Up until this year, Pinterest was just somewhere that I spent a lot of time planning my dream home, wedding and wardrobe. However, it's so much more than that, in fact, I very recently realised that Pinterest is now used as a search engine and we should be using it as a platform to help our blogs.

I started to take Pinterest a bit more seriously at the beginning of this year, and it's had a pretty huge impact. I've been feeling frustrated over the past year or so as my blog traffic is down, I don't know if it's cause people seem to be reading less blogs these days, favouring content on apps like Instagram and Snapchat, or whether we're just too busy for blogs these days. I did realise, that my self promotion of my blog wasn't at it's best, and from doing a lot of research, I learnt that Pinterest was a good app to focus on. I decided to focus on it for a couple of months and see if anything improved, and I have to say it did. I also liked how Pinterest didn't seem like an app where I had to shout 'HEY LOOK AT MY BLOG' cause I'm not very good at shouting out about myself.
So today, I thought I'd share how you use Pinterest to help your blog, and how it doesn't need to take loads of time or effort, but can lead to increased blog traffic and new followers too! Without further a do, let's get started and show you the difference between me using Pinterest properly.

So let's compare between last September (2016) and the past 30 days (2017) and from looking at my analytic...