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Guide: How to Create Viral Pins – How to Boost Traffic and Sales

Guide: How to Create Viral Pins - How to Boost Traffic and Sales
Guide: How to Create Viral Pins – How to Boost Traffic and Sales

 

what is a Viral Pin

These are the pins which generate impressive engagement from Pinterest users through repeated impressions, saves and clicks. Here is the guide about how to create viral pins and how to boost traffic and sales.

There are over 250 million active users on Pinterest each month with over 175 million existing pins. If you want to stand out amongst 175 million pins, you’ll need an effective and unique formula.

Understand Pinterest

To understand how to go viral you first need to understand Pinterest. It’s very different from other social media because it’s a visual search engine and not a form of social media.

You need to create boards and a profile rich in keywords and SEO optimized content. The exciting feature with Pinterest is the endless potential for generating leads and sales from every single pin.

Perfect Sized Pins:

The first step in creating Viral Pins is to get the size and layout of your design right. Pinterest sets out ground rules for the size of all their pins.
Best size – 1000×1500 pixels –

Studies have shown the following features all impact how much engagement you receive on your pins:

Lighter images get 20x more repins than dark images
Reddish, orange and yellow images get 2x more repins than blue colors
Using High-quality images helps grab people’s attention
Font – avoid script fonts as they’re difficult to read when scrolling

Now you have the perfect size dimensions for your pins, you can create them in a site like Canva. Canva is a social media image creator, which is free to use so it’s the perfect place to design your pins.

2. Impressive Images for Viral Pins

Pinterest is a visual search engine, the images you use influence the level of leads and sales you receive. Viral pins go nuts on Pinterest because people are attracted by high colors, color contrasts, and your font.

So to maximize engagement, look for high-quality images which support the niche and message of your pin.

If you are looking for free images for your pins, you can find plenty of them on these sites:

Pexels
Unsplash
Pixabay

If would like to find more exclusive images you can find some great paid images in:

Canva
Shutterstock
Deposit Photos

Tips – Use contrasting colors in your image and text to help your title really stand out. (Additionally, nearly 80% of Pinterest users currently are women so factor this in when choosing your images)
Add your logo or website URL onto every pin to explode your branding
Remember a high percentage of Pinterest users are on mobile devices so optimize all your images

3. Create Titles Rich in Keywords

Titles – it’s time to create the title that magnetically draws attention, attract many people and clicks. Effective tips for your titles.

Offering a Solution for a Problem
Teaching your visitors something new
Displaying something your visitors want to have
Stirring an emotion
Start your title by writing out some keywords and then surrounding it with power words.

4. Keywords for Your Titles and Descriptions

How do you find the best keywords to use. Pinterest makes the job of finding keywords extremely simple. All you need to do is enter a couple of words from your title into the search bar.

Pinterest offers a range of keywords directly underneath your search. As you write your Pin description, bear in mind that few people actually read them.
Pin description is a technique to assist Pinterest in understanding the content of your pin.

Here’s a handy template of what to include:

What’s your post/product all about?
Who is it ideal for? (Mums, couples, children, travelers)
What’s the problem this post/product solves?
Is there an opt-in offer or freebie?
Following this format gives you ample opportunity to share details about your content rich with keywords.

5. Hashtags in Pinterest

Now in 2019, hashtags are acceptable again in Pinterest. Placing your hashtags after the description bolsters your Pin SEO, so they’re a super idea! Just be wary not to use any more than 5-6 of them.

As soon as you type the hashtag symbol #, then begin writing your tag, Pinterest auto-suggests words along with showing the popularity of the tags.

This is a fantastic way of finding the best hashtags to use on your pins.

When selecting your hashtags, it’s important to understand that:

Hashtags should be used to group similar content material together as it boosts your search success in Pinterest
The tags you choose are really to help Pinterest understand what your pin is about
As you decide upon your tags, look for ways of introducing different terminology to broaden your exposure to a wider audience.

Make sure you get the best hashtags for each of your pins and boost your search success.

6. Posting Plan to Go Viral

So where should you pin it to go viral?

Group boards used to be an easy answer. They’re still helpful but only if the content is niche specific and well optimized.

Unfortunately, many of the boards nowadays have thousands of pins and the content isn’t always specific to the niche or the links are broken.

So what’s the solution?

Well, you need to find groups of people who are committed to sharing their own and others’ content on Pinterest.
The best place for that right now is in Tailwind Tribes!

For those who may not know, Tailwind Tribes are groups of Pinterest users who help each other grow their reach and traffic.

The best news of all is Tailwind Tribes can be used for FREE! To make sure you’re getting the maximum benefit from your tribes you need to pin and share content regularly.

The more you share other people’s pins, the more of yours will be pinned so it’s a great way to boost your chances of going viral.

Now you know the tips and the secrets on how to create viral pins. Take action now and start pinning!

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3 Tips on How to Improve Your Pinterest Boards and Pins

3 Tips on How to Improve Your Pinterest Boards and Pins

A few easy-to-implement changes can greatly increase the visibility, engagement, and sales generated by your pins.

1: Add Alt Text to Provide Optimized Pin Descriptions to Improve Search Visibility

On a web page, have you ever noticed text appearing in place of an image? This text appears when your cursor hovers over the image, too. The technical name is image alternative text (or alt text). Many website images don’t include alt text or don’t optimize this text, even though doing so can benefit your social marketing on Pinterest.

When someone pins an image from your website, the alt text becomes the pin description. By adding alt text to images, you ensure the image automatically has a good description that will help drive engagement and clicks.

Alt text can also help your image rank well in Pinterest search results. On Pinterest, people do 2 billion searches every month. The pins that appear in the top results will reap the benefits through repins and clicks. Pins that do well in search results have two things in common: keywords and repins.

Write Image Alt Text

For the feature images for your blog, write alt text that piques curiosity. Your alt text might read like a headline.

You also want to include relevant search keywords and hashtags. Make sure the keywords you pick are relevant to the image and the page they lead to because you don’t want to confuse your audience. For help determining what keywords to use, check the search suggestions that appear on a Pinterest search results page.

Add Alt Text to Website Images

In any website’s HTML, an image’s alt text appears in the image tag’s “alt=” attribute. If you’re comfortable writing in an HTML editor, you can modify the alt text on any image by changing the words that appear after the attribute.

2: Position Your Most Popular Board to Increase Overall Profile Engagement

On Pinterest, people can follow either your whole feed or selected boards. Your Pinterest page likely has one or two boards with more followers than your other boards. By making your most popular board (or boards) the focal point of your Pinterest page, you can increase traffic and engagement.

Clearly, the most followed board is the one most people like, so it’s easier to get people to follow it. You can then interest the main board’s followers in your other boards, too.

When you place your most popular board in the top row of your Pinterest page, visitors will see that board first and be more likely to follow you. To make this board stand out in the top row, give it the most attractive cover image.

Alternately, with Pinterest’s Showcase feature, you can highlight pins from a single board at the top of your Pinterest page. When visitors land on your Pinterest page, the showcase is one of the first things they see.

You can also try pinning more images to your top board. More people will see these pins, check out the board, and hopefully follow it. This technique can also help boost repins and traffic to your site. To increase the number of pins, make the board into a group board and invite contributors.

3: Use Yotpo to Streamline Crowdsourced Image Shares That Boost Product Sales

Crowdsourcing is a great way to drive up engagement. You get free content to share and a potential increase in sales.

For example, the luxury brand Coach asked customers on Instagram and Twitter to share a selfie taken while wearing their shoes, using the hashtag #coachfromabove.

Your business can take advantage of crowdsourcing by combining Instagram and Pinterest. People like sharing pictures of themselves on Instagram, but Pinterest drives more traffic and sales.

With this tactic, you crowdsource images from Instagram and then share them on Pinterest as product pins and buyable pins. However, before you share a user’s image, make sure you get permission from the person who owns the photo.

A great tool for executing a crowdsourcing campaign is Yotpo. Through your dashboard, you can find images on Instagram. Look for tall, portrait-oriented images because they get the highest engagement.

Conclusion

If you’re looking to increase traffic or drive more sales organically, Pinterest is probably the best social network to focus on. It drives a healthy bit of social media traffic, and does this with only 150 million users, compared to Facebook’s 1.8 billion. Using the three tips above can help you drive more traffic, sales, and engagement on Pinterest.