Marc Guberti

Pinterest is the fastest growing social network of all time, and the average consumer spends more money on Pinterest than on any other social network. Unlike other social networks, the leaders on Pinterest are not as definite as they are on other social networks. That means there’s time for you to become the next leader on Pinterest with hundreds of thousand of followers.

On Twitter, it’s easy to tell who is dominating it. There aren’t as many people dominating Pinterest for your niche as there are people dominating Twitter for your niche. That means you have an easier chance of being the leader of your niche on Pinterest than you would on Twitter, Facebook, or any of the other social networks. Here are 100 Pinterest tips that will give you the edge you need to become a power user.

1. Pin as much as you can. The more pins you have, the better. The power users average 2,700 pins.
2. Have as many boards on your Pinterest account as you can. For Pinterest boards, there’s strength in numbers.
3. Pin big, long pictures. These pictures will get noticed, and as a result, these pictures will get more repins and comments.
4. Comment on other people’s pins. Only 1% of an average pinner’s time is spent commenting on other people’s pins. By consistently appearing as the first commenter for a lot of people’s pins, you will get more exposure.
5. Follow back on Pinterest. You’ll be glad you did.
6. Don’t focus on the follow ratio. Follow as many people as you can. You may be following more people than there are people following you, but take this into consideration: having 10,000 followers and following 40,000 people gives you more exposure than you having 2,000 followers and following 0 people.
7. Create an account on Pin Alerts. You will be notified each time someone pins something from your blog.
8. Focus on one board. You can add pins to all of your other boards, but there should be a primary board that has most of your account’s pins.
9. Have boards of different categories. If someone doesn’t like one thing you pin about, they may follow you because you pin about another thing that they like.
10. Like other people’s pins. The more pins you like, the better.
11. Repinning a lot of pins at once can annoy some of your followers. You can like all of the pins you want to repin, and as you repin those pins, unlike them so you know which of those pins haven’t been repinned yet.
12. Choose one day of the week to send out at least 50 pins. Then, pin some pictures on other days. The result will be at least 200 pins every month and at least 2,400 pins every year.
13. Create a board with the words cool or awesome. Awesome YouTube Videos and Cool Stuff are two of my boards with those words.
14. Create multiple Pinterest boards for subniches. Ex. Twitter–>How to get more engagement–>How to get more retweets on Twitter.
15. You only have 160 characters for the bio. List all of the things you do, are an expert at, and your hobbies.
16. Connect with your other social networks.
17. Use other social networks to promote your pins and boards.
18. Have some boards about your hobbies. On Pinterest, experts need to show their “human side”.
19. Pin Infographics. Those get a lot of repins.
20. Search around Pinterest to get ideas for boards. All you have to do is see an idea and find pictures for it in order to create a board.
21. There are millions of pictures to choose from. Choose the best ones.
22. Take your own pictures and upload them to Pinterest.
23. Create short tutorial boards that show people how to get things done. This is my tutorial board, How To Play Chess.
24. Choose your favorite animal and create a board about it. One of my favorite animals is the Penguin.
25. Create a Pinterest board with pictures of your pet. Show off your dog, cat, fish, or any other pet you have.
26. Pin pictures that are humorous. My board Pinterest Humor has many pins that will make you laugh.
27. Create a Pinterest board about your wish list for Christmas, your birthday, any occasion, or just for fun.
28. Add pictures to your blog so your blog posts can get pinned.
29. Showcase your products on Pinterest. The average consumer spends more money on Pinterest than any other social network.
30. Pinterest is all about visuals. Blurry pictures won’t help you.
31. Pin motivational quotes by using Pinstamatic.
32. Create a board of your favorites. This is a board about my favorite books.
33. Have as many boards as possible with over 100 pins.
34. When you have enough boards with over 100 pins, try to have as many boards as possible with over 1,000 pins.
35. Repin a lot of individual people’s pins. When you repin someone’s pin, you appear in that person’s notifications. If you repin enough of that person’s repins, you may get a new follower. That new follower is also likely to either like or repin your pins.
36. Promote your Pinterest account on your blog.
37. Host a giveaway on Pinterest.
38. Use a lot of hashtags in your pins, but don’t go crazy. Three hashtags is the maximum number of hashtags to use in a pin while one hashtag would be the minimum.
39. Create a Guess Who Pinterest board where all of the people are experts of your niche.
40. You have 500 characters to describe a pin. Either use as few or as many of those characters as you can for your pins. Don’t get stuck in the middle.
41. Create group boards so your boards get updated even when you’re not logged in.
42. Your group boards appear on other pinner’s account which will lead to more followers for you as well.
43. Create boards for all of the major holidays.
44. Update the holiday boards daily as the holidays approach. The day after Christmas isn’t the time to start updating your Christmas board.
45. Say yes to group board invites with a lot of contributors. This will ensure that one of the boards for your Pinterest account gets updated daily.
46. Use PinWoot to get more followers, likes, and repins on Pinterest.
47. Create lists like this one on Pinterest with Pinstamatic.
48. Find people in your niche with thousands of followers on Pinterest and follow their followers.
49. Offer coupons on Pinterest.
50. Create a Pinterest board about Pinterest.
51. Pin blog posts with affiliate links to sell products and make a commission.
52. Add Pinterest “Pin It” buttons to the bottom of all of your blog posts.
53. Add the Pinterest Follow widget to your blog.
54. If you don’t want the widget, use a WordPress plugin to get the job done.
55. Get a business account on Pinterest so you can get Pinterest analytics.
56. Get the “Pin It” button on your bookmark list so you can pin anything without being on Pinterest.
57. Use the Pinterest search feature to find boards based on your niche. Then follow those boards.
58. Promote your blog on your Pinterest account so your blog gets more traffic.
59. Have shopper friendly boards. This will encourage more sales.
60. If you are considering creating a board about something, create that board as a secret board first. If you like the secret board, make it public.
61. Use secret boards to organize your goals…unless you want everyone to see them.
62. People love tips. Create Pinterest boards based on tips in your niche.
63. Take a break, go to your board with the most pins, and just scroll down. Seeing what you have accomplished will make you feel great.
64. If you want to do a bucket list of places you want to go to, use Pinterest’s new map feature to display all of your pins on a map of the world.
65. Make sure your bio picture is a non-blurry picture of you or your company’s logo.
66. Thank people for repinning your pins.
67. You can mention pinners using the “@” sign.
68. Share other people’s content.
69. Search engines will give your Pinterest boards/account a lot of visibility as long as you keep on pinning consistently.
70. Download the Pinterest mobile app right now if you haven’t done so already.
71. When someone finds a link of your Pinterest account on Google, your bio becomes the description Google uses to tell people about your Pinterest account.
72. An eye tracking study done by Mashable revealed that boards on the top and in the center get seen the most. Move and organize those boards carefully.
73. Put all of your best boards in the top two rows.
74. Add keywords to your bio so search engines have an easier time finding you.
75. Be you on Pinterest.
76. Host a Pinterest board scavenger hunt. As people search for what they are supposed to find, some of your pins about your newest blog posts may cause some to stop searching for a while. You’ll also get more repins.
77. Pin YouTube videos. They can be played without leaving Pinterest.
78. Create a board where you can review products.
79. Identify which of your boards have the most followers and repins. Those are the boards you need to pay attention to the most.
80. Give yourself goals for Pinterest (how many followers, pins, repins, or likes you want in a certain amount of time, etc).
81. Comment on popular pins. A lot of people will see you since there aren’t many people who leave comments.
82. Keep the followers that you already have happy.
83. Give your boards creative names.
84. Focus on getting more board followers for your top three boards. If only one of your boards has 1 million followers, you still show up with 1 million followers.
85. Stuff your pin descriptions with keywords that Google can use to find your pins.
86. Establish your niche, and then create numerous boards for sub-niches.
87. If you have your own group board, only invite the people who won’t spam the board.
88. Find interesting pinners so it is easier for you to find content to repin.
89. Promote your Pinterest button on the top of your blog’s sidebar so it is easy to find.
90. Creat boards related to individual blog posts.
91. Make the images on your blog easy to pin. There are numerous WordPress plugins out there that do the job.
92. Host a charity event on Pinterest (for every repin, donate $3 or something like that).
93. Pin statistics. This can be done as an infographic or with Pinstamatic.
94. Pin from a variety of different sources.
95. Pin your YouTube videos on Pinterest.
96. Create a Pinterest board of your 10 or 100 favorite blog posts depending on how many you have.
97. Add Pinterest to your email signature. This will allow you to get more quality followers.
98. Track your statistics, find what works, and find what doesn’t work. Continue to do the things that do work.
99. Tell your friends on Facebook about your Pinterest boards.
100. Don’t give up. Everyone started with 0 followers.