Pinterest Traffic Secrets

Michael Cors

• Publisher: Bibliomundi
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526045607
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Entrepreneurship
• Index: Business

Social media is the darling of the Internet. For the past few years, online user activity has been shifting more and more toward social media of all types, but recently it has truly become an almost entirely visual format. Gone are the days where text-based communications dominated the social scene. These days, it's all about visual stimulation and contact through engaging pictures and videos.No website has made this more evident than Pinterest. Pinterest allows users to share photos and other media by "pinning" them to virtual pin boards. Remember the former popularity of corkboards? Pinterest has brought that concept online in a big way!According to Alexa.com, Pinterest is currently 15th in the United States and 34th in the world for traffic volume. The site gets a tremendous amount of traffic, and those users are known to visit the site regularly and to purchase products and visit websites they see there.In fact, MediaBistro.com compiled a report about social networking tools and discovered that almost as many people use Pinterest as use Twitter!In this guide, you're going to learn how to make the most of this social media powerhouse, and how to use it effectively as a marketing tool.So let's get started.

Social Connect

It cannot be expressed enough the importance of connecting your Pinterest account to a Facebook account and to a Twitter account and allowing Pinterest to automatically post to those sites.

It will significantly improve your efforts if you take the time to do this, because you are likely to have a larger number of followers on Facebook or Twitter than you do on the Pinterest site itself, and this will get your content more views.

In order to connect your Pinterest account to your Facebook and/or Twitter account, simply visit your Settings page and use the sliders to turn on logging into Facebook and Twitter and publishing activity to your Facebook Timeline.

Then click the “Save Profile” button.

Pinning Content

There are three main ways to pin content to your boards:

1. You can upload an image from your computer.

2. You can use the “Pin it” button.

3. You can re-pin content other people have pinned.

Each of these methods has its uses, and we’ll talk about those now.

Uploading an Image or Pinning from a URL

In order to upload an image from your computer, you can click the “Add Pin” link from the dropdown box at the top right. This will bring up a menu that looks like this:

To upload from your hard drive, click “Choose File” and select the image. To find an image on a web page, enter the page’s URL and click “Find images”.

Here is the result of entering a URL:

Each of these images can be pinned by simply hovering over the image and clicking the “Pin it” button.

Pinning with a Browser Add-On

You can also pin content directly using a browser add-on. For example, Chrome has an extension that will let you pin content by putting a “Pin It” button in your bookmarks bar at the top of the page under the URL window.

If you install the add-on, all you have to do is visit any web page, cl...

Table of contents

• (Sem título)
• Introduction To Pinterest Traffic Secrets
• Quick & Easy Setup
• The About Section
• Social Connect
• Engage For Maximum Traffic
• Pinterest Tools
• Final Words