Is your Pinterest account suspended for spam or for no reason at all
unfortunately this happens in today's video you will learn what are the most
common reasons for getting your Pinterest account suspended. I will also
give you all the steps you need to take to try your best to get your account
back hi I'm Anastasia blogger and I'm Pinterest marketing expert and I publish
useful Pinterest tips on my channel every Thursday if you're looking for
ways to grow your presence on Pinterest and get more organic traffic from this
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about my new videos if you are using a Pinterest account as a content creator
or as a marketer for you just like for me getting banned from Pinterest doesn't
mean just losing access to your personal boards it means losing all the traffic
and income you've been working on so hard so what should you do if you found
out that you don't have access to your Pinterest account anymore and your
Pinterest profile link doesn't even open first no need to panic
if you are a genuine content creator and not a spammer just remember that all the
platforms especially those that are in active growth and development stage just
like Pinterest is can have system glitches they can make mistakes and you
can make mistakes so let's have a look at the steps you need to take to get
your Pinterest account reinstated as soon as possible step number one take
ten minutes for a short meditation make twenty deep breaths or count to 100 well
do anything to calm down this is the very first thing you have to do before
anything else in your situation I know this I've been in your shoes for about
24 hours when Pinterest suspended my account by mistake as they admitted
later but I also know for sure that your email requests and your appeals will be
at some point read by humans who have emotions - the person reading your email
is just a support representative who has nothing to do with Pinterest Algar
has no control over spam filters but has the power of decision to reinstate your
account or maybe to keep it shut now tell me if it's wise to throw all
your anger and frustration to that person or it's better to write an email
that is professional polite and that shows your appreciation of Pinterest as
a platform which helps you grow your business online if you had any ad
campaigns by the way in Pinterest running mention that - not as a reproach
but to show how much trust you put into their platform so make it clear that
your alleged content creator mentioned you're using only authorized schedulers
if you use them of course and by the way the best option and in terms of
schedulers Phil it would be probably tailwind because Pinterest supports the
scheduler a lot and if you suspect you might have done something that by
accident that could have triggered spam filters then do apologize for that and
say that you'll be very careful going forward I will mention later in this
video what are the most common reasons for suspensions so keep watching okay
did you come down now you're ready for step two so step two is go to Pinterest
health center contact page and select the issue it could be either account
suspension or Pinterest blocked on my site these are the most typical
situations which can happen with your account and the first one the can
suspension it means that your Pinterest profile stops working and you have no
access to your account but all your pins link to your site are still active and
they can keep bringing you traffic until the situation is resolved in if it's
resolved in your favor and the other situation which is called
blocked domain is more rare and it's it has much stronger effect on your
Pinterest traffic so this kind of penalty is a little weird because you
still have access to your Pinterest account and people can still find your
profile link but at the same time all your links to your domain are broken
users are getting a warning that you're the main has blocked on Pinterest for
spam so all the traffic in this case all the
traffic that you've had from Pinterest before will be gone right away and I
believe that this penalty is more strict than account suspension and unless the
interest blocked your domain by mistake it will be a little harder to get your
account back from after this penalty now step 3
send an additional email asking for help at creators - support at pinterest.com
creator support is a separate team inside interest that was created in 2018
to help alleged bloggers and content creators resolve their issues with
Pinterest a lot faster now step 4 wait for a couple of business days to get
some feedback and I have to warn you that Pinterest doesn't reply on weekends
or holidays so that might add up a little bit a few extra days of
expectation step 5 if you received an email reply
which wasn't signed by a support representatives name and you received it
within a couple of days or even sooner that's probably the canned response
signed by the Pinterest team you should try to reply to this email again or
maybe wait for their feedback from the creator's email if you sent it earlier
because the problem with this canned responses is they they are worded in a
very scary way they might even say that this decision is final and your account
will not be reinstate it however I'm telling you that in many cases people
got their accounts back even after these final decisions and they got their
accounts pretty soon and now let's talk about how to prevent your Pinterest
account from being suspended which things you should never do and interest
so Pinterest accounts get suspended because they either get flagged by users
on Pinterest for spam or for any other reasons or they receive too many DMCA
complaints right for the copyright violation complaints and other reasons
could be some spam filters and sometimes it just happens
it's just the result of a system glitch we don't know all the back end and all
the details about Pinterest spam filters but some information has been shared
over time by users who have experienced one penalty or another and I will make a
summary here of all the types of mistakes which can lead to an account
suspension which also sometimes it's called Pinterest jail so first thing you
should do is read the Community Guidelines page I will give you the link
in the description below the video everything that you will find on this
page is very important in violations of these rules can actually get your
account suspended I would recommend you read the spam and quality section
especially carefully use a business account and verify your domain if you
use it to promote a website because personal accounts used for commercial
purposes are getting shut down really often you can also convert from a
personal account to a business without losing your followers so keep that in
mind and the second thing you shouldn't do on Pinterest is using it to send
messages with spam to other users this is very bad idea especially if you send
link links inside those messages even if users don't plug you Pinterest seems to
have spam filters in place that get triggered by this behavior and I've
heared about several confirmed cases when bloggers got suspended right after
sending a few messages with requests just to get to cool boards on Pinterest
so if you want to apply to grow boards try to find boards which give you an
email and race address for a quest and the third thing you should not comment
too much on Pinterest under the under the pins with the same messages
especially if you have links to your website in those messages this is pure
evil spamming on any platform it's spam right
don't use images of unknown origin and don't use images you didn't purchase
this one is pretty serious I believe that after just three
firmed DMCA complaints DMC it's the complain against copyright violation so
your account can get suspended just up to three complaints of this of this kind
and I've seen bloggers claim that sometimes their competitors do this on
purpose report them on flag their accounts so if this happens you can
always try to appeal right so remember that and to minimize problems with DMCA
complaints I recommend you never use images found on Google use free or paid
stock image sites and always have a proof inside your stocks I account that
shows that you downloaded the image whether it was free or paid you
downloaded it from this side so you've got the license for it now rule number
six don't use any unauthorized software that automates your pinning or any other
activity on Pinterest that is not in the list of authorized marketing partners I
will give you a link to this list below the video and I have to tell you that
the most Pinterest Center to which is widely used in the blogging community
its tailwind and you can get the first month of tailwind for free if you use my
affiliate link now rule number seven don't pin this same pin multiple times
in a short period especially to the same board if you're pinning with schedulers
you have to make sure that you understand how to use them because
automation tools can save the same pins many times per day if you have just a
few settings down wrong and if you are just starting with taylean for example
it might be worth taking my tail and force to get all the settings right from
the beginning and actually save time using this tool check the link below the
video and keep in mind that spam filters can be triggered and your account can be
suspended even automatically but if you appeal at some point a real person in
the Pinterest team will look at your account and don't expect that people
working for Pinterest are not smart enough to see the difference between an
account that got into trouble a couple of times
by accident right using the schedulers for example and other accounts that
systematically use images and pins from other sites or systematically pin 20
times a day the same image so if your account was ever suspended let us know
in the comments below what was the reason what should we do to avoid making
the same mistakes you made and how long did it take to get your account
reactivated let's share our experiences so that people who are in trouble right
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