Pinterest, Who Cares?

12 years ago

Same here...IMO it is a big waste of time. No true proof that it helps with SEO ranks (even tho you get do-follow links) and further more I have never seen really anyone boldly proving a positive ROI from their time invested into Pinterest.

Lotta boring hype if you ask me!

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Does anyone really make anything with this weirdo site? I made one half assed attempt when I first heard about it, but I haven't heard of anyone doing much with it. I mean if you're not spamming the crap out of it is it worth it?

Just curious as I've had zero success with it. Maybe I'm not doing it right.

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ryanman

12 years ago

There is a common trend with new websites nowadays...First people go all crazy about how great it is, then discuss about how to scale it up, then come on forums and cry about how they got banned and eventually realize that it wasn't really as big as they assumed it to be.

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Resale Rights Ninja

12 years ago

Heard of it but know nothing about it. What the deal with it?

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sovereignn

12 years ago

This guy is making $1,000 a day

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Legit SEO 12 years ago

Originally Posted by sovereignn

This guy is making $1,000 a day

Daily Dot | A Pinterest spammer tells all

Only way to make money is the blackhat way

Don't believe everything you read
That was possible 2 months ago but not now.
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Agoge Warrior 12 years ago

Originally Posted by sovereignn

This guy is making $1,000 a day

Daily Dot | A Pinterest spammer tells all

Only way to make money is the blackhat way

And this guy, the spammer, better have eyes in the back of his head. I read an article in the WSJ the other day about Pinterest and spammers trying to make $ from the site.
Pinterest is very aware of this and are applying resources to put a stop to it. It might work in the beginning but you are liable to get caught at some point and your account banned from the site.
Since Pinterest is an invitation only site, they want to protect the integrity and user experience. I would too if I were them.
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12 years ago

I imagine the owners of Pinterest don't think it is a waste of time when they are checking their bank balances.

In seriousness, I think it's a site more suitable for promotion of physical products. The site itself is a marketing gold mine waiting to be tapped for the simple fact that people shop with their eyes.

For example, if you were to take 100 people and have each one choose between 3 banners displaying meals of the same genre. 1 and 3 were gourmet meals, written with amazingly descriptive and complimentary text but no images. 2 was a slightly lower quality meal with no description, only a very well taken picture that showcases the meal. In my experience, 2 will win out in almost every instance.

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Legit SEO

12 years ago

Waste of time, they are very proactive about preventing spam and now that you can only have 1 pin show up on the main categories per day it's pretty pointless for marketing.

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Always-A-Warrior

12 years ago

Well obviously millions of people disagree with this thread and here's the stats to prove it.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5976733

Drop by and learn the positive way to use Pinterest.

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Doctor Derp

12 years ago

Originally Posted by PPC-Coach

Maybe I'm not doing it right.

Yep, you're not doing it right.

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SocialMediaOwls

12 years ago

I set up a pinterest page over a month ago....I now have nearly 2000 followers, have sold a few dozen fiverrs and mycheapjob gigs to pin things for people.

I get 100 hits per day on average to my sites. I make sales.

I have seen pinterest pages rank up in the SERPS...a few of mine should be landing there anytime.

The beautiful thing about pinterest is this....

You pin things (of your products) and when other people repin them....their friends then repin it and it just gets floated around.

The really wonderful thing about pinterest is it is filled with people that don't know what they are doing...

So I will take things that are popular, pin them into my account, then CHANGE the board and pin to optimize it (with my own URL and also correct keyword phrases) and then I send that back out to my 2k followers....

Now my info is pinned into popular pins.

As I stated earlier in the post, this method is bringing in 100 hits per day after only 1 month

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John Romaine

12 years ago

Originally Posted by SocialMediaOwls

I set up a pinterest page over a month ago....I now have nearly 2000 followers, have sold a few dozen fiverrs and mycheapjob gigs to pin things for people.

What does that equate to in terms of earnings?

Originally Posted by SocialMediaOwls

I get 100 hits per day on average to my sites. I make sales.

100s of unique visits or "hits". Big difference. And is this referring traffic, just from pinterest alone?

Originally Posted by SocialMediaOwls

I have seen pinterest pages rank up in the SERPS...a few of mine should be landing there anytime.

How are you accurately measuring this? Do you know with 100% certainty that this is the reason your rankings are improving?

And through what means? By posting a pin this button on your site or from linking back from your pinterest account?

Originally Posted by SocialMediaOwls

You pin things (of your products) and when other people repin them....their friends then repin it and it just gets floated around.

What are you actually "pinning" though? I thought pinterest was just for sharing photos, not content? Are you just uploading images of your infoproducts?????

Originally Posted by SocialMediaOwls

The really wonderful thing about pinterest is it is filled with people that don't know what they are doing...

So I will take things that are popular, pin them into my account, then CHANGE the board and pin to optimize it (with my own URL and also correct keyword phrases) and then I send that back out to my 2k followers....

Now my info is pinned into popular pins.

Sounds like a bit of a one trick pony to me. Whats the long term viability of this?

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SocialMediaOwls

12 years ago

Personally, I am making $5,000 from my products that I advertise through pinterest. I expect this to rise monthly

All hits are unique hits.

Obviously I wasn't clear when I posted...

Basically there are 18 million people that are "posting" pictures. The easiest way to "get in" on the pinterest traffic is to REPIN the most popular pictures and then change the url of the pin to your product.

After you do this you meander around pinterest, like some pics, comment on some pics, pick up some followers, they look over your boards, they REPIN things and it gets sent out into what I call the "pool" again.

When your pins are out for others to see, people repin them and it starts to get passed around. I don't know how to better explain it.

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Tjalling 12 years ago

Repinning popular pictures and then changing the url is a way i haven't thought of yet. Thanks for the info.
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seobro

12 years ago

Pinterest traffic has poor conversion. This is typical of social media, but pinterest is worse. It reminds me of digg effect traffic back in the day - if you know what we mean. About a boost to PR juice we are not so sure. Time will tell as they say...

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Tadresources

12 years ago

I'm not a huge fan of the site beyond personal use. I don't see the merit or possibilities that other people are raving about.

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Doctor Derp

12 years ago

Frankly, I'm sick & tired of seeing every useful web property be RAPED by spammers, network marketers & internet marketers. Just go away and don't bother the Pinterest development team.

All the time they have to spend combatting spammers & marketers is time they are wasting - it takes them away from interacting with their users and providing a better service.

If you really want to make money 'on' Pinterest, figure out how to help people who are using it... and quit trying to game every new & cool web app that comes along.

And here's a quick test to see if you're a spammer:

Answer yes or no: "Are you the source of unsolicited & unwanted messages & information on Pinterest?"

If yes, you are spammer, and you should go cry in a corner, because YOU LOSE, Good Day Sir:

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Banned 12 years ago

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Rashell

12 years ago

Originally Posted by SocialMediaOwls

Personally, I am making $5,000 from my products that I advertise through pinterest. I expect this to rise monthly

All hits are unique hits.

Obviously I wasn't clear when I posted...

Basically there are 18 million people that are "posting" pictures. The easiest way to "get in" on the pinterest traffic is to REPIN the most popular pictures and then change the url of the pin to your product.

After you do this you meander around pinterest, like some pics, comment on some pics, pick up some followers, they look over your boards, they REPIN things and it gets sent out into what I call the "pool" again.

When your pins are out for others to see, people repin them and it starts to get passed around. I don't know how to better explain it.

Well shoot, you could have just called it Theft and left it at that.

Originally Posted by Tjalling

Repinning popular pictures and then changing the url is a way i haven't thought of yet. Thanks for the info.

You may want to read the Pinterest TOS and check with a lawyer before running with that strategy.

First, not all of Pinterest images are there with permission from the copyright holder. Re-pinning and then redirecting the URL of an image may put you in the cross-hairs of a lawsuit.

Second, the Pinterest TOS requires that you abide by the TOS, Acceptable Use Policy and Pin Etiquette. Pin Etiquette suggests you link to the original source. Re-pinning to an unexpected source may cause a few user complaints of your account.

Third, some of those "popular images" are there because they've been professionally marketed. For instance, you can hire the firm 97thFloor to do a viral Pinterest campaign. I'm sure if someone were willing to pay to get a picture to go viral they won't take too lightly to having you steal the traffic they've in essence "paid for".

It's safer (and frankly more ethical) to "riff the pin" then repin with the riff link in the comments than to redirect the link altogether.

Rashell

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Skaught27

12 years ago

Pinterest definitely requires some creativity from what I've seen. I've been having my VA build up followers on my account, but I haven't come up with a way to market successfully on it yet.

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JasonParker

12 years ago

Honestly, I think the hype over Pinterest is as usual...

Because product creators are always looking for the hot new thing to research and create a product about.

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PPC-Coach

12 years ago

Another question, how are the owners making money? Is it through emailing their members? I don't see any ads on there. The place looks like a site that just recycled all the odd pics you used to email your friends 5 years ago, pictures of shoes and recipes.

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werpetalpushers

12 years ago

I have a handcrafted product geared towards women, and Pinterest has proven to be a wonderful marketing tool for my business!

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PPC-Coach

12 years ago

That makes sense. If your product matches that demographic then posting pics of it should work.

But how does pinterest make money?

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Rashell 12 years ago

Originally Posted by PPC-Coach

That makes sense. If your product matches that demographic then posting pics of it should work.

But how does pinterest make money?

I'm not exactly sure but I think they're relying on investors at this point.

A few weeks back they were adding affiliate links to products which had been pinned without any affiliate links attached. But with all the bad press they stopped.

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mosthost

12 years ago

The only money to be made is people selling 'how to make money on Pinterest' products. Obviously Pinterest is a 'picture board' and won't send highly-qualified traffic to most websites.

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Banned 12 years ago

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rrm 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Fonte

everybody is talking about pinterest

Except for all the people who aren't, which I guess I just did.

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imgeek2727

12 years ago

I actually get a lot of quality referral traffic from Pinterest on a regular basis, more so than facebook, twitter, digg or any other social network. Pinterest can be a great tool if used right and yes it does take a little TLC to make it work for you but when it does work and you get some followers sharing your content all over Pinterest it makes it worthwhile.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

I deleted my account. I thought it was fun and interesting and it drove some traffic to one of my sites, but I don't have enough photos that I could use without copyright infringement to make it worthwhile.

Sooner or later this copyright issue with Pinterest is going to bite some people hard.

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Paul Gram

12 years ago

I love Pinterest but then again, I'm definitely NOT a spammer.

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oniram

12 years ago

I loaded Pinterest on my blogs and was surprise at the number of visitor that clicked on it. No sure how you can make money with it. Any tips?

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Aswad 12 years ago

Originally Posted by oniram

I loaded Pinterest on my blogs and was surprise at the number of visitor that clicked on it. No sure how you can make money with it. Any tips?

There should be free tips in warrior forum.. but the best way to get more idea on how to success with pinterest in to invest on some pinterest WSO
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alfid

12 years ago

I don't spam the crap out of Pinterest or use any bots. Everything I do is manual. I make money two ways: sending people to blogs with adsense and I do make a little bit from affiliate programs, but most of my money is from the adsense. I think it's worth it because I make $!

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AnilK

12 years ago

I think it will depend heavily on what niche you are in and what products you promote, like with most traffic sources. There will be people that can make a traffic source work and those that can't. If there are spammers that can make pinterest work, there must be non-spammers that can make it work also.

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Dazzling Content

12 years ago

This "weirdo" site will soon become a goldmine for many Internet marketers. It's relatively new compared to Facebook and Twitter so most IMers don't know how to make money from it - yet. That may change in the future, though. Pinterest has lots of potential and as long as it doesn't go the Myspace way, it will soon be a massive Internet marketing tool alongside Facebook and Twitter.

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Wilco de Kreij

12 years ago

In my experience it doesn't convert as well as Facebook or Twitter, but when you manage to get loads of traffic from it (which is totally possible), that will make up for the conversion rate. As long as it's still quite new, it will be relatively easy to get a load of traffic from it. It just needs a bit of thinking to make it converting (target your offer to the audience).

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SocialMediaOwls

12 years ago

It is now my main traffic source.

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