In 2014, according to shareaholic's Q3 traffic reports, it is said that Pinterest drives more than 3 times the traffics of google plus,YouTube,LinkedIn,Stumbleupon,Red dit,and Twitter combined. I know you will be asking yourself, how can i achieve so much using Pinterest ?
Well, i am going to walk you through 3 Effective Methods That can help you do that. But before then i need you to know that just pining your contents will not help, also have it in mind that the most important thing in Pinterest are the Images, so it is very crucial that you put much efforts in creating awesome and mind catching images. Once you've done that,you can then proceed to generating traffics, using Pinterest. Now lets get to the methods.
1. Add A pin button to your Website
In my previous article on 3 Steps that will get you the most on Pinterest, i talked about this very method. In order for you to drive traffics to your websites/blog, using Pinterest you need to add a pin button to your website this pin button should appear on every content that has image. Adding pin button to your website is as easy as adding other social media buttons and the benefit of this is to enable visitors to your website to share contents that are interesting to them and as they do that,their friends and followers will see it and also share it likewise. Through this way,your contents will gain credibility and popularity thereby generating traffics to your website.
2. Make Your Board Easy To Find.
The second method of driving traffic to your website/blog is by making your board easy to find. Just creating a board on Pinterest is not enough, you have to make it easy to find if you really want to generate traffic and one simple way to do this is by naming your board the same name with your blog/website. Secondly,add descriptions,links,taglines that give detailed explanation on what your blog/website and board is all about, to people.
This will make it easy to find your board on Pinterest and google search engine or other search engines, do make make sure that you do not stuff your descriptions with key words so as to rank higher on search engines. Remember that if you rank in search engines and turn your potential visitors off is useless.
3. Improve Engagement.
Driving traffic to your website/blog requires your engagement with people, so it is advisable that you share images that will not only compel but also invoke curiosity and interest in the mind of your viewers so that they may want to know more about your website or blog and click on it thereby redirecting them to your website/blog.
In addition to that,you must also do research on your followers, get to know what interest them,and the kinda images thet appeal to them and that they share on social medias.
Part of the recent developments on Pinterest is the RICH PIN feature you can make use of rich pin to add descriptions and specific informations about your website/blog to your images giving them prior information about the content they are linking to.
Pinterest is a smart site for smart people you can use Pinterest as a great source of refferal traffic but that is only possible if you implement the method described in this article. Lastly, always remember to upload images that are highly specific and important to your niche this will help to rank your posts on search engines and attract more viewers.
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