How to promote pins on Pinterest to drive traffic

Social media becomes the part of our life now. A person who has access to internet, is connected with at least 1 social media website in any ways. Some people use social media to find friends and date online while for some people social media is just a fun place to spend quality of time with friends and family where for businesses, social media can play most important role for their promotion because on social media websites, user submit most honest information about them. Which mean that you can use that data to target your business, products, services or just your website to gain traffic.

When we talk about social media websites, there are dozens of them. Some of them based on niches, features and options. For example you YouTube is designed for those whole love to create videos and want to show their work to the world, where Twitter is a great place to pass your opinion on social or political matter, just like that, Facebook is a place to submit general stuff which includes pictures, videos and notes etc. Other than all of these social media website, there is one which has been created only for the promotion of pictures where members can only submit photos. Yes, I am talking about Pinterest.com where you can find the biggest collection of photos which has been submitted by their members.

Pinterest is not just a place to submit photo which you like but a business or website owner can promote their product and website through Pinterest very easily. To do that, you need to create a pin on your pinterest account which means, you have to submit picture directly from your website. It can be done through two different ways:

1. Use Pinterest pin button on your website to submit photos on Pinterest
2. Use Pinterest.com to pin a photo manually through main website.

Registering an account on Pinterest, creating boards and submitting pictures on Pinterest, all of these are free of cost. But how to promote pins on Pinterest to drive traffic is the main issue. Until you don't have followers, your pin will be considered dead because no one is there to receive your pin on their news feed. Then how to promote pins? Following I am sharing some quick tips to promote pins on Pinterest to drive free traffic:

1 Create an attractive profile on Pinterest account, use display picture and proper description. If possible, add relevant tags, so the people of your interest can search you.

2 Add pinterest social button on your website to encourage them to pin or repin images from your website to their Pinterest board.

3 When you pin your images, use proper keywords, description and tags to get your pin listed in the search result. This will help your pin to get explore by other users of Pinterest through search result.

4 Use tags like follow4follow and pin4pin to get free pins for your images and followers to your Pinterest account.

5 Repins and favorite other people pins because it is in human nature that when someone help you to promote their stuff for free, you will help them back.

6 Comment on other people's pins so they got notification about your profile. 50% of them will surly visit to your profile and explore your pins.

If you are from USA, then you can also purchase pin promotion from Pinterest to promote your pin in your target member on the bases of members activities.

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How to share tweets from Twitter to Facebook automatically

Are you retyping your tweets into Facebook? Do you want all your Facebook friends will see your tweets? There is an easy way to get this job done. Here I am going to write a post about how to share your tweets from Twitter to Facebook automatically without using any external application. You have to link your Twitter and Facebook accounts so that all of your tweets show up on your Facebook timeline. Follow these below steps.

Steps to share tweets from Twitter to Facebook

1 Log in to your Twitter account which you want to connect to your Facebook account.

2 Click on the Profile and Setting option. Click Settings from the drop down menu to open your account settings page.

3 Choose Apps menu option from the left menu.

4 Scroll down to the bottom of the page until you see a button labeled Connect to Facebook. Click the button.

5 Enter your Facebook login information.

• If you are already signed in with Facebook, then you will see your Facebook name and profile image. Click Okay to proceed. 

• If you are not logged in to Facebook, you will need to enter your Facebook username and password. Once you click the Log In button, your profile picture will appear in the window. Click Okay to proceed. 

6 Click on the  Allow button which will hep you to post your tweets to your Facebook profile.

7 If you want your tweets to be appear on your Facebook page click the “Allow posting to one of your pages” link as seen on the below image. A window will appear asking you to allow Twitter to post to your page. Click the Allow button. And choose one of your Facebook pages.

You can now test it by creating a new tweet. If your connection was successful, you should see the tweet automatically appear on your Facebook timeline.

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