PotPieGirl’s 

PinTest Playbook 

Perhaps you’ve heard of Albert Einstein?

I know that seems like a really odd question to start a

PINTEREST strategy guide with, but hang in here with me for a
moment -

Turns out Albert Einstein had some very deep insight about
Pinterest…

(ok, not literally about Pinterest, but his insight absolutely

applies to how Pinterest is for Pinterest Marketers like you and
me!)

Albert Einstein, among many things, was also a Professor of

Theoretical Physics at Princeton University.

One day, his Teaching Assistant was preparing the questions for
a test to be given the next day.
Suddenly, the Teaching Assistant noticed that all the questions
were the ​EXACT​ ​SAME​ questions as the year before… ​and​ the
year before that.

The Assistant ran to alert Professor Einstein of his error…

“Professor Einstein, you made a mistake on the test for

tomorrow - all the questions are the exact same as you asked
on last year’s test!!”

You know what Albert Einstein said in response?

“No mistake...

The questions are the same, but the ANSWERS

are different!”

Tell me, doesn’t that absolutely apply to Pinterest Marketing

over the years - or heck, over the past few MONTHS?!?!

We always have the same questions, but the answers and “best
practices” keep changing a mile a minute.
Add to that frustration is how BUGGY and ​inconsistent​ Pinterest
can be from one platform to the next, from one DAY to the
next.

If you’ve been struggling with declining Pinterest results, NO

WONDER you are beyond frustrated!

I’ve got some help for you today, if you want it.

I am always eyeballs deep in Pinterest testing, testing, testing.

I also analyze the heck out of what Pinterest does and WHY
they do it.

To be honest, I can’t always figure out ​why​ in the ​world

Pinterest does some of the whacky things it does, but I almost
always can figure out WHAT it’s doing.

And yes, many times digging in and trying to figure out what’s
working NOW on Pinterest, AND trying to truly track my test
results, can make my eyes BLEED haha!

But I love it -

AND, to ​ME​, the traffic from Pinterest to all my blogs is

absolutely worth the effort.
So, I’ll test and track and let my eyes bleed for a few months,
and then I’ll type up a ​PotPieGirl Team Pinterest Guide​ - and
then I share it with my Assistant (my daughter) and with
anyone else who is pinning FOR me - and it’s only for those on
my team.

As with all worth-while information, people started to find out

that I do this -

And they WANTED my Team Pinterest Guide.

Since I try to be as generous as possible with what I learn in

order to help others shortcut ALL ​my​ pain OF learning, I decided
that I’ll offer my Team Guide to my readers this time.

What you’re about to read is a little more detailed version of

my Team Guide since you and I don’t have the daily
conversations that I have with my Team - and I won’t assume
you just magically know what I’m talking about.

I’ve figure a lot of great things out about Pinterest in the past
few months and I have very little doubt that YOU will get at
least a handful of Golden Nuggets from my ​PinTest Playbook
that follows.
Here’s what I’ll be sharing with you...

-- If your Pinterest traffic seems to be on a continuous

DOWNWARD spiral, I just might be able to tell you WHY…
AND what to DO about it (and it’s a super easy fix)

-- If you just can’t seem to get your well-performing pins to do

any better, I have a cool little trick that really helps

-- If you just can’t seem to get any “viral” pins anymore, yep, I
have a strategy for that too

-- If you can’t seem to find YOUR pins in the Pinterest search

results, I’ll offer some help and tips to help you fix that

(AND be sure you are truly searching Pinterest for your pins the
RIGHT way - yes, it makes a difference!)

-- I’ll show the simple little free tool I use to easily track my
PinTest results (and it’s kinda fun to watch!)

-- I’m going to teach you what “Unicorn Pins” are (and no, they
are NOT pins with pictures of unicorns - but, like the unicorn,
Unicorn Pins are magical pins that are rarely found yet SO
powerful
Needless to say (if you’ve ever read any training from me in the
past), you know there will be many more little tidbits and
Golden Nuggets in this ​PinTest Playbook​…

And I hope they all help calm your nerves and frustration with
Pinterest, and get you back to ENJOYING Pinterest again - and
enjoying increased traffic FROM Pinterest again =)

Alrighty… Ready to jump in and get started?

Let’s start with “Unicorn Pins” -

What ARE Unicorn Pins?

How to do find YOUR Unicorn Pins?

And, what do you DO with your Unicorn Pins?

Unicorn Pins 

I know, the term ‘Unicorn Pins’ sure sounds weird, but they are
super powerful.
I do a lot of manual pinning still, but I mainly manually pin my
Unicorn Pins.

Unicorn Pins are found in your Activity Area on your Pinterest

account page (the things people are pinning FROM your site.)

Now, not ALL pins in your Activity area are Unicorn Pins…

In fact, very few of those pins WILL be true Unicorn Pins.

Here’s the main difference between a “regular” pin found in

your Activity area and a Unicorn Pin -

Do you see the difference?

A true Unicorn Pin will not have ANY stats showing under the
pin.

This is kind of Pinterest’s way of saying “Hey, we’ve never seen

that pin before… it’s NEW!”

(which it’s probably NOT truly ​NEW,​ but the Pinterest algorithm
thinks it is - and that’s good for us!)

When you see those Unicorn Pins with no pin stats under the
image, REPIN it!

Evenutally, all those pins in your Activity feed WILL get stats, so
you want to repin them BEFORE Pinterest shows stats under
them.

Just always remember, Unicorn Pins are pins that OTHERS

pinned from your site (ie, YOUR pins are never Unicorn Pins)

Yes, try and pin Unicorn Pins FROM good keyworded/good

topic boards.

Yes, add a description of the pin doesn’t have one (or edit a
crappy pin description if needed)
No, it doesn’t REALLY make a difference if the Unicorn Pin is on
a board that is NOT totally “relevant”.

No, do NOT pin the same pin image over and over - even if each
one is a different Unicorn Pin.

Use your best judgement and common sense, ok?

Notes:

Sometimes Pinterest is wacky (ok, ​MANY​ times Pinterest is

wacky) and is slow to update stats…

So you want to be SURE that an Activity Feed pin really IS a

Unicorn Pin.

2 Ways to Double Check if a pin really is a Unicorn:

1 - when you open the pin, you will probably see only 1 total
repin for that pin
If you see ANY number OTHER than a ‘1’, it might NOT be a true
Unicorn Pin.

(​note​: it IS possible for a Unicorn Pin to get repins BEFORE it

gets pin stats - this is a good thing! But if it’s a crazy high
number, you might want to be sure it’s a Unicorn Pin and not
just Pinterest having slow stats again)

2. To double check that Pinterest “thinks” you are repinning

something NEW…

Add:

repin/x/

to the end of the pin url.

If you see a warning like this:

It is NOT a true Unicorn Pin.

If the repin/x/ trick does NOT show that orange “Psst!” warning
message, it IS a true Unicorn Pin

(ie, Pinterest “thinks” you’re pinning something brand new

from another pinner)

Pin Descriptions Issues 

If I had to pick ONE main reason that caused a LOT of pinners to

lose traffic from Pinterest and lose Pinterest search rankings for
their pins, it would be the whole pin description debacle.

For the longest time, Pinterest would honor the “alt”

description of a blog post image as the pin description when
someone pinned that image.

At some point some months back, Pinterest quietly STOPPED

honoring the “alt” tag description and suddently just started
defaulting to the blog post title as the pin description when
pinned.
Now, this didn’t cause rankings and traffic to drop instantly, but
it certainly had a snowball effect on many, MANY well-ranking
pins (my own included).

Yes, I know Pinterest wants us to use:

data-pin-description=”blah blah pin description here”

Inside our <img src> tags

In fact, they’ve RECOMMENDED doing that for years and years.

But it was never REQUIRED.

When Pinterest stopped honoring the alt tag of our images, all
those painfully crafted pin descriptions were no longer being
added to our pins in the pin description area -

And YES, that REALLY makes a difference!

Especially after a true Pinterest Update of their full public

index!

We used to be lucky to have 3…. ​maybe​ 4 of those BIG

Pinterest Updates a YEAR.
So far, in less that the first few months of the year, we’ve
already had TWO big Pinterest index updates!

One was in February...and another eary April.

So, you combine TWO big, HUGE Pinterest Index Updates with
thousands and thousands and thousands of pins NOT getting
their proper pin description…

Well, yep - that’s gonna cause ranking and traffic problems!

So, NOW what?

What in the WORLD do you do if you already have hundreds of

blog posts with hundreds or thousands of pin images amongst
them?

You have 3 options:

1. Do nothing to your old posts (which is a horrible idea, but

it IS an option)
2. Edit ALL your blog posts and add the data-pin-description
tag to ALL your images (ugh!), or
3. Try this little trick I found that forces Pinterest to use the
alt tag information as the pin description if there is not
data-pin-description info (I recommend this...lol!)
Buried deep in a little site I tripped over while doing deep
research on errors and bugs and issues I ran into with
Pinterest’s data-pin meta tags, I found a little piece of code you
add to the header of your website ( right before the </head>
tag).

Once that little code is added and saved, Pinterest magically

starts using your alt tag pin descriptions again UNLESS an image
has it’s data-pin-description info set.

What a wonderful find! It made me SO HAPPY!

Having that script on all my sites has allowed me the time to

get in and edit/rework posts as I get to them.

The code looks like this (but don’t copy the code from here, it
might mess up):

<​script​>

// Code by Shareaholic.com
jQuery(document).ready(​function​($) {
$(​"img:not([data-pin-description])"​).each(​function​() {
​if​ (!$(​this​).attr(​"title"​) && $(​this​).attr(​"alt"​) && $(​this​).attr(​"alt"​) != ​''​ &&
$(​this​).attr(​"alt"​).indexOf(​' '​) !== -1) {
$(​this​).attr(​"data-pin-description"​, $(​this​).attr(​"alt"​));
}
});
});
</​script​>
You can find the code to copy and instructions for using it here:

https://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150042629
83#title-data-pin-description

Pinterest Repin Trick 

Now, this nifty little “trick” is a bit more advanced and will
probably take you a few extra minutes the first couple times
you do it.

But it’s SO worth it!

This is something I do for:

-- Pins that are already ranking well - and I want to KEEP THAT
PIN ranking well

-- Pins that are ALMOST ranking well in Pinterest search and I

want to improve their ranking
-- Pins that are currently going Viral - and I want to do
everything I can to KEEP it sending that traffic

Now, as with EVERYTHING with Pinterest, this is not ‘fool proof’

and doesn’t work on all platforms and ways of pinning, ok?

But it is still worth doing because when it DOES work, it really,

really helps.

Also important to mention: This “trick” is not a Pinterest ‘hack’

or ​anything​ against Pinterest’s rules.

In fact, this whole concept and the ability to do this COMES

STRAIGHT FROM PINTEREST.

If you want to read all the code and the geeky stuff straight
from Pinterest, you can read it here:

https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/widgets/save/?

Otherwise, let me just tell you how this works - and how to do
it.

There is a Pinterest meta tag called data-pin-id

Here is what Pinterest tells us that meta tag can be used for:

Go ahead and read that again… because YES, it DOES mean

what you think it means =)

In short, any image in your post that has the data-pin-id set, will
give a true REPIN to the pin you WANT to be repinned (instead
of letting Pinterest “pick” - or creating a brand new pin).

This is SO powerful!

And… it’s soooooo simple.

In your post image <img src> code area, you simply add the part
I show in pink below (the rest is just example code):
<img src=”http://mysite.com/my-pin-image.jpg alt=”alt
description here” ​data-pin-id=”pin url number here”​>

(again, don’t copy/paste the code from here - it will get messed
up - so type it out)

To get the ‘pin url number here’, just go to your pin url and
copy ONLY the numbers at the end of the pin…

As an example, if your pin url is:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/​654117054718508892​/

Take ONLY the numbers part (in pink) and paste those numbers
into your img src code like this:

<img src=”http://mysite.com/my-pin-image.jpg alt=”alt

description here” ​data-pin-id=”654117054718508892”​>

That’s it!

Now, when someone comes to your post and chooses to pin

THAT image, it will actually create a TRUE REPIN of the pin you
chose.
Remember when I said Pinterest is buggy and wacky….

And well, quite honestly, Pinterest is often bat sh*t crazy lol!

This data-pin-id thing doesn’t ALWAYS work.

For example, it works GREAT from desktop or laptop using the

Pinterest extension - but it only sometimes works from inside
the Pinterest phone app.

(this is a bug I am 99% certain Pinterest knows about and is

working on… but we’re not gonna hold our breath lol!)

It also doesn’t work if you schedule the pin with Tailwind (and I
don’t *think* that’s a bug - just something with the API)

So here’s what I’ve been doing to get the best of ANY way a
blog post visitor chooses to pin.

I started with my best-performing pins (via Pinterest analytics,

Google Analytics etc etc) and then went to the post the pin
goes to.

I find that pin image in my post and then make a new pin image
that is a slight variation of my best-performing pin image.
I add that new “variation” pin image to my post and ALSO add
the data-pin-id for the best performing pin.

So, my image code would be something like this:

<img src=”http://mysite.com/new-variation-pin.jpg” alt=”new

super good pin description targeting new related keywords”
data-pin-id=”best-performing-pin url numbers”>

So I’m showing a “new” pin IN my post - and, if they pin it just

the right way, it will actually create a TRUE repin of my
best-performing pin.

If the way they pin it does NOT honor the data-pin-id code,
then they will be pinning the NEW “variation” pin - and we all
know Pinterest LOVES new pins!

-- Why a “slight” variation of the original best-performing pin

image?

Simply because I don’t want to annoy pinners by having them

end up pinning a totally different image than what they
intended to pin. I make the variation image different enough to
be “new” to Pinterest, but not obviously crazy different to the
pinner.
-- Why target new keywords?

Simply because that best-performing pin *should* already be

ranking well for the keywords in that pin description - now I
want to use a variation of that proven “clickable” pin image and
target MORE related keywords

Sometimes, I target a totally new “slant” on keywords.

For example, say the pin image is of a chocolate cake and my

best-performing pin already ranks well for many of those
‘chocolate cake’ related keywords.

For the new “variation” pin, I might target a whole new angle
like (off the top of my head):

-- easy cake recipes for beginners

-- baked goods made with chocolate
-- simple homemade birthday cake idea

Etc, etc, etc.

This is how I SATURATE the Pinterest search results with my

best-performing and CLICKABLE pin images for any, and all,
related or “slanted” keywords I can think of or find =)
If you REALLY want more traffic from Pinterest, work what
WORKS for you.

If you have a pin image you KNOW gets click a lot, WORK IT!

There is no rule that says your pin description has to MATCH

your exact blog post topic.

Your pin description DOES need to ‘describe’ the pin image

AND, of course, be sure the pin links to a post that DOES offer
info that is related.

We’re not trying to trick people or anything like that.

(and you can always add a few sentences to your post to work
in the keyword “slant”)

Note:​ You will not see these “true repin” pins from your
data-pin-id tag in your activity feed - these will show in your
notifications.

Pinterest Search Tips 

This section will be short and sweet, but it’s SUPER important.
Don’t search for your own pins to check their ranking while
logged into Pinterest.

You will NOT get accurate results.

Don’t search for your pins from ANOTHER logged in Pinterest

account either.

You simply will not get true search results.

Pinterest is SO personalized for each and every account and

adjusts as pinners interact with pins and topics and other
pinners.

If you want to know your TRUE pin ranking in Pinterest search

results, you need to:

A - search logged out from a browser you have NEVER EVER

logged into Pinterest on, or

B - search Pinterest while logged out in an “incognito” window

(on Chrome) or a “private window” (on Firefox)

You simply will not get a true search result if you’re logged in.
Here’s a little tip you will appreciate when you start searching
your pins the right way when logged out.

You will notice that Pinterest nags the crap out of you to log in
once you start scrolling search results.

FINALLY, Pinterest has offered an option to turn that “nag” OFF.

At the top, the 3 dots, toggle that option to off:

How Long Until My Pin Will Rank in Pinterest?

When you search your pin rankings from a logged out incognito
window, you will start to see how long it ​truly​ takes for
Pinterest to REALLY release your pin into their index for ALL
pinners to see (and for the public non-Pinterest users to see)
On average, it takes my new pins about 10-14 days to start
showing in a Pinterest search IF I get my pin description right on
the money AND the Pinterest query space is not crazy
competitive.

As I write this, my pins are showing in the true index in 9-10

days, but there have been times that Pinterest seems to come
to a standstill and it takes 3 weeks.

Heck there was a recent time last month that 3 of my Pinterest

accounts each made a new board with the same name and it
took Pinterest a MONTH to finally show those boards in a
“board results” search!

(note: you can always tell when things in Pinterest are lagging
when our Pinterest Analytics won’t update for days and days)

You’ll start to see your pins in a logged out Pinterest search as

early as 10 days or so -

and then, a week or so later, you’ll see something else that lets
you know that Pinterest has “decided” what that pin is about.

If you click the “Promote” button under your pin stats on any
pin…
you will see an area like this:

If that area is empty without any keywords, Pinterest isn’t done

figuring your pin out yet.
When that area ​is​ already pre-populated with keywords, you’ll
know that Pinterest has already “decided” what your pin is
about.

Like for this example pin of mine, that promote info area now
looks like this:

See those keywords already pre-populated?

That’s one quick way to know if Pinterest understands your pin

AND your pin *should* be ranking then as well.

and don’t worry, you can click that “promote” button and
nothing will happen - you won’t activate a paid pin, be charged,
or anything funky like that =)
Something else you might notice about the keywords a pin gets
in that “promote” info…

Perhaps those ​keywords come from Pin Signals information​ ?

Just sayin’ =)

I track TONS of my pins so I can just look or mouse over my pin

and know EXACTLY when I FIRST pinned it, HOW I pinned it, the
main keyword I’m targeting, and/or split test information
between 2 pins (ie, one pin is blue, the other is red).

AND, all that tracking info shows in my Google Analytics too…

Both in the GA reports AND in my Live Traffic dashboard

How To Track Your Pins 

People always ask me:

How Do You ​Know​ EXACTLY When You First Pinned a Pin Just By
Looking At It?
Simple, I use a special kind of tracking code added to the end of
my post urls that my pins are linked to.

I use this tool from Google Analytics:

https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/campaign-url-builder/

Then just fill it out with the tracking info you want and grab the
url the tool gives you.

Like this:

Note: I now ALWAYS include a date code in all my tracking UTM

urls that represents the FIRST time I pinned that pin to
Pinterest.
Turns out, seeing the date whenever I hover over a pin really
helps ME out - I can easily tell how long the pin has been out to
know if I need to check rankings on it, if the pin was, or was
not, affected by the latest Pinterest Index Update, etc etc

When those “utm” tracking urls start getting out there on

Pinterest, your Live Google Analytics will start to look like this:
See all that info under the ‘Top Keywords’ area? That’s all info
from my UTM tracking urls =)

You can also go into your Google Analytics reports, in the

‘Campaigns’ tab and see cumulative stats on those tracking urls

Needless to say, I have a lot of little “codes” I use in my pins

(other than the date) that each mean something to ME - keep
up with HOW you pinned your pins with your own special codes
for your tracking urls too.

It’s fun - and kind of addicting lol!

Tailwind Tips 
I don’t like my training guides to make anyone feel that they’re
required to ​use Tailwind​ in order to get help from my training,
but I also feel that most folks reading this DO use Tailwind in
one way or another.

Based on that, I’ll share this little Tailwind Tip.

Ever look in your Google Analytics and see stuff like this?
And you’re wondering WHAT pin sent that Smartloop or Tribes
traffic?

Did you know you can simply use the Tailwind Pin Inspector to
search those weird numbers and see WHICH pin?

Or, if you want to see how ONLY your Tribes pins or SmartLoop
pins did the day before, or last week...month, etc, you can
simply search the Pin Inspector to isolate to only those pins in
your chosen time frame.

So, if I wanted Tailwind Pin Inspector to show me how ONLY my

SmartLoop pins did last week, I would search like this:
If I wanted to only see my Tribes pins, I’d type:

tailwind_tribes

Into the search bar. Nifty, right?

I used to track my pins by putting short little coded dates IN my
pin descriptions - then, I could just search the Pin Inspector to
see how all pins of that pin had done over time.

I still do that from time to time, but I find better overall PinTest
results and “big picture” stats come from my UTM tracking urls
in my Google Analytics.

But just for a fun “first PinTest” for you - make a new pin and
put a coded string of numbers/letters together in your pin
description (along with your normal good pin description).

Then, search Pinterest logged out/incognito for that string of

letters/numbers - in about a week or so, you’ll see that pin pop
up in the search results for that random code =)

That little test will give you a good idea of how long Pinterest
takes to release YOUR pins into the main Pinterest index.

How To Get a New Pin To Take Off FAST 

This is one of my favorite new pinning strategies and it works

really, REALLY great for me more than half the time.
When I make a new pin for a post (especially when I’m doing
my data-pin-id trick I taught you earlier), I’ll put the new pin in
my post but then, I will MANUALLY upload that pin image to
Pinterest for the FIRST pin of that image.

I’ll add a special/different title for that uploaded pin and a

super strong pin description (AND a UTM tracking url for the
destination link)

For some reason, when Pinterest “sees” a brand new (to them)
pin image, being really specific like that REALLY helps.

It works EXTRA well when I hit ​my PIQ Keywords​ on the money!

I took a “variation” new pin that was of one of my

better-performing pin images, uploaded it to Pinterest, went
with a “slant” PIQ keyword title and a super strong pin
description...and look what happened:
That post normally gets 200-500 visits a day, but when I did this
little upload/slanted keyword title trick to it on the 21st…
whoa!

And that slanted upload pin is STILL sending me over 2,000

visits a day!

From ONE PIN!

Here’s something really important to know about these

“slanted upload” pins with a new Rich Pin Title…

Those pins can ONLY be MANUALLY repinned to keep that new

Rich Pin Title.

If you try to schedule it to pin with Tailwind, or try pinning it

from your post, etc, the Rich Pin title will revert to the true post
title.

For those slanted manual upload pins, I made a Private/Secret

Tailwind Tribe that I save only those types of pins into so I
KNOW - and remember - to only MANUALLY repin variations of
that pin…

As soon as I pin a slanted upload pin, I add it to my “manual

only” Tribe.
After that, Tribes makes it super easy to FIND that first pin - you
just click the little Pinterest icon in the bottom right corner of
the pin and you’ll go right to that first pin:

Then I can quickly view activity on that pin and repin OTHER
pinners repins of my first pin to keep the pin going.

Once I see keywords when I click the “promote” button on one

of those pins, that’s when I add that pin to one of my Smart
Loops.
No, Smart Loop pins will NOT have that new Rich Pin title you
gave your uploaded pin, and will instead use the actual blog
post title, but that’s fine at that point - plus, Pinterest tends to
see those as another New pin when Smart Loop first pins it.

Clicky vs Sticky 

I don’t know about you, but my PRIMARY reason for pinning on

Pinterest is for traffic.

I pin for CLICKS.

(I sure hope you do, too!)

When I say “Clicky vs Sticky”, I simply mean I pin for clicks - NOT
for repins (ie, “sticky”)

I’d rather have 25 STRONG “clicky” pin images than 100 “sticky”
pin images.

In fact, the only REAL reasons I like or care about repins is

because:

1 - those repins go on boards that reinforce my keywords

2 - those repins put my ‘clicky’ pins in front of new eyes

We get about 2 weeks to set a new pin up for success in

Pinterest search results - it takes some “sticky” to get our
“clicky” pins there in that short of a time span.

I always say, “Work What Works”...

So if you have a handful of pin images that always get good

clicks and send good traffic - WORK THEM.

Make variations of those pins - target new keyword spaces - get

those pin images EVERYWHERE on Pinterest that is relevant.

Look at each paragraph in your popular posts - do any of those

paragraphs answer a specific question? Make a pin for it!

Really LOOK at your pin images and think of what OTHER

problems or needs that image could solve - target THOSE
keywords too!

Get a little out of the box and wild with it… and have fun!

You just might be pleasantly surprised at how wonderful the

results will be!
Other Tips: 

See a keyword results space in Pinterest where you have

multiple pins/posts that should rank there?

Add that phrase to MULTIPLE pin descriptions that day

I call this my “keyword of the day” and I LOVE this little

strategy.

Heck, I’ll even go in to many of my pre-schedules pins in

Tailwind and edit or add that ‘keyword of the day’ to a lot of my
pins that are about to go out.

It works super well!

Another tip if you decide to use that code to “force” Pinterest

to use your alt tags as your pin description…

Try to pin more FROM your blog to help those pins with your
GOOD pin descriptions get back out and about on Pinterest.
If your pin descriptions are good, you should be pleasantly
surprised at how quickly just doing that can help revive long,
lost pins.

And, as I’ve said before, if you make changes to your post, run
your post url through the Pinterest Debugger TWICE to get
Pinterest to re-cache your post and update all your pins with
that new information.

https://developers.pinterest.com/tools/url-debugger/

1 - Run your post url through the tool

2 - then click “Fetch New Scrape Information”
3 - then run your post url BACK thru the debugger tool

I know it sounds weird, but that’s the best way to get Pinterest
to update your Rich Pin information when it’s changed.

Awesome Things To Do For OTHER 

Bloggers: 
Make them a Unicorn Pin.

Seriously.

I know we all love repins, but PINTEREST loves NEW pins.

That not only helps that other blogger, it also helps YOUR
account.

Plus, I’ve met quite a few bloggers who were super thankful for
my Unicorn Pins I made them =)

As an added bonus to making Unicorn Pins for other bloggers,

you get to test keywords and content ideas for YOUR blog.

(no, NOT to COPY the other blogger, but as market research for
your OWN post)

Heck, I’ll go as far as to not only make them a “new” Unicorn

Pin, but I’ll also make a unique UTM tracking url with a little
“love note” in it so the blogger might see it in their Live
Analytics of Google Analytics reports lol!

So, in their Top Keywords area in Google Analytics Live Traffic,

they might see:
PotPieGirl-loves-you

Hahahaha!

Yes, I entertain myself...lol!

And ​YES​, at this point I imagine you know I make a LOT of pin
images…. A LOT!

There is NO WAY I could test all the things I test AND get such
great results from ​multiple​ Pinterest accounts and ​multiple
blogs WITHOUT using ​my magic image tool​.

Now, it ​also​ has a Wordpress plugin which makes making new

pin images for my posts EXTRA speedy fast.

I just LOVE it!

You can try it for free here:

http://www.potpiegirl.com/easy-pins

I can’t recommend it strongly enough - it’s WONDERFUL!

I know Pinterest feels like a LOT of work (and a lot of frustration
as they get quirky and buggy and flat out CRAY-CRAY from time
to time), but let’s talk about it…

In the finance world, there is an acronym:

A.U.M.

It stands for Assets Under Management

For serious bloggers like you and me (ie, the “Management”),

we have to COLLECT assets that really work to build our traffic,
our presence AND our bottom line.

Pinterest IS an Asset.

Pinterest is FREE.

And I have to say, in my over 12 YEARS of working online in this

crazy business, I have never EVER found an EASIER traffic
source.

Ever. Period.

Hang in there… keep your cool…

When Pinterest “bobs”, you “weave”, ok?

You got this!

Join PotPieGirl’s PinTesters Playground Facebook Group

I want to hang out with you!

You are officially invited to join our PRIVATE Pintest Playbook

Facebook Group!

I’ll be posting answers to common PinTest questions, we’ll be

talking Unicorn Pins, I’ll share PinTests I’m working on now and
so much more!

I’ve never run a Facebook Group before (in fact, I’ve flat out
REFUSED to haha!), but I feel PinTest Playbook is the perfect
opportunity to create a group full of other wonderful people
who are just as serious about their Pinterest results as I am!

I want YOU to join us!

Sound like fun?

I sure think so!

Let me tell you how to get inside…

How to join our private Facebook Group:

1 -- You will need to know the secret password.

The Secret Password is:

PPGLOVESME

2-- You will need to give the email address you used to buy
PinTest Playbook

(this group is for PinTest Playbook customers ONLY and we

need that email to verify that you ARE a customer)

As soon as you have those two things ready…

Go to:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/pintesters/

Fill in the 2 questions with your answers…

And then we will get through accepting all invitations just as
soon as we verify them =)

See ya on the inside!

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