---
title: 'The Pinterest Strategy That''s Actually Working for Me in 2026'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=m9vnKPnVocA'
video_id: 'm9vnKPnVocA'
date: 2026-08-24
duration_sec: 691
channel: 'Meghan''s Media'
---

# The Pinterest Strategy That's Actually Working for Me in 2026

> Source: [The Pinterest Strategy That's Actually Working for Me in 2026](https://youtube.com/watch?v=m9vnKPnVocA)

## Summary

This video presents a practical, step-by-step Pinterest strategy that helped a recipe blogger reverse declining impressions and outbound clicks. The method centers on using Pinterest Trends for keyword research, creating six pins targeting three keyword sets, and scheduling them a week apart across three boards. It's a data-driven, low-effort approach that emphasizes consistency over quick wins.

### Key Points

- **The Problem and the Turnaround** [00:01] — Megan's impressions and outbound clicks had been declining for a quarter. After nearly a month of a new strategy, they are slowly creeping back up.
- **Keyword Research with Pinterest Trends** [01:22] — Use the free Pinterest Trends tool to find keywords people are actually searching for. Search for the same keywords used in your blog post.
- **Finding the Right Keywords** [02:29] — The tool shows search volume trends and related keywords. It's easier to use on a desktop. Select three keyword sets to target.
- **Creating Six Pins** [07:08] — Create two pins for each of the three keyword sets, totaling six pins. Each pin has different text overlay but the same URL.
- **Board Strategy** [08:15] — Pin one to an existing board and create two new boards based on the keyword sets. Name boards with the exact keyword set.
- **Using ChatGPT for Board Descriptions** [08:42] — Use ChatGPT to generate SEO-optimized board descriptions by providing the target keywords.
- **Scheduling Pins** [09:10] — Schedule pins one week apart using Pinterest's free scheduling tool. Rotate through the three boards to avoid competing with yourself.
- **Expect Slow Growth** [10:16] — Pinterest rewards consistency. Don't expect overnight results. This strategy is manageable, requiring work only once a week.

## Transcript

finally going back up. And it's not because I started pinning like a whole bunch more. I just changed how I was pinning and came up with a pretty straightforward strategy that looks like it's finally working. I started this um
almost a month and every week my impressions and outbound clicks have slowly been creeping back up when they have just been going down for all last quarter. So, it's exciting. I'm happy to finally see results. And today I'm going
to share with you exactly step by step what my strategy is. This video should be helpful for any blogger or content creator or online business, just anybody that wants to get more traffic or more eyes on their pins. Really quick, I'm
Megan. I'm a recipe blogger. I've been doing this for a while and I share a lot channel. So don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss all this free knowledge that I'm sharing over here. I decided let's try and switch up my strategy.
Clearly, my lowmaintenance longterm strategy that I've been using forever is not working. And I did. And I'm finally seeing the numbers go back up. So, again, even in this world of just a bunch of AI content and more competition
on the platform, the strategy seems to be working. So, if you've been a little frustrated with the numbers over there yourself, I encourage you to give this a try. It's pretty straightforward. I'm going to break it down step by step. The
first step is doing keyword research using the Pinterest trends tool, which is free and it's also going to give you the information that people are actually searching for in Pinterest. So, as soon as I have my blog post finished, the
very first thing I do is go in and use the Pinterest trends tool before I start designing my pins. And the first thing I'm going to search for is the same keywords that I structured my blog post around. So, I'm actually working on some
SEO videos for you guys, but whenever you're doing a post, whatever your niche is, you should have keywords that you're trying to target in that post. You pick a set of keywords and work on getting those into that piece of content so that
Google and other search engines can figure out what your blog post is about and I'm going to actually give you one that's not recipe related. Let's say I wrote a post called Small Entryway organization ideas for busy families.
Pinterest trends tool. And just a quick little tip here, this tool is, in my opinion, much easier to use on a desktop than on your phone. It's just easier to see the information that it gives you. So, I recommend checking it out on a
desktop. So, once you're in the Pinterest Trends tool, which is on your menu, just click Pinterest Trends. You're going to want to click on this little magnifying glass on the left that says search trends.
Now I need to clear some defaults that pop up for myself. And you should see a search bar at the top right where it says search for a keyword. So since my post was called small entryway organization ideas, I'm going to start
organization ideas, I'm going to start searching small entry and you'll see right away it's going to prepopulate terms that are already being Pinterest and it's going to give you some information regarding those
keywords. So, right away, this first one, it looks like they split up entryway into two words. Um, it has a strong spike. This is a graph of the the overall search volume for the year. It looks like it spikes and then drops off.
So, um, I don't think we spell it as two words. I think it's one. So, down here where it's spelled as one word, you can see it's more consistent um, traffic or search volume. So, I'm going to click on this one right away. It's pretty close
to my post. Um, it doesn't say organization, but small entryway ideas is super close. So, I'm going to click on that, and it's going to take you to a new screen where it gives you a lot more information on that set of keywords. So,
this graph right here is going to show me over the past year how often it's being searched throughout the year. If that is a different date range right here, I would change that to one year. So, if you scroll down past this graph,
you're actually going to see some other related keywords that Pinterest is recommending based on the ones that you entered. So, we have very small entryway ideas, just entryway, hallway decor. Some of these don't really fit. Um, very
small entryway ideas could work. I'm going to click on that to to compare them. And I'm also, you know what, entryway is a little broad. Let's go up. So you can see on what I clicked very small entryways is
now green. So it's going to show me the information for that set of keywords in green on here. So that's a lot smaller. I'm not sure if I'm going to target those words, but this is good um good comparison. So I'm going to go back up
to here cuz I don't love all the words that it just recommended. Um, and I'm going to try using the word organization because that's a word in the set of, you know, that's what I was writing about, organization ideas for small entryways.
up with that word. So, you know, right away when I type organization, it is prepopulating some things and organization ideas for the home definitely fits this post. I'm going to click on that and get the information.
it looks like for this one in purple. And you can kind of see that this one And you can kind of see that this one has a good amount of search volume. It's definitely a more broad term, but what I'm looking for here are keywords to to
make two new boards from. So, I'm using the original set of keywords that I did my post about. Um, and then I'm looking for a set of two more. And I'll kind of dive into the boards a little bit later, but the goal in here is to get some
ideas for what I can make two new boards about. So, this is a really good idea. I could definitely do a board for organiz organization ideas for the home and my post would fit really well under that board. So, this tool is really Pinterest
telling me what people are looking for instead of me having to guess what keywords I should be putting in my boards or my pins. So, I have two that I like that I've kind of targeted here, but um I'm going to put in organization
one more time and see if I can get one more. And since this is for small entryways, I'm going to put in small and see what happens. So, we see small closet, it's not really a closet.
Oh, here is one that would work. Small space organization. So, let's click on that one. And that What color is that going to be? that's going to show in going to be? that's going to show in orange. So, let's see. It looks like it
is a little lower volume as far as how often it's being searched. However, that's not necessarily a bad thing. I really like this idea. Small space organization, organization ideas for the home, and small entryway ideas. This is
a really good set of keywords that we can now build two new boards around. I pin to one existing board, and then I also look for two new boards that I can create. um based on whatever my post is. So, now that I did my keyword research
and I have three sets of keywords that I'm going to work with, I'm going to go make two pins for each of those set of keywords. Each of these pins is going to have different text overlay, slightly different design maybe, but they are all
going to have the same URL. They're all going to be for the same blog post, but different set of keywords that people are searching for on Pinterest. For example, I'm going to have two pins with text overlay that includes the words
small entryway ideas. I'm going to have two pins that have text overlay with organization ideas for the home worked into it. And two pins with the text overlay, small space organization. You can work that in however you want. You
can add to that, you know, for example, organization ideas for the home, 11 small entryway hacks, something like that. But you want to work in the that. But you want to work in the keywords that you found into two two
pins for each set of keywords. Once your pins are ready to go, you are ready to pin to your boards. And now we have to have a strategy for pinning to those boards. I personally pin one to an already established board and then I
create two new boards. If you don't have any established, then just go ahead and make three brand new boards. And again, we're going to base these boards on the set of keywords that we picked. So, your name for each of the boards should
really be that exact set of keywords that you're trying to match. So, one board would be called small entryway ideas, one small space organization, and one organization ideas for the home. Now, here is where I use chatbt, and I
can't stress how helpful this is in, you know, certain steps like this. I go ahead and go tell it what I'm doing. I'm creating a brand new board. This is the set of keywords that I'm trying to target. Can you help me with a SEO
optimized description for this board? Just give it your keywords and it should that's already targeting those keywords that you can just copy and paste into you have these three different boards set up, you're ready to pin and schedule
these pins out. So, I don't go pin all six pins at once. You definitely don't want to do that. You don't want to pin a whole bunch of pins on the same day to the same link. So, I spread these out a week apart. I go in, I actually use just
the free scheduling tool within Pinterest and I go schedule these out one week apart. For example, today I would publish a pin and post it to small entryway ideas. Then I would set one to go out a week from now to organization
ideas for the home. Then my other one I would set for two weeks from now to go to small space organization. The other one would be three weeks from now back to the small entryway ideas board. Four weeks from now would be organization
ideas for the home. Five weeks from now, small space organization. I think you get the point. You kind of rotate the boards and set them out your pins for a week apart. Setting them up to go out a week apart gives Pinterest time to test
that pin and it also avoids you competing with yourself. It's slow intentional growth, but so far it's working. This is the first time in a while that I've seen my numbers finally going back up. Don't expect to go viral
overnight. Don't expect your numbers to like go all crazy high in just a few days. This is really kind of a slow process and Pinterest is really about consistency and this is the first time I've been really consistent with any
kind of Pinterest strategy. Um it was a lot more random before and the stick with the strategy for a while. Honestly, it's been very very doable. I work on this once a week. I you know finish a post about once a week. So, as
soon as I finish one, this is what I do. I set aside some time to do this Pinterest work and then, you know, that post is taken care of for at least 5 to 6 weeks. I don't do any more pinning on that post um during that time. So, it
really is pretty manageable. I highly recommend giving this a shot if you've been stuck or frustrated and just not sure where to go on your own Pinterest um strategy. If you do give it a try, give it some time and then come back and
let me know how it goes. Also, if you have any questions on what I did today, please just ask me in the comments. I will definitely answer and help you guys subscribe so you don't miss all these free Pinterest and SEO tips that I'm
sharing over here. Thank you so much for watching. I really hope this was watching. I really hope this was helpful.