Promoted Pins on PinterestWelcome to my world of learning and sharing the ups and downs of using promoted pin on Pinterest.

I have been intrigued with Pinterest since day 1 of getting started about 2 years ago, but never did much with it. But all of that changed when I read an article by Gary Vaynerchuk called “Marketers: Say Hello To Your New Favorite Ad Platform”.

Reading through this article I thought to myself, this is going to be huge! Only then did I realize that I am one of the few that currently has access to promoted pins. Apparently I was selected to be a beta tester. (kudos for me and even better for you!)

Why is this good for you? Because I am about to reveal the do’s and don’t of using Promoted Pins on Pinterest. Let’s just say that I have already made a few mistakes that you could benefit from.

So in this short video I am going to walk you through my very first mistake that I made on Pinterest.

Promoted Pins on Pinterest… First Mistake

My very first promoted pin on Pinterest was for an affiliate product that I highly recommend called Attraction Marketing Formula.

Here is what happened….

Insight into Promoted Pins on Pinterest

So here is what I learned from this particular promoted pin.

  • Image/graphic was not an issue
  • Where link went too was what Pinterest called a “hard wall” – meaning user couldn’t get the information they wanted without first sharing personal information, i.e. email address.
  • Originally link was broken and I was notified of this.
  • Best Practice provide value to the user, they are looking for information and NOT to be sold on something.

What I didn’t mention in the video was that when I first created this pin I was only targeting 5-6 keywords. Then as I was reading through the guidelines and was told that I should have at least 30 keyword terms. When I increased my audience is when I found out that I was making mistakes.

The good news… just after I did this review I went ahead and created a post here on my blog about this particular pin, changed the destination of the URL and now I am getting traffic and leads with this pin.

Right now as I write this I have gotten 4 new leads and it has cost me $0.15. Not bad for a new traffic source.

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Yours in Gratitude,

Chef Katrina van Oudheusden

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    6 replies to "Promoted Pins on Pinterest – Mistake #1"

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    • Jaye Carden

      I am glad I seen this. I have not even considered using promoted pins, but after I seen the video, I do now. There could be so much you could do with promoted pins, and yes, you just saved me a lot of trial and error when I promoted my first pin.

      • Katrina

        Jaye, this is turning out to be a very interesting platform and great for bloggers. I recommend you checking into it. ๐Ÿ™‚

    • Hilary DeFreitas

      That is totally awesome!!!
      Seems like all Ad platforms are changing their thought process.

      VALUE first, SALE after.

      Thanks for sharing your learnings.

    • Ruthanne

      Thanks so much for being our guinea pig and testing all this out for us. ๐Ÿ™‚

      Looking forward to further installments.

      • Katrina

        Love testing and playing. Trying to figure it all out so that when it does roll out, everyone is ahead of the game!

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