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How To Use Tailwind to Auto-schedule Your Blog Posts

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If you’ve been blogging for a while, you’ve probably would have heard of Tailwind.

 

Perhaps you’ve even read amazing traffic and income reports from fellow bloggers who claimed much of their successes to Tailwind for Pinterest.

 

I admit I was one of them. Since the registration was free, I signed up for a Tailwind account without a second thought. Tailwind also offers the first 100 scheduled pins for free.

 

To be honest, I felt a wee bit of overwhelmed. After using all the free 100 pins, I didn’t bother to go back. 

 

But I still continued manually pinning my content to Pinterest every day for about 1 month. It’s intensely time-consuming, to say the least. I almost wanted to stop pinning on Pinterest altogether.

 

But numbers don’t lie…

Looking at the traffic report, I was surprised! My relatively new Pinterest profile was getting 5x more traffic to my blog than my  Instagram account (with >5000 followers).

Needless to say, I upgraded to the Plus plan and have been using it to drive massive traffic to my blog ever since. It’s one of the best investment that I’ve made on ThinkMaverick. I only wished I had done it sooner.

 

I know plenty of other people who have managed to grow much quicker and bigger than I have. I’m nowhere near the “you’ve made it” Pinterest gurus or Tailwind experts. By writing this I hope that I can help those who have the opportunity to go down the same path. 

 

In this article, I’m going to show you how to effectively use Tailwind to schedule your Pinterest pins in a few simple steps.

 

Without further ado, let’s dive in.

 

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Note – I am a Tailwind affiliate. If you make a purchase through this or any of the links on this post I’ll earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. But this doesn’t influence my recommendation. Thank you all for your support!

 

How To Use Tailwind to Schedule Your Pinterest Pins

Step 0: Create a Tailwind account

First and foremost, you need to have a Tailwind account.

 

Tailwind is the most popular Pinterest scheduler in the market that lets you manage and auto-publish images with your blog post links to Pinterest, with one single click. Specialized in visual web, they also released an amazing scheduler for Instagram.

 

The process of setting up a Tailwind account is pretty easy and straight forward.

Step 1: Get your Pin-Worthy Images ready

Each social network has different ideal image sizes.

 

Here’s the optimal dimensions for Pinterest pin sizes.

 

You’ll need to create a pin-worthy image and save the picture somewhere within your blog post.

 

I use Canva to create social media images. It’s free to use and there’s an option to upgrade to unlock more features.

The interface is very user-friendly. There are a plethora of beautiful templates with exact sizes that give you a huge head start.

 

To design your own pin, go to Canva and select “Pinterest Graphic” on the top bar of your dashboard. For each blog post, I’ll create 3-5 pins and see which works the best.

 

Quick tips for making a great pin:

 

If you have a budget, you can outsource this design work for cheap.

Step 2: Install a one-click scheduling extension

Once your post is ready and live on your site, it’s time to share it with the world with the help of Tailwind scheduler and Tribes.

 

To save more time, download the Tailwind app to your browser. It lets you share one or more posts all in one click.

 

When you first set up a Tailwind account, you’ll see this message popping up on your screen. Click “Install Chrome Extension” button or use this link to download the app at Chrome Store.

The Tailwind Publishing extension is also available on iOS mobile, Firefox and Safari web browser.

 

You only need to do this step one time only. It takes a couple of seconds to set it up and will save you loads of time later.

 

Once it’s completed, you’ll see a tiny Tailwind Publishing icon on the top right corner of your window (as in the picture below).

Step 3: Share the pin to Tailwind

Now, open the page or post that you want to share, click on the Tailwind icon and it’ll instantly show you all the available images for the post.

 

Next, select any images that you’d like to share by clicking on each of them. Once it’s selected, you’ll see a blue line around them.

 

And you’ll see all the chosen graphics at the bottom of your page. When you’re done, click “Go Schedule!” button at the bottom right corner.

Step 4: Choose Your Pinterest Boards

When it comes to adding Pinterest boards, you have two options:

  1. “Add Board to All” in the top bar – Choose the boards you like to schedule and it will apply to all the selected graphics.
  2. Add the boards separately at the bottom of each pin

Remember to schedule pins to your own Pinterest business board too.

Step 5: Write a great pin description

Act more like a visual search engine, Pinterest likes pins with specific descriptions. When Pinterest favors your pins, your pins will be easily discoverable by users which lead to more visitors and traffic.

 

Make sure you spend some time to craft a thoughtful description (up to 500 characters) for your pin- include relevant keywords, phrases, and hashtags.

 

Step 6: Add to Tailwind Tribes

Tailwind Tribes is the key to getting tremendous amount of repins and traffic to your blog. It took me a while to really explore and engage in the Tailwind Tribes. I’d say, it’s a powerful tool that you should use it from day one!

 

Tribes feature allows you to connect with other bloggers around your niche, make it easy to find high-quality content as well as promote your own pins.

 

Another great thing about Tailwind Tribes is the weekly analytics report. You’ll receive the performance report directly in your inbox every week, informing you how many repins you get, which Tribe group works the best for you, which pins get the most shares and other useful details.

 

To add a pin to your tribe, all you need to do is click on “Add to Tribes” icon below the pin. Then select the groups that you’d like to share to and click “Add to Queue”.

The best part? You can join up to 5 Tailwind Tribes for free. Yes, even if you’re using Tailwind (though I highly recommend you joining), you can join Tailwind Tribe for free of charge.

 

If you’re a blogger, Bloggers and Creative Infopreneurs is a good starting point- it’s one of my best-performing Tribes.

 

Also, Tailwind has different tribes for almost any niche. Simply do a quick search by clicking “Find a Tribe” and it will generate a list of relevant Tribes that you can join.

Tip: Each tribe has its own set of rules in which you have to share other people’s posts for every pin you share to the group. Thus, it’s a smart move to sign up for a Tailwind account, so you can schedule someone else’s pins with just one click.

Step 7: Use Tailwind to Share to Facebook and Twitter (optional)

You’ll also have the option to share your pin to your Twitter and Facebook page. To enable this feature, you need to sync your Twitter/ Facebook account to your Tailwind.

 

Even if you’re scheduling your pin to post to multiple boards, Tailwind will only post it once to Facebook. Which is great so that your Facebook profile doesn’t look too spammy with the same content. You can also add text that you’d like to share specifically to your Facebook page in the “Facebook Page Caption” section.To automatically share your post to Facebook and Twitter, simply check the box to the left of the orange Facebook page flag icon and the blue Twitter icon.

Step 8: Auto-schedule

When you’re ready, click “Schedule all” button on the top right corner of your page. Your pins will be automatically added to your schedule. And Tailwind will take care of the rest- of course, including choosing the best time to pin for you!

If you’re scheduling a pin to multiple boards, you may want to shuffle your pins. To shuffle queue, go to “Publisher”> “Scheduled Pins” and click “Shuffle Queue”.

By shuffling queue, Tailwind will randomly shuffle your pins so that all the similar content doesn’t clump together.

 

Bonus: Share other’s people content

One more thing before you go, while you’re still at the Tailwind app you might want to add other’s people content to your schedule. By adding great and relevant content to your own boards will drive even more engagement.

 

It’s very easy to find good content that you might like to share with Tailwind. After you’ve scheduled your posts, you will be taken to a page that shows you a list of suggested pins for you. Simply click “Add to Queue” below the pin to add each of them to your Tailwind.

 

If you’re serious about using Pinterest to explode your blog traffic for free, I highly recommend you get this Pinterest eBook! It has everything you need to know about growing blog traffic with Pinterest, all in one place! It’s easy to follow and implement. 

 

Conclusion

There you go. By putting your Pinterest marketing on automation with Tailwind, you can get unlimited supply of quality traffic to your blog without much effort.

 

Are you using Pinterest scheduler like Tailwind? Why and why not? 

Do share with us in the comment below. 

 

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