Pinning 

Create board with different themes and niches. The more pins you have the more specific they should be.

Don’t just pin your own pins. Pin others pins as well, pins that would be interesting for your followers, for two reasons:

1. It’s kinda spammy

2. you get more content thus more traffic.  

Pin some viral pins for more traffic. Make sure the viral pin fits your board.

Schedule and Manual pinning

From what I’ve heard (read) Pinterest reward those who pin manually by showing their pins more in the suggested pins (or what ever the first page is called?) 

So why is scheduling pins important and useful or needed anyways? Well, from what I’ve read, if you pin too many pins at once it might be considered spam by the algorithm and won’t be shown on the first page. 

You want to pin several times a day for more exposure. 

What I do is that I have scheduled pins from tribes and other places but I also, every now and then take my phone and search for pins to pin on my most relevant boards. 

Creating a pin

When creating your pin turn of your designer brain and think as a knitter. What kind of picture would catch your eye? What makes you click on a pin and re-pin it? What words would you use for search? 

#Hashtags

hashtags are a fairly new feature to Pinterest. If I find a pin that is almost the thing I need, I click on the hashtag in the pin to get more pins like it. Use your hashtags. You get to use 6 of them.

Great Pin

What makes a ping great? 

Good quality photo. Use your own photos. Use your own photos. Use your own photos. Use clear quality photos. Something that catches the eye immediately! Try a close up of a detail in your design. Make people interested of what else is there. Avoid using faces in your pin, that might take the eye away from the thing you want people to see.  That’s how the human brain works, we tend to look at faces, and see faces, it’s a survival thing.

Make the text readable. I know there are some beautiful curvy fonts out there, but if no-one can read them in one look, it’s not worth it.

The pin should take people as close to the source as possible. You can pin directly from Ravelry pattern page, but that’s not the best possible option, you see you might have to tweak the caption a bit, and you can’t add text to the pin itself. 

Try Canva

Canva is an online graphic design tool (which I use for most of my pins and blog images) that is easy to use, fast and it has hundreds of templates to use from or you can create your own. You can choose from pre-sized canvases depending on what you want to create (see picture below) add  your photo, the upload process is super easy and you can easily resize the photo once it’s on the canvas. Add some text to it and you’re good! Download the image to your computer and you’re done!

Oh, and Canva also works on your phone, just download the app from your store! Makes life so much easier.

(If anyone of you know an easy and quick and unnoticeable way to get pictures from your phone in to your computer, let me know in the comments! It’s unbelievable that mankind hasn’t done that successfully yet! )