Tracking your website’s progress in terms of your targeted keywords gets more and more tedious with the introduction of secure search for all searches, by Google. Leaving aside this hot news for now, let’s look into another aspect of marketing – social media. Pinterest, a major player in social media, has announced that you can now pin articles from websites - definitely a good news.
What’s the difference?
I can hear you saying, “Hey, I used to pin articles. What’s new in this?”. This feature of Pinterest introduces a new type of Pin – “Article Pin”. So, how’s it different from the conventional pins?
While pinning, you can add the following details to your pin.
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Headline of the article
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Name of the author
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Description of the article
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Source URL
Adding to this, the photo appears larger than conventional pins, thereby getting more chances of being noticed. Here is a look of how these pins will look like. (Courtesy Techcrunch)
Given the fact that more than 5 million pins per day are article pins, this move by Pinterest is highly welcome.
Pinterest says
“when you come across articles you may not have time to read, or just want to keep for later, you can save them to your own reading list board. For example, you may be reading a lot about healthy living, so you could save the most interesting articles to a healthy reading board.”
So they are targeted to evolve as a social bookmarking media too.