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    5 Best WordPress Pinterest Plugins For Your Blog

    December 5, 2020 · Uncategorized · 0

    Not all WordPress plugins are created equal and when it comes to plugins that pertain to Pinterest, this statement is more true than ever. So I thought It might be helpful to give you a short overview of the 5 best WordPress plugins you can use to optimize your blog for Pinterest and save you the trouble of searching, testing, and possibly crashing your whole site with the crappy plugins all over the net. After reading this post you’ll have all the information you need on the 5 best WordPress plugins to use to optimize your blog for Pinterest without using code.

    1. Tasty Pins

    The Tasty Pins Plugin is the best all in one Pinterest plugin in town. This plugin covers nearly all the features you need to optimize your blog for Pinterest traffic, including: 

    • Hiding Pinterest specific images in your blog posts 
    • Setting pin descriptions for pins people share from your website 
    • Disabling pinning of certain images  
    • Add a Pin it hover button on images 
    • Forced pinning of Pinterest specific images 

    The only thing it’s missing is a social sharing sidebar, but don’t worry, I have the perfect plugin for that below. For the convenience, the Tasty Pins Plugin provides, it’s well worth the 29 dollars a year, but if you’re more concerned about money then convenience, the rest of the plugins in this post are totally free!

    2. Yoast SEO

    The Yoast SEO plugin will help you add the metadata to your site needed to qualify for Pinterest Rich Pins (this also makes Google really happy). Not quite sure what a Rich Pin is? Don’t worry, I got you.

    Rich Pins are pins on Pinterest that display a little extra information automatically pulled from your website. Ever clicked on a recipe pin and see all of the ingredients listed in the pin’s description? That’s a rich pin. How about a product with a price bubble in the corner? Also a rich pin. When you validate your website for rich pins, it improves your authority on Pinterest and improves a pinners experience with your pins. The Yoast Plugin makes it easy to add the data to your website for Pinterest to pull from.

    3. SumoMe

    This plugin has many functions but I like to use it for its social share bars. It has an easy user interface and allows you to choose from a number of different placements on your blog for both desktop AND mobile. It also allows you to customize the colors and shapes of your share bar buttons to match the vibe of your website and tells you exactly how many people shared your content to each social site.

    Curious about what else this plugin can do? Well, It promotes itself primarily as an email capture plugin (aka. it allows you to create popup forms for your freebies). I don’t use this function but if you’re into pop-ups this might be something worth looking into.

    4. Pinterest Widget Builder

    Ok, so this isn’t really a WordPress plugin, but it’s easy enough to use and definitely worth looking into to create buttons and widgets to add your website. The widget builder allows you to create save and follow buttons as well as pin, board, and profile widgets. 

    I primarily use the Pinterest Widget Builder to create save buttons, I like that it allows you to customize your button to any image you want, which is pretty fun. It does utilize a little bit of code but it’s as easy as copy and paste. If you prefer to avoid code at all costs, you can use the SumoMe plugin above or the Tasty Pins plugin to utilize the save hover button on your images.

    5. Milo Tree

    Before we get into the Milo Tree Plugin, I think it’s important to note how followers work on Pinterest. Followers on Pinterest are not as necessary as they are on Instagram, but it is important that the followers you do have are interested in the content you put out into the world. When you put a pin on Pinterest, it releases it to your followers first to see if they engage with it. If they do, Pinterest will release it to more and more people on the platform. So basically, what I’m trying to say is a small engaged following is more important than a large following that’s not interested in your content. As you grow on the platform the followers will come naturally but you can give them a little boost by using the Milo Tree plugin on your blog. 

    The Milo Tree Plugin is a small super polite popup that you can customize to slide in at the bottom of your blog post to encourage people to follow you on Pinterest. I know I said earlier that the rest of the plugins in this post are free, but unfortunately, this little guy is no longer free and costs 9 dollars per month.

    The Big Picture 

    There you have it! The 5 best wordpress plugins to quickly add to your website to optimize it for Pinterest. If you just skimmed over the post and ended up here (lord knows that’s what i would have done!) Here’s a quick recap:

    • Use, Tasty Pins for a convenient all in one app to get your blog optimized for Pinterest ($29/ year)
    • Use Yoast SEO, to help you get verified for rich pins. 
    • Use SumoMe, to allow people to share your post directly from your website. 
    • Use the Pinterest Widget Builder, to create and add a save hover button to your images
    • Use Milo Tree to help you grow an engaged Pinterest following ($9/mo)

    Not seeing results or just getting started with Pinterest? Be sure to grab your FREE copy of The Ultimate Guide to Pinterest For Business. After going through the guide you’ll have the roadmap you need to optimize your Pinterest account to bring more traffic to your website.

    Hi, I’m Shaina

    The Pinterest manager and strategist here at The Pin Perspective. I help online entrepreneurs scale their business using Pinterest to gain more traffic + leads and consistently make more sales.


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    Hi, I’m Shaina

    A Pinterest manager and strategist helping online entrepreneurs get quality traffic, leads, and sales
    using Pinterest!

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In the photos above I broke down what each type of pin is and when you should use them, but I wanted to give you a little more explanation as to WHY you should consider using each of these pin formats and the benefits it can have on your account! 

📌 Static Pins - These are the easiest pins to create, which helps us stay consistent on the platform. Pinterest loves consistency and will reward you for it! 

📌 Video Pins - Video pins are killing it on Pinterest right now with 3x more views this year than last and are expected to continue to be successful moving into 2021. They tend to catch people's attention, which in turn improves visibility and engagement. There’s a huge opportunity for growth here! If you don’t use video in your content, try adding animation to your static pins to turn them into video pins! This is superrrr easy to do in canva! 

📌 Story Pins - Story pins are still in their beta phase and aren't available to everyone, or in every country, yet but if you do have access to them, you should definitely consider trying them out! These pins currently don’t have the ability to link to an external website but they are great for brand awareness and increasing overall engagement on your account. Because this is a new feature, Pinterest is pushing them out to users like wildfire and they’re getting a crazy amount of engagement. Take advantage of this! 

If you live in the US and want to try out story pins, DM me and I’ll show you how to request access! 🤗 Be on the lookout Canada, they’re coming to you next! 

📌 Carousel Pins - Up until recently carousel pins were only available to use with paid ads but you can now use them organically as well. This is a big win for product sellers because it enables you to display a collection of products or different views and colors of the same product.

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    In this day and age instant gratification is basic In this day and age instant gratification is basically ingrained in our DNA 🧬 We want what we want when we want it right? The problem is, sometimes the instant gratification mentality gets in the way of our long term success. 👎🏻

When I first got started using Pinterest it was actually for a lifestyle and food blog. In my mind... I write a blog post, I put it on Pinterest, and I should instantly have hundreds of people flocking to my website to read it! In reality, that’s just not how it works and I was definitely a little disappointed... but hey you don’t know what you don’t know right? 

I decided not to give up and found out later, the results were well worth the wait. ✨

It’s not uncommon for people to come to me with the concern of low engagement in the first month of using Pinterest for their business. Pinterest is capable of driving tons of traffic to your website and funneling leads into your business - nearly on autopilot - but what a lot of people don’t realize is success won’t happen overnight. It actually takes 3 - 6 months to start seeing real results on Pinterest when you first get started using the platform. 

When done right, and given a sufficient amount of time, Pinterest can really bring home the bacon 🥓. Don’t let the 3 to 6 months waiting period deter you from the platform. Good things take time. Pinterest is definitely one of those good things with long lasting results! 

What’s your number one question when it comes to using Pinterest for your business? ⬇️
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Did you know only 8% of people actually stick to the resolutions they make at the beginning of the year? Personally, I think a lot of people (myself included) give up because of overwhelm. We set huge goals for ourselves without breaking them down into actionable manageable steps and our brains say… NOPE 🤯.  

This year I decided to change things up. I started setting small monthly goals for myself and I’ve accomplished so much more than I ever thought possible. If you’re feeling overwhelmed headed into the last couple months of the year, this might help you as well! Choose a few attainable small goals, focus on one thing at a time, and take each project on step by step. 

For the last two months of the year, I’ve decided to dive into the backend of my business and head into 2021 with a bang! 

I’ll be focusing on 2 things: 

1.  My client experience - because although it’s already pretty great 💁🏻‍♀️ there’s always room for improvement and my clients deserve the absolute best! I’m talking the Pinterest management equivalent to a stay at a luxury beach front resort. mmhmm fancy! 

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Between client work, these two projects, AND the holidays I think I’ll be kept verrry busy but I’m so so excited to take on the work, step by step, and knock out these goals before 2020 is over! 

What do you want to accomplish in the 2020 home stretch? I’d love to hear about it! Comment below ⬇️
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For the past 10 years, I’ve been using Pinterest to plan out my entire life and there are over 400 million people on Pinterest doing the same thing - searching for all sorts of things from parenting, to online business, to fitness, to finances, to you name it. If you dream it up, it’s probably on Pinterest.

So let's get to what really matters, is Pinterest right for your business? Here's a few things you can do to find out.

📌 Do a simple search. Think about what you do, what you sell, what you blog about and type those keywords into the search bar on Pinterest. Do you see similar topics or products to what you do or sell in the results? If you find pins, boards, and other profiles similar to your business - there is a market for you on Pinterest.

📌 Ask your audience. Email your list, post in a Facebook group, do an Instagram poll. Do they use Pinterest? If your current audience is on Pinterest, odds are a lot more people just like them are using Pinterest as well. 

📌 If you have a website, check out your Google analytics. Go to Acquisition ⇒ All Traffic ⇒ Source/Medium ⇒ Enter "Pinterest" in the search bar. Are you already getting traffic from Pinterest to your website? Oooo girl, there's so much potential there! That means your audience is saving your content onto Pinterest themselves.

Side note: Did you know you can also use Pinterest to drive traffic to your Instagram, Youtube, Facebook and Etsy shops? If you don't have a website, it doesn't mean that Pinterest Isn't for you.

👍🏻 If you answered yes to even just one of these questions, it’s definitely worth considering investing some of your time into Pinterest marketing! 

👎🏻 If you answered NO to ALL 3 questions. Pinterest marketing is not for you. It would be a smart move to invest your time elsewhere. 

So, What do you think? Is Pinterest right for your business? I'd love to hear your thoughts ⬇️
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Wondering how on earth I killed what is considered an unkillable plant? Because I treated it like all my other plants. It’s a plant right? Plants need water but succulents are different, if they get too much water, it will drown and result in a very very dead plant… 

Same goes for social platforms. If you’re using the same strategies and techniques you learned for Instagram or Facebook on Pinterest, it's not going to work for you. Why? Because Pinterest is different. People don’t behave in the same way on Pinterest as they do on other platforms. 

Instagram and Facebook are places for you to nurture your audience, Pinterest is a place for people to discover you. It’s the very tip top of the funnel. So if you want to be successful on Pinterest, you have to create a strategy that’s Pinterest specific.

This includes the strategies used to get people off of Pinterest and onto your content, as well as the strategies used behind the content itself to convert those people into clients or customers. 

If you’re reading this thinking, oh shit, I think I totally killed Pinterest like you killed your beloved succulent, I assure you, you’re not alone. The best part, it’s totally revivable! So if you’ve taken a shot at Pinterest in the past, I encourage you to get back out there and try again! 

It will be different this time. This time you have me on your side already cheering you on and ready to help you along the way! 💕
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