Impressions Consistent on Old Pins, Barely on Fresh Pins

[TheMustard_SeedLife]

Hello, Pinterest Business Community! Has anyone ever experienced near no impressions on fresh pins? I don't mean a drop where ALL pins are receiving nothing, but only new ones? (old pins are receiving consistent amount of impressions, and are not affected) I save pins directly from my website, and I've noticed that even though I add a title for my pins, Pinterest uses my website page title as the pin title(if that makes sense? 😅) I don't know if any of that affects it, or maybe it's because my pins are mostly artwork pieces, which results in me not having LOTS of new pins a day? 🤔 Any tips or solutions would be appreciated! Jesus loves you!!! 😄

[JanaOMedia · Accepted solution]

Regarding your newer pins not seeing impressions - while your older ones do... Are you referring to standard (static) pins? If so, then I would say that what you are seeing is the "norm" right now. Most of us are seeing this phenomenon with our accounts. 

I am personally hoping that Pinterest will start giving fresher standard pins some love again - especially for those of us who are ALSO creating regular, engaging Idea Pins. :))) (HINT HINT Pinterest team if you're reading this!! 🙂 

But for now, what you are seeing is normal. I hope that helps a bit! 🙂 

In terms of your second question... Different websites have different nuances that affect what Pinterest pulls for metadata. I personally avoid all of that by manually uploading the images I want to add as pins - INSTEAD of saving them from my website. You may want to try that and see if that workflow gets you a result that you are more happy with! 🙂 

Great questions @TheMustard_SeedLife !

[TheMustard_SeedLife]

Thank you so much for your kind, detailed response @JanaOMedia 😄 (yes, I meant static pins) This is really helpful, and great to know that this is normal. I'll accept your answer as the solution! Concerning pinning directly to Pinterest, I once read somewhere that if you do that instead of pinning from site, people can actually edit detail(s) if they re-pin, whereas pins from websites keep their initial detail(s). Not sure if that's how it still works? 🤔 Thank you again for the answer, it means a lot! Jesus loves you!!!

[JanaOMedia]

@TheMustard_SeedLife - there may be some truth to that. So if that is a higher priority for you, then you might want to look more closely at the root of the issue with the Metadata. I know there are some plug-ins that can help manage that, too. @michaelbliss - do you happen to have any suggestions or thoughts? 

[michaelbliss]

Thanks for the tag @JanaOMedia ! It's appreciated!

Hey @TheMustard_SeedLife , once again, welcome!

In regards to static pins, I would say no, you won't be able to edit details or the title on an image you pin directly from a website. There was a time that you could edit the details, but my thoughts are repins are treated pretty much as rich pins, meaning your metadata is pulled along with the image, especially with Wordpress sites.

An example might be on your front page, if you repin the image in the "let's 3d model.." paragraph, the metadata will be pulled from the website's description. In your case it will be "The Mustard Seed Life | Preaching since 2014"

Repining your gallery thumbnail will pull "Gallery-View | The Mustard Seed Life" metadata.

And images which have specific titles/descriptions will pull that data. "Sononical: Heroes N’ Hearts | Page 10 | Chaotic Voices" is an example.

I hope all of that makes sense.

[TheMustard_SeedLife]

Hello @michaelbliss, thanks for chiming into this thread to explain! That all makes complete sense! A few months ago I noticed re-pins stopped allowing details to be edited. I suppose they did it that way so that if someone that wasn't the site owner pinned from site they couldn't change the associated data. 🤔 Oddly, Pinterest doesn't pull descriptions from my site, but maybe that's because I'm not defining it with the rich pin metadata(so time-consuming). All very useful answers! Thank you so much again, and thank you @JanaOMedia for tagging him! Jesus loves you!!!

[michaelbliss]

@TheMustard_SeedLifeI'm happy I could help!

You are correct, if you haven't defined clear title/descriptions for either pages or images, the metadata is pulled from the tags:

"<meta name="description" content=...... >"

Or

"<title>The Mustard Seed Life | Preaching since 2014 </title>"

On each page.

Happy creating!