Pinterest Account Suspended: Why and How To Reactivate

So you decided to come to this page because your Pinterest account is suspended or you what to avoid suspension of your Pinterest account. I have had this happen to me the first time of the week and I can’t believe why my Pinterest account was suspended. Spoiler Alert!! I was able to get it back. Keep reading to see what actually happened. Proof Inside.

Why Pinterest Accounts Important?

Like many others I did not know Pinterest was used for business. At least not by bloggers.I thought Pinterest was just for finding new ideas, mom hacks and all that jazz.

WRONG!!!

As the older folks say, “As wrong as two left shoes.” (haha)

Ok, but seriously. Pinterest is used by billions of web and business owners daily. For what? To promote their business.

If you are new to how Pinterest works please keep reading.

If you know how Pinterest works and what to know how my damn account got suspended and how to avoid that yourself, skip to the next section, ‘Why was my Pinterest Account Suspended?’

How Do Business Owners Use Pinterest?

In order, for your head not to spend I’m going to put a quick step by step tutuorial into a list form of how Pinterest is used by business owners.

1. Make Pinnable Images (Tall Vertical Images)
2. Attach the url link to the image
3. Go to your Pinterest Business account and add the images to relevant boards
4. When someone is looking for content that matches your image, they then would click on it
5. Now, you have traffic to your site and eyes on your products/services

So having a Pinterest account is important. It is your bread and butter. Atleast your potiential bread and butter. People make hundreds to millions of dollars all from using Pinterest, for FREE!!

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Why My Pinterest Account Was Suspended?

Whew. What a week it has been. With all the Coronavirus chaos, having my Pinterest account was one of the last things I needed to happen.

First, I was gonna write to my blogging mommas about how to build and thrive your email list.

If you still want to read about that you can read on how to build a thriving email here. I will post new secrets really soon.

This backtracked me so much. I don’t want this to happen to you all. Therefore, I made it my duty to bring you guys some real-time stuff. Informative content that could and will save your business.

So I just reached 1 Million Monthly Viewers. One freakin’ million. I worked so hard pinning away and doing it right. It’s only a handful of people you see in the millions and I was there.

Related Post: See the strategy I used to get 1 Million Viewers

• So, I knew something was weird because I tried to follow people and I could not. Let me remind you I hardly follow too many people. I probably follow at least 3 people a week. Unless I participate in a Facebook thread.

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• The second weirdest thing was I received an email from Pinterest saying one of my pins were removed. My pin was removed because there was a copyright complaint.However, it was not pointed at myself for being the source, but I had shared this pin before.

My response in my head:

“I do not remember pinning this exact image. If I did it was at least six months ago when I was interested in crab boils. And I bust my butt pinning beautiful and original images. So delete that pin. “

Then it happened.

I went to log into my Pinterest account and do my normal pinning.

Your account was suspended. For more information blah blah blah. Than it went out.

Everything I worked hard for. So hard. Daily. My main platform was gone. In a blink of an eye.Literally.

I rushed to check my email for an explanation. Nothing. They never sent me an email of what happened.

I then rushed to my amazing mommy blog supporters on Facebook. I tell you when you need quick answers,reviews or advice. They will be your best support team during your blogging journey.

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I then took and emailed Pinterest at help@pinterest.com and creators-support@pinterest.com

Three days later I received this email.

Additional Reasons Why Pinterest Accounts Are Suspended?

• Pinning too much (spam)
• Copying someone else’ images (Use Canva Pro You won’t regret it. Get 30 Days FREE with this link)
• Using hateful language
• System glitches
• Pinning someone else’s pin who happen to had been flagged for spam

This sucks. Yes the reasonings for getting suspended is truly unfair in my opinion. But I will be taking this matter up with the creators of Pinterest. To try and find a way to protect not only business accounts but personal accounts too, from getting suspended because we unknownigly pinned a “bad” pin.

How Can You Reactivate Your Pinterest Account?

You can do what I did to reactivate your account and that is emailing help@pinterest.com AND creators-support@pinterest account.

Tips:

Alot of articles say to click the help tab and email them. In my expierence that is not even an option. My account was suspended I could not even see my profile picture nor had any access to a help tab from my account.

Use the above email addresses and email the support staff.

This is what your email should include:

• Your name
• Username (If you can’t remember that’s fine)
• Your email address used for your Pinterest account
• Address any emails sent to you about your pinning behavior or anything that you felt was held agaisnt you
• Justify and make your defense strong but short and sweet

I did get my account back in three days. It would have been sooner if I kept up to date with the emails.

Lastly, I hear a lot of people say I never got my account back. And I find that to be so sad. But in my assumption, I don’t think people are checking back up on their Pinterest appeal.

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If you have not heard back from Pinterest within 24 hours. Email them again and again. (Hack: Copy and paste your first email in a doc. So when you email them again. Paste it in the email. I would reply at the top. Second (or whatever number it is) time messaging.

You can also message the Better Business Bureau if all else fails.

How To Avoid Getting Your Pinterest Account Suspended?

• Use Canva Pro to make all your own images. I used the free version for a while but the Pro version your images and fonts are unlimited.
• Use Tailwind to Pin to Pinterest. It is the number 1 Pinterest Scheduler. Psst…They even tell you when you could be at risk for Pinning too much or any other spamming scenarios. Get 30 days free here.

Happy Pinning You Guys. And hey be safe out there. Please practice social distancing and covering your nose and mouth in public. If you want to know some safe practices to use here you go.

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