By Lanell Beckles

* Instant Pinterest Referral Traffic With 4 Simple Steps

*Why Pinterest?

*More than 12 Million users

*28.% of Pinterest users make at least $100K

*Third most popular social network

*Retention rate is 2-3X higher than Twitter was during its same time frame.

*More referral traffic to blogs that Google+, LinkedIn, and YouTube combined.

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*How to Use Pinterest

*Use images to create your brand

*Find the best visually-stimulating information to build your brand

*Be picky!

*1. Use Images in Blog

*Include images in your blog post to categorize your pins and boards

*Find original visuals to brand your blog.

*Invest in either a photographer or graphic designer

*Fiverr.com

*Outsourcing

*Elance?

*2. Optimize Your Pins

*Use original visuals (I mentioned that, didn’t I?)

*Top quality image

*Caption

*Snappy description

*Hashtags to improve Pinterest SEO

*URL for referral traffic

*Price if selling product

*2. Optimize (con’t)

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*3. Call to Action

*Ask for likes

*Ask for repins

*Ask for comments.

*Tell them to get more information on your blog or website.

*Tell viewers what to do with pins.

*4. Categorize Boards

*Pinterest LOVES quirky.

*Create snappy, unusual boards.

*All boards do not have to be able your product

*Build you brand off of high-quality information

*Like a musuem…and you’re the curator

*Recommended

*Be picky and use the best 10 visuals for a board. Rotate them out if there is no activity.

*Go Pin Something

*Drive traffic to blog through visuals.

*Be visually oriented to draw people to read

*Use original images and photos to get more repins

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