5 Steps to Take if Your Pinterest Traffic Drops

As bloggers, we all tend to hang our traffic on platforms we don't own. While Pinterest can send amazing traffic, what happens when that traffic takes a nose dive? It's not time to panic—it's time to audit your data and your assets.

1. Dig into Analytics

When you experience a drastic drop in traffic, it usually isn't random. Yes, the algorithm may have changed, but how and what is it affecting?

The first thing you need to do is pull up your Google Analytics and start digging. Look for how to track pin performance and identify which pins used to bring in big numbers but have stalled. Pinpoint the actual day the drop started to see if it correlates with a specific change you made or a platform-wide update.

2. Reevaluate Your Pinning Strategy

If you hand your strategy over completely to automation, you start to lose touch with how the platform is evolving. At least once a month, you should be tweaking your strategy manually.

This might mean switching out automated pins, leaving underperforming group boards, or adding new ones. If traffic drops, take a hard look at your current workflow and see where you can improve your manual engagement.

3. Make New Pin Images

Pins get stale. They lose their effectiveness over time as the "visual shock" wears off for users. New pin designs and titles will reach a different audience since everyone has different triggers that cause them to click.

Make it a regular part of your strategy to create fresh, high-contrast pins for old articles. You don't have to update the post content itself, but a fresh headline and a modern design can give an old URL a massive second life in the feed.

4. Do Your Keyword Research

Just as you do keyword research for Google, you should be optimizing your Pinterest for SEO. Keywords that do well on Google do not always translate to Pinterest.

Use the Pinterest search bar to find terms that are highly searched on the platform itself. Align your pin titles and descriptions with actual user intent by looking at the suggested search bubbles.

5. Focus Your Efforts Elsewhere

Finally, don't put all of your eggs in one basket! You should be putting just as much effort into building your email list and Google SEO as you do Pinterest. That way, if one platform takes a dive, you have other revenue avenues to keep your business running.

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