{"id":195,"date":"2012-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/how-to-use-pinterest\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:22:11","slug":"how-to-use-pinterest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/how-to-use-pinterest\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Use Pinterest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Learn how to use Pinterest for your business and\u00a0pleasure.<\/h2>\n<p>Pinterest is fast becoming more and more popular. It\u2019s a great place to post pictures, recipes, your favorite quote and even pin your newest <a href=\"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/blogging\/\">blog post<\/a> to gain valuable back links and much more.<\/p>\n<p>I have been using pinterest for about a year and for the most part I used it as a place to post new pictures with quote on them and other pictures I take of my family activity. But what I did not notice until several months ago is that Pinterest is a great place to share you business and get more people visiting you newest blog post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pinterest is fast becoming the best thing since sliced bread.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learning <span><strong>how to use Pinterest<\/strong><\/span> is very important in your ability to get the most out of it. I recommend you find new people and brands to follow as you follow people many times they will follow you back and then it begins to spread. Link up your account to Facebook or Twitter, and Pinterest will also give you suggestions for who you should follow based on your other social-media activity. By labeling your boards you will make it easier for other people to scan your profile looking for content that appeal to then to re-pin. They\u2019re more likely to follow you if your board is labeled with a relevant label<\/p>\n<h2>How to use Pinterest to for your business.<\/h2>\n<p>Put a button on your blog to show visitors you\u2019re on Pinterest that also gives your readers a way to pin your blog post easily. See who\u2019s pinning you. Want to know who is pinning content from your site? This is a great trick go to, Pinterest.com\/source\/you.com. (Just stick your site name in there instead of \u201cyou.com,\u201d) You can use this to know what\u2019s popular on your Pinterest site. The people that are pinning your stuff are pinners you want to socialize with.<\/p>\n<h2>How to use Pinterest for SEO.<\/h2>\n<p>Use keywords in the names of your boards and the items you pin to make your content SEO-rich. This will allow you to gain more followers. Add a link to your website or business capture page to your pins. By pinning your latest blog post you can gain search results by using key words to describe your post in a SEO-rich way. Pinning your blog post also gives your great back links, especially if some likes your pin and re-pins it. For every re-pin that\u2019s a new back link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to use Pinterest<\/strong> and avoid spamming. As Pinterest continues to expand, so does the number of spammers. Make sure that when you link a photo the link is related to the picture. A good way to turn people off is to link to a completely unrelated website.<\/p>\n<h2>Strategy on how to use pinterest<\/h2>\n<p>Resist the urge to pin everything really strategize your pins. Pin your own products and links as a marketing tool \u2013 people will find you through Pinterest if you have great content. Pin other people\u2019s links relevant to your niche, and other items and nuggets you think your audience would find interesting. This method will show you useful to your followers.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the best pins are eye-catching and recognizable. The best pinners make the process fun by making it simple.<\/p>\n<h3>The more you learn how to use Pinterest the easier it will become and you\u2019ll learn how to best drive traffic for your business.<\/h3>\n<p>Chief Inspiration Officer<\/p>\n<p>Vincent St.Louis<\/p>\n<p>Fighting the forces of Mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p>Want to work directly with me?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I teach people to create multiple online incomes. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>`<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to use Pinterest for your business and\u00a0pleasure. Pinterest is fast becoming more and more popular. It\u2019s a great place to post pictures, recipes, your favorite quote and even pin your newest blog post to gain valuable back links and much more. I have been using pinterest for about a year and for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[309,310,311],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empower-network","tag-how-to-use-pinterest","tag-how-to-use-pinterest-for-business","tag-how-to-use-pinterest-for-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/kari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}