Let’s face it, pinning can sometimes be a real drag… especially when it comes to the laborious task of pinning each of your online store products to try and promote them and help bring in a little extra cash.  Wouldn’t it be nice if you could promote your entire eBay and/or Etsy stores on Pinterest with just a few clicks?  Well that time has come!  With Pin4Ever’s new Promote Products tool, you can easily pin all of your product listings from multiple stores, including eBay and Etsy, with more stores on the way.

You begin by creating some new boards on Pinterest or just use existing ones.  Then click on the  Promote Products button on the far right of the Pin4Ever toolbar.  Then enter your or store name into the store name box.  Then select the Target Board for where you want these listings to be promoted.  At this point, you can just click the Add Listings button, and all of your store listings will load into the list:

Using Pin4Ever To Promote eBay and Etsy Store Product Listings

You can filter the listings that are added by category, price range, and keywords, and add them in a particular sort order, such as by price or by creation date.  If too many listings are coming in, just press the Stop button.  You can combine listings from different stores and from different types of stores, all in one list.

You also can select individual listings and edit their target board and/or tweak their descriptions.  You can also click on their links to see the actual listing of the item.

Then you can set a delay.  15 seconds is the recommended delay so you don’t get banned for pinning too fast, although you can pin with zero seconds delay if your are pinning less than 300 pins per hour per IP address (this pin rate may change in the future based on what Pinterest allows).  One final setting, you can also check the Pin In Reverse Order checkbox, which will pin from the bottom of your list to the top, so that the pins on Pinterest will wind up the the same order as your list shows.

Once everything looks right, press the Promote Listings button on the lower right, to begin pinning your listings. You can stop the listings at any time.  If in the remote chance an error occurs while pinning, a will appear in the status column of that listing, and pinning will proceed to the next pin in the list.  You can click on the listing in question, to see more details about the error.

A video demo/tutorial is here to show the entire process:

You can get a free trial of Pin4Ever’s backups and several Pinterest tools for one week. After the free trial, you will automatically continue with Pin4Ever’s Free Plan, which gives you access to a number of helpful free tools, including Pin Anything, Bulk Editing (Move, Copy, Delete, and Rearrange), and now the new Pin Ratings tool.

Example Pin4Ever Promoted Etsy Store Promoted On Pinterest

At Pin4Ever, we’re always trying to improve the pinning experience. Please let us know if you have any feedback about which of our tools you like best, or suggestions for new tools you’d like to see.

Would you like to rate your pins with star rankings?

After you’re been on Pinterest for a while, you tend to accumulate thousands of pins on dozens of boards. It’s helpful to be able to visually bookmark recipe ideas, crafts, clothing, lifehacks, and gifts you want to buy. But once you have so many pins, it gets more and more difficult to find the ones you really wanted to try, or the ones you tried and really liked.

With Pin4Ever’s free, new Pin Rating tool, you can mark the pins you like least with a half star, and mark your favorites with five stars. The pins in between can get full and half stars, to give you ten different rating levels.

Besides ranking your favorites with more or fewer stars, you can also use the stars to organize your pins. For example, one star could mark crafts; one and half stars, things to buy; two stars, recipes; two and a half stars, Pinterest tips; etc.

Your star ratings will appear right on your boards when you’re on the Pinterest website, and the stars are copied over when you run a Pin4Ever backup. While viewing your backup, you can see the pins in order by ranking, from highest rated to lowest. If you would rather not see the ratings, you can switch them off, and then on again when you want to see them.

You can get a free trial of Pin4Ever’s backups and several Pinterest tools for one week. After the free trial, you will automatically continue with Pin4Ever’s Free Plan, which gives you access to a number of helpful free tools, including Pin Anything, Bulk Editing (Move, Copy, Delete, and Rearrange), and now the new Pin Ratings tool.

At Pin4Ever, we’re always trying to improve the pinning experience. Please let us know if you have any feedback about which of our tools you like best, or suggestions for new tools you’d like to see.

Pinterest pins with broken or dead links are incredibly annoying. When you are browsing all of the beautiful, helpful pins on Pinterest, there is nothing worse than clicking to go to the website for more information — and it just isn’t there. Perhaps the blog has moved to a new website, or the post has been renamed, but the content has certainly gone missing for some reason.

Expert Pinterest marketers tell us that having pins with broken links will make a pinner look sloppy and unprofessional. For your own personal use, if you someday decide to do that craft, or make that recipe, or buy that product that you pinned, you’ll be disappointed to click through and see nothing but an error message. Causing our followers this kind of frustration is not what any blogger, business owner or individual wants to do! And if it’s your own website’s pins that have broken links, you could be missing out on a lot of traffic!

Though Pinterest may occasionally correct your link if it’s an image and website they are familiar with, there are still a lot of broken links out there on millions of boards. And in trying to help, Pinterest may guess wrong and add another incorrect link, as they acknowledge on their Help page.

I’m actually quite careful about what I pin, and almost always click through the link to verify it before pinning. But when I used Pin4Ever to check for broken links on my personal boards, I found several dozen! It shows that even careful pinners are sure to have some bad links on their pins.

In order to clear your account of those annoying pins with broken links, your first step should be to identify them with Pin4Ever’s new Find Broken Links tool. When you run a backup, after selecting your boards, simply check the box at the very bottom of the pop-up which says, “Check for Broken Links.” After running the backup, click the Broken Links icon on the Pin4Ever toolbar. A page will come up, displaying the pins our program has located which have bad links.

While Pin4Ever can’t find every inaccurate link, it can help you find many of them. For example, if someone pinned the main page of a blog instead of the exact article, this won’t show up as a broken link, since there is actually content there. Many times, though, the link problem will be caused by a 404 “Page not found” error, or because the content has been transferred to a different website, and Pin4Ever will show you these pins. If you want to verify that the link is no good, and see the type of error, you can click “View Original Source” under the pin image on your Broken Links page.

Once you have identified a broken link through Pin4Ever, you will want to correct the broken link by finding the true source. First, click the link under the image which says “View on Pinterest.” The pin on the Pinterest website will open in a new tab. At this point, I like to resize my window to about half the width of the screen, so it is on the left side. Then I click the Firefox icon to open a new window, which will also be half-size, and then drag this new window to sit side-by-side to the right of the original window. In the new window, I go to Google Images. Then, I left click the original pin image and, holding down the left mouse button, I drag the image to the new window, and drop it in Google Image’s search box.

Google Image will then list a bunch of websites which have that image. In looking for the original, the best source will have the largest sized image, will usually be an original website (rather than Pinterest or Facebook), and will have the earliest date. When you see a promising source, click through to the website and see if it seems original, or if it gives a link to the actual source. When you have found the original source, copy the link, and then click Edit on your Pinterest pin, and add that link for the source of the pin.

If you would rather see similar instructions for finding accurate links with some pictures to help, please see Cleaning Up Your Pinterest Boards.

If you haven’t tried Pin4Ever’s backups and other helpful Pinterest tools yet, you can take advantage of our one week free trial by clicking the green Install now button on our website’s main page.  After your free trial, you can buy any plan (Basic plans start at $4.99/month, Premium plan is $49.99/year) to continue running backups, which now includes our helpful “Find Broken Links” feature.

When I am browsing Pinterest, I sometimes see a fantastic board that I want to come back to later because I don’t have time to get through all of the pins. I also keep a board with links to my favorite websites, and sometimes I want to include a whole Pinterest board as a resource on a certain topic, too.

Of course, the Pin It button does not work on the Pinterest website. And even following a board is not going to ensure that you see all of the pins now, since Pinterest released their new Smart Feed. You’ll see some of the pins with Smart Feed, but pinning a board can remind you to go back to check for new pins that didn’t make it into your feed.

Pin4Ever’s Pin Anything button is a free tool that anyone can use to pin a Pinterest board. In fact, Pin Anything can be used on other websites like Facebook, which are otherwise difficult to pin from. It can even be used to pin articles which have only text and no image at all; just take a screenshot of the headline.

To use Pin Anything, follow these simple instructions:

1. Download the Pin4Ever program by clicking the green “Install Now” button on www.pin4ever.com.

2. Click the Power Tools button on the Pin4Ever toolbar, and click the Pin Anything button.  (If you are using the minimized toolbar, you only need to click the camera icon.)

3. Left click with your mouse at one corner of the image you want to create, and then drag away from that point until the rectangle is the size you want.

4. When you release the mouse button, you will see a pop-up box showing the custom screenshot you created, any description the website owner has provided for the page, and the link filled in for the webpage you are on. If you like, you can type in the description box to change it.  (Like on Pinterest, you can highlight any text that you want to include in your description, before clicking the Pin Anything button.)

5. When you’re happy with the image, description, and link, select a board from the drop down box at the top of the pop-up box, and click “Create Pin.”

It’s that simple to pin a Pinterest board, a Facebook post, or an article that lacks images. With this free tool offered by Pin4Ever, you really can “Pin Anything”!

Do you host a group board on your Pinterest account?  If so, you have probably had problems at some point with fake pinners who gain access and then post spam or other unwanted images on your board.  Or perhaps you have a lot of active pinners, and your board has so many pins, you are close to Pinterest’s limit.   For these reasons and more, group board owners can save themselves a lot of time and trouble by deleting multiple pins in a single step.

Pin4Ever’s Bulk Editing tools have been offered free to the pinning public for over a year now, since August 2013.  These tools let you move, copy, delete, and even rearrange multiple pins in one step right on your Pinterest board.  (Which is so much easier than doing them one by one!)  But, up until recently, you could only remove an image that you had pinned yourself.

Now, in August 2014, Pin4Ever has the new ability to delete a batch of pins on a group board which is owned by you —  even if you weren’t the person who pinned them.  This will make it easy for the owners of group boards to quickly eliminate spam, or weed out less popular pins if there are just too many.  (However, only the person who owns the group board will have this ability to delete others’ pins.)

To use Pin4Ever’s free Bulk Delete function, simply install our program from www.pin4ever.com .  Then, open a Firefox window, go to the Pinterest website, and sign in to your Pinterest account.  Go to your boards page, and click the group board that you want to delete pins from.  While viewing the board, click the dark pink Delete button on the Pin4Ever toolbar, and then click each pin you want to remove, scrolling down if you like.  After selecting the pins to delete, click the Execute button on the Pin4Ever toolbar, and wait for it to process the pins.

If it is your first time trying Pin4Ever, you will also get a one week free trial of many of our other helpful tools, such as saving a backup of all of your pins, boards, and likes on your computer.  And even after your trial week, you’ll be able to keep enjoying the benefits of the free tools, including Bulk Editing, Pin Anything, and more.  For more details, please see Pin4Ever Plans . https://www.pin4ever.com/#plans

If you have a blog or website, I’m sure you’re aware of how much traffic Pinterest can generate for you.  Even if you have a personal account and no financial incentive, it’s flattering to gain followers and earn lots of repins and likes. But do you know exactly which of your pins are your followers’ favorites?  Though there are other methods, Pin4Ever’s backups have a quick, easy and free way to see at a glance the most repinned and liked content on your boards.

You can get information on your Most Repinned and Most Clicked pins from Pinterest’s own Analytics, if you have a business account.  However, it would take frequent downloads of the data and number crunching to figure out your most popular pins over a span of time.  Also, the Pinterest Analytics tools were added long after many pinners became active, and so they can’t tell you anything about pins made before March 12, 2013.

Another option is to keep track of Google Analytics’ reports of which pins are bringing visitors to your site.  Again, to do this, you will need to collect data over time, and then use a program or manually combine and sort the data.  And this information covers just the clicks, rather than your actual repins and likes on Pinterest.

Finally, you can choose to use a paid Pinterest analytics service to collect the data and analyze it for you.  There are a number of them out there.

But, there’s another alternative!  Instead of investing all that time, effort and/or money into gathering these useful facts about your pins, you can try a free Pin4Ever backup if you haven’t yet.

As soon as you run a Pin4Ever backup for the first time, you will have access to some helpful tools for refining your Pinterest strategy, and evaluating your pinning successes and failures.  When you click “Show Backup” on the Pin4Ever toolbar, the first category board you see will be your Top Pins!  All of the images from your Pinterest boards are here, and the ones that have gotten the most repins and likes will be at the top of the board.  Each pin in your backup will display the number of repins and likes, your description, a link to its location on Pinterest, and a link to the original website source.

From your main backup page, when you click on an individual category board, there is a link on the top left that lets you choose whether to sort by “most recent” or “most popular.”  With this, you can see the most popular pins on just one of your boards, if you like.

In addition to displaying your Top Pins, Pin4Ever has many other helpful tools that make managing a Pinterest account easier and more fun.  Please visit our homepage to read more about Pin4Ever’s features, and get a one week free trial, which includes backups and seeing your Top Pins.

When you view your most popular pins in your backup, you will get valuable information about what types of things you should be pinning more, to keep your followers interested and/or to further increase traffic to your blog or website.  You can even reuse these star pins by creating something like Made from Pinterest’s “Pinned over 1,000 times!” board, or by writing a blog post about your most successful pins!

Will you use Pin4Ever’s Top Pins to hone your pinning strategy for business or personal use?  Are there other tools we offer that help you manage your Pinterest account or market your business?  Please let us know your thoughts in the comments!