Great to hear! You are very welcome 😀

Thanks so much for your response again! It’s really helpful to hear how you handle seasonal content—thank you! And thanks for sharing about Hubbub Pro. It looks more affordable and seems to offer more features than Tasty Pins, so I’ll definitely consider it. I just wish they included the “Save This” feature in Hubbub Pro, not just Pro+, haha. Thanks again for all your help!

So, I have learned over the years that creating a lot of seasonal content is rarely worth it – apart from Christmas for my food blog, and to some extent ‘new year’ type content on this blog. The reason is the ‘spike’ for seasonal content is so short that is just doesn’t pay off. Whereas ‘all year round’ content is getting me pageviews and earning me money all year round. The number of pageviews I can get from an ‘all year round post’ is usually vastly more than I can get from a short spike at Easter or Valentine’s day, for example. I’ve also noticed a strong trend with both Google, and to a lesser extent Pinterest, that often it takes a year for a new post to really take off. So, these days, I tend to create seasonal content quite close to the event – so for example, new Christmas content in November… with an assumption that it won’t get a huge amount of traffic until the following year. Finally, I don’t know a whole lot about Tasty Pins, as I use Hubbub Pro https://morehubbub.com/ which seems to do all the same things as Tasty Pins, and a bunch of other stuff as well. Hope that helps! Eb 🙂

Hi Eb, thanks for the response! Do you pay attention to when you schedule your pins, especially for seasonal content? Or do you just create a content calendar that works for both Google and Pinterest (ex. create Halloween related recipes in August and publish them to blog and pin them at the same time, or do you create seasonal pins while working on your regular blog posts)?
Also, if you know anything about Tasty Pins — do you think it’s worth the money for food bloggers?

Hi Katie. I have lots of content on Google keyword research and Google SEO. Here are a couple of examples: https://www.productiveblogging.com/how-to-find-low-competition-keywords/ & https://www.productiveblogging.com/how-to-use-keysearch-for-keyword-research/ However, I don’t have any content on Pinterest keyword research and Google SEO, which is definitely different to Google SEO. Personally I focus mainly on Google as my primary traffic driver and Pinterest as my secondary traffic driver. I have found over the years that and hour focused on getting traffic from Google will deliver a much higher return on time invested than an hour spent on Pinterest. (And yes, even after all the Google drama of recent years!) So, to answer your question, my content calendar is based almost entirely around Google keyword research, not Pinterest keyword research. I find it is more effective overall to focus on Google first and then Pinterest second. Once I’ve created my Google focused content I then pin it following Pinterest best practice. Hope that helps! Eb 🙂

Given you have already built up a following in Pinterest with that niche, from what you tell me, it sounds like the most sensible course of action would be to keep the same Pinterest account and rebrand it to your new blog – and yes, make any old boards secret – unless they are still relevant to your new blog.

Hey Biba, I had the same issue, I cant quite remember what I did to fix it but don’t worry I’m sure it is something simple to remedy, Like EB said reach out to Pinterest.

Great to hear! No, I haven’t encountered a problem like that before. Did you copy the HTML tag from Pinterest and paste it into the correct part of Yoast? If so, I would double check you did those steps correctly and the correct HTML tag is showing in Yoast. Also, it’s worth noting that since I wrote this tutorial, Yoast have changed their user interface and the ‘correct part of Yoast’ is now in a slightly different place. You can find it at YOAST >> SETTINGS >> GENERAL >> SITE CONNECTIONS. Make sure you paste your Pinterest HTML code there and hit save. Then go back to Pinterest and submit. If that still doesn’t work, then I am afraid I have no idea what can be going wrong – you may need to reach out to Pinterest directly. Hope that helps! Eb 🙂