Pinterest Image Optimization

PIO pinterest image optimization Ways to Maximize your Pinterest Image Optimization file 500 name 1. Upload and pin 1. File names become your image title. Name your files accordingly. 3. Pin from a variety of different 4. After you upload 5. Pinterest an image, you should edit your pin to add a link descriptions can use up to 500 characters, but a long description your own images at least some of sources as the time. opposed to one specific site • Uploading is okay, but pinning gives you the best opportunity to go viral • By default Pinterest does not add any link to uploaded pins. Don't waste a great opportunity to drive traffic annoys many • "Feb2012 20120 204 005.jpg" is not going to rank as well as "chocolate-tort.jpg" • Re-pinning, liking, and commenting all play a strong role on where your image will appear Pinners who feel it messes up their Pinterest grid. • Settle for a short caption using major keywords, and add more info in the pin's comment section. Follow Pin It 7. Dont forget that Pinterest is social media, not an advertising platform 9. Add the "Follow" button and the "Pin It" button to your websites 6. Research 8. Create a variety 10. Be yourself -- Pinterest to see express your of different personality and brand what catches boards and make your eye and compels you to engage with an image sure the names of the boards are • Key to social media is to • Highlight and capture your unique voice keyword-rich • Comment, like, and re-pin other people's images empower people to share your content • A bogrd titled • More engagement equals more followers. More followers equals "Places I Love" is not as effective as "Florida Beaches" more power. Bonus tips: What matters for images to be pinned: 600 to 800 300 5,000 • Videos can be pinned to Pinterest from YouTube and • Pinterest doesn't limit the vertical size of images • A typical • Rule of thumb: limit the length of your image to 5,000 pixels • Of course, Pinterest is visual, so make sure your images are beautiful e-commerce image is 300 pixels wide, but you can pin as small as 85 x 85 pixels Vimeo and watched on the The maximum horizontal width of pictures is 554 pixels and anything wider will be resized site If someone has to scroll down to see the whole image, they are unlikely to scroll back up to repin or like it Pinterest on: Following/Followers Link Building FOLLOW ME • Comments are a great way to connect with • Following a profile • Most links on Pinterest are nofollows but they are a strong social factor in search engine algorithms • More repins means more links to your site, which brings you more traffic since a repin keeps the original source link • You can also choose to follow individual boards means you are following all of their boards people Search Engine Optimization Board Optimization Good news: unlike Facebook, Pinterest allows search engines to crawl their site and many boards are showing up in Google search results • Whatever you title your board will be used as part of your Pinterest URL and so use keywords in both your title and your description FOLLOW ME Pinterest Referral Traffic vs. other Social Media Sites • Pinterest grew from 2.5% of referral traffic in December to 3.6% of the referrals in January. That's impressive growth from just owning.17% of the traffic back in July. 2.5% 3.6% 17% • Google continues to integrate Google+ into its offerings • Referral traffic from Google+ dropped slightly in January, although Google's product set (Google news, Google images, Gmail) continues to be a top referral source. more and more. 0.07% • Looks like most people don't talk or think about YouTube You Tube • Although Pinterest did beat out YouTube in referral traffic. YouTube's referrals grew by .07% in January. 5.07% nearly as much as the top-of-mind Pinterest and Google+, but YouTube continues its stronghold owning 5.07% of referrals in January. SU • Reddit also ranked as a top source of referral traffic, with both Stumbleupon and Reddit significantly beating out Delicious and Digg. stumble reddit odn Brought to you by: Pinnablebrusinesscom Sources: http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2157867/tips-pinterest-search-engine-optimization http://sherpablog.marketingsherpa.com/social-networking- evangelism-community/social-marketing-with-pinterest/comment-page-1/comment-84771 http://colbyalmond.com/what-women-want/ https://seogadget.co.uk/what-is pinterest-why-you-should-optimize-forit/ http://onlineincomestar.com/pinterest-traffic-generation-seo/ http://www.bloggingbasics 101.com/2010/02/nofollow-vs-dofollow/ http://www.seomoz.org/blog/5-reasons-you-should-link-out-to-others-from-your-website http://deankendall.co/pinterest-driving-more-traffic-than-googleplus-youtube-andlinkedin-combined/ Designed by: AVALAUNCH MEDIA www.avalaunchmedia.com 2013