It was going pretty well; building follower count and monthly views nicely, and I’d finally figured out the brand colours and style to use, after several experiments and iterations like this:
While that style was fairly easy to create and had the distinctive ‘Hand drawn’ look, it still needed text adding individually to each one, which was pretty time-consuming⌚
Eventually I got Chat to give me consistent prompts I could use in Ideogram.ai or Canva Dreamlabto produce images like this:
Not perfect, but more in the current Pinterest style, and I was now able to create them quickly enough to schedule Pins a few days ahead; but I’d neglected something with being so busy just playing ‘Catch-Up.’
I wanted to link to my blog posts, but these images didn’t match the ones there so I thought visitors wouldn’t think they were on the right site, so I designed some for free training resources I could send people to via affiliate links.
This would provide the quality content Pinterest looks for in links, so I was all good-To-Go with several great tutorials to send visitors to
Except, I wasn’t😧😠
The links had vanished overnight.
I got in touch with the provider and was told they were taking their business in a different direction – which left me high and dry.
I carried on Pinning and using affiliate links while looking for designs consistent with my blog posts; but it was too late.
I got the fateful message my account had been closed for ‘Spamming’😡👿🤬
That’s a double blow to lose two resources at once, and I doubt I’ll be back to Pinterest for a long time, and use a freelancer to manage the account even then.
I’ll concentrate on other traffic and income sources and update you on my progress in future entries.
P.S. the lesson here is to always link to an article, blog post, or resource, even if it’s on a free page such as Blogspot or Google sites, and concludes with an affiliate link.
As long as Pinterest sees your link as leading to something useful your account will hopefully escape my fate.
