Showing posts with label Blog traffic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog traffic. Show all posts
10 Best Pinterest Tips for Bloggers for 2019
This post reviews the best Pinterest tips for bloggers for right now and into 2019 to drive Pinterest referrals to their blog. It further summarizes what changed in 2018 for bloggers who use Pinterest referral to drive traffic to their blogs. By the end of this post, the reader will have practical steps they can take to get in line with what is working now to drive traffic to their blogs through Pinterest.
What Big Things Changed for Bloggers on Pinterest in 2018?
Pinterest and most social media platforms change often. I have been blogging as a TOTAL newbie for less than 6 months, and every month I have been blogging, I have seen a major change in something related to blogging. Here are the changes that happened in 2018.
a) Large, Unfocussed Group Boards Were De-Prioritized in the Algorithm
Pinterest announced in late spring 2018 it would be deprioritizing such groups. Group boards with no specific niche and hundreds of contributors are what was targetted.
b) Pin Sizes Changed
In early summer 2018, the “ideal” pin sizes changed.
c) BoardBooster Died
BoardBooster was an automation tool that served many bloggers well for Pinterest growth. It died and Tailwind emerged as the real leader in automation tools for Pinterest.
How I Learned What is Working Now



i) Pinterest
Most of the information is taken directly from Pinterest. They kindly put out information about upcoming changes via Facebook Live in Spring 2018.

ii) Pinterest Experts
There are a number of Pinterest expert bloggers I follow who were also an ongoing source of up-to-the-minute information. I provide links to each of them here.
iii) Trial and Error
Since Pinterest is constantly changing, it is useful to try new approaches and learn that way too. I have learned by trial and error myself and through shared lessons with other bloggers in my community.
What is Working Now-Best Pinterest Tips for Bloggers:
1. Fresh Content
New High -Value Blog Posts
Pinterest has said that new content will be promoted on Pinterest. That means to get more referral traffic from Pinterest, you must put out fresh, quality content regularly.
Freshen Up Old Blog Posts
If you have some older posts which you put out over the slump period in the summer and they did not really gain traction, try putting up a couple of fresh pins for them.
By fresh I mean new images and new pin descriptions. Make sure the new pin description uses the same keywords and still clearly identifies what the reader will be getting if they click on the pin.
Some Pinterest experts suggest making up to six different pins for your posts. It extends the “freshness” of the blog post on Pinterest and sometimes an old post takes off with a brand new pin.
2. SEO for Pinterest
This is not really new, but when you are writing your pin descriptions and even the content of text on your pins, make sure and do a check for Pinterest search engine optimization (SEO) first to use the right keywords. It will ensure when people are searching on Pinterest for specific keywords that your pin gets found.
Also, when you pin a new pin, make sure the first place you pin it is to an appropriately key-worded board. This will consolidate for Pinterest what your pin is about. This will help ensure it is in the algorithm for the appropriate category.
3. Use Original Images in Pins
Free stock photography is awesome for pins. However, for some topics, the same free pictures get used over and over again in pins. Pinterest is a visual media and while it cannot be proven, several Pinterest experts have identified pins with images that have been used before do not perform as well.
If you have the skills to take your own high-quality pictures, use those images. If you do not, consider paying for some more original images. I have used Shutterstock, Canstock, and ETSY for purchased images.
4. Hashtags for Pins
These are again allowed in the pin description. It helps people find your content searching on a specific topic. You can search hashtags on Pinterest to use appropriate ones for your pins. Tailwind also has suggested hashtags for your posts.
5. Tailwind Tribes
So far, Tailwind has been an excellent time-saving automation tool for me for driving blog traffic from Pinterest. I started with Tribes shortly after I joined Tailwind and once I increased the number of Tribes (I used something called a Power-up add-on) I saw an increase in referral traffic to my blog.
What I suggest is to join a few Tribes and see how they are performing for you. My pins are pretty (if I do say so myself :-)) and they are often reshared quickly after I join a Tribe.
There was one Tribe I joined, and I had no reshares or repins after 3 days after adding 30 pins (and sharing the correct amount of pins based on the Tribe rules). So I left that group and joined one that had a better ratio of reshares of my pins to how many pins I had shared of someone else’s. Do the same. You can join Tailwind here for $9.99 USD a month. If you would like to try a free month of Tailwind, contact me using the contact page. I will send you a referral link.
6. Smaller, More Engaged Group Boards
So, in the Spring of 2018, Pinterest said in their Facebook Live, Pinterest group boards of ten or less highly engaged pinners sharing content around a niche topic are acceptable. I have not tried this one personally, but I have heard from other bloggers that these groups work well for them. I have a post here about Christian Pinterest group boards. The ones remaining on my profile now are the ones sending my website decent traffic still. These just happen to be smaller and niche specific boards too.
7. Ditching Non-Functioning Group Boards that Are Pulling Your Profile Down
Tailwind has a “board insights” function where you can see the overall engagement in the group boards you are in. You can see virality and engagement on the board, two indicators of how successful the board is overall. Even more important though is to check and see if the board is sending you any traffic at all.
In September, I dropped out of the larger non-niche groups with hundreds of contributors. I saw my Pinterest traffic increase. Then I dropped any Pinterest group boards that sent me little to no traffic in the previous 3 weeks. I saw a relative increase in traffic to my blog again. The small number of Pinterest group boards I am still in are still sending me traffic, but I check often and will act quickly. I encourage you to do the same.
8. Create More of Your Own Properly Keyworded Boards
A great niche-specific and properly key-worded board of your own helps Pinterest’s algorithm identify what your pin is about quickly. Try to pin to that board first. I have just started doing this, and my Pinterest referral traffic has been growing.
9. Proper Pin Sizes
The ideal ratio size of Pinterest pin in 2018 is 2 by 3 (vertical) or 1 by 1 (square). Ideal sizes announced in 2018 are 600 px by 900 px (I predominantly use this) or 600 px by 600 px for square. If you want a long pin 600 px by 1260 px is acceptable, but longer will be cut off. The source of this information for me was from Louise Myers Visual Social Media blog. You can read her post on pin sizes in 2018 here.
10. Video Pins
I have not used this yet myself. However, I have heard from recipe and workout bloggers that using video in their pins has led to an increase in referrals to their websites. If you are in a niche where this is a good fit, it is worth giving it a try.
Pinterest Tips for Bloggers Where The Jury is Still Out
Here are a couple of other strategies I heard of in 2018. For these, I feel the jury is still out whether they work and under which circumstances they would be most useful. I would say experiment in these areas and see if it works for you.
Pin Promotion-paid
If you have a product or freebie and you specifically want to drive traffic to your blog and pay for it, this seems like a sensible approach. If you do not, it seems illogical to just pay for pin promotion to get your pin seen without a specific goal in mind for subscribers or sales. I have seen posts from Monica at Redefining Mom blog on the topic of paid promotion on Pinterest, and if you would like to read more, here is a post on the topic. If I develop a product in 2019, I will be delving more into this approach.
Pinterest Pods using Strategies Like Pin-30
So, I have heard in Facebook groups, that for some people these strategies have driven huge traffic to their blogs very quickly.
Pinterest pods are basically supportive groups of bloggers in the same niche that commit to pin relevant content from each other’s boards. Pin 30 involves pinning 30 pins from an assigned person’s blog (the assignment changes daily) and the cycle lasts about 15 days.
However, I have also heard from some they have seen their engagement go down since starting with such groups. Also, the premise is a bit artificial. Whenever the support pod ends, whatever traffic your pins generate due to the natural interest in the topic will eventually return to normal.
Key Take-Aways:
A lot has changed on Pinterest for bloggers in 2018! This post gives up-to-date Pinterest tips for bloggers going into 2019 from experts and direct observed experience for what is working to drive traffic from Pinterest today. It provides resources to learn more about what works on Pinterest right now.
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Most online businesses dream of having a highly popular website with good enough organic traffic. It’s good for your brand and ultimately serves to drive wave after wave of potential customers your way.


There are an almost unlimited number of ways to increase traffic to your website. Among them of all, I'm going to share some of my most effective tips that I've used within all kinds of campaigns to increase organic search traffic. This ranges from small businesses and startups through to multinational public companies. I will give you the that strategy which is actually works for your website.
Here is the effective ways to increase organic traffic to your website. Let’s go:
1. If your website’s home page doesn’t looking extraordinary then visitor not taking interest to see your products and services. So first Design your landing page that much attractive so can visitor becomes your customer.
2. Then after first of all your website will looking Realistic with the all google guidelines. Your site must be error free and have good SEO. Be care of website speed.
3. Content is the king. Web Content always matter to your business So your website must have highly creative content to engage customers.
4. If your website still not have blog section then take it seriously and enlarge your website with blog in priority basis. Add Blog section to your website with the best content to boost your traffic. Try to Add up Provocative content in the blog.
5. Whenever you post the blog on the website don’t forget to put internal linking. Internal links are most vital part of the SEO and it's also useful for both visitors as well as search engines. Internal linking interconnect the other pages of the website so that its not navigate to other site.
6. Start contributing your Guest post idea to well known blog sites who have more traffic than you have. Also Take care of page authority and Domain authority while you go for a guest post.
7. Whenever you contribute guest post or add blog to your site, you must have to care about the choosing the correct keyword. If you use perfect keyword with seo rules, its definitely impact on your website traffic.
8. Start Accepting guest post on your website. When well-known blogger or contributor taking interest in your blog to contribute their ideas then
9. Never underestimate the Power of social media. Yes, Social media will grow up your business that much which You might not have thought more than that. Share your blog posts, advertisement, your website news on social media with impressive content and images, it will surely level up your traffic. You can use social media like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr and many others.
10. Every social media have their own communities or you may say groups where you can share your ideas, just you have to become member of that groups. They have many groups with the different-different category.
11. Try to add infographic in your blog post. Infographic is the graphical/visual representations of your information and data. You can represent your thoughts visually with the infographic.
12. Adding vlog in website will become your flawless decision for your website. Vlog aka video blogging. You can record your thoughts, opinions, and experience in a film and share it in blog. You can also share that video on video channels, that will also helpful for your site.
13. Share your ideas with compliments for blogger’s content via Blog commenting on other websites. There are many websites who have comment section after the article, you can share your comment in comment section. Some sites allows your blog link or your site link in the comment. Let’s take a benefits from this technique too.
14. You are adding internal as well as external links in your website. But sometime it happens that those links are not working properly. Remove bad links from the website as soon as possible. Bad links can be lethal for your website.
15. Add inspiration lines in your website that will Encourage your readers to link in their website.If your readers put your site link in their site, it helps to increase your site traffic.
16. Forum posting is the one of the best option of content marketing. Find relevant questions from the forum sites, and write your opinion on that topic and update your answer in that particular thread. You can add your website link in the post.
17. Old is Gold! Repost your old blog link on a daily basis that will assist to your increase website traffic.
18. As in trending, Email marketing is the best marketing methods among all the marketing tricks. Collect your customers emails and make a list and then once you have a email list you just have to send your recent posts via email to your customer. So that they can take interest to read your post.
19. You can get email list through many options. But you can add subscription box on your website so can visitor add their mail in that box and you will get email id. You can pop up the subscription box on site while visitor scrolling up your site.
20. Last but not least, you can share your posts on community sites like inbound, growthhackers, Scoop.it. You can also submit your articles into article submission directory sites.
There are so many ways to increase organic traffic to your website but among them I try to list out some for you. I hope you can go with these amazing tricksand boost your website traffic.
After all, Increasing blog traffic is the dream of every marketer.

#1 – Patience is the key
While all the steps that you will read below are real and if you follow them correctly you will be able to increase your blog traffic, it won’t happen overnight.
It may not even happen in 5 or 6 months. How long it will take depends on a number of factors (to be discussed in a different post); what is important is to have patience so that you won’t give up too soon.
Instead of anxiously waiting to see your blog posts in the first page of Google, you can concentrate on monitoring your progress (for the different keywords you are targeting) and watching the improvement from month to month. Progress is much more important than anything else and while waiting, you can spend your energy in creating and publishing high quality content on a regular basis.
Patience, regular monitoring and high quality content are the top ingredients for search engine success.
#2 – Optimize your blog for SEO
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the key for your blog’s success. Why?
  • For starters SEO will get you more traffic from Google and other search engines.
  • It will get you more conversions (whether this is an email signup or the sale of a product) because search engine traffic is converting.
  • SEO will get you more links since people tend to link to pages found in the first positions of Google
  • SEO will get you more social shares for the same reason as above i.e. if you are on the first positions of Google then it means that your website is good so people are more than willing to share it in their social media
Now that you are convinced that SEO is a must, how do you optimize your blog for SEO?
Well, there is no one magic solution or technique you can follow but understanding the basis of an SEO friendly website and going through our SEO checklist will certainly put you in the right direction.
If you want more traffic for your website or blog then SEO should be your starting point.
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#3 – Publish Quality Content
For most people there is nothing new here but for beginners it should be made clear that publishing content online is not enough.
What you need is high quality content that search engines will love and users will find interesting so that they share, comment, continue to the next step (make a purchase, sign up to an email, etc) and come back to your blog for more.
What is high quality content?
In the past this was like a ‘million dollar question’ but over the years search engines have become more advanced and they are now able to spot high quality content and differentiate pages that have high quality content from the rest of the web. In summary, high quality content is:
Original and Unique – the exact same content is not published on any other website
Descriptive – It gives a complete detail view of a situation, covering all sides of a story (i.e. it’s not biased)
Has an author – Users can see who wrote the content, it is not written by admin or unknown.
Sharable – People like the content and they show this by interacting with the content (reading it, commenting, sharing).
If you cannot produce high quality content your chances of succeeding online are minimum so either find a way to improve the quality of your content (by outsourcing for example) or stop wasting your time because this is not going to happen.
#4 – Publish Frequently
Once you figure out how to make good content, the next step is to be able to produce (publish) good content on a regular basis. As Ann Smarty mentioned in a blog post, consistency is the most difficult but yet important part of being successful in blogging.
Why is consistency important?
When you have a well-defined publishing schedule (for example Mon, Wed, Fri), this gives another incentive for users to re-visit your page and also for search engines to come back and get the new content and learn more about your website.
Don’t forget that search engines want to keep their users happy by showing up-to-date and accurate information in their search results so when you update your website regularly they will pick your content even faster.
Create a realistic publishing schedule you can follow in the long term rather than a schedule that is too optimistic and you fail in following.
To increase your chances of following a blogging schedule prepare blog posts for 2 weeks in advance and then start publishing. This will give you enough time to prepare new blog posts.
#5 – Promote your Content in the social world
Don’t just publish content but promote it as well. Your ‘job’ is not finished when you hit the publish button. Creating and publishing blogs is the first part of the blogging equation, the second part is to promote your content so that it gets the attention it deserves.
What do we mean by promoting your content?
Part of your ‘job responsibilities’ either as a digital marketing manageror solo blogger is to connect with other bloggers in your niche and the best way to do that is through the various social media channels.
If you have done this task correctly then most probably you will have at least a few thousand followers in twitter, google plus, facebook etc.
These are the people that are most likely to find your content interesting (provided that you connected with the ‘right people’) so you need to let them know that you have new content on your website or blog by informing them through your business and personal social media accounts.
What is the benefit of promoting your content socially?
Simply put, the more people see your post the greater are the chances of visiting your website, sharing it and linking to it. (See also Social Media VS SEO)
Promoting your content in social media has many direct and indirect benefits and it is the best way to quickly spread the word about your new content.
#6- Do your keyword research
Doing keyword research before creating content is a must for a number reasons.
For starters it will help you understand your niche better by learning what keywords and phrases are the most popular.
Second, it will help you get a higher return from your blogging efforts since a blog post that is the result of keyword research has more chances of getting more organic and social traffic.
Keyword research doesn’t have to be a painful or time consuming process. If you are a beginner, here are some tips to make your life easier:
#1 – Start with the Google keyword tool – www.google.com/sktool. This tool will give you an estimate of how many people per month search google for a particular keyword. I will explain in a different post how to use this tool but this is your starting point.
#2 – Use BuzzSumo – Buzzsumo is like a search engine but the results are based on social media popularity. In other words, when you search for a term, buzzsumo will tell you which articles that have this term performed better in social media.
#3 – Use Google – Start typing in google search and look carefully at the suggestions given to you by Google. Change the letters as you type to get more suggestions. After you hit search, scroll down to the bottom of the page and see which are the “related searches”
#4 – Watch what your competitors are doing – monitor your competitor(s) website(s) closely and take note of what kind of posts they are publishing. Your goals is not to ‘copy’ them but get some ideas on where to concentrate your efforts.
Keyword research is an important tool for all your digital marketing efforts and it is the starting point of SEO, PPC marketingbut also social media marketing.
#7- Craft titles that can get you rankings and traffic
This is related to the previous point and what you need to understand in addition to keyword research is the importance of choosing page titles that both search engines and people can understand.
A title that is super human friendly is not necessarily search engine friendly and for maximum exposure you need to learn how to keep a balance between the two. The title of a page is also very important for SEO so you need to make sure that the title includes your keywords otherwise search engines will have a hard time understanding what your page is about.
Good post titles will not only increase your organic traffic but also the email open rate (if you send a newsletter) and social media sharing.
#8- Do some guest posting
Guest posting is considered by many as a “safe” way to do link building but the real benefits of guest posting are far more than getting a link pointing to your website