They say Pinterest is drawing more traffic to a site than Facebook! Since I don’t have a Facebook account, I don’t know what to say. Not important at this stage, because Pinterest is not about self promotion, in my opinion. It’s not like reddit, of course, where if some retard wants to troll you, you don’t stand a chance, and again, if you’re already famous somehow, you may post everything and people visit your submitted link even out of curiosity. I recently read an article written in August 2012, with some points of inspiration for how to be or not to be on Pinterest. I saw also something on mashable, which turned my stomach upside down, with their “5 reasons to love or to hate Pinterest”, a few words just to fill the space with the “trendy Social Network” their specialists obviously haven’t figured out how it works at the time (February 2012, I guess); but that’s just expected from mashable.
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Pinterest, the “slick super chic visual bookmarking website”, is a user friendly collection of virtual pinboards, which may consists of your favorite hobbies and ideas. When you pin, especially with a good button (like the one I have shared with you in a previous post), you have to choose a picture from a certain post, and after choosing it, a new popup will offer you the opportunity to describe “the pin” and to choose one of your boards to pin it. If you pin with plugin buttons, there is a great chance the plugin will choose the pic itself. I am sure that if you make an account to pin erratically articles from your posts, eventually without boards, you’ll better use Facebook or Twitter, where you are already successfully ignored by everybody, you don’t need Pinterest for that.
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Like on Twitter (which after over six years from launch, is still grossly misunderstood), a lot of so called bloggers, don’t understand Pinterest at all. You can’t believe who got Pinterest indeed, and are moving there in their element: young girls and witty women. Actually the woman gender dominates Pinterest. What I discover as a male, is that if you are creative, and compose nicely your boards, you may be popular on Pinterest, as well. Boards with your favorites websites and blogs don’t make you popular. Sharing other people work, is what will make others to invite you to pin on their boards, which is really awesome.
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A certain lady, with a good Alexa rate, said that her traffic comes mostly from Pinterest. Maybe, she had forty eight thousands followers (following just 548 herself) when she wrote the article, and now she has over seventy five thousands followers, and follows only a hundred twenty. Here it doesn’t work like on Twitter, if you’re good and pin fervently, peoples follow you, and that’s all what makes you popular. If you’re annoyed by a great number of insignificant pins from a certain account you follow, you simply unfollow it, and your stream will be clean again.
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The lady is an example who boasts about it. Nice. She got it somehow, it’s obvious. She sais that other visitors have traffic through re-pinning her pins, which I found hard to believe. I have visited her website first, only after that, her account on Pinterest and I found I’m not interested in what she represents and she pins. She is a good pinner, she is popular, which is good for her. She hints that if you pin a great image of food, after you crop it and add a funny text, you’ll became a Pinterest Justin Bieber overnight, and that’s quick and easy.
And then she gives the most important trump: discuss your preferences on a common board, to “see what others think”, to build your brand on Pinterest.
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It’s clear, Pinterest is not for everybody, especially not for writers creating their “brand” nor for other “specialists” who teach you “The Pinterest Marketing”. A lot of guys are successful on pinning, because they can relate to what Pinterest really is, they want to organize things when there are beautiful things to organize and the interface for doing so is relatively attractive.
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As a source of traffic, it’s clear it’s shifting from StumbleUpon to Pinterest, but there is not the same flux. My traffic is constantly driven from Search Engines. Social Media boosts are only through reddit, but that’s rare, I’m not abusing it. The clients are from Twitter, you see, I don’t sell baking bread, I just try to help people blogging better. If I would pin just infographics and quotes from my blog, I would look like a douche.
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“Likes” on Pinterest could be used as bookmarks for future re-pins. If I like something, I pin it instantly, but if I haven’t a board already created to integrate that pin, I just “like” it, and in a while, I’ll pin and “un-like” at the same time, to not pin it repeatedly.
Mashable says Pinterest is time consuming, and that time will never return. But if you like spending your time there, it means Pinterest accomplished it’s value and purpose. They can monetize it by forcing the brands to pay handsomly for their pins to appear continuously on top of the main stream and first on Pinterest searches. I read that “public wants some location embedded on pins and a better social connectivity”! I like it a lot as it is now. I’m addicted to it!
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I still believe that Facebook would drive more traffic than Pinterest. But, this depend on many factors.