Tracking Pins on PinterestChrome hates Pinterest

byTMDavis99

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9 years ago

Hey y'all! Just wondering if you have any idea for how you track pins you're posting to group boards on pinterest? I'm trying to avoid posting duplicate pins and so I developed a system to ensure I don't post the same ones repeatedly and also to make posting quicker.

I did try an automatic rich pin creator that was part of a plugin but decided I don't like it because although it creates rich pins, I find the ones that have longer pictures with words are more eye catching - here's an example...

Here's the rich pin using the plugin:

Here's the pin if I take the image, crop it, and put my title/website info at the bottom and manually update it:

I also like doing it this way because it enables me to 'brand' the pins somewhat...as I do the same thing with all of them, using the same font, etc.

But...I digress. What I'm wondering is, what's the best way to not repeat pins and make it easier to track the pins I've already pinned, so here's what I did:

I have an excel spreadsheet that has tabs for each of the group boards I'm on. As I'm pinning, I put the date and post name into my spreadsheet for each pin.

In order to make it easier to pin to various group boards, I have a word doc with a table where I keep the blog post title, url and summary so I can copy and paste.

Just wondering if anyone has come up with a quicker way?

And oh, by the way, I realized that all of the trouble I was having with pinning is because I was using Chrome. Apparently Pinterest doesn't like Chrome. I've been using Microsoft Edge because Firefox is really slow on my machine, but Edge works perfectly!

That's all for now - I'd love some feedback!