Schedule Pins for FREE on Pinterest
Learn how to schedule pins for free! There are times when you might want to pin a picture or post to several of your boards on Pinterest. Got a great recipe for Chilli and want to pin it to your recipes, family favorites, Mexican Food and your favorite group boards? Why not, BUT who wants to spam Pinterest by pinning the same thing 3 or 4 times all at once so you look like you are trying to take over the Pinterest feed of your followers. There has got to be a better way!
If you could spread out your pins, schedule them so that they were going to post to your boards over the course of the next two days there are a LOT of benefits.
- You won’t look like a Pinterest spammer and turn off your followers or even loose them
- you’ll get your pins on the boards you want to feature them on, maybe even a group board or two for wider reach
- you are more likely to get your content in front of more followers by spreading the timing.
This really is the one major feature missing from Pinterest and it looks like there isn’t any immediate plan to introduce it.
There are several paid options out there for scheduling pins, but there is also one notable exception – Pinwoot – which is free and allows up to 60 pins a month to be scheduled. We looked at Pinwoot a little while back because its also a great place to get new Pinterest followers, and more likes and repins.
Since joining, I have concentrated on generating more traffic from Pinterest by giving more seeds for pins and likes and less for new followers. I’ve certainly noticed an increase in traffic from Pinterest and an increase in followers from those repins and likes which get my content in front of a wider audience. Here are my recent Pinwoot stats:
- New followers (not my priority) – 66
- Repins – 427
- Likes – 401
How to schedule pins for FREE on Pinterest
Take a quick look at this video tutorial and I’ll show you how you can easily schedule pins for dates and times in the future.
It costs just 3 of your seeds to schedule a pin, and you can earn seeds for free by following other users, pinning and liking their pins. Or if you are a serious pinner, and want to really give your traffic a boost they have some affordable options to buy a whole load of extra seeds so you can go scheduling crazy. But this really isn’t necessary – the free option works just fine!
So give your traffic a boost by sharing your content over more boards and scheduling your pins to reach a wider audience.
Schedule your pins, get more followers, likes and repins with PinWoot.
December 17, 2013 @ 1:58 pm
Thank you once again for covering us on your blog. We hope by giving our users ability to promote and schedule 60 pins for free every month will help 1000s of small businesses or entrepreneurs or bloggers to grow and as they say, there is nothing better than being a part of someone’s success story 🙂
Btw, we are launching a new product for Etsy sellers (GrowEtsy.com) – it will be a one of its kind tool for etsy sellers to improve their sales. #excited
December 23, 2013 @ 10:08 am
I just signed up because of this article and in the first 10 minutes I had new followers. LOVE your site!
December 23, 2013 @ 12:04 pm
See – it works! I really like it for the other opportunities such as promoting my pins to get more repins which puts my work in front of a whole new audience of people who might not have found me otherwise. And of course the chance to schedule pins is a huge bonus too! I hope it works out well for you.
December 17, 2013 @ 5:31 pm
Thanks so much for the tip Deby. I’ll give them a try.
Debi
December 17, 2013 @ 5:34 pm
Debi,
We will be eagerly waiting to have you on board. In case of any queries or doubt, you can directly write to us on [email protected]. Thx, Alex
December 17, 2013 @ 7:35 pm
Thanks! I did not know about this. Will have to try it out!
December 17, 2013 @ 9:48 pm
This is great! I’m sure I get a little excited sometimes and come off as a bit of a spammer. This will be a huge help!
December 17, 2013 @ 10:30 pm
So when you follow those Pinners within the PinWoot dashboard, are you also following them out on regular Pinterest?
December 18, 2013 @ 6:58 am
Yes that’s right. You can gain extra followers this way too, and can also put up pins into the system for getting repins and likes – but pins with text on work best for this.
December 18, 2013 @ 3:33 am
This is such great advice. I just signed up and already have 5 new followers in the last 10 minutes. Thank you so much!
December 18, 2013 @ 6:59 am
Glad it was helpful to you Jordan.
December 18, 2013 @ 2:40 pm
Wonderful tutorial Deby. I have been looking for something exactly like this. Signing up now. Thank you.
December 19, 2013 @ 1:25 am
This is awesome. Thanks so much for sharing this info!
December 19, 2013 @ 8:49 am
Very informative! Thanks so much for sharing this info on Pinwoot. I stared an account with them a couple months ago but fell away from it. I’ll have to check into it again!
December 20, 2013 @ 10:39 pm
I’ve heard of places you have to pay to do this…Excited to check out Pinwoot!
December 23, 2013 @ 7:56 am
Great info once again, Miss Deby! Thanks for sharing!
~Abby =)
December 24, 2013 @ 5:20 am
I haven’t gotten into Pintrest yet (no time for everything!) but this could certainly make it easier. Merry Christmas!
January 1, 2014 @ 9:00 am
This is so interesting. Thanks so much for sharing at Thriving on Thursdays. I’m featuring it at tomorrow’s party.
Anne xx
February 17, 2014 @ 3:18 pm
Thanks for sharing this – I hadn’t heard of Pinwoot before. Just discovered your site today from The Daily Interview and I’m so happy I found you. Great site! The information you’re sharing is so helpful that I think I’d rather spend time reading your site than getting any blogging done! 😉
February 17, 2014 @ 4:22 pm
Hello Dee and welcome. I’m really glad that you are finding some useful information here. I think you’ll find it a bit different to the usual ‘make money online’ sites and hopefully easier to understand and more relevant to you and the things you are interested in as a blogger. I love the look of your site – quite mouthwatering!
August 7, 2014 @ 10:04 am
Love this post and I am so going to use it! I am featuring it tomorrow on my P3 Feature Post. I also sent you an invite to my Blog Tips board, I’d love it of you would join you have such great advice!
Kim
August 11, 2014 @ 10:18 am
Thanks so much for the share Kim – this tool saves me SO much time and makes sure I never get muddled about where I shared my pins, across what group boards etc.
August 9, 2014 @ 10:09 am
Hi Deby, I have a question that hopefully you can answer, the area where you schedule a pin is different from your video, they have obviously done some updating. When scheduling a pin, the top area of the page where is says intervals between pins default (5), what does that mean? Is my scheduled pin going to post to Pinterest every five minutes all day starting at the time I scheduled it? I only want my pins to go once a day on the time I choose. What would the setting be for that? I thought I would ask you, there isn’t any info on scheduling on the site at all. I just do not want to set the wrong setting and have all my seeds run out in one day. 🙂
Kim
August 11, 2014 @ 10:21 am
That section up the top I never use. I think that is if you pick out several images then you can schedule them over a time interval. But I pick a post, use the Pin Scheduler tool and only pick a single image. Then fill in the bottom section with the words to use, board to use and time and date to schedule. I can also then duplicate from this bottom section if I want to pin the same post to different boards.
That works for me the best. So ignore that top section I think. Sorry it took a while to get back to you Kim, had a little surgery 🙁