Even if you aren’t a user of the site, you have probably already heard some of the buzz surrounding Pinterest, one of the newer social media sites that’s gaining a lot of attention, and users, in 2012. While some seem to think it’s the “next big thing,” others think it’s just “something else.”
With that in mind, does your company need to try social media marketing through Pinterest?
The quick answer is “probably not”… or at least, not yet. Although Pinterest is registering a lot of new users, it’s still well behind Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google Plus in terms of popularity. Beyond that, it seems to be gaining a lot of steam with certain niche markets, and those that are more based around shared images than business and marketing.
It’s possible, however, that the situation will change over time. Pinterest has already updated its platform and privacy policy a couple of times, and there may be more for marketers to check out in the next few months. The best advice, as always, is to simply keep an eye on what your customers are talking about and follow their lead when it comes to new social media sites. Pinterest might not be big enough to need much of your attention now, but who is to say it won’t in the future?
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2 Comments
I have used pinterest on my site and the result was awesome, my site jumped from page 7 to #4 at first page in around 2 weeks time.
The key is we must got our website pinned and repinned by many people, which is the toughest part. Most of pinterest users won’t doing repin when they aren’t like what we pinned.
I do simple thing to outsource it on fiverr and got my site pinned by 75 people, I don’t know how can he did it just search by typing pinterest on fiverr and you will find it on the TOP. Many other seller offer pinterest service on fiverr but in my experience they can’t make my website increase in SEO. I don’t know why.
4 Reasons why Pinterest is great for SEO:
1. Even not support anchor text (except the url link), it’s still perfect for placing our keywords in description. Google will read it.
2. Google interest in social media signal so it will not tagged as links farm.
3. You need to ping the links of your pins to the to get your website increase in SEO.
4. Once our website pinned it has 3 backlinks counts.
Great ideas on how to use Pinterest for SEO. Thanks for your input.