You've clicked the validate button then hit the apply now button but cannot seem to set up rich pins on Pinterest. Many days, weeks and months have passed and the promise of success on Pinterest is only a dream. Everyone keeps saying that the process is easy. You are constantly seeing report after report of fellow bloggers who managed to increase their traffic by 200%, 500% and even 900% in a short time. Truth be told, you are this close to either tearing your hair out or totally avoiding any post that mentions Pinterest. Oh, how your heart yearns to experience that success yourself. Is it you, or maybe your blog. It could even be the platform you're using or just the theme. In this post, I will take you through a number of ways where you too can finally pop a bottle of bubbly after you set up rich pins on Pinterest. What on Earth are Rich Pins Anyway? In case you are brand new to Pinterest and have not yet had to go through the agony called rich pins let me explain. Back in 2014, Pinterest introduced a new feature called rich pins which in layman's terms means that more details can be seen by the end-user on your pin. Depending on the type of pin, these details can include a larger title, more information in the form of two descriptions as well as a call to action button. Let's look at real-life examples. In the above image, you will see a Pinterest pin where the rich pin feature is not enabled. In this example, you can already see that there are a lot more details included on this pin. This account has rich pins enabled for article pins so you can see much more information about this pin. Types of Rich Pins In case you are wondering if there are different types of rich pins, the answer is yes. When the rich pin feature was launched there were 5 different kinds of pins. * Recipe pins* Movie pins* Article pins* Place pins* Product pins It means that a wide range of businesses was being accommodated with this new feature. However, at the time of writing this article only three types of pins continue to exist, recipe, product and article pins. Pinterest also gives each business the option to remove rich pins should they decide to do this at a later stage. You already saw an example of an article pin so let me show you what a recipe pin looks like. Some experts may argue that there is already so much information on this pin that users will not click-through. However, if you look carefully you will notice that the method of how to make the cake is missing from the pin. I think it is a clever way to check the ingredients before clicking through to the page. 5 Key Things to Set Up Rich Pins Before looking at the process to set up rich pins let's look at the five (5) key things you need to have to make this work. * Blog post* A tags plugin like Yoast or All Meta Tags* Pinterest business account* Pinterest boards with pins to the URL for validation* Access to pin validator Let's look at each of these in a little detail. 1. Blog post In order to set up rich pins,
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