Growing a Pinterest site to $3,000 per month in 2025

Hey everyone, it’s John here. As you know, I like to send updates on my work to earn income from websites and social media to the Traffic Alchemy community.

Today, I’m announcing my plan to grow a dead site into a Pinterest monster.

Why Pinterest?

As you may know, I shifted much of my focus to social media traffic after my SEO sites were destroyed. I like Pinterest because, at least for now, the algorithm seems more “fair” than others. With my Facebook pages, I need to build up a large following to get decent reach. With Google, you basically have to be Reddit to rank now, but Pinterest seems to give everyone a chance to get impressions.

The Site and Goals

The site is “established” in that it’s been around for a little over a year. It currently has 197 AI posts written with search engines in mind. The content is not optimized for Pinterest. The site is related to a specific type of healthy lifestyle.

Here is the traffic graph for the past year:

As you can see, the site got 569 visitors over the past year. I’d call that dead. The site is not accepted into any ad network.

I won’t reveal the site yet, but I think I might in the future. I want to get some traction first before drawing any attention.

The Goals

I will set a goal that I think is achievable but still a stretch for a site with pretty much no traffic.

1. 10k impressions by March

2. Get accepted into an ad network like Journey by Mediavine by April

3. $300 per month in ad revenue by May

4. $1,000 per month in ad revenue by June

5. $3,000 in ad revenue by the end of the year

Like I said, I think this is achievable based on other results I am seeing, but it could totally fail. Plus, the internet world is unpredictable, so predicting how things may change is impossible.

How I Will Do This

I will use an approach that has worked for me for the past few months. The content will be AI-generated, including text, images, and pins.

• I will use Content Goblin for the AI content (this is a tool I created)

  • create listicle content for the niche

  • create recipes related to the niche

  • create pin images in bulk

• I’ll research the topics to post about using PinClicks

  • 30% discount code: PINPOINTTRAFFIC

• I will schedule pins using three different tools:

  • BlogToPin - to schedule posts for an entire month with a single click

  • Pin Generator - If I want to schedule specific bulk posts

  • Pinterest Idea Pins - to create some tools natively in Pinterest

I’ll focus primarily on recipe-type content because it fits the niche of the healthy lifestyle I am targeting, and recipes do very well on Pinterest.

Some people may question posting AI recipes without testing them, but I get excellent feedback with Content Goblin recipes:

👉👉 If you want to follow along, make sure you are part of the Traffic Alchemy Community.