Tailwind pinners, you might want to rethink your pinning strategies over there! Especially if you are pinning Etsy or other actual products over there using the regular pins feature.

(Update at the end)

What Is Happening To Your Tailwind Pins?

Well they are adding products to them - and not necessarily YOUR products.

Here are 2 examples:

The first is from the Etsy shop Blacknot Farms

She pinned this:

Once you click that tag you get this:

Over from a pin I created and pinned through Tailwind:

Here are the results - I know I did not add these products:

It is hard to tell at the moment how the products are being added. Also I'm seeing these product tags being applied to Carousel pins too. The one thing I do think they all have in common - they are all images that have been posted frequently to Pinterest. The main product of the image I mean.

What To Do About It?

Personally, I think I'm going to be pinning my Etsy pins directly to Pinterest. And I'm going to make sure to add...

There I was. Brand new, well newly renovated anyway,
Etsy shop.

But no one was coming!

Didn't they say, Build it and they will come? Wasn't that the promise?

What to do, what to do.

Then I discovered Pinterest traffic.

Seems like Pinterest and Etsy were MADE for each other!

The process is simple really. Build a Pinterest Business Account. Make sure that it is SEO'd properly with keywords, hashtags and properly formatted images. Claim your website and Etsy shop and start posting pins.

Lots and lots of pins. That should do it right?

Turns out that it is pretty much that easy.

However there are a few things one needs to get just right.

Pinterest wants engaged users. So pinning from tools all of the time isn't going to cut it.

Pinning directly on Pinterest, and giving them the kind of content they want will drive traffic to your site and could even make you sales on the site itself!

Use Pinterest's Best Pinning & SEO Practices for 2020 to grow your Pinterest traffic to your Etsy...