Pinterest and Blogging. Your blog should be feeding your social media content pipeline, including Pinterest.
I know it seems counterintuitive that a largely text-based medium, your blog, could feed your content pipeline for Pinterest, which is such a visually based platform, but it’s certainly not impossible. Following are a few ideas for how you can reimagine your blog content as highly visual content for Pinterest: Visualize key points Every quality blog post typically has several key points that support the main theme. Sometimes these individual points can make great bite-size content, so take advantage of this and reimagine them for Pinterest.
Try isolating the key points from your latest post and re-write them as short snippets of text – think something along the lines of a tweet. Depending on the length of your article, and number of points or support points made, you could create a nice series of pins from a single blog post. Graphically demonstrate stats, numbers, or anything you’ve quantified. SEO and Traffic Generation With Pinterest. Have you heard about Pinterest yet?
I’ve given away some invites to my Facebook fans a few weeks ago and another bunch of them to the newsletter subscribers, just days ago. So now is the time to dig deeper into it If you want to always be the first to know about something cool, subscribe to my newsletter. What is Pinterest? Pinterest is a place where you can pin your interests. The two main things on Pinterest are boards and pins. This is how my profile looks with all the elements I will show you below marked: Click to enlarge #1 Search box works like any other search box, just type in your interest and you will get piles of results displayed on the page. . #2 User menu 2.1 Add+ Pressing Add+ will give you three options: adding a new pinuploading a pincreating a new board 2.2 About About drop down menu will take you to Help, Pinterest Blog and a few other places you may want to check out. 2.3 The username drop down menu First two options are Invite Friends and Find Friends.
Image Strategy. The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Pinterest for Marketing. Over the past few months, you may have heard some chatter about a brand new social network called Pinterest.
Not surprising. According to Compete, unique visitors to Pinterest.com increased by 429% from September to December 2011, and the social network already boasts a user base of 3.3 million. Pinterest is only growing in popularity as the hottest new social network, and in December 2011, it made Hitwise's list of the top 10 social networks, currently sitting at #5 and beating out big names like LinkedIn and Google+. And as with any hot new social network that comes onto the scene, marketers are chiming in with, "Can I use it for marketing? " "...and, how? " The short answer? What is Pinterest, and How Does it Work? Pinterest Etiquette As with any site that is built around content curation, 'pinners' (Pinterest users) must be especially cognizant of citing the sources of their individual pins.
"Avoid Self Promotion | Pinterest is designed to curate and share things you love. 1. 2. 3. 4. Using Pinterest To Rock Out Your Brand - PushFire. If you’re like me, a magpie drawn to anything with a little bling, then Pinterest is the social media platform for you.
Not one to ignore a sexy pair of designer shoes or the Fifty Shades of Grey inspired fashion (yes, someone’s probably on top of that already) I was instantly sucked in. Literally; four hours flew by before I worked myself out of its web of visual awesome the first time I visited! It’s like porn for fashionistas, foodies, and DIY interior decorators all wrapped up in a pretty bow and waiting to be plucked (I said plucked). Needless to say, I’ve since had to put some serious boundaries around my Pinterest activity during work hours.
The beauty of blending social sharing and visual eye candy-nothing more! The beauty of Pinterest lies in its ability to combine the most addictive aspects of social media-social sharing and serious visual stimulation. So before you say, “Come on! How bloggers, SEOs, and SEMs are using Pinterest Why do these sites do so well on Pinterest? 1. 2.