There once was a Lion a wizard and a wardrobe who lived in the magical land of Narnia. If you don’t know the story, the wizard told the Lion about a secret place called Pinterest where you could get exponential growth to your blog with the right pinning strategy. The Lion roared with laughter and said “exponential growth? Are you sure you’re not talking about my taxes this year?” The wizard marauded his wand around and cast a spell of magical fire in the distance. As the fire cackled behind him he looked back at the Lion and said. “This…is no laughing matter.”
When I first started my blog I just simply wrote blog posts that tickled mine and many others fancies. That’s – exactly what it sounds like. If you like your butt tickled this blog is for you. I never dreamed that the intricacies of blogging ran deeper than simply posting and boy does it run deep.
It’s not enough to write the greatest post of all time, you then have to follow it up with a gratuitous amount of promotion, blogger engagements, healthy amounts of SEO and well – prayer.
Soon after, I learned about the sorcery that is Pinterest. The little birds would flap their wings and say outlandish things like “But Lion, I get 1000 pageviews a day from Pinterest alone.” Newsflash…I was getting zero and I really didn’t care.
As with most things in my life I took the lazier-faire approach and sauntered over to Pinterest to begin my journey to the dark side of the force. The thing was, it was not as quick and seductive as I thought. There is a lot more to pinning than these little birdies sing.
So, this Nerdy Lion tried…. with his thick paws and long mane too. A few months ago, I had zero referral Pinterest views, this week alone I had over 9000!!!!! (Kidding, it was only 100.) Now, according to the lords of blogging, that’s terrible. But to me, that’s exponential growth baby. Besides, I am still figuring out Pinterest and learning how to create my own pins.
Prior to ignoring my Pinterest for the last 7 years I only had a grand total of 5 followers – so what do you expect? (Totally unrelated, but click here to follow me.)
After a few weeks of creating boards, joining group boards and water boarding, things are beginning to look up. Sure, I’ve been pinning like I’m at a meet and greet, but now I’m at 200 followers, which again is amazing to me. Will I ever get a million views in a week and lord over the rest of the blogging community as some entity or gatekeeper of views – probably not. But, if I can get some extra exposure for free and reach more people, fantastic.
Pinterest is a pretty great way to get your stuff out there, it’s just the “figuring out how” part that’s tough. But once you do, boy watch out. The potential is there people. And think, the more people who save your pin, the more people what will see not only your pin, but potentially your blog. And this will continue in perpetuity, or until the robots overcome humanity in an uprising….
So, can you drive more views to your blog by switching to Pinterest?

Can you save more money by switching to Geico?
Is Pinterest as easy as other bloggers would like you to believe, that literally all of your hopes and dreams are just a mere 3 clicks away? Hell no. But, it is something that you can definitely work towards and at the very least revive old posts and keep your blog alive. Who knows? One day in a galaxy far far away Pinterest might just be the reason your blog goes viral, so don’t completely shut it out. (although that is unlikely)
For now, I will continue my slow arduous grind into the annals of Pinterest lore as the Lion that Pinterest deserves, but not the one it needs right now. And for your blogging entertainment, I will chronicle every detail of my inevitable rise to infamy and glory and of course, I will show you how I did it, or lack thereof. (Most likely lack thereof.)
If I fail and crash into the depths of Pinterest’s algorithm never to be seen again, then at the very least – you can laugh at my expense. So, that’s something.
Captains log……
I still haven’t found the secret ingredient to growing my pinterest but for some reason my monthly viewers is at 11k so I must be doing something right, right? lmao I seriously have no idea what I’m doing tbh
This post just encouraged me to go to my Pinterest and clean it up a bit and add a new board specifically for my blog! You’re awesome! 🙂
Yeah that’s what I did too. It’s great. Pintrest takes a bunch of work at first, but the upside potential is huge.
Very helpful! Thanks for sharing.
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I’ve been thinking of doing something with Pinterest. Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
Interesting post! Can you please please please do one about SEO? I’m getting a few clicks a week from search engines but don’t know what I am doing right or wrong.
One day I will, SEO is such a big topic and there’s so many ways to generate SEO that I would want to wait awhile until I post about something like that. It’s not just the title of your posts, it’s how much your featured word is used, picture SEO, backlinks etc. I’m still pretty new so I don’t have a ton of it myself. But, in a year or so I should be well versed in it. Maybe less. 🙂
Try following kindlepreneur.com. The guy’s great and has some SEO insights, although he gives mostly tips for kindle. I believe search engines principles are similar anywhere.
I have Pinterest and am slowly building some “Followers” on Pinterest. However, that has yet to produce much in the way of blog referrals. One thing that does work VERY well is to “Promote” a Pin that links back to your blog. I paid a little for that but that Pin received several thousand impressions and brought a few clicks to my blog. If you are willing to pay a little, you can really drive traffic to your blog. I use Pinterest as another platform to get my blog exposure out there. Great post Leo
Awesome! I might try that. I have been joining group boards and finding alot of blog traffic from pinning in those. Still not the thousands that I have heard of, but that takes time in sure.
Thanks again for reading:)
I’ve just startes using Pinterest. It’s abit fiddly to start off but you will get the hang of it eventually. I don’t know if it’s made a difference at all yet. I will keep pinning away though 😂
“If you like your butt tickled this blog is for you.” YASSSS!
I’ve been using Pinterest for years but just recently started using it for my blog posts and to promote other blogs. So far it’s just okay. I’ve seen more traffic using Facebook and Twitter.
Facebook is very straightforward and I used to get alot of my traffic from there. Now Pinterest has taken over that second spot. The crazy thing is, some days I don’t pin and I still get views from there, that’s what is crazy.
“Proceeds to tickle butt”
It’s so weird to hear about how bloggers all seem to think Pinterest is this mysterious platform! I have a Pinterest account with roughly 15x as many followers as my blog, but because of the fact that I only really look at food on Pinterest (my blog is not about food, sadly), I don’t get more than 20 views from Pinterest a week.
Pinteresting is more about the feeling of sorting and collecting things than actually checking things out a lot of the times. Still, if the rumours say that Pinterest contributes to your growth exponentially… maybe I really should work harder on my Pinterest thing!
I revived my Pinterest account since you first mentioned it and have had no luck. After reading this, I think it might be due to my lack of joining group boards. Where are they?
BTW, all your advice has been the bomb. Stumbleupon was a huge help. Thank you for that!
It depends on what your pins are about, but for example I recently joined a blogging group board. I normally find successful Pintrest profiles and then scroll down thier page they normally always have group boards you can join, if not You can go on Facebook and join some Pinterest groups and they normally have spots open for contribution, or check out my Pintrest page. I’m in alot of group boards, you should be able to join as well. Just message the creator.
Followed! I have no idea what to do on Pinterest but I am a fan of Narnia so I’m taking this as a sign from the Nerdy Lion that I should stick with my fledgling account of 0 followers and grow it into the place of Pinterest it longs to be!
Mine was no better! You just have to show it some love and tenderness 🙂
But…
I only use Pinterest for my vanity. Do we really need to be so consistent on all social media portals? This is exhausting, where do we hide our multiple personalities if not one for each outlet?
Thanks anyway
Haha, that is exhausting. I’m just trying out Pinterest. I never really used it before so it’s kind of fun to get in to. I still maintain my multiple personalities on YouTube and Twitter though haha.
I must update my pinterest then. Thanks for this post.
Yup, Pintrest takes a bit of work but it can be fun.
True! After reading your post I made 45 pins on my Pinterest profile.😊 Let’s see how it goes! Fingers crossed.🤞
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I use Pinterest for generating ideas (I.e. for parties) but I just can’t figure out how to use it for my blogging. I keep seeing this promotions for Tailwind but I don’t want to pay for anything as I don’t make money from my blogging (wouldn’t that be nice thought). Following to see how your journey goes…
Hopefully it’s a fruitful journey haha 🙂 thanks for commenting and especially following. 🙂
I literally deleted my blog bored because I wasn’t getting any referrals. And I have 900 followers I think and that’s after for five years and 30,000 pins or so. So I definitely don’t have the secret. But this blog post makes me want to go back and try again. Thanks a lot! lol 😆
Forgive the typos. I was using my voice activated system and it’s spelled stuff wrong and I can’t fix it … sorry!
I joined a bunch of group boards and repin my pins every day, I find that that gives me referral traffic more than anything. Its getting better week after week.
Good idea!
Interesting. I linked mine to Pinterst, button to drive traffic one way or the other. Pinterest was the easiest, non HTML way I could think of to collect and share some resources with readers. Now maybe it is time to re-think strategy.
I like this post, Pinterest is extremely undervalued. The attention that can be be garnered from Pinterest alone is exponential. One just needs to have a plan on Pinterest and they can grow
That’s precisely what I am working on now. Pintrest can be very useful.
It’s an easy site once you have a plan I have to follow my own advice