Pinterest question

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   WriterJanisposted 19 months ago

   I'm trying to pin some of my articles, but I only get the Pinterest icon in author view. In regular view, it will only pin Hubpages as a whole, not my individual articles. Am I supposed to use author view?

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      Patty Inglish, MSposted 19 months agoin reply to this

      Neither works for me, so I go to my own Pinterest account to make a pin.
      
      I used to have much traffic from Pinterest until my account was hacked twice and I deleted it. My new account is building traffic slowly. I like the site, though.

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         WriterJanisposted 19 months agoin reply to this

         Thanks for the advice. I hadn't thought of that. I hope your new account continues to give you traffic.

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            Patty Inglish, MSposted 19 months agoin reply to this

            Thanks!

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      Kenna McHughposted 19 months agoin reply to this

      I click a picture from the article. It goes straight to my Pinterest account and gets pinned.

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         WriterJanisposted 19 months agoin reply to this

         Thanks. I'll try that.

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            eugbugposted 19 months agoin reply to this

            The Pinterest and Facebook icons at the top left of the page (on desktop) are just for pinning the network site itself.

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               Miebakagh57posted 18 months agoin reply to this

               OMG! I never though of that.

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         Patty Inglish, MSposted 19 months agoin reply to this

         It finally worked for me too.

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      Deborah Osadjereposted 18 months agoin reply to this

      Hi, WriterJanis.
      You can still pin your individual articles instead of the whole.
      Click on the article, then click 'STATS" and you will see your article's  short URL down below under 'Metrics'
      
      (I don't know if this is helpful to your question)

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         WriterJanisposted 18 months agoin reply to this

         Thanks. I'll look into that.

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   Jodahposted 19 months ago

   You can share your article on Pinterest from "author view"

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      WriterJanisposted 19 months agoin reply to this

      But if you do it from Author view, doesn't that mean they would have access to edit your article?

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         eugbugposted 19 months agoin reply to this

         No, those edit pages aren't accessible externally without being logged in. You can pin images from articles on the network sites.

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            Miebakagh57posted 18 months agoin reply to this

            Thank you, eugbug.

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         Jodahposted 19 months agoin reply to this

         No, it doesn’t save the author view of the article, it saves the niche site version etc that is read only.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 19 months ago

   The frustrating thing about most social media as a promotional tool in general for me is that you can get thousands of daily impressions, but the engagement rate is almost always very low.
   
   You therefore have to aim for a massive amount of impressions, just to get a trickle of views to hubs or wherever. It's the same for Twitter and Instagram, not just Pinterest.

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   viking305posted 18 months ago

   You need to GO TO THE VIEW on the niche site. Then hover over one of YOUR photos,  You will see the Pin button on the top left of the photo.  Click this and only your article will be pinned. To get more pins for the same article just move onto the next photo and do the same.  That way you have pinned the same article but with a different photo showing up on your pinned board.

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      Miebakagh57posted 18 months agoin reply to this

      Thanks for the information. It's enlightening.

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