The Pinterest Secret Every Blogger Should Know

July 14, 2015

  1. Love this secret 🙂 Thanks!

  2. Nastja says:

    I use pinterest alot and this is a great advice. Many useful information, thanks!

  3. Jennifer says:

    I love this! I need to start utilizing Pinterest more and this is a great secret to have.

  4. Your creative genius and drive as a businesswoman constantly astounds me. I want to live in your shadow, draw close to your red-hot fire, and be your biggest and loudest cheerleader. And hope that maybe, just maybe, one day I can be as cool as you are. xoxo

  5. Kat says:

    This is brilliant, Natalie!! Thanks for sharing the video with the step-by-step instructions!!!!

  6. Renee says:

    Um, this is the best thing ever! THANK YOU!

  7. NAT!!! Seriously LOVE LOVE this!!! So thankful for your sweet insight! <3 <3

  8. Riette says:

    Thanks for the tip! I’ll definitely be giving that one a try some time! Thanks for sharing!

  9. Caitlin says:

    this is so awesome! cannot wait to start using this ASAP!

  10. Loren says:

    Oh now this is INCREDIBLE!!!!!

  11. Loren says:

    This was incredible!!! Can’t wait to start using this!!!! ;D

    Could you possibly include that code in text format? I don’t want to mess up the coding.

  12. Brea says:

    OMG I love you for sharing this! This is AWESOME!

  13. You’re AMAZING!!! I love this Nat!!! 🙂

  14. Annamarie says:

    AMAZING! I need to try this!! Thanks so much for sharing Nat!!

  15. Christa Rae says:

    Amazing advice, Natalie!!!! Oh my gosh, can’t wait to start doing this!

  16. Ester says:

    So, I’m super new to blogging (I do love Pinterest, though). I guess, I’m not sure why you’d want to do this. I know I’m missing something. 🙂 I figured when you post a blog post, you want to always include images in it (I’m a photographer), so the purpose of including hidden images eludes me. Can someone help a blogging newbie here? I’d love to know why this is a good idea 🙂 Thanks a bunch!

    • Natalie says:

      Hey Ester! I hope I can help to explain this a little better – Long vertical images and graphics are significantly more successful on Pinterest, however including “mile long” verticals in the body of your blog post itself aren’t visually appealing. As a photographer, it’s likely that you’re blogging single images alongside your text, like I do, but these horizontally oriented frames do poorly on Pinterest when pinned by your clients, potential clients, or other professionals. If you’re interested in optimizing your blog content to make it more Pinterest-Friendly (without actually including those incredibly long graphics in the post itself) this is a simple solution! Food photographer + bloggers have been using this technique for years and it results in a LARGE amount of re-pins thereby increasing the likelihood of your images being found on the platform! I’ve been including these larger graphics behind the scenes for a few weeks now and have seen my Pinterest traffic to the blog nearly double! It’s just a simple way to increase the number of potential people who will see your work and fall in love with your images!

  17. Kelly Eeell says:

    I love this idea! But I’ve noticed that the hidden images all still show up in a blog post if you read it in an RSS reader like Feedly. Have you heard about any way to make them hidden there also?

  18. This is a great secret. Thanks for sharing!

  19. An awesome little tip thank you 🙂

  20. I am on blogger as I haven’t migrated to WP yet, does this work for that too? I have been wondering how to do this for ages and it is so good to know how to do it, thank you for sharing 🙂

  21. Rachel says:

    Thank you so much! I’ve been searching for how to do this forever. I can’t believe how simple and easy it is to do!
    Thanks again.

  22. This secret is AMAZING!! 🙂

  23. Stefanie says:

    You always have such great content! I need to start implementing this:)

  24. Morgan Leigh says:

    This is great information!!! Definitely need to start using Pinterest to my advantage more! Thank you for sharing!

  25. Kelley says:

    Natalie, this is truly a gem. I’ve been trying to step my Pinterest game up and I think this will be my starting point!

  26. Love that you share so freely! This is a totally amazing “secret” 🙂

  27. Shawn says:

    So incredibly brilliant. Thanks so much for sharing this!

  28. Alicia says:

    This is BRILLIANT! I always stuck a random vertical image at the bottom of my post for this reason, but hiding it is so smart!

  29. Soooo good. Love a good secrete recipe. I’ll have to pass this along to my website designer. Thank u!

  30. Katharyne Dunn says:

    Amazing!! I’ve been needing to step up my Pinterest game and this is so helpful!

  31. Mariah says:

    Oh my gosh! This is genius! I never even thought about this!

  32. Lauren says:

    Super important – thanks for the tutorial!

  33. Natalie! I know this has been here for a while, but I finally got the chance to try it and it WORKED! Thanks for the pro-tip. Hope you are well, friend! <3

  34. Elana says:

    Natalie! BOOM! Girl, this was AMAZING! Loved how simple you made it & that you showcased the awesome ways you can use this tip to increase your reach on pinterest (& therefore drive traffic)! Killin’ it lady xoxo

  35. Kylie says:

    This is great! Thanks for sharing 🙂

  36. Na'Tasha J. says:

    Great tutorial, this is awesome! Can you recommend an image size for those using Photoshop instead of BlogStomp?

    Thanks!

  37. Wow this is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this with everyone! I’m going to try this on my blog right now.

  38. This is a great tip! Thanks for sharing Natalie!

  39. Rhonda Swan says:

    Great information here. I didn’t know about that code until now. Thanks for sharing it. Keep up the great work and live unstoppable!

  40. Wow this is awesome!!! This changed my blogging game forever. Thank you so much for sharing!

  41. This is great, thanks so much!

  42. Nico says:

    Wow, I love this. I just tried it out and it works wonders on my Pinterest page. Thank you so much for sharing! You also gave a lot of great tips on Pinterest Using in general that make it a lot easier for me as a blog newbie. Thanks!

  43. […] the secret code. Don’t want a pinnable image in a post? You can hide them, did you know […]

  44. Jo Smith says:

    Hey, do you know any other photoshop applications that you can use to make photos vertical? Nice post

  45. This is wonderful + super helpful! I was just curious if you’ve heard of CoSchedule? You can schedule your pins out according to the best times automatically! So cool.

  46. Amanda says:

    Thank you, I’m just getting into using Pinterest for my blog, and this secret is super helpful!

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  48. Oh, YES! I’ve been wondering about the vertical photos forever, and it turns out to be such a simple solution. Thanks so much for sharing! Very nice 🙂

  49. You’ve rocked my world. Thanks for this!

  50. Elizabeth says:

    Thanks so much! I will be using this tip from now on… 🙂
    Elizabeth
    http://www.elizabethkatharine.com

  51. Melissa says:

    Ahhhmazing!!! I am so happy I saw this shared in one of my blogging groups!!! You have just made my site so pretty with this simple trick! The only thing I found is going back over old posts to update with the code you have to remove and add the long photo back (for some reason the code didn’t take on the original!) but I don’t mind spending 5 minutes to fix it!!! Thanks again for sharing!

  52. Mickey says:

    Thanks so much! I was just wondering how to do this!!!

  53. sheetal says:

    Going to try.
    Loved it.
    Thanks so much.

  54. […] The Pinterest secret every blogger needs to know (spoiler: it’s how to hide mahoosive images). […]

  55. Jo Smith says:

    Thanks so much for this!

  56. Nikita says:

    I am so incredibly thankful for this. Thank you thank you thank youuuuuuu

  57. Rachel says:

    Hi There – thanks so much for this! Do you know however how to do the same on squarespace? Thanks!

  58. Ashley says:

    Natalie!

    Love this! For some reason I can’t get this code to work within my blog though. Do you by chance know if ShowIt has certain parameters set that would prevent this? Like perhaps I need to upgrade my account or something?

    Thanks!
    Ashley

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