Sharing Your Work on Socials

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   eugbugposted 8 months ago

   Hubpages Weekly suggests this, but they haven't shared all our articles on their socials, only a small selection.
   Maybe they can open up their  Pinterest boards and make them shared so we can pin our articles on them.

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      jansharesposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      I haven't seen an HP share on Facebook in a while. They used to share articles from We Have Kids regularly. It would be nice if they shared our work more often on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. I already do most of what they are suggesting.

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         eugbugposted 8 months agoin reply to this

         I see only three of my articles pinned.

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            Kenna McHughposted 8 months agoin reply to this

            Did HP pin them, or did you?

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               eugbugposted 8 months agoin reply to this

               No, HP pinned them on their network site accounts, but they could open up their boards and make them shared so we can do the work. That would be on a per person basis with an invitation, so it's not the case that the boards would be open to posts by the general public, in which case there could be spam issues. They would have to trust us not to spam either.

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                  Kenna McHughposted 8 months agoin reply to this

                  I think that would work well.

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      Kenna McHughposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      With that, What does HP do for us?

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      paolaenergyaposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      I didn't know HP shared our articles on their social platforms! I guess they pick a few hubs each week from their best performing ones?

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         eugbugposted 8 months agoin reply to this

         They tend to pin those "news" articles that appear at the top of sites, like "man does this.." and "woman does that..". These must be popular SEO terms if they're using them but they're irritating as they're used for all the stories it seems.

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      Venkatachari Mposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      I think HP doesn't share our articles. It is for us to share them on social media. They share only those outstanding articles that are best to bring customers to their network sites.
      So, keep sharing your articles either by clicking on the few share buttons available there or by copy pasting the URL at social platforms.
      You can pin the images though, if they appear to be clickable.

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         eugbugposted 8 months agoin reply to this

         They do share some, but not all.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 8 months ago

   For sure, the more sharing that HP does, the better. I do get some traffic from their Pinterest pins, for instance, and it would be nice to get more.
   
   I did find the Linktree thing in the newsletter interesting, though, as I wasn't familiar with it. I will try that out at some point.
   
   Generally speaking, the social media scene can be fickle and it's often the more opinionated pieces that do best. That's not great for HP, as the tone for articles is more neutral.
   
   I do share, but it can often feel like there are only low benefits for the time spent. With Pinterest, I have a handful of pins that do very well and a couple of hundred that get virtually zero outbound clicks and saves.
   
   I'm still experimenting with social media (not just at HP). It seems like a good area to understand with the challenges to search engine traffic and AI on the way.

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   psycheskinnerposted 8 months ago

   I personally haven't found sharing on my socials to be worth the time unless one of them becomes topical or relevant for some reason. I am sure people who have public-facing socials with a big reach would benefit but my best friend is Google.

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      eugbugposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      Same for me. Pinterest used to bring in 200 views per day, but it's more like 60 now.

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         eugbugposted 8 months agoin reply to this

         Make that 40. I think I'm shadow banned by Pinterest or there's something odd happening. When I used to pin years ago, pins were regularly repinned. Now none of the couple of hundred pins I made in the last few years have been repinned.

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            Glenn Stokposted 8 months agoin reply to this

            Do you have a business account with Pinterest? You need that to share your own content with pins. Otherwise you may be shadow-banned.

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               eugbugposted 8 months agoin reply to this

               Yes, it's a business account.

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                  PaulGoodman67posted 8 months agoin reply to this

                  I think most of the social media accounts require regular engagement, which is one of the problems with HP slowing down and, in some cases, stopping posting.
                  
                  I think that applies to Pinterest too, even if the engagement doesn't have to be on a daily basis like with, say, X/Twitter or Facebook.
                  
                  The Pinterest algo keeps changing too. Strategies that worked in the past, doesn't necessarily continue to work.
                  
                  I've had multiple accounts and experimented, but I still find Pinterest particularly difficult to figure out.

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                  Glenn Stokposted 8 months agoin reply to this

                  Good. Another thought that comes to mind—do you create your pins or pin from HubPages? I create my pins with the “create” tool, which gives me more control, such as the ability to change the link when a hub is moved to a niche site. It’s true that it follows a 301 redirect anyway, but it’s better to be able to specify the true destination.
                  
                  Paul just made some good points, too. It’s challenging to keep up with their changes.

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                     eugbugposted 8 months agoin reply to this

                     I do a mix of both. Most of them are overlayed with text too. Maybe the content is just boring for most people. However pins of relevance and interest are targeted at people, so that shouldn't be the case.

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                        PaulGoodman67posted 8 months agoin reply to this

                        You have lots of material that's in Pinterest's ballpark, so I don't think that's likely an issue.
                        
                        I actually have two accounts that I use a lot. One is general and has everything that I post to HP and Medium and the other has only home and garden stuff. The home and garden one does far better, even though the general account contains similar pins (as well as other stuff).
                        
                        My conclusion is that focusing on only certain subjects probably helps.
                        
                        Even with the home and garden one, though, I still get nearly all the traffic from a few pins and most pins don't get any saves or outbound clicks. So I certainly wouldn't pretend to be a Pinterest expert.
                        
                        In an ideal world, I'd like to just rely entirely on social media traffic and maybe sell products to earn a living. The internet search engines are just too fickle and the subscriptions and advertising income models don't seem reliable either!
                        
                        As you say, the successful Pinterest businesses are completely targeted. They also tend to sell goods or services.
                        
                        That said, I do wonder about what happens when a company builds its entire business model around a social media site (e.g. Pinterest) and then the algo is changed overnight!

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                           Venkatachari Mposted 8 months agoin reply to this

                           I have lots of pins on Pinterest. Most of them are from cricket or other sports news articles and pins from others accounts. My own articles from here or my other blogs are not that much pinned there.
                           And, my pins get saved by many others on day-to-day basis.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 8 months ago

   While I welcome the advice offered in the newsletter, there is a certain irony that HP has generally slowed down or ceased posting on social media. Most of the postings stopped in early 2022, over a year ago.
   
   I guess it means we're essentially on our own as far as social media promotion goes.

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