Blocked on pinterest for spam? who’s the real

Thanks, for saving our 7-day clean eating challenge to your related board “olive”, Verda Mullins

First result: our dairy-free gluten-free challenge linking to a site called nwtpfsyvikb.pblog.pro and pinned by Jocelyn Uf Poertner whose profile has more than 100k monthly viewers.

Pinners Love “Fresh” Content

A Case Study

Ambitious Kitchen in the Pinterest search feed. Two of the first results are spam.

What do you know? Her profile isn’t blocked from the search feed, but two of the top pins are linking to what we're pretty sure is spam. Here’s one of them.

Okay, so it leads to tastycraftbug.blogspot.com. Oh, it’s a claimed site by All recipes. That’s a legitimate site, isn’t it? It must be.

The profile saved things from Six Sisters’ stuff who obviously agreed to have their content shared and linked to the good folks at tastycraftbug.blogspot.com (if it’s not obvious we're sarcastic, don’t check this link!).

This profile is not suspended and saved things from Six Sisters’ Stuff and other creators linking to a spammy blogspot domain.

Copyright Means A Lot On Pinterest

Wow so many ideas for apple pancakes and they all lead to different sources! Fresh content, yay!

Pinterest Takes Spam Seriously. Seriously?

We've heard many other people got suspended as well. But do the profiles that spread stolen pins and damage the reputation and steal traffic from actual creators get their account suspended? Are the linked websites blocked?

Nope. They aren’t.

What You Can Do As A Creator

Our Pinterest analytics for the last 60 days. As you can see, they’re cut in 1/2 since this started.

Report your stolen pins as “This infringes our copyright”, fill out the form or send a notice to their Copyright agent at , report the profiles too and ask for them to be removed.

For now we don’t have a better plan, as this is still ongoing.