Some of you may remember my earlier post here about my Pinterest account dropping overnight on 18 August. Quick update, and something worth reading if this has happened to you.
Where I am now: still down about 95%. Pins linking to my site don’t appear in Pinterest search, even for their exact titles. Support says the account “isn’t flagged”. The one thing I’ve learned since: on the same account, plain photo pins with no link get hundreds of impressions and saves, while the same kind of photo linking to my site gets about 2. So for me it looks like the restriction is on the domain, not the account.
The article: I got talking to a business owner named Sean who has spent months collecting creator reports, support replies and Pinterest’s own statements, and he has just published it all:
The parts I found most useful:
- The “your account isn’t flagged, natural ups and downs” reply is word for word the same across different creators and agents. It’s a template.
- In at least one case support found “a bug in our spam blocker that was mistakenly flagging safe content” once they actually looked at the links.
- Some blocked domains did get unblocked, but only after repeated appeals (one creator said around 12 attempts).
If you’ve been hit, it’s worth adding your case in the comments on the article, ideally with a screenshot of your stats.
And a question for everyone here: has anyone actually recovered from this? If so, what do you think did it?
Source: r/Pinterest · by /u/MeditationMusic2022