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
*More info at http://bit.ly/WWxnnY
