How to Autofill Pinterest Pin Descriptions

Written by: Anyonita Green on 3/6/2104

Autofilling the description of Pinterest pins from your site is one way to ensure that pinners get valuable information about what they will find on your blog.

Of course, pinners can always go back and change this description, but in my experience, if a pin's description is informative enough to give pinners a sense of what to expect on the page, they don't tend to edit the description.

If you autofill the description of pins from your site, you increase the likeliness that the keywords you have chosen will stay attached to your content; thereby boosting your SEO.

In this tutorial, I'll show you two quick methods for autofilling the description of your Pinterest, including how to do it via simple HTML coding.


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Autofill your Pinterest Pins with Alt & Title Text
Pinterest pulls each pin description first from the alt text and, if there is nothing there, from the title text. If neither field is filled in, Pinterest uses the actual image name as it was saved on the device where the photo was uploaded from.

The pin description is a valuable space for using keywords either with or without hashtags. It's important for pinners because it's the bit that convinces them to click through to the website to view the post in full. Letting the space go to waste is senseless.

You can easily populate the alt and title text in Blogger by following these five steps:

1. Click the photo you'd like to amplify
2. Choose properties 
3. Fill in the title text field
4. Fill in the alt text field
5. Click ok

Here's a visual step-by-step process:

Autofill your Pinterest Pins with HTML

If you're not on Blogger or compose your posts in HTML, you can use a bit of code to produce the same results.  Here's what you'll need to do: 

<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-7J4n9O3YOlQ5u6fa5SjwlsG-7Gg_G6AiqY4Tr19ps-19wHrYkfGzSwBETrv5EWOXAQBBLafCU-fPreaDfU60L-7gI98yAPpB8KmwXxVR_N_NBKewoCFbNOGfIZszLAZpw-Xx5D7WV4/s1600/autofill pinterest pin descriptions.png" alt="How to Autofill Pinterest Pin Descriptions | Anyonita Nibbles" title="How to Autofill Pinterest Pin Descriptions | Anyonita Nibbles" />

No matter which method you use, the outcome is the same. Your Pinterest pins from your site will automatically be autofilled with the content you want them to have:

What to Say in the Pin Description

Here are some do's and don't's you might find helpful:

• When filling in your title and alt text, don't go overboard with hard selling your blog post. You'll need to strike a balance between being descriptive and informative and giving enough information to bait pinners. 
• Try to stick to the facts, but don't give everything away up front. 
• Use hashtags sparingly if you want to
• Don't feel obligated to use hashtags if they're not your style
• Speak about the post from a different point of view. How would you describe it if it weren't your own post?
• Be proactive. 
• If the title isn't straightforward, use the description to unmuddy the water.

 What types of things do you include in your pin descriptions? Or have you been leaving them blank? 

 Find out more about alt text:

How to Dominate Google Image Search Results

How to Optimize Photos for Pinterest

One SEO Alt-ernative for Pinnable Images