Pinterest | If You’re Pinning You’re Winning
Pinterest has become quite the obsession of mine. Hands up if you are with me on this! If you have no idea what I am talking about – where have you been ? Pinterest is basically an online collection of moodboards, all created by you. You can “pin” your inspiration from anywhere on the world wide web and “repin” from other “Pinners” boards. You can follow these Pinners, and your friends too!
There is SO much more to Pinterest and I am only just getting to grips with it, but trust me, when you dip your toes in, you will soon want to dive in head first. With thousands and thousands of photographs to flick through, you can end up spending hours on there…
I blame Gemma for this. Gemma is a wonderful beauty blogger, of Miss Makeup Magpie. Earlier last year, Gemma and I got chatting and at some point the topic of Pinterest fell upon us. Gemma told me how I could use Pinterest to drive traffic to my blog, and explained a few interesting pointers to help me get started. Recently, this girl hit a massive 150,000 followers, so she truly knows what she is talking about. This really inspired me to take Pinterest, as a social networking platform, a little more seriously, and it is not a chore at all, as who doesn’t love looking at pretty photos?
Fellow bloggers, you can pin your own photographs to Pinterest, directly from your website, and if this gets repinned, then you are driving traffic back to your blog.
I noticed a lot of traffic was coming from Pinterest, but I had no idea why as I hadn’t even signed up at this point. One graphic I created haphazardly, on a really old post, still to this day sends me my most traffic. It has been repinned by this person nearly 8,000 times.
Boring statistic and traffic talk aside, I thoroughly enjoy scrolling through my Pinterest feed, and try to spend 30 minutes to an hour each day pinning images I like. I am going to share each fortnight my latest pins so you can see what I have been up to over there. If you have an obsession with dreamy interiors, particularly bathrooms, as well as a burning urge to travel, oh and an addiction to hair…cupcakes… cats… yeah you get the point, head on over and check out my page. Click here to visit my boards or search for Zoe Newlove.
28 Comments
Sophie Blumenthal
Omg you made that, I had no idea, I’ve deffo repinned it!
Sophie x
Zoe Newlove
Ahh wicked!! Yup it was me 😀 x
Rubi Ani
I think I’ve seen that graphic about!
I don’t use Pinterest that often, I need to get with it.
Rubi | The Den | http://www.the-den.blogspot.com
Zoe Newlove
Once you get with it, you will never get off it haha! x
Gemma (Miss Makeup Magpie)
Ah you absolute babe, thank you so much for mentioning me! It’s such an amazing platform, and has increased my blog traffic dramatically! Your 8k pin is incredible – I’ve seen it everywhere 😀 xxx
Zoe Newlove
Of course I was going to mention you, it’s down to you I got to grips with Pinterest in the first place!!! You, however, take Pinning to a whole new level hahaa!! x x x
Grace Driver
I really need to get into using Pinterest more regularly as I don’t tend to use it much at all. Can’t believe how many time your post has been repinned! That’s amazing! xx
Grace | Glitter and Carousels
Zoe Newlove
Yeah I still can’t believe how many times either!! So weird!! x x
Sarah @ Fortytherapy
Hands up, I am a total Pinterest addict!! 😉
Zoe Newlove
Woooo HIGH FIVE! x
The Beauty Load
I am obsessed with pinterest and I may spend a lot of time there.
Zeynab xx
Zoe Newlove
Wooo!! Pinterest is awesome xx
Beautyqueenuk
I’m obsessed with it at the minute, I lose hours pinning x
Zoe Newlove
It is way too addictive!!! xx
Annabel
Ohh I am obsessed with Pinterest, and have no shame. I used to prior to blogging so it being a good traffic source is SO handy! Its my excuse for spending so much time on the app!
Annabel ♥
Mascara & Maltesers
Zoe Newlove
Oooo I have just found you and followed you 😀 Expect notifications of me repinning everything haha!! x x x
Emma Murray
I love Pinterest! Use it to find inspiration for studio assignments at uni, also is a fabulous way to do a solid session of procrastination! 🙂 Em xx
http://edoublemamurray.blogspot.com.au/
Zoe Newlove
Procrastination is a bugger! x x x
Beauty Bird
I love Pinterest and it’s my third highest source of traffic to my blog! xx
Ramblings of a Beauty Bird | Beauty Blog
Zoe Newlove
Yeah it is sooo, soo good for sending traffic. Pinterest and Bloglovin are my lead dudes x x x
Tania
Great post, I could forever scroll through Pinterest and all the gorgeous photos on there, although I still really need to get to grips with understanding it a bit more haha x
Zoe Newlove
Yeah I need to put more time into it to up my following, but doing a little bit each day has helped. x x x
emily@whyhellobeauty
I am addicted to Pinterest, I can waste hourssss on it!
I also found that a particular post of mine on my personal laser tattoo removal story still recieves traffic from Pinterest, months after the post was published – proof is in the pudding hey!
X
Zoe Newlove
Ooooo that is interesting!! Yeah proof it works!! x x x
Cristina
That happened to me. I wasn’t a huge fan of Pinterest but recently I’m obssessed… OOOOPS. I’m gonna look for your pins now! Good point on the traffic data, that’s so good to know! xx
Crissy | My Cup Of Tea
Zoe Newlove
Oooo yayy 🙂 I had no idea about the traffic thaang if it wasn’t for Gemma 🙂 x x
Fee
Love pinterest! Now followed you 🙂
The Little Blog of Beauty
I’m the same as you, after hearing Gemma talk about her success on Pinterest I decided to really make a go of mine (I barely touched it before) so gave it a revamp at the end of November and have pinned every day since. So far I’ve gone from around 76 followers to currently 356 and now I’m completely addicted! x
Becky @ The Little Blog of Beauty