Pinterest: The New Cool Social Network [affiliatemarketingsblog.blogspot.com]

Pinterest: The New Cool Social Network [affiliatemarketingsblog.blogspot.com]

Tricia Meyer presented a webinar for Affiliate Summit titled "When Pinterest Met Affiliate Marketing." What is the webinar about: Short primer on what affiliates, merchants, and OPMs need to know about Pinterest and Affiliate Marketing including terms of use, self-promotion, Skimlinks, backlinks,and generating traffic. Want to see more Affiliate Summit webinars? www.affiliatesummit.com

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Though still invitation-only, Pinterest is the hottest new trend in social media, driving more referrals than any other social network and growing extremely quickly. What exactly is Pinterest? It’s a site that allows you to “pin” images from all over the Web onto “boards” for any category you want. Each pin links back to the site it came from. You can set up your own boards, follow other people’s, and like, re-pin, or comment on any image you find.

Even if your business doesn’t have a Pinterest account, the site could already be helping you. If you have images on your site, people might be pinning them. Remember, each image links back to the site it came from, and since it is a social network the images one person pins can be seen by others. The site is also viral by nature, with 80% of all pins being re-pins.

That translates to lots of extra exposure. So if people are pinning images from your website, that’s great news for you.

There’s a simple way to find out if people are pinning your images and if so, what images they are pinning. Go to http://pinterest.com/source/yourdomain.com (replace yourdomain with your site). You will be able to see all the images that have been pinned from your domain. Take a look through these images. You might gain insight into what people like most on your site. You can also see what boards these images have been pinned onto, which might help you understand how people perceive your site or your products.

So should you leave it at that? Just use images on your site and let other Pinterest users do the work for you? Maybe not.

If you get your own account you might be able to increase your exposure even more. Having an account on Pinterest is like having an account on Facebook. Sure, you can try some self-promotion, but ultimately it’s a social network and so you need to be posting things from other places and interacting with other users. There’s no point setting up a Pinterest account if all of your pins are going to be from your site. You should have different boards for different themes relevant to your business, and you should use those boards to showcase other cool things you have found. And you should be looking at other people’s pins and liking and commenting on them, maybe even re-pinning some.

It’s still all about joining the conversation and cultivating a network. If you pin an image you liked from another site and it gets lots of re-pins, that helps you even though the image did not originate on your site, because it gets people interacting with your profile. Once they’re on your profile they can see all the pictures that did originate on your site. Keep in mind Pinterest’s amazing numbers and the incredible levels of referral traffic the site is driving. With that kind of early success, Pinterest is something your business would do well to take note of.  For more details visit www.manonymous.com

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