🚨 Pinterest Throttling Niche Site Traffic?

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I was checking my Facebook notifications while I was drinking coffee this morning and came across something alarming in the Raptive group.

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Pinterest Traffic Train On Life Support?

I don’t want to alarm you….but I’m alarmed by what I’ve read this morning in the Raptive Facebook group…

I’m not surprised that Pinterest wants to be a shopping site, but part of me wonders if them throttling traffic to sites with ads is for real.

Though, it’s a shock that the Pinterest sales person didn’t wanna take this person’s money…why else would they do that?

But I’m always a skeptic with third-party information until I see multiple people confirming it.

Well….

So far, there’s 81 comments on this post and you can imagine how this is going over with people.

Loads of niche site peeps have seen traffic return to their site just by focusing on Pinterest.

Honestly, it’s a shame that they’re doing this, if it is true.

I expected them to do something about all the AI images flooding the site and all the SEOs who are pinning hundreds of posts a day.

But not THIS.

So, now what?

Well, there’s one thing that I noticed immediately and that one commenter also pointed out -

It seems like as long as you’re not running ads, then you won’t get your traffic throttled….at least not yet.

Think about it - with all of the sites getting traffic from Pinterest, how can they easily and effectively identify all the sites with ads?

I’m not a coder, but I can’t think of an easy way for them to do that - but by running ads you make yourself easily identifiable.

In the past, I’ve always run ads at the start of a Pinterest account to sort of jumpstart things.

But I won’t be doing that any longer.

Will I still use Pinterest as one of my traffic sources? Yes.

What do you think?

Have a great rest of your weekend,

Shawna

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