You want to explode your blog traffic, right? Don’t we all! Have you considered using tailwind? I was skeptical at first too, but as it turns out, using tailwind does help explode your blog traffic!
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Explode Your Pinterest Traffic
Ok, sensational headlines aside, Tailwind isn’t really a tool for exploding your blog traffic. It’s a tool for Pinterest, which is the actual tool for exploding your blog traffic. So, before we talk about why you should be using tailwind, we need to talk about why you need to be using Pinterest!
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Why You Should Use Pinterest
Pinterest is the best for driving traffic. It’s been my biggest source of traffic for the last six months! It was driving more than half my traffic before I starting doing better with SEO, and it’s still driving about a third of my traffic now.
Pinterest works because it’s like a cross between a search engine and social media. People search for stuff and they pin their favorite things for all their friends to see and use. The best thing about Pinterest is the life cycle of a pin. If I post something on Twitter, it’s gone in less than an hour. But pins can live on for a seriously long time on Pinterest! I published my pin on being a Twitch Affiliate way back in September, and it’s still driving regular traffic to my website. How awesome is that?
The moral of this story is that you need to be using Pinterest. It’s free, and it’s a great way to generate traffic.
Using Tailwind to Explode Your Blog Traffic
So how does this all relate to Tailwind? Tailwind is a tool that will help you grow your reach on Pinterest – and growing your reach on Pinterest will help explode your blog traffic. It’s all coming together!
Scheduling Pins
My favorite thing about Tailwind is the pin scheduler. In order to grow your reach on Pinterest, you need to be active. But do you have the time to manually pin stuff every day? I sure don’t – I barely even have enough time to Tweet every day, there’s no way I’d be able to stay relevant on Pinterest! I don’t have the time for that.
This is why I love the Tailwind scheduler. I spend about an hour on Pinterest two times per week scheduling pins. First, I schedule my newest pins for whatever blog post I just published. Next, I go to every group board that I scheduled my personal content to and schedule my favorite pins from them to my personal boards. Seriously folks, don’t be selfish. If you pin to a group board, reciprocate and re-pin other people’s content. Not only is it common courtesy, but that’s kind of the entire point of group boards.
After I schedule everything, I log into tailwind and shuffle my queue. I don’t want to post my content ten billion times in a row, you have to mix it up a little (Which is another great reason to schedule other people’s pins!)
Using Tailwind Tribes
Another great feature of Tailwind, and one that actually does help explode your blog traffic, is the Tailwind tribes. With the basic subscription to Tailwind, you get to join five tribes (you can also power up to join even more tribes!).
Tribes are very similar to group boards. You schedule content from the tribe and hope that other people in the tribe schedule your content. There are tons of tribes – I’m sure you can find one for whatever your niche may be! I am in two finance tribes and two generally blogging/lifestyle tribes. I like mixing it up because not only do I write about more than money, but I want to get my content seen by a wider audience.
It’s hard to tell, but I think that my content gets shared more from the tribes than it does from the group boards. People seem better about sharing tribe content in general – maybe because it shows you the ratio of how many you shared vs how much you’ve posted so people can’t get away with being selfish. I also like that each tribe gives you statistics on how many times your content has been reshared and repined – and how many total impressions you’ve gotten. One of my tribes alone has gotten me 86 shares and 17 re-pins, for a total reach of over eight hundred thousand! That’s pretty incredible.
Statistics
Tailwind gives you more in-depth analytics than even the Pinterest business account. It has a weekly summary which shows how many re-pins you’ve received and how many new followers you have. In addition, it shows you your top boards in terms of performance, which gives you an idea of what your target audience is looking for and repining – which is always good to know!
Tailwind also has some neat board inspector tools. These tools help you understand which boards perform the best and which boards are subpar. I grew my reach from about 30K to over 80K just by dropping a few under-performing group boards! It’s not worth it to pin content to boards that aren’t performing – Pinterest will assume that your pins are part of the problem, and before you know it your pins won’t be shown as regularly. Aren’t algorithms great?
Leaving a group board can be stressful – it’s so hard to find good ones! But not being in a bad group board is better than associating your account with bad pins. And there are still plenty of good group boards out there, you just need to test them out and see what works best for you.
How Long Does it Take?
I’m not going to lie to you and tell you that your blog traffic will explode after using tailwind for a month. That’s just not realistic. It took about six months of learning how to use Tailwind and Pinterest for my blog traffic to start improving. I had to drop some group boards using the board inspector and make sure I was designing high quality pins. If you don’t have great pins, no amount of pinning or scheduling will help your blog traffic.
How Much Does Tailwind Cost?
And at last we come to the catch. Nothing good is free (except Canva – you can get tons of use out of the free version!). But Tailwind is a steal for the value that you get! It’s only $9.99 per month for all of the great features that I discussed above. And, if you aren’t sold on that, you can use my link to test Tailwind out for a month for free!
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Check it out and let me know what you think!
Melanie launched Partners in Fire in 2017 to document her quest for financial independence with a mix of finance, fun, and solving the world’s problems. She’s self educated in personal finance and passionate about fighting systematic problems that prevent others from achieving their own financial goals. She also loves travel, anthropology, gaming and her cats.