Anastasia, I'm new on Pinterest I followed 60 or 70 people in one go and
since then I cannot see my search button on my account. Any clue what happened?
Is this due to repetitive activity that I have done? My account cannot follow! what
is the cause? I follow 10,000 people in the past month and I got 4000 followers
and 5000 monthly viewers and 320 engagements now I just need to
unfollow all those 10,000 people, how can I do that?
Can you give me any suggestion? My Pinterest account has 160 followers but
only 7 viewers. Help me! All of these are real comments and questions on my
youtube channel and I mention them here because people left them in public but I
also have a ton of similar questions coming into my inbox and to my facebook
Messenger. The problem is that a lot of people are used to follow unfollow
activities on other social media platforms and they think this should
work on Pinterest as well. In this video I will tell you why you're wasting your
time following people on Pinterest and why doing this in large volumes, as well
as unfollowing people with automation tools can get your account suspended.
I'm Anastasia of AnastasiaBlogger.com and I publish Pinterest tips on this
channel every Thursday. If you want to get more content like this one from me
subscribe and click on that Bell button to get notifications when I publish my
new Pinterest tutorials. So, why you should not be wasting your time for
follow and follow on Pinterest? The reason #1 is because Pinterest
is a visual search engine more than it is a social media platform. Of course
Pinterest has certain features of a social media site but it's not as
personal as Facebook or Instagram so when you follow someone on Pinterest
they will hardly even find out you followed them. People are not going on
Pinterest to communicate with each other they come to Pinterest to discover some
new ideas and content that they're interested in. Regular Pinterest users
don't care if you followed their accounts or not because they are
not on Pinterest for anyone to follow them. If anything, lots of Pinterest users
actually prefer to use secret boards on Pinterest so that no one can even see
what ideas they're saving. All this means that your follow back ratio will be
really low on Pinterest. The reason #2 is that doing follow and
unfollow manually is a waste of time but automating following and following is a
very good way to get your Pinterest account banned. I know several people who
have tried this and they got suspended including some of those who commented on
my video about Pinterest suspensions. I will give you a link to that video in
the top right corner or in the description below this video. So the
platform is smart enough to understand when some software is getting the login
details of your account and making some repetitive actions on your behalf. It's
just a matter of time when you will get penalized on for this or even suspended.
let me tell you more Pinterest has a list of authorized marketing partners
and the most popular of them and the most advanced for managing Pinterest in
in particular is called Tailwind. Tailwind is using the official Pinterest
API but there is no any feature in Tailwind that allows you to automate or
even helps you in any way to do follow unfollow on Pinterest. If the authorized
Pinterest automation tool doesn't allow this feature that's because Pinterest
doesn't want any activity of this kind on their platform. By the way if the word
Tailwind is new to you, I have another tutorial specifically about tailwind on
my channel I'll give you a link as usual in the info icon over there
and I can give you a link in the description below this video. Now
the reason #3 is that even if you're lucky enough and your account
doesn't get suspended for following it and unfollowing on Pinterest, you will
still be wasting your time because your reach and your traffic from Pinterest
doesn't directly correlate with your following numbers. Here's the guy who
commented on one of my videos. He managed to get his account to up to four
thousand followers and he was only with 5000
viewers and 320 engagements monthly. Just so you understand 5000 monthly
views and Pinterest is basically nothing. My account has currently over 10 million
monthly viewers and the guy said it has 320 monthly engagements so it's probably
the amount of saves and maybe a couple of clicks that he gets he actually
didn't even mention any click-throughs so my guess is that he barely
gets any traffic from Pinterest account. So here is a lady in a popular Facebook
group which is focused on Pinterest marketing and someone asked in this
group if follow unfollow is an effective strategy on Pinterest and here
is what she shared while I'm not a fan of the follow unfollow method I have
tried the follow method then being said I have the same amount of impressions
and monthly engaged now with 700 followers as I did with 10. So followers
don't seem to matter on Pinterest. These are just some random examples which I
found in a couple of minutes but I can assure you it is totally true because I
have seen accounts with over a hundred thousand followers that were not getting
even close to the traffic or Pinterest monthly viewers that my 1 year
old account was getting with less than 10,000 followers. So why followers don't
matter on Pinterest that much? I made another video on my channel which shows
you all the ways that you can use to grow your Pinterest following
organically so I'll give you a link to that video in the info icon in the right
top corner and below the video in the description. But to make it short you can
actually reduce your reach by doing follow unfollow on Pinterest! You see,
when you publish a new piece of content on Pinterest, the platform will first
show it to your followers and then it will calculate the engagement based on
your followers and when the engagement is high Pinterest thinks it's great pin
and it's a great page to show it to more people as a recommended pin and this
helps your pins reach a broader audience of people who might be interested in
your topic but they are not yet your followers. But if you do follow
unfollow, you often get a lot of bot followers
instead of real people. What happens next is that a big part of your following
base consists of those BOTS or people who don't care about your content in
reality and when your new pins are shown to them, they don't get any high
engagements and your pins are not considered as quality content. They're
not going anywhere further than your following base and you don't get the
impressions that your pins probably might deserve and you definitely don't
get the viral effect on Pinterest. You see now how doing follow
unfollow can not only be a waste of time but also a destructive activity
that kills your reach on Pinterest. Now, everything I'm telling you is based on
my experience on Pinterest and you might have a totally different opinion. I would
love to hear your stories in the comments below this video.
Have you tried follow unfollow method on Pinterest? Did it work for you?
Did you see any improvement in your traffic and engagement on Pinterest even
if you managed to get a few more followers using this method? Now, if you
want to learn what actually works on Pinterest and helps you grow your
followers organically without those risky follow unfollow methods and if
you want to learn what brings more traffic to your site and ultimately what
helps you make money with your website, I've got you covered in my FREE
Pinterest Masterclass. So I will give you a link to it in the info icon in the top
right corner of the screen and also in the description below this video.
Meanwhile, you can check out my previous Pinterest tips here and there and I will
see you in the next videos!