9 Pinterest Tips for Bloggers to Easily Get 100K Pinterest Views

In this article, I’ll share the Pinterest tips for bloggers I followed that helped me double my views and get to 20,000 Pinterest views in less than 30 days (after which I hit 100K monthly views without any extra effort).

Pinterest is not just a social media site, it’s a search engine, a way to add a new traffic source to your blog and promote your products or services or make a ton of money through affiliate marketing. It’s also a place to form connections, build a brand and stand out with your content.

Why Bloggers Should Be Using Pinterest to Drive Traffic

Every blogger, new or experienced, should be on Pinterest, pinning and re-pinning content, engaging with others, joining group boards, following people, improving their profile, creating pins for all of their posts, and optimizing them for keywords.

I started doing my research recently and now follow some interesting bloggers whose Pinterest accounts get a million views a month, who bring hundreds of thousands of excited Pinners to their blog and then convert a big percentage of them into buyers thanks to a solid monetization strategy and sales funnel.

It’s great and it takes a ton of work. But Pinterest itself helps a lot. In fact, if you’ve been blogging for some time now and want to make money through affiliate marketing or sell your courses, for example, Pinterest is the place for you to do it.

You can even forget about all other social media channels (if you haven’t seen success with them so far). You can leave organic traffic from search engines as it is and stop worrying about it too much. And you can start creating content that Pinterest users will like, will click on and will then act upon. Because they are the Internet users that can help you grow your online business, whatever that is.

Of course, some niches perform really, really well. So if you’re in the Crafts and DIY niche, are a travel blogger or into personal finance or home decor, you can expect a ton of benefits.

But anyone else can get a piece of the pie too. I now focus on blogging, online business and making money online. Although my site covers personal development and lifestyle design too, I give Pinners what they like.

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How I Decided to Create a Pinterest Strategy and Stick to It

I recently took my first course – Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing. It’s by Michelle from Making Sense of Cents who earns over $50,000 a month through affiliate marketing.

In the course, she shares her exact strategies, how she writes reviews and tutorials, the exact steps she’s taken to earn over $300,000 from a single blog post, how she chooses an affiliate product, how to go about disclosure, how to promote affiliate products without being salesy but instead by building trust and being helpful to your readers, and much more.

There are many bonus materials in Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing too, including Pinterest Strategy – How To Receive Hundreds of Thousands Of Visitors From Pinterest a Month.

This opened my eyes for what I was missing till now.

I’m not really into social media and Facebook and Instagram, for instance, aren’t my thing. Not in personal life and not in business. But as a blogger, I knew there was one social media channel I should be utilizing to bring traffic to my blog, gain attention and monetize it when the right time for that comes.

I stopped seeking it though but this course and exploring what Michelle was doing on her blog Making Sense of Cents inspired me to start learning more about Pinterest.

I started doing my research and realized it could have a crazy impact on everyone’s blog traffic and sales.

Here’s some stats to show you why it’s so powerful before moving onto some Pinterest tips for bloggers:

Interesting Pinterest Facts & Stats

For a start, you can increase sales with Pinterest.

It’s the 3rd most popular social media site among US adults. (source)

There are over 200 million monthly active users and they seem to be more engaged than on any other platform as they are ready to buy.

2 million people post pins every day.

There are more than 50 billion pins and 1 billion boards on Pinterest. (source)

Over 80% of pins are re-pins. (source)

People spend nearly 15 minutes per visit on Pinterest. (source)

How I Got 20,000 Pinterest Views in Less Than One Month

That really happened, yes. It gives me hope that any amateur can do it as well. Especially with the Pinterest tips for bloggers I’m about to share below.

I’ve been blogging for years, had a Pinterest account and did pin most of my posts in the past (although the standard images I use for a blog post don’t work there and you need to create a Pinterest-friendly image for each). But anyone who’s starting out can achieve such results too.

In fact, it will be easier for them. I now need to go back to my 1700 articles at Let’s Reach Success, optimize them, add affiliate links naturally, create a beautiful graphic for Pinterest and pin it to a relevant board, then make a plan on how to re-pin it in the future.

That’s a ton of work but it doesn’t need to happen at once. Slowly, I will be giving Pinners a chance to be able to see all my content over on Pinterest and re-pin it if they like it.

In fact, that’s the very first thing you should do after creating a Pinterest profile and turning it into a business account (which is super easy). Without a business account, you won’t be able to see your analytics and have many other of the powerful features of Pinterest for bloggers and business owners.

Here’s how my Pinterest profile looked like after the update: