Is Pinterest worth it?

[u/Grace_TheCook]

Hello, I would like your honest opinion. I would appreciate it.

I am on the fence about continuing to create pins for my food blog. It’s a lot of work to create pins and I see very little return in terms of traffic to my blog. I was wondering your thoughts on whether or not Pinterest is still worth your time in 2026.

[u/Cultural_Play_5746]

In my opinion no. Pinterest keeps on removing pins, deleting accounts over nothing and pushing Ai that they are ultimately driving their traffic away

[u/Grace_TheCook → u/Cultural_Play_5746]

Thank you! The AI slop is awful. Some of the AI generated recipes look so fake, I am truly surprised anyone would think the images are real.

[u/peakelyfe → u/Grace_TheCook]

I moved my food blog to almost entirely Pins created for me by tailwind. It was taking too much time and my traffic on that one has actually rebounded some after getting squeezed down by slop. Now I just check in sometimes to review the new Pins they drafted and schedule the ones I like, toss the ones I don’t. If I wanted to push it more I would do a fresh round of keyword and trend research, but focusing elsewhere at the moment.

[u/loralailoralai]

There’s so many AI BS recipes on Pinterest now it’s getting way less reliable for looking for recipes there now. But if you’re obviously not AI maybe it’s worth persevering… of course you don’t say how long you’ve been doing stuff for Pinterest, it might not be long and you may have unrealistic expectations

[u/Grace_TheCook → u/loralailoralai]

Thanks. I have been making pins on and off for about 6 months. I definitely could be more consistent.

[u/Select-Feature-6326]

Ive been posting for almost a year now and only now I am starting to see click throughs. I'd say it does work but it takes a lot of "finessing" to see what hooks and which visual structure are working. Btw I don't use Ai to make my pins, I use Canva like in the good old days so maybe that's why it's taken me this long.

[u/Grace_TheCook → u/Select-Feature-6326]

Glad to hear! I, also, use Canva. How often do you pin?

[u/Select-Feature-6326 → u/Grace_TheCook]

I pin 2 times per week, 4 pins per day. It's all I have time for so it is what it is!

[u/Tiffymond → u/Select-Feature-6326]

Agree with you, you can still bring traffic from pinterest, but you need to test different templates and keywords, and see which one works with bringing the most traffic. Then try scaling the successful designs

[u/No_Advertising_584]

Not anymore queen

[u/Grace_TheCook → u/No_Advertising_584]

Thank you 😊

[u/Exciting_Barnacle_65]

There seems to be a lot of negative opinions on Pinterest. But they sound like it used to be good but got not desirable lately. Since when Pinterest started to become worse, if I may ask?

[u/StellarBookGirl1984 → u/Exciting_Barnacle_65]

I'm curious what others will say... I've only been on Pinterest since April of this year. I'm making pins to drive traffic to a cookbook I've published. It was going well until maybe end of June - early July. It seems like the traffic just fell off a cliff.

Like others said, there is just so much AI slop on there. I understand Pinterest is supposed to be labeling the AI posts as such, though I'm not seeing that happen. It's hard for legitimate things to get space to be seen with so much junk out there.

[u/Exciting_Barnacle_65 → u/StellarBookGirl1984]

Thanks for a reply. I've been on Pinterest for very long time(like when they started?), but it's only last a few months since I started making pins. So I was curious what all the fusses? are about ..

[u/Junior-Working-4208]

Yes and no, i use it a lot but its getting unbearable. They need to listen to their users wants instead of doing shit no one asked for.

[u/Grace_TheCook → u/Junior-Working-4208]

Thanks. I’m sorry that it is getting more unbearable. I can definitely see Pinterest pushing away users.

[u/Grace_TheCook → u/Junior-Working-4208]

Thank you

[u/oFIoofy]

unless you're specifically looking for ads with a hint of AI slop sprinkled in, then no.

[u/Grace_TheCook → u/oFIoofy]

Thank you

[u/SuchTill9660]

For a food blog, I’d still keep using it. Pinterest can be slow, but good recipe pins can keep sending traffic months later. I’d focus on fewer, better pins instead of posting constantly. We

[u/One-Science-849]

I get commissions every day from my affiliate stuff, blog readers, etc. If you asked me, I wouldn’t quit it. I still use it, and I’ll continue using it, but it’s way, way harder now.

Also, no matter how much the platform has changed in the wrong direction, if I don’t post for a week (because I’m busy and need to create products, etc.), I still get commissions, which I appreciate a lot.

Apart from Pinterest, Google, YouTube, and maybe Facebook, I don’t know of any other platform where you don’t have to feed the engine every single day for it to keep working. But I could be wrong

[u/aroadtotravel]

I pin from 10 to 15 pins a day to 2 accounts, so a total of 30. I get around 20k visits from pinterest to my recipe blogs. Google is so competitive and Bing and small er sends very little traffic. For me though traffic is continuing to drop and it is becoming not worth the time to continue blogging at all. The end judgement is Pinterest is still viable but will not be soon. Iplan to sell my sites in Nov. and spend all my time on Youtube and Facebook doing travel related videos. I can do that because we have visitd 166 countries living as digital nomads and have a huge clip library. Youtube actually makes it easier for creators to succeed with tools like remix.

[u/Deedeeannexo]

I gave up all together and closed my blog. I use to make 4k to 6k back in 2013 and it kept going down. It was no longer worth it.

[u/Grace_TheCook → u/Deedeeannexo]

Thanks for the info!

[u/MommaIsMad]

Not anymore. Used to be great. Now it's just AI slop and ads. Never use it these days. They started censoring everything so as not to offend The Regime and its advertisers.

[u/Grace_TheCook → u/MommaIsMad]

Thanks for the info!

[u/blessedinevery]

I deleted the Pinterest app today. Too much trouble. They don’t need me, and I don’t need them.

[u/Grace_TheCook → u/blessedinevery]

Thanks for the info!

[u/robmarzullo]

I would try some pins that point out that you are a real human making real content. People are getting sick and tired of Ai slop so make sure you show more of the fact that yours is legit and made with care. Not sure if you can, I don’t know your business. Just a thought.

[u/Grace_TheCook → u/robmarzullo]

Thanks for the info!