After reading this thread, I've started using iMacros to put together an automated Pinterest setup I've affectionately named "Bitch Magnet 5000" with the goal of building Pinterest accounts with lots of followers. I'm looking for comments, suggestions and ideas since I don't have much experience with automation at all.
This is what I have done so far:
1. I have a database table that keeps up with scraped Pinterest users. I scrape from major accounts surrounding the niche the account is targeting. I have columns for the url to that person, whether or not I have followed them, the date that I followed them, and whether or not I have unfollowed them (among other things). My idea here is to follow them one day and then unfollow them several days later using those dates as a reference. Everything is set up so I never follow the same person twice so I don't get labeled as a spammer.
2. BM5k will go through the database each day and pick people who I haven't followed yet. He'll go to their boards and repin something before following them. My idea here is that this will populate my boards while simultaneously increasing the chances that I get a follow back.
3. You know those dumbass images that are just a quote on some dark background with the site URL at the bottom? I threw together a PHP script to generate those, and BM5k will call the PHP script with the quote to be used in the image (scraped from other sources), get the URL for the image that it produced and pin that on Pinterest using the quote itself as the description. I could follow a similar pattern to add more new pins in the future.
From here, I don't know what else I could/should need it to do before I expand it to work with multiple accounts, proxies, etc. Any ideas?
This is what I have done so far:
1. I have a database table that keeps up with scraped Pinterest users. I scrape from major accounts surrounding the niche the account is targeting. I have columns for the url to that person, whether or not I have followed them, the date that I followed them, and whether or not I have unfollowed them (among other things). My idea here is to follow them one day and then unfollow them several days later using those dates as a reference. Everything is set up so I never follow the same person twice so I don't get labeled as a spammer.
2. BM5k will go through the database each day and pick people who I haven't followed yet. He'll go to their boards and repin something before following them. My idea here is that this will populate my boards while simultaneously increasing the chances that I get a follow back.
3. You know those dumbass images that are just a quote on some dark background with the site URL at the bottom? I threw together a PHP script to generate those, and BM5k will call the PHP script with the quote to be used in the image (scraped from other sources), get the URL for the image that it produced and pin that on Pinterest using the quote itself as the description. I could follow a similar pattern to add more new pins in the future.
From here, I don't know what else I could/should need it to do before I expand it to work with multiple accounts, proxies, etc. Any ideas?
