If you don’t know about Pinterest yet, I will just apologize up front for introducing you to the crack of the Internet. I am hopelessly addicted to Pinterest and have finally found a way to justify that addiction.
Using Pinterest for Business Purposes
Recently I started a Pinterest board for Massage CEU Central. In creating and adding to that Pinterest board I have noticed I often run into the Pinterest error, “There are no pinnable images,” or find random images that don’t represent the website.
Imagine my horror when I came home to the Harvest Moon Massage Therapy website, mashed the Pin It button and found that I had a pitiful selection of images to choose from in pinning my own website to the Massage CEU Central Pinterest board. So I decided that I would write a blog post about how to improve your “pinnability” to Pinterest.
How to Make Your Website More Pinnable
The simplest answer to making your website more pinnable is to put beautiful images on your site. As a massage therapist who blogs as the main site format (on a WordPress.com platform at that), that means using more images in the posts themselves and making sure there’s an image widget in the sidebar. Apparently images inside other types of widgets don’t get indexed by Pinterest. This might have something to do with iFrames, which I don’t understand, but from what I can understand if you put an image in an iFrame, Pinterest ignores it.
Not having a lot of time to create my own artwork and having less than rudimentary skills with Photoshop, I have chosen initially to begin linking in a thumbnail of my headshot with my signature line for each post. Perhaps in the future as I develop more custom artwork for Harvest Moon Massage, I will begin using those randomly in posts.
A few don’t’s when creating pinnable images on your website/blog, they can’t be smaller than 80 x 80 pixels or Pinterest ignores them. There’s that iFrame thing I was talking about earlier and apparently Pinterest also does not know what to do with background images and therefore again, ignores them.
Have I Been Pinned?
Here’s something interesting. If you want to know if you’ve been pinned on Pinterest, go to “http://pinterest.com/source/yourwebsite.com” I can see from checking http://pinterest.com/source/harvestmoonmassage.com that I have some work to do.
So, I hope you’ve found something helpful here. I’m still formulating a marketing strategy for Pinterest. For now though,
Harvest Moon Massage is Decatur, Alabama’s Exclusive Provider of Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy, Ashi-Thai and Bamboo-Fusion Massage