Can someone please explain pinterest to me?

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   Rupert Taylorposted 6 years ago

   Thanks Tess. I am also at a loss to understand it even though I've tried to follow the instructions. I've posted a few things that I think are links on Pinterest but I'm not sue anybody sees them. I shall await with eager anticipation the input of social media gurus.

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   eugbugposted 6 years ago

   Personally I find it's a better way of getting traffic than from e.g. Twitter. Tweets appear then disappear again as they roll on in the feed, so unless you've got lots of followers who continually re-tweet a tweet so that it stays visible, there's not much point. Pins tend to continually resurface as they're recommended, so they get more exposure. Also most search traffic is organic, meaning people look for things when they need to, rather than following a link when it's shoved in their faces. If you can make pin or other shared item enticing so that they're curious enough to look more closely that could be a means of getting more click throughs.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 6 years ago

   Clearly, Pinterest was not created for the benefit of 75-year-olds. So, do I have to create one of those boardy things or can I just stick my stuff on some else's boardy thing?

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      eugbugposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      I'm not sure. You probably don't have to make boards, just setup the account, add a summary of what you're about and then click the "+" button to add an URL that you've copied from the top of your browser of a page you'd like to add. You can add boards later and re-pin the pins into them and delete the original pins.

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      TessSchlesingerposted 6 years agoin reply to this

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         eugbugposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         The exception is that sometimes people invite you and give you permission to pin to their boards (not sure what the term is, maybe shared board)

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            TessSchlesingerposted 6 years agoin reply to this

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               eugbugposted 6 years agoin reply to this

               Instagram doesn't do clickable links though (except on a profile). I agree the best thing is to get high rankings and organic traffic or hopefully a backlink on a forum or popular website.

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                  TessSchlesingerposted 6 years agoin reply to this

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                     eugbugposted 6 years agoin reply to this

                     Well you can't share a link on Instagram in a post, but you can tell viewers to find it on your profile.

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   eugbugposted 6 years ago

   In a sense, the idea or appeal of Pinterest is that it taps into the psyche of those of us who compulsively like to collect things (even though we don't necessarily do anything with the pins once we've collected them ).

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   Natalie Frankposted 6 years ago

   I think the key is to select/use great pictures that, in the absence of any text, get peoples attention, then pin all of the pictures from each article.  If you have, say, four pictures in an article and pin all four that increases the likelihood that someone will click on any one of them.  This takes longer because you need to go to Pinterest and do it manually instead of just hitting the pinterest button on an article.  The button will let you post the article using the first picture.  To add a description you have to go back in and do it after it's been pinned.  So I just go there to begin with.  Instead of posting every image at the same time, since I don't publish a ton of new articles each month, I post one picture, wait a day or two then post the next, etc.  Pinterest works best if you post frequently so i've noticed I get better traffic doing it this way vs. posting 4 pictures one day then nothing else for several weeks.  I won't say I see a ton of traffic from Pinterest, maybe 2000 views or so but since it only takes a couple of minutes per picture it isn't a huge outlay of time or effort for those views.

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      TessSchlesingerposted 6 years agoin reply to this

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         Natalie Frankposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         Somewhere between 1800-2000 views per month from pinterest so not so many but again that's for very little time and only when I have a new article up.

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   psycheskinnerposted 6 years ago

   Like many people I use pinterest not just to save pictures, but to use pictures to organize/save recipes, and sewing patterns, and mosaic techniques.  So whether pinterest will work well has to do with what you hubs are about--and whether people on pinterest will save it to share and use later.

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   Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years ago

   Pinterest has been developing "rich pins" since 2013, and one of them are "article pins", which let pinners pin their articles. These are what their developer blog define as:
   
   Article Pins let users know that they're clicking on a page with original content that tells a story. Article Pins include a headline, author and story description.
   
   There things you can do better with article pins:
   
   * You can use Pinterest to create a board of your portfolio, and then post a link to it when you discuss pitches with an editor.
   
   * You can add article pins to your blog so that people can easily pin your entire article instead of your images.
   
   * When you encounter an article pin, you have the option to read the story, instead of admiring the images. (See the "Read It" button.)
   
   
   
   
   It's actually pretty neat-o for HP if they can use the graph and make sure every article we publish here can be pinned with the article pins feature.

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      TessSchlesingerposted 6 years agoin reply to this

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         Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         That's the thing, Tess.
         
         On a regular pin, we only see the image, and can only read it if we click on the arrow that would take us to the publication. And most Pinterest users don't because they can't find any helpful button that says "read it" - EDIT: see example of said arrow on a pin below.
         
         
         
         The regular pins are not focused on our articles. They're just showcasing our choices of images.. According to GA, 65% of my views this last three months came from Pinterest. That's why I think HP should really consider using the "article pins" feature.

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            TessSchlesingerposted 6 years agoin reply to this

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               Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years agoin reply to this

               No. You cannot upload an article to pinterest. You can pin an article using "article pins", and the way you do it is detailed on Pinterest developer blog. Also, that is not an icon, that is a button.

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                  TessSchlesingerposted 6 years agoin reply to this

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                     Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years agoin reply to this

                     I use Pinterest for Business account, and my current views, without a website, is 17.2K per month. But only about 125 of those views are to my HP articles. I'm pretty sure Pinterest is not people's first choice for reading articles. I'd say if you've got cool attractive images to share, pin them on Pinterest. But if you don't, why bother?

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                           eugbugposted 6 years agoin reply to this

                           No, HubPages have to add code to our articles in order for these "rich pins" to be displayed.
                           
                           https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/r … overview/?

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   Shesabutterflyposted 6 years ago

   I saw you got some good explanations, but thought I'd share my experience as well. I don't use pinterest much anymore, but I still get more traffic from it than all the niche sites combined.
   
   This month I have around 640 views from pinterest. It is my 3rd highest overall source of traffic behind Google and other SE's.
   
   For the little effort I've put in, I'm happy with the results. I can't say it brings in much revenue, but the traffic seems to be steady. Either way it's bringing readers in at a greater rate than the niche sites or other social media platforms I've tried.

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   Glimmer Twin Fanposted 6 years ago

   Hi Tess -
   
   Pinterest is a terrific traffic source for me and back in January 2014, I was asked to do a guest post on the HubPages blog to talk about it.  Maybe it will help you a bit.  Granted, the post was written quite some time ago so some things have changed a bit, but the general gist of it hasn't. 
   
   Here's the post.  https://blog.hubpages.com/2014/01/16/ho … -twin-fan/

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      TessSchlesingerposted 6 years agoin reply to this

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         Glimmer Twin Fanposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks Tess, I'm glad you liked it.  However, this article isn't a hub. HubPages asked me to do a guest blog post for them, so I wrote it for their blog.
         
         Happy New Year.

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    Erudite Scholarposted 6 years ago

    @Tess,
    Pinterest is a social network that allows users to post pictures with links to their sites. The pictures are called Pins. Users can create albums for their pictures or for pictures from other users. The albums are called boards. Pinterest is great for fashion, recipes, art, graphics, design, architecture and other visual topics. I use Pinterest regularly and I have found it to be a great traffic source. You can pictures from your hubs to Pinterest.

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