If I find that I am pinning the same types of things, I quit feeding them to my Twitter.
Step #2 – Commenting - Just like with blogs, take some time to comment on some of the things that grab your attention.
Step #3 – Fresh is Always Best! Keep Your Pinterest boards fresh. Update your boards, rearrange them, pin new things to them, etc.
Step #4 – Collaborate! You can allow others to pin things to your board. Get some big collaborator boards and watch your following increase!
Step #5 – Find what people like on your site and do more of it! Seriously, check the pinterest “source” of your page to see what people have pinned in one fell swoop. Then, go in and comment on random pins to thank people for stopping by your site.
Here’s what my source looks like: http://pinterest.com/source/3boysandadog.com/
just remove the 3boysandadog.com part and add your URL!
Step #6 – Be very free with your pinning! Think of Pinterest as a resource and pin what actually interests you or what you think your followers might find interesting! Don’t pin ONLY your stuff. In fact, it is better if you can repin your stuff instead of being the original pinner!
There you go! Start practicing these tips and
you WILL find your Pinterest Following increasing!
Remember to check out Kelli’s Most Popular Pinterest Boards. That page has a button to make it easy for you to follow her there. You can also find out about the Weekly Pinterest Faves Linky Kelli and Susie QT Pies and Crystal and Company offer.
PINTEREST BEST PRACTICES:
There are some of Kelli’s favorite posts for doing Pinterest well:
- Sortacrunchy: Pinterest: A Beginner’s Guide
- 3BoysandaDog: Blogging Basics: 16 Ways to Use Pinterest for Bloggers
- Cafescrapper: How to Increase Blog Traffic with Pinterest
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Hi Friends, I have a question. Is that true that Pinterest Blocking Amazon Affiliate Links?
Thanks before.
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@jerry
1. comment regularly:
Pinterest really only permits 1 comment per 3 minutes. But after you hit that max, in 10 minutes, go again.
2. repin regularly:
Repinning is unlimited. BUT if you repin too often, and you repin crap, followers will get tired of you. You\’ll love what you built.
3. do this 24/7 365 — all the time.
I did this by hand for about 3 days. I got carpel tunnel! So use an app: (click my name above to see it)
Or you can just hire employees to work 3 shifts a day.
Twitter: GrowMap
February 6, 2013 at 6:36 am
Hi Robert,
I’d like to see the YouTube video you tried to share, but the link was incomplete. Hopefully you’ll see this and come back and share the link in a comment.
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I joined pinterest few days back. lets see if these six steps are going to help. Thanks for sharing these tips.
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I haven’t joined the Pinterest following yet but have heard about it from many different people. Sometimes its just about taking that first step!
It\’s really tough to make presence on pinterest and increase the followers but this post can help a bit for everyone who are new to pinterest. I really appreciate for sharing these tips with us.
I was only using pinterest to collect articles which i like at one place. I never tried to increase my follower but after reading your post i will try. Thanks for sharing.
I got addicted to Pinterest way back and now I’m looking at it with fresh eyes. It really has a LOT of potential and they have been traveling in stealth for a while. You don’t hear a lot about Pinterest the business just the pins themselves and that’s what I think is the key to their success. Great post and I will definitely carve out some time to execute these steps. Thanks
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You have shared an Awesome Articles! This post is so interesting and informative. As we know that pinterest is a powerful sites which is more effective in terms of building back-link. It is Image based social media site. I have been wondering how to increase my pinterest followers. really i will definitely use all these tips. thanks for nice post.
Thanks for this post, some solid tips there. I like Pinterest, don’t use it much yet but looking to get more involved as I think the net becoming a more visual place will be a major trend over the coming years.
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Thanks for the great tips. I have just starting using pinterest and am having a lot of fun with it. Do you think this helps with SEO at all?
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Awesome Articles! This post is so innovative and informative. As we know that pinterest is a powerful sites which is more effective in terms of building back-link. I have been wondering how to increase my pinterest followers. really i will definitely use all these tips. thanks for nice post.
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For someone that has not yet gotten started on Pinterest, this is very encouraging information! This makes Pinterest seem a lot easier than I had originally anticipated. In fact, it doesn’t sound difficult at all!
Afraid to say am completely new to Pinterest so hope haven’t missed the boat! Another great article with excellent tips! thank you.
Twitter: GrowMap
August 30, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Hi Mary,
You haven’t. Pinterest is still growing and unless they kill what makes people use it there is still time.
Twitter: JGDCD
August 18, 2012 at 2:34 pm
I’ve been wondering how to increase my Pinterest followers. I will definitely use these tips! I love that others can collaborate. That will make Pinterest even funner!! Thanks!!
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Very useful article, I am not a regular user of pinterest but now I would like to update my board regularly and start activity on regular basis because now pinterest is really good growing social networking and it is really good source of traffic from world wide. This article will useful for me for future activities in pinterest.
Thanks.
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Awesome article ,this will definitely help me to increase my followers in Pinterest
Hey Gail,
Excellent article. It will help the pinterest followers a lot. You have given good advices to increase the following.
Regards,
Muhammad
I have not tried Pinterest yet and if I’m gonna try it, I’ll keep your suggestions in mind. Thanks for sharing this article.
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August 14, 2012 at 8:34 am
I love Pinterest! It’s very easy to use and is very effective in terms of building backlinks and social media engagement. You give some great advice above and I think to sum it up you can just say the the main way of getting more followers is “staying active” on the site and the rest will hopefully follow.
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