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Working notes on Pinterest SEO, pin sizing, fresh pins, scheduling and selling from Etsy and Shopify. Specific, sourced, and short on filler.
Scheduling through the official API is fine. Bots driving the website are not. Here is the line, why it exists, and which parts of Pinterest work are worth automating at all.
· updated 10 August 2026
The Pinterest app pushes your Shopify catalogue as product pins automatically. That covers shopping surfaces and almost nothing else. Here is what the feed does not do, and what to build on top of it.
· updated 10 August 2026
Pinterest sends traffic for months. Etsy listings sell out, get renewed and get archived in days. Here is how to run one on the other without pinning your way to a hundred dead links.
· updated 10 August 2026
Pinterest tells you what people search for, in three places, for free. Here is how to read the guided search bar, the ads keyword planner and the related-searches row, and how to turn the output into pin titles.
· updated 10 August 2026
A fresh pin is a new image Pinterest has not seen before. Not a new URL, not a re-save, not a re-upload of the same file. Here is what counts, what does not, and why the distinction changed the maths of Pinterest strategy.
· updated 10 August 2026
Five to ten fresh pins a day is the usual advice. The number that actually matters is whether you can still do it in month four — and how far apart pins to the same URL land.
· updated 10 August 2026
The correct Pinterest pin size is 1000 × 1500 px, a 2:3 ratio. Here is why that number and not another, what happens to taller and shorter pins in the feed, and the file limits that make an upload fail.
· updated 10 August 2026