In this video I'll show you how to bulk create pins like these for your Pinterest
account using Canva and ChatGPT. I generated and scheduled 50 pins in about 15 minutes!
This is my Pinterest account, I get over 10 Million monthly viewers and about 80k/mo
visitors to my website from this platform for free, so I kinda know what I am talking about!
First I will ask ChatGPT to give me 50 facts about relationships.
I actually generated 100 because I'll use the other half in my next tutorial
about bulk create for short videos. Did you notice that that I asked AI
to make the fasts no longer than 20 words? that's because we have to fit
these facts into a pin image and we want all of them to work well in the same template.
I'm using the paid version for this video because I'm paying for it anyway, but you
can totally use the free version of ChatGPT, it might be a bit slower but it will work as well!
In this tutorial we'll focus on pin images because they are usually the ones that drive
a lot more traffic compared to Video pins. Vertical videos do work well but
mostly for those Pinterest accounts that are not focused on generating traffic to
their website but are rather trying to build their online presence and brand awareness
because video pins drive more impressions and engagements than outbound clicks.
Now I'll open Canva.com and search for some templates. It's very important to pick the
right template that works well specifically on Pinterest, and if you can't find the perfect
template, maybe you should edit some things in it before using it bulk creating pins.
I'm going to add these short lines of text to my pins,
so I might as well find great templates looking for quote templates.
When you pick the templates, keep in mind a few things:
- you should only use vertical templates, square images that are ok on Instagram
will NOT do well on Pinterest When you open each template,
you can see their size and we need pins to be bigger than 1000 by 1500 pixels
I actually prefer the taller format of pins, it's 1080 by 1920 pixes and you'll find
plenty of those because they are actually the most common size that fits most of the smartphones.
I also prefer these taller pins because they give me more space in the Pinterest feed,
and the image is bigger, so I can use a large font of the text.
And the bigger your text overlay, the easier it will be for users to read it, which will lead
to better engagement on your Pinterest account and eventually will help you get more traffic!
And hey! if you want to get more of my Pinterest tips,
watch my free Pinterest Masterclass, I'll link to it up there and in the description below!
But we have to keep in mind that we can't pick templates like these where the text is too
big because many of our facts will have way too much text, and will not fit into this template.
You can always pick some template and edit the font if you think there is enough space to make it
a little bigger, just select the text and increase the font, you can also make it bold for Pinterest!
See for example how my final pins looked with 2 different fonts.
The first is what I generated using the default font in this template,
and I have way too much empty space on the pins. And compare it to the
pins I generated simply by increasing the font and making it bold in the template.
Now, I chose this template because it has very few elements, mainly the text of the quote and I will
just delete this little line below because I think some of the facts will need more space and I don't
want this line to get in the way. I also changed here the branding to my username anastasiablogger.
There is one more thing to do on this template to make it work. You see, right now I have this pink
background and if I leave this template as is, we'll have 50 pins with the same pink background
and different texts on it. Yes, they will be technically unique pins but let's be honest,
for a human eye it will make your account look very repetitive and people will stop opening
your new pins seeing the same color thinking it's the same old pin they've already seen.
To avoid this, we need a unique background color for each pin. And to achieve it,
I need to add a Frame to this template. Just go to Elements in the left Menu,
then do a quick search for Frames and then click to see all frames. Now, choose one that allows you
to cover the vertical template like this. You can stretch the Frame by dragging the corner.
Now pay attention to this detail because I actually missed it myself while I was
recording this video, so the pins will miss an element in some parts
of the video. See this quote and and the line we had in the template? Now
it's hidden behind the frame! I had to fix it later by re-generating the pins!
To avoid this, on this step click on the frame and then find this button Position,
and choose to move the frame Back. See what happens? The element representing
the quote is now back on top of the frame and it won't be hidden in our pin template.
In a few moments we will start bulk creating our unique pins each with a different background,
but first bare with me for one more preparational step.
We need to create a Folder with lots of images that would work well as backgrounds for this
specific template. See, I have a text overlay that's pretty dark,
so I need to find a lot of different light backgrounds.
To do this, click on Home, then find Projects here in the left menu,
and on this page, you can see your Folders. To create a new folder, look at the right top
corner and click Add New, now give your folder a name that you will easily recognize later.
Now that we have a Folder, go back to our pin template.
Find Photos in the left menu and we can do a search in Canva's Medialibrary.
To use this Bulk Create feature you'll need a Canva Pro account anyway,
so all these stock photos, even premium images are available for you.
Search for keyword light background and you can even filter the results like this to get
vertical images. Click on the 3 dots in the top right corner of any image, then Add to
Folder and choose the folder we just created! Just Scroll down to see the button and add it.
Now you need to really pay attention because I will show you how the Bulk
Create feature actually works! Go to this left menu and click
on Apps icon. Then just type Bulk Create and the first thing you'll see is what we need!
You have an option to use a CSV file but for what we need,
it's easy to Click on Enter Data Manually and now we'll customize these columns.
The first one we'll call it Facts, the second one we actually don't
even need at all, so what you can do now is right-click on this column and delete it.
Then we need to click here and it will add a column for Images.
These Images will serve as a background so that each of
our pins has its unique color or background photo.
You can go ahead and just click plus to add one image for each item on our list.
As for the Facts column, we already have a list in ChatGPT, I just need to copy and paste it here.
If it doesn't go to the right place, you can redo it again, now it's all good. Adding
these images takes a bit of time, but it's doable within minutes even for 50 image pins.
Once you have added the images and texts, click Done, then you'll need to right click
on each element - first on the text to connect the data with your facts, and on the Image to
Connect data for the background images. When you see all checks complete,
you can continue and Canva will generate all the pins for you in a new window.
See how they can look really great and will not require any manual editing on your side!
For this to work smoothly, you have to pick the right template in the first place, and give
ChatGPT the right prompt. If things look different when you try it, just watch again what I've shown
you in this video so far and pay attention to details like the font size, any elements
you should have removed from your template and the length of your text overlay for pin images.
Now you can schedule all these pins to your Pinterest account right here, in Canva. To
do this just click Share on Social and make sure you connected your Pinterest account.
Then you can start with the first pin image, make sure you selected just one.
So what do we need to publish it on Pinterest? A pin title and description. I used to write
them down manually. But nowadays, we can generate all of these in ChatGPT.
I will go back to my ChatGPT window and will ask the tool to create pin titles
and descriptions for each fact, and present them in a table of 3 columns: one for facts,
another for pin titles (up to 70 characters) and third for pin descriptions (up to 300 characters).
We have up to 100 characters for pin title and up to 500 for descriptions but I know
that ChatGPT likes to add a lot of fluff, so I always give it a lower limit just in case.
So it will start working but I didn't like these quotes in Pin titles,
I would have to delete them manually so I stopped
it and made the same prompt adding that no quotes should be added to pin titles.
And this time, everything looks perfect! It will usually pause generating the text at
around 10 facts, all you need to do is type Continue and it will keep working for you!
Now you can get back to Canva, copy and paste the respective pin title and description from
ChatGPT for each pin version. Make sure to find the most relevant page URL on your website for
each pin. If you have very few pages you can link to, make sure that you leave intervals
between the pins, so that pins with the same URL don't get published on the same day.
Now you need to make sure you clicked here on the arrow pointing down and then on plus Icon
to choose the most relevant for your pin. I actually don't have any boards
about relationships on my account because it's not my niche but I think you've got my point.
And then instead of clicking Publish, use this button on the left to schedule all
of your pins right here, in Canva! Just make sure you choose the right time for your pins
to go live. Most of my audience lives in the United States and they are more active
on Pinterest in the evening ours, which would be around 2-3 AM in my time zone.
So that was your tutorial on image pins, and next week I'll publish a video on how to bulk create
video pins - these kind of short vertical videos which you can use on many platforms,
not only on Pinterest - as Reels on Instagram, as Youtube shorts and on Tiktok!
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visitors to my site from Pinterest for free! I'll see you in the next videos!