Small Bloggers Top Reasons for Using Pinterest

An average 1.36 million users daily can’t be all wrong, and those users are getting their daily info fix at Pinterest.

The social photo pin board was a genius idea and according to research the majority of the users are female mothers and a little over a quarter of them have a household income of $100k+.
 

Pinterest facts for serious bloggers

• Of the users 28.1% earn over $100,000 annually.
• Most users spend just 15.8 minutes daily, but you can see a lot in that short time span!
• Half of them have children
• 68.2% of Pinterest users are females
• Many big name brands feature their products there
• Usage has increased 180% from Feb. 2011
• Pinterest refers more traffic than YouTube, Google+, and Linkedin combined!
• Pinterest gets to 17 million users nearly twice as fast as Facebook!

Use Pinterest for blogging ideas

Pinterest is definitely a great place to inspire blogging, photography and online writing. It is informative, inspirational, friendly, organized and a wonderful tool for anyone in the blogging industry.

Writers are forever looking for new ideas, and Pinterest is a steady spring of information one can use as a jumping off point for researching and completing new content. A friend who was recently hired to teach, and I went out to lunch the other day and we scoured the Pinterest pages for ideas for lesson plans. We came up with so many that she had her lesson plans drawn up in a matter of minutes.

Pinterest helps Bloggers organize their work and thoughts

Pinterest allows you to create boards with different topics and organize your content by “pinning” links and photos to your especially designated boards.

If you’ve been writing for a while you know how hard it is to keep content organized. With Pinterest you sort them out so you can find anything quickly and easily for quick reference. It is an ideal site for getting your content to the reader.

In addition, a Pinterest board can give you several ideas with one image. Just pin your image, leave it on your designated subject board and return to be inspired when your other ideas have dried up.

Pinterest can increase your earnings

A friend of mine signed up for Pinterest and started pinning her work onto various boards. Within the space of a month she was stunned by the increase in traffic. Her earnings at one site doubled within this period. She now has new followers on her blogs – traffic which has converted from the Pinterest site.

Is anyone not on Pinterest?

Visit the site, register, and wait a little while. Soon they will send you your own personal invitation. Then it is official. Follow their link and start seeing benefits for your site. You can also pin all the wonderful things you come across online. This is better than bookmarks or favorites, because it is so wonderfully accessible, categorized just the way you want it, and easy to share with all the people you care about. Believe me; they will thank you for inviting them! Are you still here?

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