As I mentioned yesterday, Pinterest was the second largest referral for Nesting Place this year {only Stumble Upon surpassed it}. I thought I’d share a few things I’ve learned so far about using Pinterest. If you aren’t familiar with the site here’s what Pinterest has to say about itself.
I’m not sure what happened in September but, since around September, Nesting Place has received over 100,000 hits from Pinterest. According to that graph unless Pinterest blows up next year they will most likely be the highest referral for Nesting Place for 2012.
Low tech spying
You can learn so much by what people are pinning from your site. To find that information all you have to do is go to one of your photos that has been pinnned {I have a “my own house” board so I click on one of those photos at Pinterest} or pin one of your own photos from your site and then click on it to make it big…
Then over there on the bottom left you see “Also from thenester.com” or whatever your site is. Click on that and for me it takes me to pinterest.com/source/thenester.com where I can see all the most recent pins that originated at Nesting Place…
OR {edited with smarts from your brilliant comments} if you aren’t on Pinterest a much simpler way is to type in pinterest.com/source/thenester.com and replace “thenester.com” with your own site URL. Then bookmark that so you can easily click it whenever you need a pin-pick-me-up.
And it takes you to page with all the most recent pins from your site. For a house blogger like me this page is pure gold. From this screen shot alone here’s what I observe::
1. Wow, someone pinned an AD from Nesting Place {do less be more} THAT is huge, DaySpring and I work together to have fantastic ads and the fact that this ad has been pinned over and over tells me we are onto something.
2. I see three pins from my 31 day series from back in October, Wow!
3. People are still all about wreaths and I am so glad because I love wreaths
4. That sunburst mirror has yet to run its course {it’s the most popular/viewed post here at the Nest}
5. I can see people’s comments! Oh my word this is AMAZING.
6. The “20 ways to decorate with book pages” graphic has paid off which leads to my next point…
Pinterest Changed the Way I Use Photos at Nesting Place
I noticed traffic coming in from Pinterest and many of the pins linked to odd photos where people had to remind themselves in their comments of why they pinned the photo. I thought I’d experiment and make it easier on pinners who might want to pin a great photo with words so they wouldn’t have to remind themselves what it was. This photo gets pinned/repinned a few times every day. When it came time for me to write the post about how I decorated for my sister’s book signing party, I knew I wanted to make a graphic that would be pin-friendly. For that post it meant one with words and a close up of an interesting, eye-catching book page flower.
Here’s another example of putting the words on the photo to help explain what the post is about. I usually don’t take the time for a watermark unless it’s for the vanity shot that I want people to pin. Then I’ll sometimes add in a little thenester.com just in case the photo is incorrectly sourced.
Make sure your graphics are pinable
I still need a lot of practice on this one. I’ve only been doing my own graphics for a few months and I have a lot to learn but, don’t forget that people will pin your graphics too. Most of us see photos on Pinterest in this tiny version so, it helps if your graphic is somewhat legible when it’s pinned and viewed at this size.
I wanted to make sure the graphic at the top of this post was Pinterest friendly just in case anyone pins it so, I put the post in preview and quickly pinned the graphic just to test it to see if it was legible in the small photo that you see at the Pinterest site.
You can see it there on the top left. You could read the words ok so it was good enough for me. So I quickly deleted the pin because this post was not published yet, I just wanted to make sure my graphic was pinable/readable. Clearly I’ve become a Pinterest pimp. And I love it.
Make it easy for pinners to pin from your site
I use a wordpress plug in called Pin it on Pinterest that lets me attach a pin button to the bottom of a post and then write in my own description and choose a photo that will automatically appear when people click the “pin it” button. People can delete the description and write their own, but, I’m guessing most won’t. Check out the Pin it on Pinterest Plugin site for a video tutorial it’s really easy and I would think a great addition to any blog with photos.
Create Boards that Work For You
Besides the obvious Pinspiration boards for every room of the house, season, dream, style and such I’ve also used Pinterest for a few other things.
1. To gather information for a series–most of the posts for my 31 Days of Lovely Limitations came from photos I collected in my Unusual Uses pinboard
2. To source ideas for craft day–this was Reeve’s idea, she started a Crafty Day board and then invited me to join, such an easy way for us to collect great craft day ideas
3. To document my own house photos. Ok, so I feel like an idiot every time I pin a photo of my own house but, there’s something to be said about having a board with all photos of your own stuff. When I find a less embarrassing, actual use for it, I’ll let you know but, for now, I just like having it.
Now for the Huh part
Back in September sales for the two ebooks I promote {Lazy Girl’s Guide to Slipcovers and How to Paint Furniture Like a Real Pro} started doubling. It didn’t take long for me to realize that people were coming from Pinterest directly to my Paint Furniture Like a Real Pro post. Seeing all those pins of a poorly lit hutch taken at a weird angle really made me wish I would have taken the time to take a better photo.
Here’s a screen shot of the hits over the past year on the post I did about painting furniture and how I used Mandie’s ebook to guide me. This post got about 85,000 page views this year and 51,000 of them came from Pinterest just since September. And that post is old– from July of 2010.
(UPDATE:: 48 hours after I recorded December’s sales and then made the changes I’ll tell you about if you keep reading–we are up to 81 sales! WOW!)
And here’s a little monthly list of the ebooks sold via Nesting Place for Mandie’s Painting Furniture book. You can see a definite jump in September. In November Nesting Place got over 40,000 hits from Pinterest–22,000 went to the how to paint furniture post that talks about the ebook. I think I might have pinned this photo/post one time–all the other pins were from readers/repinners and such. Yippie, right?!
BUT….
{this is the part where this post gets long and wordy and dramatic. hold me?}
Wow. So, just today I actually clicked on that post and checked it out. The two photos were horrible (remember it’s an 18 month old post~maybe my photography skills have improved!?). There was no before photo. I went back in and updated photos for the post but, the old photos that were already pinned will continue to be passed around.
I titled the post How to Paint Furniture Like a Real Pro…if you are a regular here and know my personality, I don’t think it was a put off that I didn’t actually explain step by step how to paint–I told how I did most of the painting in my unconventional imperfect way and then I got stuck at the table top so I contacted a professional, a friend and sponsor of Nesting Place who I encouraged to write an ebook. She walked me through the steps and I used the post as a jumping off point to introduce her ebook to you, much like I did with the slipcover ebook.
I got about 50 comments at the time and there were no reactions that I tricked anyone into reading a post about how to paint furniture and then baited and switched. I think mostly because I pretty much tell you every single thing I know how to do {Ok, so I’ve never told you how I organize my refrigerator–oh wait, I did tell you that} so the regular Nesting Place community seemed to totally get that the post was a cleverly titled intro to my friend’s ebook. You all are pretty honest in the comments and I try to be sensitive to stuff like that so I felt like the post went over fine. I think you know me well enough to know if I promote something it’s because I think it’s worth it. And I’m not ashamed to promote something that I think is valuable.
Today, I also read the last two comments left recently {which I deleted} the commenters were really mad and feeling like it was a bait and switch. The comments accused me of advertising a DIY and then trying to sell something. It’s not like I never get negative comments, trust me I do but, these comments made me think. Then it hit me, they see all these people pinning it saying “How to Paint Furniture” which is what I called the post~and they expect a step by step DIY. It really made me think about the title because my intention wasn’t to mislead it was to truly share how I paint furniture–which was by getting Mandie’s advice–which anyone can do if they read her little book. So, I think the titled translated fine for this nice, forgiving, you-know-me-and-trust-me-{hopefully?}-community but, when some people click over from Pinterest, they feel mislead. Which is something I never expected.
Part of me totally gets that but, there have been a zillion times I’ve clicked on a pinterest photo and it turned out to be a photography or cooking ebook or a product in a magazine and I haven’t felt tricked, I felt like the pinner was trying to share something they thought was worthwhile. But, really it doesn’t matter what I think, it matters what the people clicking here from Pinterest think–because for some reason there’s a lot of them and I don’t want them to think Nesting Place is a Tricking site. A let down. A site of lies. Am I being too dramatic?
According to my Pin it on Pinterest button, that post had been pinned/repinned over 29,000 times. I’m not really sure what to do about that. I don’t want 20,000 people coming here only to feel like I tricked them–even though it’s most likely not my pin they are even clicking on and I have no control if the pinner describes it as “The best DIY ever on painting you must click”, for example. I’d rather not sell any ebooks and have those people want to hang out at Nesting Place than sell a few more and have most people feel tricked. Although I have no idea if most people felt tricked or just a very few. It’s definitely something to think about with how photos get labeled at Pinterest~so I’m keeping that in mind for future post titles. I think I’ll call this post Everything You want to Know About Pinterest Plus a Free Million Dollars just to test it out.
I did make a new graphic and pinned it one time. And for the record within hours it was repinned numerous times and I sold eight books in a matter of hours which really just confirms that people do trust their fellow pinners and also that people want to know how to paint furniture and are willing to pay for an ebook about it.
I made sure to mention in the description of my pin that this is an ebook. I didn’t put it in the pink title though. That’s a choice I made, I actually am trying to sell something, but there’s a balance between yelling “hey here’s a book for sale” and tricking someone and maybe this pin does a little better job of being attractive and creatively up-front. But, I cannot control how other people pin it.
There was one other thing I could do. Since I recently installed that plugin I could preload my choice of photo and description into the pin it button…
So I’m hoping that can control a little what people expect when they click on the pin to find out how to paint furniture. But, for the most part that’s out of my hands. We all know there are a bagillion blog posts, books, ebooks, and videos we can watch about how to paint furniture. We can all find out that information for free–just google it, you can have days and days worth of free, furniture painting information. The problem is, we prefer to get our information from someone who’s actually used a method and was happy with the results. And I’m guessing that’s the majority of who’s pinning.
So what are your thoughts, have you found a great plugin? Have you learned a Pinterest secret?
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There’s definitely two sides to this.. I totally don’t think you’re being “tricky” because I just have a different mentality about it. I totally agree with you. My thoughts about it are that I “pin” things to my boards for my own reference and I pin my own stuff from my blog to A. easily find my own post in the future and B. to put it out there in case it can help anyone else out! If you pin the ebook post, I think you’re doing the right thing by putting it out there available on pinterest to people who may not have otherwise visited your blog. It’s not like you said “A FREE GUIDE TO PAINTING FURNITURE LIKE A PRO” then there was a sneaky price tag attached! haha! I’m with you girl. Keep doing what you’re doing! We love it! ….and nasty commenters, delete and move on! ;) Unfortunately, some people are just Negative Nancy’s! :(
I’ve just started seeing some hits on my site from pinterest and it’s so fun! Knowing that your pictures alone are pulling people in is great. I remember reading the post about painting furniture when it came up and I didn’t feel tricked at all. I reread it just now to be sure, and I don’t think it’s tricky. You told us what you knew and referred us to an expert for the stuff you needed help with. Nothing wrong with that. Some people just want everything for free, but when someone has spent time and resources learning how to do something and putting in it down in writing (even more time!), it’s only fair to pay for that knowledge.
great info but you made my head hurt thinking about it all :)
Oy. Me too. haha! But great info!
I have learned, over the years that you can’t please everyone and shouldn’t think that you have to. I would say that you are stressing yourself because of a couple of people that read what they wanted into your pin. You weren’t’ being dishonest or there would have been 29,000 other disgruntled pinners out there making comments on your blog. I am sure that you have found people are quicker to complain than they are to compliment. More people want to ride the roller coaster than want to scream. The screamers of this world get a lot of attention that I think they don’t deserve. Perfect examples….. In God We Trust, God Bless America, and Christ in Christmas. Keep up your great work and there will be plenty of us following you and your pins. Health & Happiness to you for the New Year.
I’m learning more about Pinterest everyday… Thanks for teaching me more! The one trick that I’m still trying to figure out is the pin video feature!
I have found the same as you, ways to drive traffic with decent pictures and pin-able text that will lead readers to my site. I am enjoying great traffic from PInterest and it is mainly to three different posts that have taken off. I truly can’ t believe the traffic volume once you learn the art of creating Pinterest-worthy posts. Great post, found it through a pin, BTW :) !
great article … and I stumbled upon it from Pinterest!! I have a blog of my own and have just started blogging for one of the companies that I design for. I’ve been telling people about pinterest for months – it’s great for inspiration and for sharing ideas. So glad that I found you!
Hi
I have asked for a place on pinterest and never got a reply. Do you have to have a blog to get on?
Hey Leonie, I just sent you an invite via Pinterest. Their site has been really slow the past few days so it may take a little longer than usual.
enjoy!
Thanks for all the great info! I had no idea what was being pinned from my site! Surprised and pleased! Will put these ideas to good use!
Oh, I hope you aren’t to stress about “misleading” people. I think when you get a much wider audience, like Pintrest, you can expect to meet up with people that are just cranky and want to take it out on someone. I think so many pins testifies to that fact. It wouldn’t keep getting pinned if it was truelly misleading. So keep deleting those haters!!
This is really helpful and things I haven’t thought about at all! Thank you so much, now I need to figure out how to apply it to myself and my blog.
I Found this post through a pin from a blogging friend and so glad I did! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I’ve only been blogging for about 6 months and just started pinning about a month ago.
You give so much helpful information in this post and after looking at your pinterest board,I just want to move in with you. Can’t wait to spend more time on your site. The kids will be back in school in just a few more days and then I can put some of your ideas to work.
Thanks again for posting this!
Hugs!
Thank you so much for all this info! I was wondering how to figure out what was being pinned to Pinterest from my blog. It was neat to see what had been pinned and the descriptions people used for it. I am going to take some time to reread and absorb your post, super informative! Thank you again!
Nester,
This was a great, great post! I loved reading every word! Thank you so much for such great info and for being authentic!
Love it!
Very awesome tips. Thank you for sharing. Your graphics are very clever!
Great thoughts!!!
Pinterest surpassed SU for my #1 referring site late in the year too. and it’s so fun to see the attention old posts are getting. I’ve been getting tons of questions on those old posts, some I went back to edit.
My food pics usually have words describing the recipe, but I never thought about it in the aspect you mentioned…………great idea!!
you’re over-thinking it. keep doing what you’re doing and make sure you’re happy with yourself, first and foremost. the rest will fall into place.
I just wanted to say thank you for writing this post. Clearly you spent a lot of time on it and I want you to know I read every single word! While my blog gets far fewer hits from Pinterest, the number I get is probably in the same proportion as yours when I look at my overall site visits, and that is huge. You’ve helped me rethink how I can make the best use of Pinterest; thank you!
I read this post after reading the post about authenticity in blogging – and you were right, you know it when you see it! Thanks for sharing with us your thoughts on pinterest and how things can so easily be misconstrued. My bet is that 28,998 people did not think you were being at all sly about selling an ebook.
: )
I am so appreciative of bloggers that are willing to share their experiences and tips. This was a great post on Pinterest. I am active on that site, and am getting followers. I didn’t realize or seem to think that it could direct others to my blog site. I also did not use the WP plugin, now installed! I hope to be more creative and thouhtful of what I pin and why. Thank you again for sharing!
Pinterest has been a bit of a double-edged sword for me in some ways. I’ve seen huge spikes in my pageviews which leads to increased exposure and revenue, all of which are obviously positives. As someone else mentioned, though, my comments have decreased drastically. More than just checking Pinterest, I’m addicted now to checking my site on Pinterest to see what’s been pinned and read the captions. I just kind of consider those captions my comments now. Just today, though, I posted a recipe that only has 2 comments, but it’s already been pinned 90+ times (and that’s only what I can see). Just makes me feel a little sad that only 2 people could take the time to leave me a comment. Because of that, I’m trying to make sure I’m not guilty of this myself and I am much more deliberate in leaving comments right on the blog. I also agree with captions people leave not being correct. On my freezer meal post, I see many comments about “crockpot freezer meals” when I make no mention of crockpots in the post at all and that is not in any way what they are! I’ve thought before, as well, that people are going to follow the link and feel duped, but it’s beyond me why anybody would label it that way and is out of my control!
Another thing I’ve noticed that bothers me, is I have found a number of my projects and recipes copied on other blogs and at the bottom or sometimes in the post, they say “Source: Pinterest”. When you follow the Pinterest link, it will link back to my picture and eventually my blog, but nowhere does it mention my blog or give proper credit. Just recently I contacted another blogger and left what I thought was a nice comment, saying that I was happy I had inspired her and that hers came out beautifully and I would love it if she could link directly back to my blog rather than Pinterest. That was 2 weeks ago and she has yet to reply to me or change her link back. Just frustrating.
Like, I said, a double-edged sword. It obviously drives up the traffic to my site, but there are definitely cons as well. Thank you SO much for this detailed post. Love your plug-in, and that has me once again wishing that I would have started out on WordPress.
Oh Natalie! I totally agree with you on the sourcing issue!!
I don’t understand why people do ” inspired by” and will link to their own pinterest board where they pinned your item, and not just link to you directly!!
Holy Cow! I had no idea about the traffic I was getting from Pinterest until I read this post. I haven’t even been blogging lately, but I checked my stats and Pinterest is sending me all kinds of people. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
~Heather
I can totally understand how you’d be upset about the comments… but come on people! Even if you did “midlead” folks on pinterest, all they did was click on a pin! It isn’t like you misled them down a dark path in a forest, or misled them to invest all kinds of money in a ponzi scheme. It was a mere click and a few seconds of their time! I personally love that you share your friend’s ebook and other good things on the nesting place. Some people don’t believe artists or other creative people deserve to be compensated for their time or skill. You do. You keep being you because you rock! *And I only started pinning my own blog stuff because I saw you did. Now I feel like an idiot too hahahaha!
I loved this – every word. I am so incredibly new to Pinterest. I have circled it at a distance for months, afraid to jump in, afraid of the time-suck it will inevitably become, even fearful of the learning curve. I’m grateful for how clearly you laid it out. Thank you. I’m positive you have saved me hours :)
Hi Nester! This is interesting reading and it makes you stop and think about your actions when pinning. I am on Pinterest and love using it. I think when you first start using Pinterest, and especially if you do not blog or have a website, you dont realise how simple actions have far reaching consequences. I pin for my own personal benefit. I see alot of peoples boards and pins and it is obvious that they are pinning stuff to accumulate lots of followers etc. I treat Pinterest as it is meant to be – my own vitual pinboard and pin things that I AM interested in and want to use for inspiration or viewing. So when I first start using Pinterest – in the description field I was putting in there why I pinned it, so I could remember when referring back to it, because I was pinning for ME. Now I realise that the description is meant for what the picture is and like alot of others, this is where things get blurry. Maybe there could be two boxes when you pin something so this could be avoided!! One for a description of the item. One for why you pinned it. Just a thought.
I think you can write whatever YOU want in the description, it’s a resource for you–do whatever you want with it!
In one sentence: Girl you need a tv show, and if you don’t have one by summer, I think we need to petition for you to have one.
Oh I love Pinterest, but there is a small downside to so many hits on an old post can do!!! I like all the recent hits I have been getting, but wondering if blogging may become a little less relational in the process… I hope I am wrong because I love both blogging and pinning until my eyes get tired!!! haha!!! Here is to a great new year… thanks for this wonderful post!!!
What great information. I have to come back to go over it again…so much to learn…I also am going to be reading your “Growing Your Blog” post and the other gals posts throughout the week…thank you very much for sharing what you have learned and what you are learning…it’s nice to have a place to go to help figure these things out.
May you and your family Have a Wonderful and Very Blessed New Year!
hugs, mb
I LOVE Pinterest but just use it for things I find interesting or useful for myself. I can see where it would be a very valuable selling tool for people who have a product they would like to promote.
As far as the idea of you pulling a ‘bait and switch’ I’d say the people accusing you of such are the type whose lives consist of trying to find something to be nasty about. Forget them, they aren’t worth a minute’s thought!
Such an informative post. I love pinterest and will now use it a little differently, to help promote my blog! I was shocked to find so many pins of stuff that I’ve posted on my blog already. I had no idea people had pinned things from me. Kind of exciting! Is that pin it thing available only on wordpress or for blogger as well?
GREAT article. For someone like me with a little bitty blog, it is exciting to see who has pinned what. I guess being a blogger has helped me be extra conscientious about pinning things that link directly to the blog post itself. I sometimes go out of my way to hunt down the original source of a pin and pin it AGAIN (correctly.) lol
I look at it as promotion and word of mouth and it is fascinating to see how many times it spreads. You don’t have much control over it, but wow the traffic is fun to watch! I only just recently starting pinning my own stuff that had decent pictures and it was a thrill to look to the left and see that other photos from my site had already been pinned dozens of times. They like me! They really like me! I have begun looking to see how people describe pins from my blog to get an idea of SEO that works. :) Oh, the tricksy blogger. ;)
Oh wait. They don’t even know who I am and probably didn’t even visit my blog. *sigh.* Oh, the power of Pinterest. I still love it, though!
Truly, aren’t we big enough to look, like and then live? Shopping, creating, decorating and living within our means doesn’t eliminate dreaming, thinking and being inspired to do more than we thought we could! Pinterest is a great resource. Great info and you go, girl!
This was very helpful and informative. I’m sure I will continue to come back and refer to it. Thanks so much!
Thank you for a totally awesome article. I knew Pinterest could be much more…just wasn’t sure HOW. You’ve opened my eyes to a world of possibilities. Thank you so much for sharing, in detail, all your tips and findings. I appreciate that you took the effort to do so.
In case no one mentioned it, you can always use your house pictures for an insurance record. Hopefully you won’t ever need it, but it’s nice to know that you have a record of your belongings, just in case.
I just wish etsy would allow pinning to work better. Or maybe it’s pinterest’s fault…I don’t know. But the whole “also from _____” little thing on the side doesn’t work for anything pinned from etsy. It just gives you a generic etsy.com not from a certain shop. So, unless someone included your etsy name in their description its not searchable. bummer. but…..the google analytics lets me see pretty well that people are landing at my etsy site from the pinned suitcase dog bed…so thats cool. i just wish etsy worked better with pinterest, or vice verse
fascinating. You taught me more about pinterest than I thought existed, and I love the insight onto how to gracefully self-promote. So excited that pinterest has been so good for you!
Hi! I found this article through Pinterest…imagine that, lol! Thank you for this… such great information in this post. It makes me really think about the different way to use Pinterest. So glad I found you!
xoEsther
Thank You for sharing. I have also re-pinned through pinterest ;)
Hey nester girl!
I just posted a pinterest article and a reader in comments mentioned you did, too! I was on vacay while you published this, so I missed it. But I went back in the post and added a link back here. Your points are fantastic!
xo.
Great info. I was wondering if you know if blogspot supports pinning a post; most of the info you posted seems to relate to wordpress. thanks!
Gail, blogspot/blogger will support pinning a post. If you mean, will the image you pin link directly to your blogger post? It will, but you have to click on the that post and make sure the URL is in your toolbar. You can also click on the image in the post and then pin it. You can also go to the pin after you’ve pinned it, copy and paste the URL from your blog and add it to the comments. Hope this helps.
I’m finding this info. very intriguing, I came over from tt&j to view your full article. There is only one thing i’m not sure how to get into Pinterest…I have the app loaded on my ipad ready to go but they haven’t sent me an invite (which the homepage keeps asking for my email but then nothing is sent to me) I’m more than willing to get my handmades pinned and wish I could see what others are pinning too! It sounds awesome!! Any suggestions on why I can’t get in?
Hey Amber, it says its an Invite Only site not sure if that’s totally true or how that works but just in case I went ahead and invited you, so give it 24-48 hours and see if you hear from them. I know because of their rapid growth they’ve had to scramble to hire people and be able to handle the amazing traffic they receive, so it may take a little longer than normal to get in but, ultimately I think it’s open to anyone.
Really enjoyed this. Great information.
Great great info! Do you (or anyone else out there) know of a similar gadget for blogger?
You are THE NESTER for good reason, my friend.
Absolutely stellar post…. and generous heart.
Have I mentioned lately how much I appreciate you, girl?
Just — standing ovation.
WOW!! There I was innocently wondering how to attract sponsors and from Google I somehow found my way here and have been reading your words of wisdom for the past 45 minutes !!! Thank you for sharing and for explaining so clearly, I have learnt a lot!
I’m sure I’ll be back, Sharon
AMAZING post & guess how I found you…Pinterest!! Of course :)
Thank you thank you thank you for this post. I’m always looking for info on how other people make good use of social media, and this was incredibly helpful. Bookmarking it.
I actually have a follow-up question to my comment. I have yet to do my own graphics (big learning curve for that) and would like to. What software do you use for the creation and for the placement on the photo image? Thanks again.
Oh, and I did install the Pinterest Plugin for WordPress so that the Pin button would appear below my post and nothing happened..hmmm More work on that.
I am ashamed to admit I use keynote for my graphics. it’s a long story, it’s not really what it’s meant for but it works. Yes, the pinterest plugin is kind of finicky, you have to manually tell it to show up in each post. Scroll down in draft waaaaay down on the page and you’ll see where you can upload a photo and then write a description. and if you update your post again after that it won’t show. wish there was a better one.
Great post. Pinterest is an incredible tool for bloggers. It’s also been the #1 referrer to my site last year after a few of my photos went viral across Pinterest. So cool to watch! I’m also humbled by the kind comments I get on my ideas and photos that are pinned.
September was when I created the collaborative Blog Hops to Join board. I’d love to think that I was driving a little bit of traffic your way since the board has nearly 15,000 followers now, but you certainly are able to attract a crowd all by yourself! :) The collaborative boards I’ve been added to or have started really give me a much larger audience to “speak to” with my pins. That is definitely a VERY powerful tool to explore with Pinterest, I’ve discovered. I’m still learning about it, actually, since I’m not 100% sure how the collaborative boards are gaining me so many more followers. I literally jumped from around 200 followers to over 14,000 since September. Amazing! It’s been so fun to watch and grow and enjoy the Pinterest community. Zina Harrington at Lasso the Moon has really mastered the art of the collaborative pinterest board as well.
Thanks for this informative post! I’ve noticed you and other home bloggers have started creating more title pics for your blog entries. Very smart, and I will definitely be following suit. Thank for the inspiration on that one.