What is Pinterest and Where Did it Come From (15 Interesting
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Pinterest is a pin board style website. It’s one of the top sources for traffic online today used to promote a business, blog, or website. It’s also been one of the best sites used for brand building.
In a Case Study on Pinterest it was found that Pinterest drives more traffic than Google +, LinkedIn, and YouTube combined.
Users can create their own boards of selected photos and then browse for other photos to “re-pin” and like. It’s basically a visual/picture based micro blogging community that drives massive traffic.
Pinterest was put into development in 2009 and launched in 2010. It was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp. It is funded by a group of entrepreneur/investors, and is managed by Cold Brew Labs.
Pinterest has quickly become one of the leading social networks for driving traffic and getting referals.
In August 2011, Time magazine listed Pinterest in its “50 Best Websites of 2011” article.
In December of 2011 it became one of the top 10 social networks with more than 11 million visitors per week according Hitwise Data
Pinterest Hit 10 Million U.S. Monthly Uniques Faster Than Any Standalone Site Ever -comScore –Tech Crunch Article
Pinterest Fast Became Most Used Sites On the Internet –
Heres’s some interesting stats about the Social powerhouse Pinterest that may give you an idea of why you should be using it to drive traffic.
Pinterest Launched in March of 2010
There were seventy million users as of July 2013
About 80% of all users on Pinterest are woman
20% of these woman are from the United States
5% are Men from the United States
60% of all users on Pinterest are from the United States
There are 2.5 billion page views per month as of May 2013
About 5 million pins are added a day
Nealry 80% are re-pins
The average person spends 14 minutes per visit
Each month they spend about 98 minutes total
9 million users have linked their site to Facebook
There are more than 25 million unique visitors from the United States each month as of September 2013
As you can see by these 15 stats about Pinterest there is a lot of money to be made on Pinterest, and there is a ton of traffic to be directed.
I personally use Pinterest to drive traffic to my blog, and it has been one of the best sources I use not to mention one of the most entertaining and addictive. I suggest everyone learn the ropes about Pinterest if you work online or plan to. and and it as one of your key sites used for driving traffic and building an online presence.
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