What should I pin to my profile?

Your best answer to “why follow or buy?” — typically a proven evergreen post, a strong introduction with social proof, or your current launch. If you sell, pin the post that converts; if you are growing, pin the post that best demonstrates what following you delivers.

Do pinned posts get extra reach?

No — pinning changes your profile’s display order, not the post’s feed distribution. Its value is concentrated on profile visitors, who are fewer but far higher-intent than feed scrollers. Reach comes from the feed; converting the curious is the pin’s job.

How often should I change my pinned post?

Whenever the answer to “what should a new visitor see first?” changes — campaign starts and ends, a new flagship post outperforming the old one, or quarterly as a default audit. The only wrong rhythm is never: stale pins misinform every visitor who arrives.

Glossary

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What is a Pinned Post? Definition & How It Works

Quick definition

A pinned post is a post you fix to the top of your profile so visitors see it first, regardless of when it was published or what you’ve posted since.

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Pinned Post, explained

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What a pinned post is

Pinning overrides the reverse-chronological order of your profile: whatever you pin sits first, above newer posts, until you unpin it. Most major networks support some version — X and Facebook pin a post to the profile, Instagram has allowed up to three pinned posts on the grid as of 2026, TikTok pins videos to the top of a profile, and LinkedIn’s featured section serves the same role. The mechanics differ; the function is identical: you choose the first impression.

Why the pin matters

Profile visits are the highest-intent traffic an account gets — people arrive deciding whether to follow, trust, or buy, usually after one post earned their curiosity. Without a pin, that moment is greeted by whatever you happened to post last; with one, it is greeted by your best case: the post that converts, the introduction that explains you, or the launch that is live right now. A pinned post is effectively your profile’s landing page, working in tandem with the bio and its link.

A concrete example

Suppose a profile receives about 900 visits a month. Left to chance, the top post is a routine update and roughly 0.7% of visitors follow or tap the link — around 6 people. Pin a proven converter — an introduction post with social proof and a clear next step — and suppose 2% act instead: 18 people, three times the outcome from identical traffic. Illustrative numbers, but the lever is real: the pin is the only post whose audience you fully control.

How to use pins well

Pin one of three things: your best evergreen performer, a who-we-are introduction, or the current campaign. Rotate with your calendar — a launch pin should go up the day the campaign starts and come down when it ends — and audit quarterly, because a stale pin (last year’s promo, an outdated price) quietly misinforms every new visitor.

Where SocialKit fits

Pinning itself happens in each network’s own app, but SocialKit’s analytics — included on every plan — make it easy to spot the evergreen winners worth pinning: the scheduled posts that keep earning engagement long after they published.

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