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Use Tailwind to Explode Pinterest Traffic
If you’ve got a website, chances are you’ve got a variety of social media accounts to help market it. Which ones you use depend heavily on your niche. I have a health and fitness mom blog, so Pinterest is a big source of traffic for me. Contrary to popular belief Pinterest is NOT a Social Media Platform. It’s a visual search engine. Millions of people go to Pinterest every day and search for things. Pinning the right way can completely explode your traffic. Manual pinning takes a lot of time. Tailwind puts your Pinterest on autopilot!
What is Tailwind?
Tailwind is an auto-poster for Pinterest or Instagram. I’ll be covering Tailwind for Pinterest in this post.
It is THE BEST way to put your pinning on autopilot. It’s got everything you need to maximize your Pinterest exposure with minimal time investment on your part.
You won’t have to find the time to pin manually, Tailwind does it for you!
The analytics will instantly show you how your pins are performing and the quality of your group boards.
What does Tailwind do?
Tailwind helps to put your pinning on autopilot. It is THE MOST efficient way to drive traffic to your blog.
Here’s everything that Tailwind does.
- Schedules your pins
- Posts at the best time for YOUR audience
- Shows you related content you can share
- Connects you with other likeminded Pinners via Tribes
- Amplifies your reach
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Scheduling a Pin
There are 3 different options on how to schedule a Pin.
- Schedule from Pinterest
- Schedule from your website
- Upload Pins directly into Tailwind
The fastest way for the first 2 options is to use the Tailwind browser extension. Just hover over the image and you’ll see the logo pop up.
Or, you can click any Pinterest “Save” button on the website. Then instead of Saving to a Pinterest board, click the Tailwind icon.
Finally, to upload directly into Tailwind.
Click on Publisher on the left, then create a draft
Next, in the window below the Pin image, add all the boards that make sense for this Pin. Pinterest recommends you post to the most relevant boards first. And no more than 10 boards to a pin
Check the Pin description to make sure it’s how you want it.
If you’ve chosen two or more boards, I recommend clicking the Interval button and spacing these Pins out by 1 to 7 days. I like 2 days between pins. This is also a Tailwind “best practice”. You always want to pin to your MOST RELEVANT boards FIRST! This helps Pinterest know that what you’re pinning is important.
Then click “Schedule now” or “Add to Queue” and you’re done!
If you close the window without scheduling, your Pin will be waiting in your Drafts page.
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Board Lists
Board lists are groups of boards that you pin to regularly. They can be grouped by topic or by frequency. I use these to schedule different images for pins. No more than 10 boards to a single image though!
Tailwind Tribes and How to use Them
Tailwind tribes are like group boards but exclusive only to Tailwind. TO add any of your pins to your Tribes click the “add to Tribes” button before the Facebook description.
I own a tribe that I’m trying to grow, and I’d love to have you there. Join by clicking on my link below!
Health and Fitness for Busy Moms
I pin my most popular images to my tribes. This really increases my exposure.
My Results
I’ve seen (and keep seeing exponential Pinterest growth since I started using Tailwind. I haven’t had anything “go viral” yet but I’m still new in the game. Take a look at my 90-day stats. You can see where I took a break and let my queue run dry (a big no-no if you don’t want your stats to take a hit). I was barely at 100 monthly followers before and each day I’m watching my numbers climb. As of the writing of this post I’m at 58k monthly followers and climbing!
Update 1.5 months later – I’m now at 198k monthly followers! And my following keeps growing! I’ve had 2 different pins get 8k impressions each with 90 link clicks and 35 link clicks respectively solely from Pinterest.
Closing
Tailwind is a total game-changer for many bloggers, myself included. If you’re not using Tailwind yet click HERE for a link to sign up. If you’re a health and fitness mom blogger JOIN MY TRIBE HERE!
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Thanks for sharing as I never heard of Tailwind! I’ll definitely check it out 😊
Kemk, it’s SO awesome!
For whatever reason, I’ve just never given Tailwind a fair shot. I’ve been manual pinning a bit. I’ll have to try again!
Jen, Tailwind frees up SO much time!
I have been really wanting to give tailwind a try! Thanks for the great info.
Audrey, they have a FREE trial, try it out!
ok, think I need this for my blog and resources now. I can follow your link! Maybe we can partner on some healthy recipe ideas for parents and kids. let me know.
Julie, I’d LOVE to! I’ll email you!
Great advice. I’ve been using Tailwind for about a month now and have found it super helpful!
It’s amazing, isn’t it!
Thanks for all this great information! I’m excited to look more into this. I’m totally new at all this so this helps a TON!
Tami, check out the free trial!
This is awesome! I just went over to Tailwind now and made a few board lists, something I haven’t gotten to yet.
I finally caved in and started using Tailwind recently. Did not know before your post about organizing boards by groups. Thanks!
Yes Tailwind is a must!
Yes, it is Leslie!
I’ve been meaning to try it for a while now, but didn’t know if it was worth it! You definitely convinced me! I’ll have to try it!
I love Tailwind, thanks for the info!
I love Tailwind! I just joined your tribe! It looks great!
Awesome, thank you so much!
Love using tailwind to schedule my pins. So much easier than trying to do it all myself.
Yup! Tailwind is awesome! Glad you’re sharing this information!
You’re welcome!
I love tailwind! Great information!
Kinzy, me too obviously! LOL.
I need to try this! I haven’t figured out how to really utilize Pinterest and I think this would help!
Nicole, Tailwind is the way to go for sure!
This is our some tips. I have been using tail wind for just a little bit and I am loving it.
I’m just starting to use it.
Looks like it really works!
Melinda, I had the same initial thoughts as well!