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Pinterest and also the Rise of the Visual
Regardless if you are launching a product, promoting a current business, or just need to be noticed, we all need content online. But not most of us are writers. Fortunately, we're witnessing a surge of visual expression: First it was Flickr, then Tumblr, and today, it is the explosive development of Pinterest.
If those names mean something to you, you may be nodding in agreement, since you understand what they represent a means of spreading your influence online, whether you express yourself visually or not. If those names mean nothing, read on to find out their value.
The majority of us who expect to get attention online know that we have to come with an active website. Posting on Twitter and Facebook keep audiences interested. Blogs and Twitter updates keep search engines like google visiting our websites so they are more highly-ranked searching results. Posting to Google+ will help your Google rankings. But another thing is going on with visually-driven portals like Pinterest. With Pinterest you are able to leverage the social web by utilizing visuals alone, and at the moment it is leaving Google+ in the dust. The social web is all about words, but it is visual, too.
You don't have to be an image-making pro to understand that if you post to Flickr, those images will show up when individuals search for you, plus they may bring people to your website in a few clicks.(Especially if you write a short caption for them.) Should you post photo albums to Facebook, your audience is already inside your space - connecting with you on Facebook. Should you post images to Tumblr, your blog interface somewhat like WordPress, you also bring people into your world. Tumblr blogs are great visual vehicles.
When you post a picture on Pinterest you may make it link anywhere you would like - to your site, to a 'buy' page, to the plethora of possibilities you'd like to connect. If you have a product or service that's visually appealing, you're golden, because on Pinterest individuals will share your image - together with your link - among their friends. Should you include a short caption, so much the better. Even when your product is really a newspaper, there's hope. The venerable Wall Street Journal has begun posting quotes in the newspaper, which click through to online articles.
Here are a few ideas to get you started.
Post images that communicate that which you stand for Your images will include a brief caption or description Use Pinterest's "Pin It" to add images out of your website. Post links to your Facebook albums in your e-newsletter as well as in blogs