I've been a happy recipient of their growth as my readers pin thousands of images to their boards each month netting millions of impressions on Pinterest each month, in addition to a solid amount of referral traffic coming my way.
Strangely, my site was recently blocked and have been frustrated that I have yet to receive a non-automated response.
While I guess I can't really complain as it was free traffic, they have basically vacuumed up a significant amount of my content, and are now noting my site as spam.
If you could write down two sentences about your "Pinterest marketing strategy", what would it read like? How do you leverage it in a clever way to generate inbound traffic?
I'm interested because I have never ever used pinterest other than the occasional google search result that sent me to the website, I really dont seem to grasp how people get so "sucked" into this tunnel of post-it-notes-of-stuff-you-like?
My site publishes office design projects and professional designers who work in that industry pin the images as ideas or inspiration for projects they are working on.
So there isn't really a strategy other than publishing content / projects we think our readers will be inspired by and be interested in.
If you land on Pinterest by chance, it is even more obnoxious than Facebook, which is saying something.
I avoid it like the plague when looking up stuff, but it is so annoying I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Chrome/Firefox plugin to directly prune it from Google search results.
It would be interesting to see how much of that growth is attributed to dark patterns and malpractices. Like making the first 20 or so results of most Google Image searches utterly useless.
Strikes me that they haven't been blacklisted from Google yet for that.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 30.6 ms ] threadStrangely, my site was recently blocked and have been frustrated that I have yet to receive a non-automated response.
While I guess I can't really complain as it was free traffic, they have basically vacuumed up a significant amount of my content, and are now noting my site as spam.
Frustrating to say the least.
So there isn't really a strategy other than publishing content / projects we think our readers will be inspired by and be interested in.
So ... good luck with that.
I avoid it like the plague when looking up stuff, but it is so annoying I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Chrome/Firefox plugin to directly prune it from Google search results.
Strikes me that they haven't been blacklisted from Google yet for that.