Pin the Love … in 6 easy Steps

15 May 2012

Pin the Love … in 6 easy Steps

Social Media is all over the Internet and I have the feeling that new platforms grow around us like weed in the garden.
I am not saying that the new platforms are weed or crap … no way. They are good, great, fun and maybe even necessary. And our readers want to share our thoughts with the new platforms.

So today we are talking about one of the brand new kids on the blog: Pinterest.
People are in love with Pinterest, they are crazy about it … everybody wants to pin.

Why not? Let us give them the chance to pin this article. Give them a pin-button among Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn:

And you guess it already: it is easy … it is WordPress!

Setting up the Pin-Button

1. We start where it always starts … the Dashboard.

2. Scroll down to Settings!

3. Chose Sharing … that’s what we want to do, we are going to share the love!

You find a good amount of sharing-buttons.

4. Drag the the buttons you like to the field: enable services.

Don’t forget the little red Pinterest button.

There they are … you can even influence the line up.

5. Chose button style … I recommend only button, without any text!
You can even chose a text for the sharing label and how the links will be open and the stuff you allow to share!

6. Don’t forget to save your work!

Looks nice our little red Pinterest Button 🙂

Extra Tips:

Number 1

You can always add new Social Media … just click “Add new Service”

Enter Name – enter URL – enter the URL of the Button (you have to upload the button somewhere, which can be your own media library!)

Creating such a button for an upcoming service – give me a shout!

Hit Create Share Button … and bingo the new button will appear in the “Available Services”–Zone

Number 2

For the self hosted WordPress blogs … I love the plugin Shareaholic and SexyBookmarks … see the great Variety of Social Media Services they provide. And Pinterest is there too.

Need another tip?
Tell me about it!

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Posted by Helen in Tips and Tricks and tagged Pinterest, Sharing, Social media

21 thoughts on “Pin the Love … in 6 easy Steps”

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carolinaheartstrings on May 16, 2012 at 19:05 said:

Cool…. I’ll be passing this on to the “techy” half of CHS.
- Helz-Design on May 16, 2012 at 20:45 said:
  
  thanks alessa 🙂 hopefully the techy half finds it useful as well 🙂
Marcie Brock on May 15, 2012 at 21:11 said:

Excellent breakdown for the beginner, Helen! It took me a while to jump onboard with Pinterest, but I’m loving it.
- Helz-Design on May 15, 2012 at 23:24 said:
  
  thank you marcie
  i am on pinterest for a while now … but i am rarely there
Dee Ankary (@DeeAnkary) on May 15, 2012 at 20:11 said:

Hi Helen,

I get a decent amount of traffic from Pinterest when the image is quirky or cute. It’s true that it performs best for cooking and fashion.

Thanks for the step by step, and taking care of those on wordpress.com!

Dee
- Helz-Design on May 15, 2012 at 20:48 said:
  
  do people pin your picture? or do you pin it?
  thanks for stopping by dee 🙂
  - Dee Ankary (@DeeAnkary) on May 16, 2012 at 06:21 said:
    
    Both.
    
    I’ve only added the PinIt button to my share bar last week – you have a good point, I must check if others have pinned directly from the blog.
    
    I usually pin the image from the blog post as part of promoting. Some get repinned by others multiple times, which is where the traffic comes from.
    
    Dee
    - Helz-Design on May 16, 2012 at 10:47 said:
      
      very good point dee … should start this habbit too.
Michele Taylor Coach on May 15, 2012 at 17:59 said:

That’s what I thought but then I started pinning links to my blog – nothing to do with anything crafty or visual except that I usually include one of my photos to illustrate the blog, and had a fair bit of interest and some interesting repins. Also, I pin photos some I like some that are my own, and whenever I get a repin (of which there have been many) then that’s more exposure for me, right?
- Helz-Design on May 15, 2012 at 18:41 said:
  
  sounds reasonable michele
  i guess i have to find the pinterest mojo again 🙂
theyoucoach on May 15, 2012 at 17:16 said:

This jury is still out on Pinterest. Unless you are a homemaking, crafting, schooling or fashion/design oriented site, I’m not sure how effective it truly is.
- Helz-Design on May 15, 2012 at 17:54 said:
  
  personally i am also ambivalent with pinterest. but i am also not in stumbler or digg or how ever they are all called … but yet i offer my readers these buttons for their convenience
  - theyoucoach on May 17, 2012 at 00:28 said:
    
    I don’t use Digg but have found that I get quite a bit of traffic from StumbleUpon. Of course, I do stumble my own posts.
    - Helz-Design on May 17, 2012 at 00:30 said:
      
      i really get confused by all these options … but hey, if you get traffic from it … it.s great!
Michele Taylor Coach on May 15, 2012 at 17:03 said:

Done! Thanks!
- Helz-Design on May 15, 2012 at 17:53 said:
  
  perfect
Michele Taylor Coach on May 15, 2012 at 17:01 said:

Thans, Helen. Really useful post
- Helz-Design on May 15, 2012 at 17:53 said:
  
  thanks 🙂
theoddcoupleblogcom on May 15, 2012 at 16:40 said:

Easy to follow steps to add the newest in social media. Thanks Helen.
- Helz-Design on May 15, 2012 at 16:54 said:
  
  always a pleasure shawn 🙂
  sometimes we only have to wait a little until wordpress add those buttons for us