Pinterest Is Now Open For Businesses

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Up until recently, the online social community, Pinterest, has only granted personal accounts on their website, banning commercially-driven accounts that promote business and brand. Pinterest is now open for businesses and allowing commercial websites and companies to legally join the site to help with boosting their success and showcasing products, new content and even services that they have available to offer and provide.

What is Pinterest?
Pinterest is a free online social networking community that allows members to post and share various links, photos and websites with their followers and to save for their own future references as well. By creating various virtual "pinboards", users can easily store recipes, DIY projects and even tips on saving money all depending on their own interests and reasons for becoming a member of Pinterest.

Who Uses Pinterest?
Pinterest is used by everyone ranging from stay at home parents who enjoy bookmarking and saving recipes to frugal and savvy members who prefer stockpiling tax tips and how to save money guides. Pinterest is also useful for prkmoting your listings or stores. You can drive traffic to your individual items to help drive sales.

How Does Pinterest Help Businesses?
Pinterest allows businesses and websites alike to post photos and links to specific content or even to various products and services that are currently being offered through the company itself. With Pinterest, business owners can also add keywords and tags to each item that is virtually "pinned" to help other members of Pinterest locate what has been uploaded and shared. The more virtual "pins" a post receives on Pinterest, the more popular it becomes and the more visibility it receives site wide with the members of the community. Using Pinterest saves money and time when trying to reach a new audience or even when looking to expand your current one.

To sign up for a business account, click here.

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Reader Question - Why Screen Shots and Not Actual Listings?

I received this message from JPC about how example items are presented on my blog:

"What bothers me about how you present these items on your blog, is that you just do screen shots, so you can't follow links to see the actual item, or to see the seller's other items. You are showing them and not allowing readers to actually find them, which could potentially have led to more sales." Great question!

There are several reasons why I use screen shots. First, eBay items are only archived for 45 days. Once the link becomes older than 45 days, it will be a dead link and won't work. Screen shots will be on the post forever. So, for readers who don't find the post until after 45 days, they can still see how the listing looked and not just get a dead link.

Secondly, having several screen shots in a row more convenient for reading and comparing than clicking back and from from the blog post to eBay several times.

Also, from a blogging perspective, a screen shot increases SEO. An effective strategy for Search Engine Optimization is the naming of images to include relevant keywords. These key words create an ALT tag for the image, which can be seen by search engines, and increases your SEO.

You can use this strategy on your eBay listings, too. When you take photos of your eBay items and upload them to your computer for editing, name the photo the same as the keywords of your item, rather than just IMG00009 like it comes out of the camera. So, not only can Google find your item by its title, Google can see the ALT tag and find it by the image, too! Furthermore, your listings' images will eventually show up on Google Images and may lead more buyers to your eBay store or listing.

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