Setup Pinterest by filling your profile page and leverage Pinterest marketing to engage with other users. Get familiar with boards and pins and how to repin and comment. Add Pinterest to your website and create effective, engaging Pins and winning campaigns on Pinterest. Follow best practices and leverage Pinterest Marketing to promote Pins and engage with your audience. Go for a business account and use features like Rich Pins to set up boards and create Pins. Create an advertising campaign on Pinterest to target users based on interest, demographics, and keywords that they are searching for. An Ad Campaign in Pinterest gives rise to an audience that can be measured in Analytics. Pinterest Analytic tools can track your metrics and conversions to improve performance Promoted Pins on Pinterest foster brand recognition, website visits, and conversions. Create Pin-worthy content for your social media strategy.
Incorporate Pinterest into your social media marketing. Get your Pinterest content to drive traffic to your website and convert prospects into customers.
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Pinterest Account
Upgrade your personal account or signup with a business account on Pinterest and start for free. A business account displays your blog website name instead of first and last name. It also unlocks features such as Rich Pins, Promoted Pins, etc.
Optimizing your Pinterest Account
With a Business Account display your company name on your profile. Legitimize your Pinterest account and get a checkmark. Get analytics for your pins and boards.
Pinterest Friendly Websites
Make your website Pinterest friendly by adding images, infographics, etc to your content. Include the Pin, profile and board widgets. Add the ‘Save’ button fig2 to your images. Use this save button to Pin it to another board.
Boards and Pins in Pinterest Marketing.
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To create a ‘board’ or a ‘pin’ go to the menu as shown above fig3 and click on it. On the board, display page click on the +icon. For a board enter details such as the name of the board fig4 and visibility ie; whether the board is secret. Next click on the ‘Create’ button. Use the free GIMP software to add text to your Pinterest images.
For a Pin fig5 enter details such as title, Pin description, add destination link. To add an image for your Pin drag and drop the image in the box or include the image URL to save it from your website. The size of the Pin image [2:3 aspect ratio] should be 600*900 pixels. Next select the board where you want this Pin to reside and hit on the ‘Publish’ button
Infographic Pins
Add your logo with website URL and Pinterest statistics to your infographic. Use your websites’ brand colors and fonts. Pinning activities on mobile devices necessitates the readability of fonts on the small screen. The key to getting more traffic to your website comes from more rePins on Pinterest that would earn more followers. Grow your email list by creating a Pin link to your opt-in directly to your landing page.
Rich Pins
Rich Pins add details to Pins from your website. They show your logo, title of your blog post and description, information about your website, and CTA buttons. Different types of Rich Pins are article, recipe, place, product, movie, etc.
To set up Rich Pins for your website activate the Yoast SEO Plugin. Go to SEO> Dashboard> Features and enable the Advanced Settings. In the dropdown menu in the sidebar of Yoast SEO select ‘Social’. In the page displayed, go to Facebook and ensure that the ‘Add Open Graph metadata box’ is enabled. Read more about Yoast SEO settings by clicking on Yoast-SEO.
Now go to Rich Pin Validator fig6 and enter the URL for anyone of your blog posts. Next click validate. After validation, you will see a message fig 1.5 showing ‘Your pins have been validated!. Apply to enable your Rich Pins’. If you scroll down your domain name is displayed. Below this click on the ‘HTML Tags’ button from the option. Finally, click the ‘Apply’ tab and that is all.
Promoted Pins
Regular Pins, when promoted by paying to run Ads to target an audience that becomes visible in relevant search results, are known as Promoted Pins. Choose any Pin from your board, set campaign name and duration, and the monies you want to spend each day for promotion.
Pinterest Marketing: Advertising
Promote your website by running Ads on Pinterest and use Analytics to see where your traffic is coming and going to. Target your Ads on Pinterest by interest, keywords, and audience. Keyword targeting gets your Ads in front of visitors who search for ideas as is the case with Google Search. Broad Keywords do not limit the number of impressions you get as would be the case with exact match keywords. ‘Pinterest help’ allows you to source long tail keywords by typing the main keywords in the search bar. Then Pinterest will come out with ‘keywords’ that are relevant to your target audience
Pinterest Campaigns
Optimize Campaigns on Pinterest by considering key metrics. The Pinterest algorithm optimizes for CTR and not for Conversions. In your campaign, if the goal is to get conversions and CTR is high but is down in Pinterest then the final data shows a different picture. The different Ad types used on Pinterest is the promoted Pins which show up natively in the users feed. The one tab allows a user to land on your website where they can get more information about the product or make a purchase. Use a ‘Schedule Automation’ like Tailwind to create campaigns that send Pins out to group boards and drop Pins out at intervals
Pinterest takes into account the following four factors to determine whether your Ads will be shown-
Domain quality – Pinterest takes a peek at your website and sees how popular your pins are on the actual website.
Pin Quality – Pinterest looks at how popular your pins are on the actual platform.
Polity – Pinterest rates your website as a content creator and how active you are as a Pin or how your contact is being received.
Relevance – How closely your Pins fit your audiences overall interest and search history.
Viralwoot: Pin Scheduler
Use third-party Pinterest Marketing networks to run a Pinterest promotion such as viralwoot.com. It is a management, promotion, and analytics tool for Pinterest. Signup for a Viralwoot account. In the dashboard fig7 select Pin Scheduler from the menu bar option. I will drag an image in the box say by going to my blog post – Email Marketing and choose the infographic – ‘5 Steps to Email Marketing’.
Next, the infographic image will appear as shown in fig8. Fill in details below in respective boxes. Title> Email Marketing, Link> blog post URL link, Name of the Board> Email Marketing (which board this particular Pin should appear), Date & Time> select from the month, date, and time calendar dropdown. In the fig the Pin is scheduled for 18-05-2019 at 11:50 a.m. and hit the ‘Schedule Now!’ tab.
A ‘Success’ Message gets generated. In the fig9 click on Posts Scheduled to view details of the Pin Scheduled. You can also use the Chrome Extension for Viralwoot.
Pinterest Marketing: Analytics
The analytics tool in Pinterest fig10 can track your metrics and conversions and optimize future performance. Set a recurring monthly calendar and review all available Pinterest metrics. Adapt your Pinning strategy for more traffic, leads, and sales on your website.
Earning Followers
Post only original Content. Increase your Reach to gain followers. Pin articles and items related to your niche. One of your Pinterest Marketing Strategy should be to Pin content from other sites. Use keywords relevant to search terms in Pinterest descriptions. Get more followers on Pinterest by following other people.
Pinterest Marketing: Make money on Pinterest
Join Pinterest Groups and reach thousands of more Pinners than that you achieve when on your own boards. Make money on Pinterest by becoming a Pinterest Virtual Assistant or an Influencer. Drive traffic to your website by promoting affiliate links or selling online products.
