Pinterest Issues

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   ChristinSposted 7 years ago

   For those of you who get a lot of your traffic from Pinterest, they've been having some problems lately. 
   
   First of all they took a recent pretty hard slap from Google for a lot of well ranking keywords.  They were forcing people to "sign in to see more" and Google is forcing them to take this wall down from my understanding. 
   
   Secondly, they had a glitch where pins were being clicked and then showing "this pin links to inappropriate content" when they don't.  This happened to one on my blog and one of my most pinned articles on a niche site here.  When I found another copy of the same pin it clicked right through to the content. 
   
   They are doing a lot of updates and putting out some fires over there so if you rely heavily on Pinterest traffic to your hubs, blogs, etc. and have seen a recent drop that is beyond the typical holiday weekend drop that could be some of the reasons why.  I'd check your pins to ensure they aren't suggesting you are linking to inappropriate content...
   
   I'm on a few blogging groups and this has been a pretty widespread issue.  Hope they resolve it soon. 
   
   One final thing, they are truncating longer images now there and recommending square images of 600 x 600px and long images now should only be 600 x 900px to my understanding.  I'll definitely be recreating some Pinterest images to they don't get truncated. 
   
   Hope this info helps those of you who use/love Pinterest

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      Blond Logicposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks for letting us know. I will have a look at my pins.

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      sallybeaposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you, that is helpful.  I will check out my pins too.

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   Bede le Venerableposted 7 years ago

   I'm still relatively new to Hub Pages. I tried pinning some of my hub images to my Pinterest account and noticed some good results immediately. But, to the point...I just tried three of my hub pins with no problems. Does anyone use Tailwind?

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      sallybeaposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      No, have not heard of it but might investigate.  Thank you.

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         Bede le Venerableposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Tailwind schedules selective pins into various time slots. I'm not convinced that it's worthwhile. Moreover, it duplicates pins into folders, which can be a hassle. I'm using the free version, though; maybe the premium version doesn't have such bugs.

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   ChristinSposted 7 years ago

   People who use tailwind tend to not have as good of results on Pinterest as those who pin manually and develop good boards.

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      Bede le Venerableposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks, I was thinking of unsubscribing from it.

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   Margie Lynnposted 7 years ago

   I do get a lot of traffic from there but it has dropped a lot. I thought maybe because of the holiday. Thanks for this info, I will check my pins!

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   EricFarmer8xposted 7 years ago

   My Pinterest activity did take a huge drop recently. Not that I was getting many views anyways though. Thanks for the advice.

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