Encouraging your website visitors to share content on Pinterest on your WordPress blog can be a fantastic source of traffic.
Are you driving traffic from Pinterest to your site? Â Are you encouraging blog visitors to pin images to their boards?
In this article we take a look at how to make your WordPress blog pinterest friendly and generate more traffic to your site. Â This is blog post 2 of 3 in relation (see 1 of 3 here) Â to images on your blog. Â Tune in next Monday for the next installment.
1. Â Add a Pin it button to images
Even if you don’t have an active presence on Pinterest some of your visitors may be very active on it. Â So there’s no harm providing a ‘Pin it’ button on images.
If you use wordpress a good plugin to use is ‘jQuery Pin It Button for Images’. Â It may not be the most user friendly name for a plugin but it is easy to set up when you install it!
When somebody hovers over an image on your site they’ll see a Pin it button.
When you select the ‘Pin it’ button the following screen appears. Â You select the board you want to pin the image onto and the description. Â The description is automatically taken from the title of the post.
This ‘Pin it’ button will encourage more sharing of your images on to Pinterest.
2. Â Include Text on your image that describes your post
This is something we currently don’t do enough of! Â The image you have on your blog may not describe what the blog post is about. Â On a visual platform such as Pinterest it’s better if the image describes the context of the image.
Kim Garst does a great job of this on her site. Â Every image for her blog posts contains the text that describes the post. Â Here is an example.
One of the best tools for adding text to images is Picmonkey. Â Read our article here on modifying images.
3. Â Add a Pinterest follow button to your blog
If you want to build up your followers on Pinterest you could add a Pinterest follow button. Â Here’s how you create the follow button:
1. Go to the Pinterest widget builder
2. Enter in your Pinterest address, give the widget a name and click ‘Build it’. Â Pinterest will give you a piece of code to add to your website and when people click on it they’ll follow you on Pinterest.
4. Â Embed Pinterest Boards using Tint
Tint is a tool which takes your social media content, aggregates it and allows you to display it on your website. Â For example, you could display your tweets, Facebook updates etc. Â You could also use it to embed your Pinterest boards within your website.
Within Tint select the option to add Pinterest:
Now configure the widget. Â To ensure that the widget is responsive (it will automatically adjust in size on a mobile device) you must set the width to 100%.
Take a copy of the code and include it on a web page. Â The web page will now automatically display all your latest pins to our boards on Pinterest.
Final Comments
The visual web is really important and Pinterest is growing rapidly. Â Maybe it’s time to consider making your WordPress blog more Pinterest friendly!
Will you use any of the tools above? Â What are your tips for promoting your content on Pinterest?
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