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Pinterest reports 40% growth YoY, now at 200M monthly active users

36 points by askafriend 9y ago

stevesearer 9y ago
I've been a happy recipient of their growth as my readers pin thousands of images to their boards each month netting millions of impressions on Pinterest each month, in addition to a solid amount of referral traffic coming my way. Strangely, my site was recently blocked and have been frustrated that I have yet to receive a non-automated response. While I guess I can't really complain as it was free traffic, they have basically vacuumed up a significant amount of my content, and are now noting my site as spam. Frustrating to say the least.
- orliesaurus 9y ago
  If you could write down two sentences about your "Pinterest marketing strategy", what would it read like? How do you leverage it in a clever way to generate inbound traffic? I'm interested because I have never ever used pinterest other than the occasional google search result that sent me to the website, I really dont seem to grasp how people get so "sucked" into this tunnel of post-it-notes-of-stuff-you-like?
  - stevesearer 9y ago
    My site publishes office design projects and professional designers who work in that industry pin the images as ideas or inspiration for projects they are working on. So there isn't really a strategy other than publishing content / projects we think our readers will be inspired by and be interested in.
dredmorbius 9y ago
So effing annoying to encounter that it's firewalled at the router. So ... good luck with that.
- Hasknewbie 9y ago
  If you land on Pinterest by chance, it is even more obnoxious than Facebook, which is saying something. I avoid it like the plague when looking up stuff, but it is so annoying I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Chrome/Firefox plugin to directly prune it from Google search results.
  - dredmorbius 9y ago
    I've requested it be removed or deprecated from DDG's results, and strongly encourage others to do likewise.
znpy 9y ago
I still haven't grasped what Pinterest is for, in all honesty. And i have an account, by the way.
- fred_is_fred 9y ago
  It's designed for making moms feel like they make substandard cupcakes that are not craftsy enough.
MildlySerious 9y ago
It would be interesting to see how much of that growth is attributed to dark patterns and malpractices. Like making the first 20 or so results of most Google Image searches utterly useless. Strikes me that they haven't been blacklisted from Google yet for that.
kakadonton 9y ago
How is this MAU defined? I would guess possibly any click from Google count as a unique visitor.

36 points by askafriend 9y ago

I've been a happy recipient of their growth as my readers pin thousands of images to their boards each month netting millions of impressions on Pinterest each month, in addition to a solid amount of referral traffic coming my way. Strangely, my site was recently blocked and have been frustrated that I have yet to receive a non-automated response. While I guess I can't really complain as it was free traffic, they have basically vacuumed up a significant amount of my content, and are now noting my site as spam. Frustrating to say the least.

orliesaurus 9y ago
If you could write down two sentences about your "Pinterest marketing strategy", what would it read like? How do you leverage it in a clever way to generate inbound traffic? I'm interested because I have never ever used pinterest other than the occasional google search result that sent me to the website, I really dont seem to grasp how people get so "sucked" into this tunnel of post-it-notes-of-stuff-you-like?
- stevesearer 9y ago
  My site publishes office design projects and professional designers who work in that industry pin the images as ideas or inspiration for projects they are working on. So there isn't really a strategy other than publishing content / projects we think our readers will be inspired by and be interested in.

dredmorbius 9y ago

So effing annoying to encounter that it's firewalled at the router. So ... good luck with that.

Hasknewbie 9y ago
If you land on Pinterest by chance, it is even more obnoxious than Facebook, which is saying something. I avoid it like the plague when looking up stuff, but it is so annoying I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Chrome/Firefox plugin to directly prune it from Google search results.
- dredmorbius 9y ago
  I've requested it be removed or deprecated from DDG's results, and strongly encourage others to do likewise.

znpy 9y ago

I still haven't grasped what Pinterest is for, in all honesty. And i have an account, by the way.

fred_is_fred 9y ago
It's designed for making moms feel like they make substandard cupcakes that are not craftsy enough.

MildlySerious 9y ago

It would be interesting to see how much of that growth is attributed to dark patterns and malpractices. Like making the first 20 or so results of most Google Image searches utterly useless. Strikes me that they haven't been blacklisted from Google yet for that.

kakadonton 9y ago

How is this MAU defined? I would guess possibly any click from Google count as a unique visitor.