Should Pet Bloggers Care About Pinterest?
Are you interested in getting “Pinterested?” The marketing service, Experian, recently reported that Pitnterest is the third most popular social network on the Internet, placing behind Facebook and Twitter.
BlogPaws’ co-founder, Caroline Golon, hosted a session on Pinterest at the recent BlogPaws conference in Salt Lake City. “While Pinterest has been chugging along for a while, it’s recently become a freight train,” Golon shared. So what’s with this locomotive action and how can pet bloggers and microbloggers get involved? (oh and yes, pet bloggers should care about Pinterest)
Simply stated, pin, post, and share. In a guest post from afFURmation’s Dawn Miklich earlier this year, post ideas can show up anywhere online. If you are browsing the Internet at any given time (and who amongst us isn’t), you’ve got the materials needed to “pin.” Do you read blogs, catch up on news, and/or like to get the latest in the pet world online? Pin it!
Looking for something to blog about? Miklich shares that post ideas can be found on Pinterest by looking by category or searching by putting a hashtag in front of your search term to pull up any pins people tagged with that term.
Penny Sansevieri, founder of Author Marketing Experts (AME), spoke at BlogPaws 2012 on getting 
Before fully engaging, Penny revealed she visited how others, including competitors, used Pinterest. She prefers repins because they provide links to her website while boosting exposure and generate potential leads, hence revenue.
The article in Costco Connection revealed that women are Pinterest’s largest demographic. So where can you jump in and learn, start pinning and helping your blog traffic? Check out our BlogPaws links below.
If you are already on Pinterest and want to share your board, do so in the Comments below. We’d love to see what you're pinning!
What's the Deal With Pinterest
My Pinterest boards are pretty much all cats, all the time:
http://pinterest.com/sparklethecat/
My human tends to be a little more varied:
http://pinterest.com/janissg/
This was a very timely post as I’ve just started my pinterest account today! If anyone wants to sniff me out, then this is the link: http://pinterest.com/alfiesblog/
I would love to find all my blogger friends on pinterest, but it seems to be easier said than done *waggy tail*
I am the “self-professed Queen of Pinterest” lol…
I actually incorporate pets (both cats and dogs because I am NOT “all cats, all the time”) with other interests that I have which raises the level of interest on pinterest (I’m a poet and I know it!).
I am one that avidly pins/shares others which enhances their exposure, I also have been pinning some of my blog posts as well.
My boards are eclectic and diverse, interesting and I bet you could spend quite a bit of time there!
http://pinterest.com/catchatcaren/
alfie? I just became your first follower 🙂
I mix my cat writing, art and photography with other writing, art and photography, plus my design work, crafts and others’ work of the same. I’m also on a number of group boards.
https://pinterest.com/thecreativecat/
Thanks for referencing my posts! I love Pinterest and have had to restrain my self from being on there too much. It takes my loves of Internet surfing to a whole new level.
Alfie & Bernadette- considered yourself followed!! You can find other bloggers to follow on the Pet Blogger Social Media list in the BlogTalk group- http://community.blogpaws.com/group/blogtalk/forum/topics/blog-social-media-list-to-make-it-easier-to-follow
Thanks for chiming in…. and sharing your Pinterest boards and comments. Pin on!
I LOVE Pinterest! In addition to pinning project ideas and products I’d like to try, it’s also an outlet for my unexplained obsession with llamas and hedgehogs!
http://pinterest.com/woofwoofmama/
Liz, that is great. Love the combo: Hedgehogs and llamas! Fun!
My Dachshund has his own Pinterest board on my account: http://pinterest.com/paintingpony/ammo-the-dachshund-s-favs/
As well as my ponies:
http://pinterest.com/paintingpony/the-painting-ponies-favs/
Pinterest is an amazing place to find new ideas, designs, gifts, photos, etc… for you and your pets. It’s a great connection for your clients to get to know you and your style better and to get to know other bloggers and sites as well. It’s like having an on-line charette every time you start a board!
Check out the NewfandHound boards! I’m collecting ideas on Dachshund & Newfoundland gifts, dog remodeling for your home, and more fun design ideas!
http://pinterest.com/newfandhound/
I’ve been pinning for a few months now. My Pinterest page has 38 boards – everything from dogs to gardening, to appetizers to decorating to tiny homes to jewelry to whatever I am interested in.
My address is http://pinterest.com/GotMutt
For me, according at least to my analytics, Pinterest is one of my top resourcing sites, next to StumbleUpon. I get a lot of hits from the site.
Aside from the BlogPaws boards I’m on, I also have my own pinterest board, which you can follow here:
http://pinteresChristiet.com/christiezizo/my-furry-children/
Ugh — that link got messed up. It should be:
http://pinterest.com/christiezizo/my-furry-children/
Sorry.