Hubpages Pinterest Accounts

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   The Dengarden Pinterest account apparently gets 10 million monthly views, but there's been no new pins for a year. I presume it's because there's no one with the time to do this task. Could some new pins be added? Owlcation gets 3.8 million. I haven't checked any of the other sites.

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      SerenityHaloposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I’ve often wondered who is in charge of the social media accounts for HP, if it’s a specific person or just a set of tasks when people don’t have much going for them.

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         eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Probably the latter, when there's time to spare. Maybe TAG would throw some funding at Hubpages to hire a digital content person to handle social media. They could make boards shared, then we could add content ourselves.

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            SerenityHaloposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            They definitely need a social media person if they don’t have one.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 2 years ago

   It's the same approach as my own. Frantically create a bunch of accounts and pin masses of stuff. Then forget about it for a few years, before launching another brief period of activity.
   
   

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      eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Nobody has repinned any of the couple of hundred pins I've made over the last few years. There are pins, but they must be boring or something. Meanwhile Pinterest keeps suggesting my pins to me.

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         PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Wow, Dengarden has 27k followers and 10m+ monthly views, those are pretty cool stats!
         
         I don't do so well with my account, just a pittance. Most of my hub views come from other people pinning, nothing I've done.

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         PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

         I have a few of my DIY articles pinned on the Dengarden Pinterest.
         
         I can see why HP perhaps don't want to share their board for others to pin, but I agree that they should pin more of our work.
         
         I've made numerous personal stabs at Pinterest over the years and not had much success. That said, I've learned a lot along the way, so maybe I should try again. There are a lot of mistakes that I know now to avoid.
         
         All of the social media sites tend to require sustained engagement for success. I've never done that with Pinterest.
         
         I'm currently more active with Twitter and that gets me increased attention, even if I don't really see much practical benefit.
         
         The trouble with social media is always that it can suck up a lot of time.

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            eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            I've got practically no traffic from Twitter because of the fleeting nature of tweets and the way they get pulled off the toilet roll and discarded. Pinterest pins I think have better longevity and visibility and of course if you're lucky, Pinterest will show them in people's feeds. I used to get 200 visits a day from Pinterest, but that's fallen over the years to about 100 peak in the summer.

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               PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

               I was mainly using Pinterest to sell t-shirts, but I didn't have much success. I think the words "dismal failure" would be the ones I'd use.
               
               As far as traffic to HP goes, I currently get about 20-30 views per day to this account from Pinterest. That's better than nothing but only a tiny fraction of what I get from the search engines.
               
               Medium articles do better with Twitter than HP ones in my experience. But then you don't earn much because it's external traffic. With Twitter, what you really want is retweets from the big players.
               
               I may try Pinterest again, but I'll make sure that I have a stronger strategy if I do.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 2 years ago

   The fact that Dengarden has 27k followers and 10m+ monthly views, despite not pinning anything new for some time, suggests that there is a way of making Pinterest work.
   
   I'm doing some research, trying to figure out where I've been going wrong, and considering having another stab at Pinterest.

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      PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      You would think that HP would do an official guide for Pinterest, but all I can find is a blog article from 2012. The info is basic and likely all out of date.

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         eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Kevin Driscoll is TAG's ED of social. He's the person in TAG to NAG about why they don't hire a person for doing digital content.

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            PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

            The niche Pinterest accounts aren't doing at all badly, even without recent fresh content. They probably set them up as a project and then either they just got neglected, or HP decided the effort wasn't paying off enough.
            
            I followed you and SerenityH. You two are both doing much better than me on Pinterest.
            
            I'm aiming to up my game with social media. I underachieved on Pinterest and gave up on it, rather than figuring out how to improve.
            
            There are all sorts of improvements that I can make. I wasn't using keywords properly for one thing. Plus there are a few new ideas I want to try.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 2 years ago

   I love it that the Squidoo Pinterest account is still active!
   
   "Squidoo is a successful platform for publishing original, user-crafted content on single topic pages. 236.5k followers 1.5k following 1.1M monthly views"

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   PaulGoodman67posted 2 years ago

   After toiling on Pinterest for over three weeks, I've actually changed my mind on this and now agree with Eugene that HP should seriously consider doing some more pinning.
   
   Look at the math(s):
   
   If one takes Dengarden as an example, it gets over 10 million impressions per month for 300 pins. That works out to an average of over 1,000 impressions per pin per day.
   
   Even if the impressions-to-views rate is only say 5%, that's still an average of 50 views per day for each article that's been pinned.
   
   HP could probably double or treble the number of pins without diluting the quality of the Pinterest account and provide a lot more traffic.

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      eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I'm wondering why Dengarden has so many views. Because of the number of followers?
      I just looked at my stats. I have 930 followers, got 43k impressions over the last 90 days and 156 saves. That's one save per 275 impressions.

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         PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

         I do wonder if the following two things help:
         
         Having an official website and that little red tick by the name.
         
         Dengarden happens to be focused on a key area of Pinterest's ballpark.
         
         I also wonder how it was decided what to pin. My feeling is that an individual just picked a range of stuff almost on a whim but maybe it was more scientific.
         
         I'm still trying to figure out Pinterest.
         
         I would've thought that HP would be punished for not pinning regularly but that appears not to be the case. The Pinterest algo changed to reward freshness and activity a while back I thought. It used to be more "passive."

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            SerenityHaloposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            I still think HubPages needs someone on staff who is dedicated to social media. It should be an entire position. I've read from some Glassdoor reviews that social media type stuff is handled on the side as a busy task--I think by editors. A job dedicated to this kind of stuff would benefit both writers and staff.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   How can Dengarden get so many impressions per month with so few pins?
   I think impressions may be incorrectly reported by Pinterest stats and they're lumping in stats for our pins of Dengarden articles with those of pins on the Dengarden account. They both look the same when clicked on. The first pin here is my one, the second is Dengarden's pin.
   
   
   
   
   
   

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      PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I guess that's possible. Pinterest's stats are generally pretty shaky. No good way of finding out for sure, though.
      
      It's also quite possible that the figure is correct.
      
      I don't know how to use GA with Pinterest without having my own linked website. I'm not sure that there is a way.
      
      While there's a lot of info on SEO and the Google algo, there's not so much info on the Pinterest algo. I've found a (brief) Neil Patel guide, which might be the best I'll get. There's no Pinterest version of SE Round Table!
      
      There is a lot of crap info online about Pinterest, though. A lot that's either archaic or produced by fake experts, it seems.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   Maybe Hubpages could help us out on this so we're not speculating again? Also why aren't they adding more pins? I'm guessing it's because there isn't the time or people to do it. Could they make the boards shared so we can do it ourselves?

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   PaulGoodman67posted 2 years ago

   I'm trying a few things out on different Pinterest accounts. I've raised my game considerably regarding impression numbers, but still not getting a great deal of palpable benefits so far.
   
   This is often the issue with social media that I have. You need to get a million impressions to generate a handful of views. That's fine if you're selling expensive products or an online course, but not so good if you just have articles that make a few cents from ads.

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      eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      When I started first on Pinterest, I got lots of repins. Now it's mostly repins of pins I think. Even though some pins have got lots of impressions, they're still not repinned. I made a couple of animated math GIFs and they are regularly repinned.

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