UPDATE: BoardBooster is no longer available.
I’ve been a Pinterest fan for years now. Not only because it’s a truly awesome site and I love to use it, but it’s also a huge source of traffic for me.
Pinterest Reach:
Last summer, Pinterest changed their algorithm and it affected how pins are seen. Some bloggers hated the change, others embraced it. Most of us have simply learned how to work with the new system.
Pinterest is kinda like Google. They aren’t going to tell us the secret – we have to figure it out for ourselves. And then they’ll change it. Maybe not.
But here’s a couple things we do know about Pinterest:
1. Pinterest likes it when you pin a lot. The more frequently you pin, the more likely your pins will be seen.
2. Pinterest doesn’t like it when you only pin your own stuff. You need to pin a variety and most should be from other websites.
If you’re like me (a couple months ago,) you already pin whenever you have the chance (or remember to amidst the hundreds of other things you have to do each day.)
But here’s the thing: sharing fifty pins at one time doesn’t hold the same weight as repinning a variety of fifty images slowly over a few days.
You know how it is – you’re looking up new meals for your family and you find a TON at once. Wouldn’t it be nice to spread those out and not have everything pin at once?
And how do you increase your Pinterest followers?
I’ve found the answer for how to increase your Pinterest reach and gain new followers. Easily.
Introducing Board Booster:
(I am sharing my affiliate link here, but seriously it is awesome enough that I’d share even without my link. It’s super affordable too, but anyways…)
Simply put, Board Booster allows you to schedule pins and really make Pinterest work for you. Gone are the frustrations of remembering to repin at different times throughout the day or realizing you forgot to pin your own content again.
There’s a few ways to use Board Booster and once you get it going, you’ll boost your Pinterest followers and reach, because you’ll be consistently pinning more than before. With far less work and hassle than before.
Don’t get me wrong – I LOVE Pinterest as much as any one of you, but I don’t have an hour every night to pin stuff in hopes of gaining new followers (and of course for the love of Pinterest itself.) I’m just too busy.
Board Booster allows me to spend a few minutes repinning when I have time with far greater reach than before.
Since I joined Board Booster, I’ve gained an average of 400 new followers per week.
My pins are repinned 29% more than before.
My own content is being repinned an average of 49 times more per pin than before!
And I spend less time on Pinterest now than before!
How to Use Board Booster:
When I first heard of Board Booster a couple months ago, it was completely new to me and I searched for some tutorials for how to figure it out. The couple I found weren’t updated for the latest version of Board Booster and I still had to weed through it all myself. So today, I’ll share a simple tutorial for how to get the most out of Board Booster.
There’s a few things you can do with Board Booster, but I’ll share my three favorite features today:
- Scheduler
- Campaigns
- Looping
Board Booster Scheduler:
The scheduler feature lets you pin to a secret board which Board Booster then repins to your public board on a schedule of your choosing.
I use Board Booster Scheduler for pinning everything except my own pins.
The beauty of the Scheduler feature is you can repin 100 of whatever you want at one time and you don’t have to worry about flooding your followers with 100 pins at once with nothing for the next two days. Let Board Booster filter them out slowly over the next few days or weeks. You choose the quantity and frequency in the settings.
Here’s a few boards I use:
I added my most popular boards to the scheduler. When I did this, Board Booster automatically created “secret” boards for each one.
(FYI: A secret board means no one can see it except you. And anyone you give specific permission to.)
How to Set Up Board Booster Scheduler:
- Click on the pink “Add Boards” button on the top right corner within the Scheduler tab
- Check off each board you want to include. (Try one at first so it’s less confusing.) Click continue.
- Choose the frequency for how often you want Board Booster to pin for you. (You can change it later.)
- Click submit. Board Booster will connect to your Pinterest account (you should have set this up when you created your BB account) and create a “secret board” matching the board(s) you selected.
- Go to your Pinterest account, scroll down to the bottom, and find your new secret board. (Hint: secret boards have -in front of their names.)
- Pin to your secret board! When you repin, you’ll see options for your regular board and your -secret board. Unless you want your repin to show up immediately, pin to the relevant secret board and let Board Booster do the work for you later!
If you want to change the settings for how many/when Board Booster sends out your new pins, just click on each board in the Scheduler feature, then the little pink cog at the top. Here you can see and edit your scheduling options. Here’s an example. This is the actual schedule I’m currently using for my Activities with Kids board.
Can you see why Scheduler is one of my favorite things about Board Booster?
2. Board Booster Campaigns
I use Campaigns exclusively for my own content. It’s a little more complicated than Scheduler, but it’s just as awesome.
Board Booster Campaigns allows you to set up what’s basically a drip campaign and repin one pin multiple times over the course of days, weeks (even months) to different boards.
Here’s a few of my campaigns:
You can add multiple pins to each campaign secret board and each one will start from day 1 and go from there. Scheduled Campaigns is a fantastic way to continually promote your content on a regular schedule of your choosing.
There’s two campaign options – Scheduled and Random.
“A Scheduled Campaign takes pins from one secret board and repins them to multiple boards according to your schedule.”
“Random Campaigns pull random pins from the source defined by you and repin them to any number of group boards. You can designate one or more of your boards as the source of pins or provide a list of pins that you hand picked for this campaign.”)
I prefer Scheduled Campaigns, so I’ll explain how to set it up here. For this, you’ll be promoting your own content, so think about your own categories. If you are a food blogger, you may only need to set up one scheduled campaign (though even there, you may want smaller categories – meals, desserts, healthy food, etc.) If you offer multiple topics on your blog (like me), you’ll set up a few different campaigns.
Just one note: It takes a little time to set up campaigns (though you should be able to breeze through it more quickly with these helpful tips here!), but just remember that once you do this, Board Booster will take it from there.
How to Set Up Board Booster Scheduled Campaigns:
- Choose one category to start with. Click on the “New Campaign” pink button and type in the name of your campaign. Let’s just say it’s “Summer Recipes”.
- Make a list of your relevant Pinterest boards. Include both your own boards and any relevant group boards you’re part of. You might have 3 or you might have 15.
- Next you’ll want to figure out a schedule for how often to repin. This is the most complicated part, but once you figure it out, it’s not hard. Here’s what I do:
- I schedule each pin to repin only once a week for large active boards and less often for small boards (including my own) – every 2-4 weeks.
- I only schedule one pin per day for each campaign. So Day 1 is only 1 pin. Day 2 is only 1 pin, etc. It’s a balance – you want your content out there, but too much and you’ll overload people and lose followers.
- Let’s say I have 8 boards I want to repin to. Two are big boards with lots of activity so I’ll start by scheduling those for repinning once a week. Day 1 will be big board #1. Day 2 will be big board #2. Day 8 will be big board #1. Day 9 will be big board #2. And so on. (I usually schedule out for 45-60 days.)
- Then I fill in the 6 smaller boards around the big boards. So board #3 is day 3, board #4 is day 4, etc. Board #3 will repeat two weeks later so day 17. It doesn’t have to be exact- just remember you want a balance.
- Click on the “Add Repin” button and choose a board to repin to.
- Choose the Campaign Day (start with 1) and a repin time. (You can adjust this later.) Click Add.
- Repeat, adding more relevant boards.
- When you’re done, click Save at the bottom. Your campaign is ready to go!
- Board Booster will have set up a secret board for this too, so head to your blog and pin your content to the secret board.
- Repeat for as many campaigns as you need. (Hint: there’s a handy “clone” button at the top which makes it easier if you have similar campaigns.) Now sit back and watch Board Booster do all the work!
3. Board Booster Looping
“Looping was designed to help revive the older pins that you created or curated before you gained most of your followers.”
Looping basically grabs old pins from the bottom of a board and repins to the top. You can set it up to automatically delete duplicate pins too.
You only want to use Looping for large boards where you have at least a couple hundred pins. If you have a smaller board, it just won’t look right if you have two of the same pins close together.
I don’t use Looping as much as the other features, but here’s where I do use it:
It’s super easy to set up Looping.
- Click on “Add Boards” and choose at least one large board you want to loop. Click continue.
- Choose your settings. This is what I prefer:
Remember you can come back at any time and make changes. I highly recommend that you enable “Protection for Viral Duplicates” (if you had an old pin go viral, you definitely don’t want to delete it!). - Then click submit. Board Booster will begin looping immediately (or whatever time you specified.) Easy, right?
And that’s how you set up the key features of Board Booster!
A Few More Board Booster Tidbits:
Just keep your secret boards full for Board Booster to repin and you’ll be all set. If the secret boards run out of pins, it’s not a huge deal – Board Booster simply stops pinning (only on the empty boards) until you add more. Once you do, repinning begins immediately.
Remember, you can add / delete / edit everything whenever you want. Don’t worry about making it all perfect when you first set up your account – just try it, then figure out what works/doesn’t and go from there.
Board Booster offers handy reports for your pinning history and what’s the best time to pin. Definitely take advantage of these great resources to make Board Booster and Pinterest work even harder for you!
I honestly haven’t found an easier, more efficient way to maintain and boost my Pinterest account. Board Booster is AWESOME!
Does it cost anything?
Yes, Board Booster costs 1 penny per pin and you can try Board Booster for free with 100 pins.
You don’t have to add a credit card or Paypal account when you sign up. (Isn’t that great?! I hate when I have to fork over the money even before I try something!) When your free pins are used, they send a nice email telling you your trial is up and it’s time to choose a plan. It’s great not having to worry about canceling if you change your mind (trust me, you won’t!) Total awesomeness.
Once you use the free trial and decide to sign up (believe me, you will – Board Booster is worth every penny!), you can choose from a variety of plans that will fit any blogger’s budget:
I’m currently on the $10 a month plan. (I repin a LOT.) I’ve heard that bloggers using the $5 plan do extremely well too, so it’s really up to you.
Seriously, bloggers, you need to try Board Booster now. You’ll boost your followers and Pinterest reach. Go. Now.
(And if you could please, click through my affiliate link here, I would so appreciate it! Thank you!)
Maria says
Erika, You literally answered ALL of my questions for Board Booster! I’ve been on the ledge about it, but no one would help me decipher it. You’re about to get another sign up under you! Thank you so much for taking the time to write up this post!
Erika says
I’m glad to help, Maria. Thanks for signing up under my link!
Melissa Pezza says
Thanks so much for sharing this! I’m always on the lookout for ways to boost my Pinterest activity. I’ll have to give Board Booster a try.
Nicole B says
This is really cool! I have never tried a pinning service but I would love to grow my Pinterest following. Not a bad price at all. I am going to give it a try. Thank you for explaining how to use it.
Scott says
We still pin manually but have been looking at other solutions. Will check them out to see if they fit our bill.
Kelsey Apley says
Thanks for sharing, gonna have to try this out and see if I see an increase! thanks for your knowledge!
Robin Rue (@massholemommy) says
I should check this out. Since Pinterest changed their algorithms, I get a lot less traffic from them.
Stacie @ Divine Lifestyle says
Board Booster sounds great! Pinterest is a great traffic booster, but you have to know how to work it.
Jennifer says
Board Booster sounds great! Pinterest is a great traffic booster, but you have to know how to work it.
Jennifer Sikora says
This is some great information. My Pinterest traffic is really down now so I would love to learn how to get it back up.
Jenna Wood says
This looks like an amazing tool for Pinterest! I have had a few pins go viral by sheer luck but don’t have a big number of followers. I just began scheduling Twitter so I will have to check this out when I am ready to move onto the next social platform.
Liz Mays says
This is so helpful! I really need to invest some time into Pinterest. I’m behind!
Felicita Moncada says
Wow this is awesome. You explained it perfectly – aka I actually get it. I cannot wait to get started on this! I’m going to look into setting this up for my blog.
Chrysa says
I use Board Booster and it is super helpful. I only use the scheduler though, but not the campaigns or looping. I will have to check those out.
Shauna says
I had no clue that pinterest liked those who pin. I will admit that I can get lost on pinterest, but don’t pin as much as I should. I totally need to get on the ball. Thanks for these tips.
Marina John says
This is an amazing tool. Thanks for sharing these great tips.
Sarah Marturano says
I can’t wait to try this out. You are so on point about not having the time to pin everyday. This would make it so much easier.
Vera Sweeney says
I have not heard of this program before. It sounds great and what time saver as well too.
Debi- Lifestyle Blogger says
I have been wanting to find something like this. I need something to help me pin my own stuff. I always forget.
Autumn @Mamachallenge says
These are great ways to use a board booster! Thanks for sharing!
Amy Desrosiers says
This is a great tip that I had no idea about! I will have to try this out myself!
Brittany says
I am working on setting up a very small scheduled campaign to try it out.
Say my campaign has only 4 pins and 4 boards it feeds to. Since the numbers are the same, will it always pin pin#1 to board#1, pin#2 to board#2, etc? Also, if I set the days to 1,2,3,4, will it loop every 4 days? Should I make it day 1,4,8,12 for example to space them out?
I’m also confused how you set your pins to pin more frequently to large boards and less to small boards.
Erika says
Hi Brittany, campaigns don’t keep looping. If you set it to pin days 1, 2, 3, 4,- it will stop at #4.
I usually recommend spacing them out – it’s not a bad thing to pin something every day, but it depends on the amount of other pins you’re sending out and how large the boards are. You don’t want too many repeats too soon. Does that make sense?
The reason I pin less frequently to small boards is there’s less activity and you might have multiple identical pins at the top of the boards and that’s not recommended. Larger boards (you can scroll down and see when pins were posted – sometimes you only scroll a little and you’ll see pins from 4 weeks out, while you’ll find others with pins that are from 2 days ago.)
Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any more questions. 🙂
Esther says
Hi Erika great article. I have heard so much about board booster but getting my head around it has been my greatest peril.
I am going to print your article out today and take my time to digest it. Finger crossed, it should be much clearer on a second read.
Kimi says
When you repin to a Secret board, does the repin show up in the pinterest feeds?
Lauren says
Hello, thank you so much for this helpful post! I recently started my own blog and have started to pin more as well. I currently have only a little over 500 pins on Pinterest and 10 followers (don’t laugh) Should I wait to try BoardBooster until I have a lot more pins and followers or should I try it out now?
Erika says
We all start somewhere, Lauren, and now you have 12 because I just followed you too. 🙂
I would definitely give BoardBooster a try now – the sooner you get to pinning, the more you’ll get recognized by Pinterest and gain new followers. Good luck!
Lauren says
Thank you for the encouragement Erika!
Alyssa says
Thank you so much for the great tutorial. I’ve been wanting to try board booster for a while, but I was kind of scared of it (I’m not one to immediately embrace new technology). Plus, I was hoping not to have to pay for a service. But I feel like even though I spend a lot of time on Pinterest and it’s the #1 source of my blog traffic, I and am not seeing enough growth. So I need to bite the bullet and give it a try!
Erika says
Go for it, Alyssa! Plus you can do the free trial to see how it works before you commit any money. Even so, it’s totally worth every penny. Good luck!
Lisa says
This is the best explanation I’ve found for how to use Board Booster! The graphics are so helpful. I have bookmarked it for future reference. I’ve been using Board Booster for a while, but not to its fullest potential apparently. Thanks again for the tutorial!
Erika says
You’re welcome! Thank you, Lisa!
Erika says
Hi Odile, it depends on how many pins you scheduled. If you scheduled 57 pins for each day, then yes, you’ll have used up the 100 free pins that quickly. You may want to space it out a bit more. I have the 1000 pins a month version and I don’t always use it all.
You should get an email from Board Booster when your free pins are used up and you need to sign up for the paid version.
I hope that helps! Have fun!
Han says
Thanks for the great tutorial. I will definitely come back to read this again.
As a new blogger, I’m overwhelmed with the amount of things to learn, but tutorials like yours make it very easy and enjoyable. Thank you.
I’ll be trying out Board Booster.
Erika says
Thanks, Han!
My best advice for you? Focus on one thing at a time. That’s not to say you shouldn’t promote on more than one social media outlet, etc. but try not to really focus on growing all at once. It will get too overwhelming and become difficult to do anything well. (Believe me, I speak from experience.)
You’ll do great. Good luck!
Renee Cook says
Hi! this is the BEST tutorial on a pinterest booster type thing I’ve seen. Thank you!! Okay so I have a quesiton for clarification. I created a recipes campaign. And I have it cycling through 4 different boards. Each one is about every 10 days. So, I have it set to pin on Day 1, 11, 21, 31 etc. to one board, and then to another board on Day 2, 12, 22, 32, etc. If I pin 5 pins to the secret board all at one time, and I have this campaign set to only do 1 pin per day, will it stagger those 5 pins to start on 5 subsequent days? Does that question even make sense? haha! Thanks again 🙂
Erika says
Hi Renee, yes that totally makes sense, which tells you how much time I’ve spent with Board Booster, haha!
The 1 pin per day means it will start each pin on a different day. So if you add 2 pins to your recipes campaign board, the first pin will go out the first day, then on day 2, the second pin will cycle out.
Hopefully that makes sense from my end too! Let me know if I can help with anything else.
Good luck!
Renee Cook says
Yes, that does! okay, that’s what i was thinking!! And then do you have any recommendations for how many boards I “should be” doing scheduled pins for? Like is there any strategy to it – i.e. do all recipe boards for a while, then, all kids stuff boards for a while. Or maybe just have one or two of each board that is related to what I blog about but be scheduling other people’s content to pin to those boards? I changed my pins to 2/day for each so i could stretch a little more and keep the numbers lower, but maybe 3 a day is better? Any thoughts you have would be great! Thanks again for the reply!
Erika says
I have 24 “scheduler” boards right now. I don’t necessarily always keep them full of pins (some go empty if I haven’t had time) but that’s okay. I like to have a variety, including some main boards I always pin to, and then add extras for the holidays, season, etc. Definitely schedule other people’s content in addition to your own, as that will help widen your Pinterest reach. You’ll have to play around and see which numbers works well for you. I usually do 2 a day for popular boards (or topics I pin a lot to) and 1 for other boards, mainly because that ends up being a lot of pins as it is and I run out of time to keep all my scheduler boards full! 🙂
Hannah Olson says
THANK YOU!! I was looking all over for good explanations – and yours is what got me going! Just got all my secret boards and my BoardBooster account (free trial) all set up. Can’t wait!
Erika says
You’re welcome, Hannah! I’m glad I could help. 🙂
James says
Like the fog clearing on a cold Autumn morning…. everything has suddenly become clear!
Thank-you Erika, you have made the process seem so easy and I had things up and running in just a few minutes.
You Rock!
Jill @ RunEatSnap says
Thank you! I just signed up for Board Booster trial yesterday and only understood looping. This was very helpful for scheduler and maybe campaigns in the future 🙂
Melissa says
Thanks for the info! When I need to work on the secret boards, say like you mentioned how they “run out” of pins. So for refilling with repins, do I work from Pinterest in the secret board? Or is it done from BB?
Erika says
You would work from Pinterest as usual and simply repin to your secret boards.
Stefani Harris says
Hi Erika,
Thank you for these great tips. So, just to be sure I understand:
I should only pin to those Secret boards and not to the public boards, right? The secret board will then populate into the public board when the pin is scheduled?
Do I need to go and MOVE existing (as in delete from the public board) pins into the new secret boards or do I COPY them to the new secret board…or do I not need to do anything? All of my secret boards are currently empty.
Thank you sooooo much!!!
Erika says
You don’t have to pin ONLY to the secret boards, but it’s a great idea if you’re pinning a lot of content at once. I usually sit down every so often and pin a LOT, so the secret boards help me spread it out.
Also don’t delete existing pins – the secret pins are for new pins! 🙂
I hope that helps. Good luck, Stefani!
Britney says
I had heard a lot of great things about Board Booster but when I went to give it a try, it was so confusing! Thank you for breaking it down so that it’s easy to understand! I can’t wait to go back and give it another shot.
Erika says
I’m happy to help, Britney. Good luck!
Lauren says
Thank you so much!!! I was lost! Can’t wait to try this!
Jessi says
Great way to break it down. now I get it! 🙂 Thanks! I’m going to start using now
Ginny says
Thank you SO much for this! I just went and set up my Board Booster account because of this post – THANK YOU!
Erika says
Yay! I’m so glad to help, Ginny!
Have fun!
Hannah @Sunshine and Spoons says
When Boardbooster has repinned something from one of the secret boards set up through the scheduler option, does it delete it from the secret board or does it just keep repinning them?
Erika says
Boardbooster doesn’t delete the pin and each pin is only repinned once, unless you have it set up in “campaign” mode with a schedule of multiple-pins.
Bea says
Hi Erika 🙂 Great post, thank you! I am brand new to Pinterest and doing a lot of research. before I found you, I had run into threads recommending Tail Wind and Post Planner. Since I’m a noob trying to find my way, would you be so kind as to briefly explain what the differences are, and which one’s you personally use in which order. Hope I’m not asking too much 🙂 Thanks in advance.
Erika says
Hi Bea, I don’t have any experience with Tail Wind and I don’t use Post Planner for Pinterest, so I’m afraid I’m not much help. Hope someone else can help you there!
Board Booster is still my favorite for Pinterest and I highly recommend it.
Good luck!
Bea says
Thank you very much for your prompt reply 🙂
Bea says
Hi Erika again! 🙂 Okay, so Board Boosters it is. I will definitely use your affiliate link to sign up. One last question if/when you have time: I am an artist wanting to sell my paintings on Etsy. I know there are many Etsy sellers using Pinterest as a funnel so to speak. But, the more I study Pinterest marketing the more I see that I should have at least 10 boards. Do you have any suggestions (or a link would be great) as to how to develop ideas for setting up additional boards so that I can be more well-rounded in my approach? Thank you so very much for your help! 🙂
Erika says
Thanks, Bea, I appreciate you signing up through my link. 🙂
To answer your question, I don’t think there’s a right or wrong way to do it when it comes to setting up boards. More specific boards tend to do better than vague – ie “Summer Activities for Kids” vs “Activities for Kids” or “Paleo Desserts” vs “Paleo Recipes” because they’ll come up more in searches. Other than that, just pick a few themes you love and have fun pinning!
Bea says
Thanks very much Erika 🙂
Erika says
Anytime, Bea!
Shannon says
Erika- thank you so much for this info! I recently started using board booster and have had so much success! I have a question– on your boards that you use for scheduler how many pins per day, per board do you pin? For example, I have 32 boards that I pin too (other than my blog board and group boards)- should I just pin 1 per day to each board?… I guess an easier way to ask is this: how many pins per day should I pin in all?
Erika says
Hi Shannon! That’s fantastic that you’ve had so much success with BoardBooster. I still love it just as much as when I first figured it out!
I have my scheduler boards set to repin 1-3 pins a day, thought it really depends on how many pins are in my secret boards as I often let it run out. (Oops!)
Kathleen says
I’m still trying to wrap my brain around scheduled campaigns for pinning my content to group boards. You mentioned scheduling your campaigns for 45-60 days. What happens then? Do you have to set up the campaign all over again?
Erika says
Hi Kathleen! After my campaign ends for particular pins (45-60 days or s), that particular pin goes “dormant” (it doesn’t do anything) in the secret campaign board. You can delete it or repin it to the board again to get it started once more. I rarely do though because many of my pins are seasonal – aka I don’t want “back to school” pins repinning frequently around Christmas as it won’t do as well. The campaign stays indefinitely, which is very handy, so you can add more pins anytime you want as long as the campaign is there.
Hope that helps!
Danielle Joseph says
This was so helpful! Thank you so much for putting this together. I’ve just started with Board Booster and was totally lost. Appreciate it <3
Amy White says
You rock! I just signed up for Board Booster and needed some input on how it works. Your tutorial and personal experience is great. I’m so sorry I didn’t see this sooner and use your affiliate link. You definitely deserve the credit. Thank You!
Carly Tesser says
Hi Erika,
This is such a great post! I am also having the same issue as another commenter as to use board booster or tailwind. My question though to you is do you have any articles for creating the best pins of your own content, or recommend your favorite?
Pamela Kuhn says
Thank you seems like such a small word to encompass what you’ve given here. I was able to follow each step. Bless you!
Erika says
You’re welcome, Pamela! I’m glad I could help!
chellie says
I love this article, and I’m still a bit confused. And I’m not even sure how to phrase my questions… I’m a food blogger and I want to use a scheduled campaign to get my content out there. I currently have been pinning to secret boards with no schedule. I’ve also incorporated looping. But for this new campaign, I’m not sure how to get started. Would I for example name the campaign “main dish recipes”, and then add all my group boards that fits with that topic as well as my regular ‘main dish’ board to the ‘add repin’ button? And then what? do I take pins from my ‘best of’ board and re-pin them to the secret board ‘main dish recipes’ that is my campaign name? (I also have a main dish secret board for that I use of other ppl’s content). And then pin any new blog post content to the secret campaign board? Am I understanding correctly?? Also, if I do 10 campaigns, but they are all food, such as dessert, side dish, breakfast, etc., am I actually pinning 10 pins a day but a different category? I know you talked about pinning 1 pin per day per board. Help please? 🙂
Erika says
Hi Chellie, I’ll try my best to help. 🙂
For starters, I always label my campaigns as “CAMPAIGN – Main Dish Recipes”. This will give the secret campaign board in Pinterest that name too and it helps me keep the campaigns separate from the secret boards.
I only ever add my own pins to the campaign boards because I don’t need to promote someone else’ pin 10-20 times. I use the secret boards for pinning other’s pins along with my own. For example, I don’t have a campaign board for Halloween stuff, but I do have a secret board. I would add my own pins there along with others.
Once you create your first campaign, you would add your ‘main dish’ pins to this board and pin new blog post content there. And yes, if you create 10 campaigns, it will pin 10 pins a day (or more) depending on what you’ve set it up to do.
If it helps, here’s what I use for campaign food boards:
I have a “Campaign – General Food” board, then “Campaign – Healthy Food” board, and even more exact “Campaign – Paleo recipes.” All my food posts will go in the first campaign. “Healthy” recipes go in the first and second category and I put any recipes that are Paleo in all three. That’s what works for me.
I hope this helps. Good luck!
Kim George says
OMG! Thank you soooo much Erika for putting this tutorial together. This is sooo helpful as I have been beating my head against the wall trying to figure out how to work Boardbooster.
Erika says
You’re welcome, Kim!
Emma @ Muddy Boots & Diamonds says
I signed up for Boardbooster last week and felt extremely lost when I started poking around. You’ve explained it all very well! I’m excited to give this blogging tool a shot now 🙂
Erika says
I’m so glad to help, Emma. Have fun!
Melissa D. says
Thank you so much for this post. There was A LOT of great information!!! I was wondering how to pin to multiple boards. I will definitely start using the “Campaign” feature in Board Booster.
Dani says
You could optimize your scheduler so you don’t need to pin as much. Choose “keep on source board” and “start over”. That feature is what made me decide to stay with Boardbooster over Tailwind.
Erika says
Thanks for the tip, Dani!
Susan Gilbert says
My favourite scheduling and automation tool is PinPinterest. I’ve been using it to automate and manage my account since 7 months, and I’m more than happy with the results 🙂
Its a free to use tool that runs on the cloud and is mobile device optimised. The Pin Scheduler allows scheduling of as many pins as I want. The sophisticated content detection systems ensure that only pins relevant to my business are pinned to my boards 🙂
Search for “PinPinterest” by name and follow the 1st comment that comes up…
Dave says
Thank you. Thank you Thank you. I’ve been meaning to really dig into Pinterest for months, and I found board booster about a month ago. This so clearly shows me how to use this tool effectively and quickly. I’ve already created boards and scheduled pins for the next 2 days. Now just to fill those secret boards so they don’t run out after those 2 days.
PS. I’m so happy I stumbled on this site searching for board booster tips. Your site is very similar to the one I am trying to build now. Only I’m an autism Dad 🙂
Nicole says
Thank you so much for the great info on boardbooster, I was so confusedon what it’s all about. Makes alot more since now.. I recently started my own blog so this is very helpful
Jaswinder Kaur says
Hello Erika,
Thanks for explaining about this Board Booster Tutorial.
I never heard until today about Boad Booster and as you told the importance of it for getting more traffic, I am signing their $5 plan right now.
Most of my traffic for my Ease Bedding Blog comes from Google and then second from Pinterest. I hope this Board is going to help to increase the Traffic from Pinterest.
Michelle says
Hi! This is just what I was looking for…..didn’t understand how board booster worked but you’ve laid it out in great detail. I’m new to blogging and really want to give this gig some effort. Thanks again.
Dominique Bradberry says
This was by far one of the best tutorials I’ve seen on using BoardBooster. Thank you Erika!
Angie ~ Ambient Wares says
I’m sorry if this was asked already but, when you said in your earlier comments, “You don’t want too many repeats too soon”, is it recommended or necessary to delete older pins of the same thing within the board with the repeat? So, if I pin my “DIY step stool” to my “DIY Furniture Board” and it repins now showing the same 2 “DIY step stool” pins fairly close together, should I delete that 1st pin? I currently use Boardbooster and love it but, have a lot to learn and this was extremely helpful! Thanks
Kathy Painter says
Thank you for all the information. I was able to read this and realize I did not do the last step to my secret boards…. never put pins into them!!! Trying to grow my new blog and I have always loved Pinterest, I hope this helps me along the way. Thanks again.
Jeanne Scheffel says
Hi Erika
Your tips are great. I’m a new affiliate marketer with a decent Pinterest following, but always looking for more. I have been wading through so much this last week. I am going to Love Board Booster. I like your straight forward style and you make it OK to not have it all together. Here’s to Moms who are just going for it. I’ll definitely click through your link and celebrate you!!
Mama Scheffel Scheffel Services Looking for the best in life and sharing with you:)
The Savvy Couple says
Incredible article. Obviously by the number of comments you have helped out a bunch of us. Thanks!
Ginger says
This is the best tutorial I’ve read on Board Booster – and I’ve been searching for 3 weeks! THANK YOU for explaining what each one does and how to use them.
Troy says
Great post Erika,
I’m fairly new to board-booster and this answered a lot of my questions.
I’m keen to start working on adding a lot more schedulers and utilizing the looping tool.
Cheers
Erika says
Glad to have been of help, Troy.