Pinterest Tips & Tricks

Pinterest is a visual discovery engine and a social network where people can find inspiration and ideas for their interests and hobbies. With billions of Pins on Pinterest, you’ll always find ideas to spark inspiration. When you discover Pins you love, save them to boards to keep your ideas organized and easy to find.

Here is a list of few helpful Pinterest tips and tricks which will make using Pinterest simpler, safer and a lot more fun.

Automatic Pin descriptions: The words the image has been labelled with or the words set up by the website owner while placing the ‘Pin It’ button, will appear as the description of the pin.

So, if you have a website or a blog, make sure you’re labelling your images with appropriate and relevant names as this will ensure that all pins from your website have good descriptions which can play a key role in getting more pins and repins.

What’s being Pinned: You can easily find out what’s being pinned from a website by using the URL http://www.pinterest.com/source/websitedomainname.com/. Just replace websitedomainname with the website domain and you will be able to see the latest pins being shared.

For e.g. the latest pins that are being pinned from Social Marketing Writing can be seen by using the link – http://www.pinterest.com/source/socialmarketingwriting.com/.

Find Friends: The quickest way to get followers on Pinterest is by finding and inviting people you know. Pinterest makes it easy to find friends through Facebook, Twitter, Google and Yahoo accounts. All you need to do is connect your Facebook, Twitter, Google and Yahoo accounts on your account settings page and you can start following people you know through those accounts.

As they already know you, they will be highly likely to follow you back, thereby helping you get followers quickly. You can also just type in email addresses and send invites to people and ask them to join you on Pinterest.

Search better: When you perform a search on Pinterest it displays pins that contain the words you typed in. These are pins from everyone.

You can change this to ‘Just My Pins’ to see pins that have only been pinned by you. You also have the option to search for boards or pinners by clicking on the Boards and Pinners options.

Send Pins: Pinning, Repinning and Liking aren’t the only way to share pins on Pinterest, there’s ‘Send’ too. By clicking on ‘Send’ you can send your pin to people on or off Pinterest. You can send pins to people you mutually follow (i.e. people who follow you back), Facebook friends and through email.

Edit notifications on Pinterest: You can also choose to receive only notifications from people you follow, instead of everyone.

Click on Edit on the notifications tab, choose your option and save your changes.

Get more privacy: On Pinterest, your profile is public, everyone can check out your boards and see what you pin. But you have a few options that can make it more private. You can prevent your profile from appearing in search results on search engines. You can also ask Pinterest to stop tracking your data to personalize your experience. Both these settings can be changed under the settings page for ‘Search Privacy’ and ‘Personalization’.

Popular on Pinterest:  Would you like to find out what’s trending on Pinterest? Would you like to find out great things to pin on Pinterest?

Then the ‘Popular’ section (Locate the search menu at the top of your screen. Next to it will be a red box with white lines. On clicking you will find ‘Popular’) is for you. This is the place where you can find pins that are being repined, liked and commented on repeatedly. Here you can find pins your followers will like. You can share it with them to increase engagement. This doesn’t just have to be on Pinterest. You can share it on other networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. – any network you like.

Everything, Categories and Videos: Under the ‘Everything’ section (Locate the search menu at the top of your screen. Next to it will be a red box with white lines. On clicking you will find ‘Everything’) on Pinterest you will find everything that is being shared on Pinterest.

This is another great place to look for interesting pins. If you would like to see content belonging to specific categories, visit the various categories to look for pins on topics that might interest you. Under the videos section you can see all the videos that are being pinned.