I promised you a recovery story about my niche blog. Here it is.

About a year ago, one of the sites we manage was crushing it. Keywords ranking. Pins getting distributed. Traffic climbing every single month. The kind of site you check once a week and smile.

Then it started slipping.

Not all at once. Just a little less every day. Then a little less the next day. Then the next. A slow bleed you don't notice until you check the numbers.

Until you zoom out and see the trend line going one direction. Down.

Over 5 to 7 months, the site lost serious traffic. Pins that used to pull consistent daily clicks? Dead.

New pins were getting almost zero distribution. Nothing changed on our end. We didn't break any rules. We didn't stop publishing.

Pinterest just... stopped caring.

And this wasn't the only one.

We reviewed 30 to 40 accounts. Our own projects. PIN POWER student accounts. Competitors. The pattern was identical everywhere.

Pinterest shifted how it distributes content. Most people hadn't adjusted.

So we did what we always do. Rolled up our sleeves and went to work. Pulled data. Tracked what the growing sites had in common.

Tracked what the declining sites were all missing.

Took weeks. A lot of late nights. A lot of spreadsheets and data. (I know, glamorous.)

But the patterns showed up.

Here's what we found and applied to this site:

Let me break down each one.

The Splinter Method

I talked about this in my last email. But talking about it and seeing it work are two different things. Let me show you the real shift.

Two quick comparisons. Pay attention.

Both show up as pins in your feed. Which one gets your click?

Second one. No contest. You already know exactly what you're getting before you even tap.

One more.

Again. Second one wins every time. It speaks to a real person. Not the entire internet. Someone.

1) That's The Splinter Method.

We stopped writing articles for broad keywords. Started writing for specific people within those keywords. Every article now targets a real human being with a real situation. Not a search term.

A person.

On the recovery site, the results hit fast. New Splintered articles got picked up by Pinterest within days. Not weeks. Days.

The old broad-keyword articles used to sit there collecting dust for weeks before getting any traction.

We're seeing double the distribution on Splintered content compared to broad. Same site. Same domain. Same account. The only thing that changed is how we target keywords.

Why does this work? Simple. The more specific your content is, the easier Pinterest matches it to the right user.

Right match means clicks. Clicks mean Pinterest sends you more.

It's a flywheel.

This method is taught step by step inside PIN POWER 2026. The full process, the keyword research prompt, the real examples across multiple niches.

2) The Absorption Click

This one most people have never heard of. Because we named it.

The FACT.

When someone clicks your pin and lands on your article, how long do they actually stay? Most bloggers never think about this.

They obsess over getting the click. But what happens AFTER the click matters just as much.

Maybe more.

We engineered our content to hold readers on the page longer. Not with fluff or filler. With structure that actually delivers.

Infographics. Images. Tools.

Sections that actually answer the question instead of dancing around it for 2,000 words. Every element on the page has one job: keep that reader locked in.

The recovery site's new articles are holding readers way longer than the old content ever did. And Pinterest noticed.

It's responding by pushing those articles to more people.

We track this metric across every site we manage. The difference between content built for Absorption Clicks and standard blog posts is night and day.

The full Absorption Click framework and the content prompts that build it are inside PIN POWER 2026 Update.

3) Board Clustering

Keeping this one short. The full method lives in the course.

We stopped treating boards like junk drawers where you throw pins and hope for the best. Started building them as clusters.

Each cluster groups content so Pinterest sees a clear, loud topic signal.

When boards are clustered properly, Pinterest understands your content faster. Distributes it to the right people more consistently.

Your pins stop floating around aimlessly and start landing where they should.

That's all I'll share here. The full clustering method, how we build them, how we name them, how we organize pins within them.

AI across everything

Quick note on this because it ties the whole system together.

Every step of our Pinterest workflow runs through AI. Keyword research. Board strategy. Pin titles and descriptions. Content structure. All of it.

Not generic "hey ChatGPT write me an article" stuff. Custom prompts built specifically for Pinterest. Tested on real sites.

Refined over 18 months based on what actually moves numbers.

My team runs this system daily. It's the same system going into PIN POWER 2026.

The results

After applying these changes, the site's new content started getting traction within two weeks.

Pins published with the new approach were getting distributed faster and more consistently than anything we'd put out in the previous 5 to 7 months.

The trend line that had been going down for almost half a year?

Flipped.

Pointing up. Consistently. And it hasn't stopped since

We've rolled out the same approach across other sites. Same story. Works regardless of niche.

I won't lie, watching that graph turn around after months of decline felt pretty good. Like fixing an engine that everyone else said was broken beyond repair.

The competitive edge that's coming.

This is what we found after months of pulling data, testing, and tracking results across dozens of accounts.

They'll be ranking for keywords other bloggers won't even know how to find. And over time, you'll start noticing something.

The blogs that keep showing up in your niche, the ones pulling traffic while others struggle, a lot of them will be PIN POWER members running this system.

That's not hype. That's what happens when your methods match what Pinterest rewards right now.

There are more strategies we've been testing that I haven't shared yet. Future emails. But these changes are the foundation. Everything else stacks on top.

If your traffic has been sliding and you can't figure out why, now you know. Pinterest changed. These methods changed with it.

PIN POWER 2026

Every method. Every prompt. Every strategy we used to recover this site and grow our others. All of it goes into PIN POWER with the 2026 update.

The update drops in about a week.

Already a member? It's yours free. That's the deal and it hasn't changed.

Not a member yet? Get in at the current price before the update and the $150 increase.

The price goes up the moment update is live.

What's coming next

Next email is about production speed.

My team produces more content in less time, at higher quality, than what takes most people an entire day. I'm going to show you how.

How we went from 3 to 4 hours on a single article to publishing multiple pieces in the same window. Without cutting quality.

Speed is about to become the biggest competitive advantage on Pinterest. Next email breaks down why.

Watch your inbox.

Talk soon, BILAL

P.S. If your traffic has been declining and you've been running the same strategies that used to work, this email is about your situation. Pinterest moved. The approach needs to move with it. PIN POWER 2026 gives you the updated system.