How to schedule Pinterest Pins, carousels and video Pins

Connect your Pinterest account, add an image, a carousel or a video, pick the board, write a title and a description in the words people search for, add the link, and schedule it or add it to a queue. SPREVA checks Pinterest's limits before it publishes: a description of 800 characters, a title of 100, a carousel of 2 to 5 images and a video of 4 seconds to 15 minutes.

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   Press New in the sidebar, choose Post, then Image Post for an image or a carousel, or Video Post.

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   Pick your Pinterest account, then the Board in its Pinterest settings. SPREVA lists the account's boards as Pinterest has them; for a new board, create it in Pinterest first.

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   Write the title, up to 100 characters. Without one, SPREVA uses the first line of your text.

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   Write the description, up to 800 characters, and add the Link the Pin should open.

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   Describe the image under Alt text, for people who use a screen reader. For a video Pin, choose the cover frame, in seconds into the video.

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   Schedule it, or Add to queue.

If the board is deleted in Pinterest before the Pin goes out, SPREVA stops and tells you, rather than saving it to another board.

People find Pins by searching, so write the title and the description the way someone would search: “autumn table ideas for a small flat”, not “Sunday mood”. Put the words that matter first in the title, and let the description say who it is for and what they will find behind the link.

Pinterest recommends tall images, 2:3, such as 1000 by 1500 pixels, which take up more room in its grid than square ones.

No tall version of your photo? Open Agent in the sidebar and ask for one, with a headline on it, then read the words before you save it to your library: image models still misspell. Each image costs 10 credits.

The same picture can go to Instagram and Pinterest in one post. Each account can have its own text under Per account, and only Pinterest uses the title, the board and the link. Pinterest takes images of up to 20 MB, Instagram up to 8 MB, and SPREVA checks both before anything goes out. How to adapt one post for each network.

For a business account, each Pin's numbers come back into SPREVA: impressions, saves, clicks to your link, comments and reactions, with your followers on the account. A personal account can publish just the same, but Pinterest shares those numbers only with business accounts.

Connect Pinterest, make a queue with the times you want, and add a week of Pins to it, each to its board. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial.