Hi Welcome to my second traffic report for DrawBuildPlay and TheDIYBlogger. I have read many posts by other bloggers about their Income reports and Traffic reports. Most of these reports show how successful they have become. What is usually missing is the reports from the start of their journey. Answers to questions like How long did it take for you to see traffic and start making six figures from blogging ..read more

Hi This is my first traffic report for DrawBuildPlay and TheDIYBlogger. I have read many other posts by other bloggers about their Income reports and Traffic reports. Most of these reports show how successful they have become. What is usually missing is the reports from the start of their journey. Answers to questions like How long did it take for you to see traffic and start making six figures from blogging ..read more

Target keywords so users can find your pins with Pinterest search Update your board names and board descriptions to create keyword rich boards that actually get searched for by users on Pinterest. Make sure your pins link to interesting content so that your followers will want to repin it. Check the description of the pin itself has targeted keywords and uses hashtags. The pin description should align with the board keywords and on page keywords to reinforce what the pin is about ..read more

Establish your Pinterest presence When starting out with blogging and marketing your blog on Pinterest, the goal should be to fill your boards with relevant and engaging content to help build an audience. Pinterest generally will only start to rank pins in a board once the board has about 20 pins in it. Over time as the board gains more pins and has high engagement, it will rank even better ..read more

If you are serious about your blog and marketing your brand on Pinterest, you must create board covers. Here are a few reasons why (even in 2019) board covers are as important as ever. Branding is important. When a potential follower looks at your boards, would you rather they see a bunch of noisy pin images made by other people, or would you want to control the branding experience and give your boards some love ..read more

As a Pinterest Business, it is good practice to pin other people’s content alongside your content. Sharing is caring, and it gives your audience more information to help them solve their problem. However, every now and then we may accidentally pin the wrong article. Maybe we didn’t want to pin that item. Maybe we wanted to pin it to a different board. Whatever the reason, it is important to know how to unpin a pin on Pinterest so that your boards remain high quality, tidy, and poor quality pins are removed from your board ..read more

Choosing Board names is both an art and a skill. Often we as creators think we know what users are searching for, and name our Pinterest boards based on that gut feeling. The reality is that we often get it completely wrong. In my previous post, I talked about how to optimize your board name on Pinterest. In that post, I only briefly touched on making sure your board names were keyword targeted ..read more

Regardless of what niche your blog is about, it is super important you have some standard legal pages on your blog to protect yourself. It doesn’t matter if you are running a business, or are just out there giving free advice, or are a lifestyle blogger. You have an audience who are visiting your blog and reading your content. If for whatever reason, one of those readers followed your advice but was met with an unfortunate consequence, then they may try to sue you for any damages caused ..read more

What are Pinterest Group Boards Pinterest Group Boards are very similar to regular boards. The main difference is a group board has more than one collaborator. Some group boards are very open to new contributors, and will have hundreds of members contributing pins. Other group boards may be more strict on who can contribute and may consist of only a handful of contributors. The decision on who can contribute to a group board is left to the owner of the board ..read more

A Pinterest board name can be up to 100 characters long. But be careful about using all that. I’ll tell you why, but first, let’s go through how to create a well optimized board name. Forget Cutesy or Creative! Let’s start with those cute or creative board names. You know the ones I’m talking about. The boards that you really want to name “Food for Thought” or “Mr Clean”. Sounds fun but it only makes sense to you and will perform very poorly in search ..read more