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3 Reasons To Add Pinterest To Your Social Media Strategy

June 7, 2017 By Mariah 3 Comments

Want more website traffic? Pinterest could be your answer. Here are 3 reasons to add Pinterest to your marketing strategy.

If you’ve been struggling with getting traffic to your website, Pinterest just may be the solution you seek. Pinterest has over 150 million active users and accounts for 5% of all website referral traffic, second only to Facebook out of social media network traffic referral. It’s the #1 driver of traffic to my website and accounts for 70% of my social media referral traffic.

Pinterest could be your business’s missing marketing piece

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If those numbers don’t convince you, maybe these 3 other benefits will:

It’s more search engine than social network

Pinterest is used unlike any other social media network. It’s much more data/content driven then brand/social/popular/entrainment driven. People go to Pinterest to do research, get inspiration, and collect information.

Engagement in terms of commenting and liking is not a huge part of the network. You can basically pin a pin and forget it! When posting on other networks you should really revisit those posts and comment back. In Pinterest you don’t have to schedule in additional time for follow-up, so posting is your main time investment once you get your profile and boards set-up.

*Pinterest does have a comment component, but I’ve rarely gotten many genuine comments via that method.

Your pins keep working long after you post

Seriously, this is the best reason! A pin you pin today can keep working for years for you. Nope years is not a typo.

I’m going to let you in on a little secret, I have a hobby blog that hasn’t been updated in two years that still gets 100s of views a day, and the main driver of that is Pinterest.

According to this infographic, the average life of a tweet is 15 minutes, a Facebook post 5 hours, and Instagram 24 hours…Pinterest’s average life of a post is 4 months. Researching a bit further seemed to back up these numbers, with some debate on Pinterest. This article pulls an example of a pin a year later getting 1000s of repins.

Pinterest can easily give you the biggest bang for your time investment.

Your reach goes beyond your followers

You can have a pin go viral and it has nothing to do with the number of your profile followers at all. Your reach on Pinterest is not determined heavily upon what your profile follower number is. And since pins have such long lives, a viral pin or popular pin can bring you consistent traffic for months and months (maybe even years).

You don’t even have to have a profile for you site to get traffic from Pinterest, just pinnable images. So think about how much better your reach could be if you make sure to circulate your own content.

With pay to play pressure taking over Facebook, and Facebook owning Instagram Pinterest can be a good alternative especially for a beginning business to reach a wider audience without having to have a large advertising budget.

Want to get started using Pinterest to be your #1 traffic driver? Then join me for Pinterest Bootcamp! Let Pinterest drive traffic & customers to you with minimal time investment. Because it’s all about hustling easier.

In Pinterest Bootcamp I will provide you with 6 quick modules to get your Pinterest account optimized and you will also have access to a Slack channel to keep you accountable, get feedback, and ask questions. Have an account but you’re not sure it’s working for you? Get a Pinterest Audit (click here)!

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