If you really have a lot of pins, it really does make a lot of sense to have a lot of boards. There’s no limit, and I have seen people with tons. If you’re really into fashion, you’d probably want to break your fashion category into several different segments (work outfits, casual outfits, dressy outfits, etc.) However, I’m not all that into to fashion and clothes so I just have one general fashion board.

Therefore, I’ve broken my recipes down into healthy, dessert, tried and true, chicken, chocolate, cupcakes, general, and lemon. For example, I love to cook and bake and pin tons of recipes. If you pin tons of things in one category, it probably makes sense to break it down some.

Now that you have all your broad categories, decide where you’d like to break some of those categories down into more specific boards.

Here’s mine: Home, Recipes, Planners & Printables, Books, Baby/Kids, Books, Completed Pins, DIY, Fashion, Graphic Design, Healthy Living, Holidays, Photography, Quotes, and Tips and Tricks.

Determine the broad categories of things you pin, and write them all down.

Last, I’ll cover the actual mechanics of how to go about creating boards, renaming boards, deleting pins, and moving pins, so don’t worry about that yet. How should you title them? How many should you have? Should you have large, broad categories (like “Recipes”) or more specific categories (like “Chicken Recipes”). Now that we covered the why, let’s talk about the strategy for organizing your boards. This is especially important if you are intentionally trying to grow your Pinterest followers, but even if you don’t care much about that, it’s still doesn’t hurt to make it easier for everyone on Pinterest to find what they are looking for. Third, by organizing your boards, you will really help others to find you, your boards, and your pins.

Second, if you name your boards well, it will really help you to be able to pin to correct board more quickly and easily. After all the point of Pinterest is to inspire you to actually do, make, and try things you find there. If you just pin everything to one or two huge boards, it’s very tough to go back and find something specific. Why You Should Organize Your Pinterest Pinboards?įirst thing first, why should you even care if your pinboards are organized?įirst, it helps you to be able to find what you have pinned.

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