If you want more quality, targeted Internet traffic to your website then you need be on Pinterest. As soon as I launched this blog in April 2017 I was on Pinterest and Tailwind is one of my favourite tools for scheduling Pinterest Pins in advance. It also provides powerful analytics to help you pin viral content on a regular basis. It EXPLODED my Pinterest views (by 36.5 million % in 100 days):
How To Get That Sweet Internet Traffic With Tailwind:
A simple overview of Tailwind:
- Once you login to Tailwind, you will be taken to your Dashboard.
- To get started, go to “See All Suggestions”, as Tailwind will offer a lot of suggestions to help you optimise your Pinterest profile for success.
- Once you have done everything there, go and download the Tailwind extension for either Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer
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Then you will want to set up your Pinning schedule.
- Click on the little calendar icon. Set your TimeZone
- Choose how many times you want to Pin per day and hit the ‘Generate New Schedule’ button.
- According to Tailwind, the most successful Pinners share content between 10-30 times per week.
- I share between 40 and 60 pins per day
Now go and find some great content to share! Go to a blog and use your extension to schedule some pins. If you visit a website that has a lot of full-sized images you would like to pin, hit the tailwind extension and select the images you want to share.
- Choose the boards you want to send the Pin to and hit ‘schedule now’.
- It’s possible to schedule more than one Pin at a time.
- Select your board name and hit schedule.
If all of this seems like too much for you to deal with and you’re insanely overwhelmed immediately, I can help you out!
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Next, you may wish to tackle Lists and learn how to semi loop your Pins.
Lists are a pretty neat feature, meaning that you can create lists of boards and create a timed ‘looping’ schedule to send your pins (usually from your domain) to a lot of group boards over a few days or weeks etc. This will guarantee an even greater reach on Pinterest that will generate even more targeted internet traffic to your website.
To access and create Lists, hit the star icon.
- Hit ‘Add New List’ and rename your board.
- Start adding boards to one list. Divide lists by niche or category.
- When you have finished adding boards, your lists will look similar to mine.
- To test how your lists work, try to add an image from your website:
- The lists appear at the very top of the board’s list. Select one of your lists and then choose ‘Use Interval’
- You change the date and time the first Pin will be scheduled up at the date section.
- Then use the slider to decide how long between pins and whether or not you would like the ‘Interval Type’ to be ‘Optimized’ (which is what I always try to select.
- Hit the big green ‘Set Interval’ button when you are ready.
Tailwind Tribes:
- To join Tailwind Tribes and start submitting content, you should check this Pinterest board by the lovely Isabelle Pacquin, or feel free to join the Tribes I created; for Blogging and Social Media Pins, or the one for Crafting and DIY Home Decor.
- When you accept an invitation it will look like the navy screen.
- You can add any of the Pins in the Tribe to your Pinterest boards. Don’t bother adding other people’s content to Tribes. Add from your own site.
- Select the tribes and hit the ‘Add to Tribe’ button. I LOVE Tribes! Join
I want you to know that I am an affiliate of Tailwind but I’m also a paying customer. It has completely changed how I use Pinterest and I’m on there almost every day to fill up my queue! Finding the Pins to add to my account can take up the most time. I use Tailwind for both of my sites.
To Your Pinterest Success
I advise you to read the post all about how to find and join group boards on Pinterest and maximise your reach by using both Tribes and group boards. If you want even more info about how to maximise your reach on Pinterest Join the Resource Vault (it’s free) and out your guides full of tips for using Pinterest!
If you have any questions at all regarding Pinterest, please feel free to ask away!
Thanks for this Claire. I have a Tailwind account, but don’t really use it, maybe I should re-look at it! Theone thing I don’t really understand is the Tailwind tribes – are they essentially another form of Pinterest group boards?
Hey Catherine!
Yes they are quite like group boards except the Tailwind pool is much smaller so the chances of your content getting shared by an influencer with klout is much higher 🙂 You should definitely try it out. xo
Didnt know about this – I will definitely go an check it out! Great post btw
Hi Caroline! Thank you for the comment. Yes, Tailwind is definitely worth checking out 🙂
I pinned your post so I can come back and read it. I am working on growing my blog and I know Pinterest is something i have got to work on.
Hi Sheena! Thank you so much, if you need any help at all with Pinterest, I’m happy to help 🙂
I have never used Tailwind, but I see a lot of commentary about it (a lot of good and very little bad). It seems like it would decrease my frustration with traffic and Pinterest, but I don’t know why I cannot bring myself to pull the trigger.
there’s a free trial of 100 pins! You could always give it a shot 🙂 I love Tailwind! In case you hadn’t guessed already :p
It’s probably just feeling like you might spend money on something that might not work. If you know who your target audience is on Pinterest, and you pin for them.. you will see success using Tailwind for sure. You can also sign up to Tailwind and use the Tribes function for free, that way you could test and see if what you share is going to improve your stats.
Wow! That’s a full load of useful information! I still have so much to learn about TW.
Hi Nat, thank you for stopped by to leave a comment 🙂 Tailwind really are excellent. If you have the time to fill your tailwind queue then it’s definitely worth it!
Hello Claire. I’ve enjoyed this post.
I’ve only really been using Pinterest (and Tailwind) for probably around 3 months. I used a free Tailwind account for the first month and signed up to a subscription immediately afterwards.
Tailwind has certainly helped me to manage my Pinterest activity but I’m still learning. As yet I’m not really seeing stratospheric interaction in Pinterest, though I suspect this has a lot to do with figuring out what works for me and building up a following. My feeling is that nowadays Pinterest has made things much tougher and that almost every niche is super competitive now.
Regardless, there’s no way I could manage without an intelligent scheduling tool and I’m making some great connections with some great people as a consequence.