You’ve probably already heard that ranking your content on Pinterest can take between 3 – 6 months.
That’s presuming you know what you’re doing and your content is actually great quality.
In this article, I wanted to show you how you can do the same in just one month!
Don’t worry, it’s not a clickbait title, and I won’t be showing you any spammy techniques or tricks.
The process I use relies on how the algorithm works, leveraging the ranking signals, and going after low competition keywords.
Let’s see how to do it!
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Pinterest SEO Tips: How Fast Can You Rank on Pinterest?
The amount of time you need for your content to rank depends on a number of different things:
- quality of your account as a whole (engagement rate)
- quality of your pin (graphics, content, landing page)
- the optimization level of your account
- the names & types of boards you will share your content to
- selection of keywords you use for your topic
- optimizing for interests
- the age and quality of content that ranks for your keyword
If you take all of that into account, it can be a lot, but it’s pretty simple.
If you have a well optimized account focused on a specific niche (topic), your account has a great engagement rate and you have good Pinterest SEO skills, going after long tail low competition keywords will allow you to rank in just one month.
So the secret sauce is:
- long tail keywords
- low competition keywords
- optimization for keywords + interests
- sharing fresh static pins (no video or idea pins)
The age of your Pinterest account doesn’t matter as much as how much you niched-down. The examples I am sharing here, and the results we’re talking about in here, are from a Pinterest account that is less than 6 months old.
That means you don’t need an old mature account to achieve these results.
Pinterest SEO Tips: Best Tool For Keyword Research
You’re only as good as the keywords you optimize for, so it’s essential to use tools and processes you can trust.
There are two ways you can find keywords on Pinterest: doing it manually via the search bar, or using a tool like Pin Inspector, which will save you a ton of time!
I have included a link below with a discount code, so you can test it out and feel free to read my review here.
It’s very affordable and has only one-off fee, no monthly subscription, and comes with 30 days money-back guarantee.
In Pin Inspector, you can simply type in your main keyword, and it will populate a long list of all the possible keyword variations and related keywords.
You can then use the list to filter the keywords by their rank, number of words, or other metrics available. I can’t tell you how much time this alone saves!
But you might ask: what am I supposed to do with all of them?
Good question!
We don’t want to start creating articles for just any topic, but for just for those where we can rank fast, and get traffic fast!
Let’s have a look at how to do that.
Pinterest SEO Tips: How to Rank in One Month
As I already mentioned, if you want to rank fast, you have to go for long tail keywords that have low competition.
Both of these conditions have to be met so you have a chance to rank for your keyword fast.
I am going to show you how to tick both of the boxes using Pin Inspector.
First, you want to add your main keyword to the keyword search bar, and filter the results by the number of words.
I like to use three or more words – see below.
If you’re in a very competitive niche, like food or recipes, you might want to look for keywords with 4 or more words.
Next, you want to click on the rank tab to sort the results by the rank, which will give us keywords with more search volume.
The rank tab essentially means that it’s the order in which the keywords are shown in the original search bar on Pinterest. The higher up they are in the ‘rank’, the more likely they are to have a larger search volume.
So a keyword with a rank 1 will have larger search volume than a similar keyword with a rank 3.
In my example, I searched for keyword using a basic phrase: london travel. I wanted to find keywords that are three words or longer, and sorted they by their rank order.

Now, it is a matter of going through the list of keywords to identify some easy-to-rank opportunities, which you can do by looking at the results for each keyword.
You can right click on each keyword in the list, and choose the option ‘send to pin search tool’.

This will open up the keyword in the pin search tab and show you top ranking pins for that keyword.
The list shows pins in the same order in which they rank organically in Pinterest search results.

So how do you know what is a low competition keyword?
You want to check for these red flags:
- outdated content – at least 1 – 2 years old
- outdated graphics – can you design something better?
- not optimized for our specific keyword – does not contain the keyword in overlay text, headline or description
- not a lot of saves for top ranking pins
Just the fact that only outdated old content ranks for your keyword is a really good indication that you can rank for it fast, because Pinterest prefers fresh new content.
Here are a few examples of low competition keywords so you can get an idea what you’re looking for:
1. Travel Niche Examples: London in 3 Days Travel Guide
This is a great keyword because you can see that the top ranking pin was created in 2022, so its pretty old.
There is also some fresh content, but its not optimized for this keyword and it also doesn’t have a lot of engagement.
The graphics are a little outdated too, so you can easily outrank them by having a pin design with brighter colors and targeting the exact format of the keyword.

2. Parenting Niche Example: Parenting Hacks for Teens
This is a great example of a simple keyword you can rank well: parenting hacks for teens.
The top three results do not even contain this keyword, and were created between 2021 and 2023, so very easy to replace them with nicer looking pin targeting the exact match keyword.

3. Home Decor Niche Example: Kitchen Organization Baking Supplies
This one is a little more competitive because you have a lot of pins with text overlays, but none of them contain the exact match for the keyword and look a little outdated.
The top pin was created in 2021, so its pretty old, and you can easily outrank the rest by having a better optimized landing page, pin description and stand out graphics.

4. DIY Niche Example: Crafts About Family for Toddlers
Another great keyword in the craft niche – this one has very old top ranking pins, dating back to 2015 and 2023, and most of them do not even use properly optimized titles.
The images are also very poor quality and only one of them contains a text overlay, so this is something you can very easily outrank.

5. Food Niche Example: Chicken Recipes 5 Ingredients or Less
I also wanted to include an example from a food niche as that tends to be a lot more competitive, here is a little golden nugget I found by searching for chicken recipes.
You probably can’t see too well from the screenshot, but the top-ranking pin does not even mention the word ingredients in the overlay text, and the other mentions it very vaguely.
Best of all – all of the top 5 pins are very old, created between 2020 and 2023, with very low engagement levels, so I would have no trouble outranking them with a new post targeting this keyword.

Disclaimer: It’s Not That Easy
I wanted to add this note here just to be completely transparent – while you can identify low competition keywords pretty easily, it doesn’t mean that your specific account will rank for them fast.
Keywords are just part of the Pinterest algorithm, which looks at lots of other factors like historical engagement, your board selection and optimization, interests associated with your account, and other things.
To use this method effectively, you need to make sure you nail all the other aspects of your Pinterest marketing strategy.
If you need help with that, check out my Pinterest management service here.
How I Ranked My Own Content in Top 5 Positions Under 1 Month
I used the same method as described above!
Keep in mind my account is fairly new, less than 6 months old, so I’m beyond impressed with how quickly it worked.
I knew that a lot of the keywords in my niche (Pinterest Marketing) were underutilized by my competitors, so I narrowed down my focus to finding long tail, badly optimized keyword opportunities and created multiple pin versions to rank for those fast.
And it works!
Here is the proof!
This is an article I wrote around a month ago and currently ranks no 3 for keyword: Pinterest traffic tips for bloggers.

And here is another, even faster result, ranking in top 3 positions in only 2 weeks, for the keyword Pinterest SEO Hacks.
Keep in mind my search results are slightly different as Im not based in US, but you can double check the ranking positions by reviewing the same keyword in Pin Inspector.

In Pin Inspector the same article ranks at number 5, which I’m perfectly happy with!
If you’re not sure where you rank, you can see the results fastest in Pin Inspector.

And from Pin Inspector you can also see that the content was added less than two weeks ago (pin created 12 September 2024, and the screenshots from the search results were taken on 26th September 2024).

So there you have it, the fastest and best way to find low competition keywords on Pinterest!
I wish someone had told me about this earlier!
What About Search Volumes?
If you’re worried you will be spending a lot of time creating content for low search volume keywords, you need to shift your mindset a little bit.
Yes, the keywords might have low volumes, but on Pinterest, the content lives forever.
You don’t have to worry about being constantly outranked by your competitor, drastic algorithm changes or any of the other annoying things like link building that come with ranking in organic search.
Investing your time to create this content, even for low-volume keywords, will strengthen the overall topical authority of your account on Pinterest and help all of your other content to rank better, too!
Final Words
So what are you waiting for! You have the blueprint, so get to work.
Here is again the sign up link for Pin Inspector with a discount code. Let me know how you’re getting on with it in comments, I would love hear your success stories!
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