Comments on: What Is Pinterest?

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:47:24 +0000

I have only good things to say about Pinterest, I’ve managed to drive some free traffic to my photography blog. In my opinion its much better then FB.

By: Nima

Nima — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:12:43 +0000

Hey,

Great brief on Pinterest! We’ve just started using it at OHMY, we do love it – we spend more time browsing than repinning though 🙂

By: Lenia

Lenia — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:58:14 +0000

Hi,
Thank you for this clear and brief explanation. I saw many bloggers talking about Pinterest lately but I couldn’t understand what is going on with this pinterest fever. I guess I have to check it out because it seems to be promising!

Thank you

By: eumae

eumae — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 05:48:11 +0000

This is timely as this morning I see that my site has been linked to by pinterest. I followed it and was surprised to see two of my photos there (nothing artistic, just a funny one and an info one). After my first “odd” feeling at seeing my pics on someone else’s site, I realised that the site did say that they belonged to me so that was ok.

But I had no idea what pinterest was and now you have told me – thank you 🙂

It did make me wonder though and I have a question if I may. At the moment I don’t have facebook and twitter buttons turned on on my blog – I just haven’t felt that the blog is ready for that yet. But, just recently facebook has linked to me a couple of times which I guess means that someone must have posted a link to me?

My question is this – at what point is a blog ready to turn on the publicise buttons? Should I wait longer until I am happy with what I’ve got up. Or is the fact that someone must be linking to me anyway a signal that I should go for it?

TIA

eumaeus

By: Irfan

Irfan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:31:45 +0000

How can someone make money there?

Well I’d joined Pinterest the day it got launched. And since then I’m using it but yet have not discovered the way to bring traffic to my site. Wish to know the secrete soon here.

By: Finch

Finch — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:55:05 +0000

Geez.. I signed up for an open beta 3 months ago, until now, I still don’t have a pinterest account. I’m such a loser!

By: Treathyl FOX

Treathyl FOX — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:58:26 +0000

P.S. Excuse all the typos. I can spell. I can’t type! 🙂

By: Treathyl FOX

Treathyl FOX — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:52:48 +0000

I’ve been using Pinterest since I figured out how to. I saw Paula Deen using it and that’s what turned me on to it.

Web Marketing Tips has posed a good question for you. But I didn’t wait for you to add the PIN button to your site or your posts. I PINNED the link to your blog under my “BLOGS TO FOLLOW” pinboard. If you click on my name it should take you to it so you can see for yourself. I wasn’t going let the lack of images stop me from telling others about DBT. (I put it in the website box so it doesn’t get counted as hyperlink spam if I put it in my comments.)

Leif is also right about some legal copyright issues Pinterest is hammering out. I keep a pinboard for that too.

Pinterest is another way to get more exposure. It’s free and I love the visual impact. It’s incredible how quickly people started following my boards and I wasn’t even trying to get converts (or enemies).

Other people RE-PIN the original PINS from your pinboards to their pinboards (whatever name they give their own pinboards – has nothing to do with me ~ I sing your praises wherever I can) and that’s how it recirculates.

I think it’s a great sharing tool but so far I haven’t any major impact on my income. Anyway, it’s worth a looksie, Mr. Scocco.

By the way, if you ant me to remove your PIN, it can be easily deleted. There’s nothing threatening about Pinterest at all. Just good clean free fun!

By: ES

ES — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:44:48 +0000

I hate using FB login credentials on any other site. But I can give my twitter credentials – it’s useless anyway 🙂 Do keep introducing latest trends on the net, Daniel. Some of them could be useful, but I doubt if this ever will. Looks like another FB-like time waster to me.

Destination Infinity

By: Leif G.S. Notae

Leif G.S. Notae — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:30:09 +0000

There is an article circulating about the Pinterest abuse. Someone made $1,000 a day by creating a lot of accounts and auto pinning their amazon affiliate links.

I am sure they are working on their algorithm now, but it is amazing how fast the site blew up.

Thanks for sharing this, it is a good thing for people to keep an eye open for.

By: Web Marketing Tips

Web Marketing Tips — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:20:15 +0000

So Daniel when you are going to add pinterest plugin on your blog like facebook and tweet.

But you are not adding any photos to your blogpost 🙂