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Re:Pinterest reports 40% growth YoY, now at 200M monthly act... by stevesearer on Friday September 15, 2017 @11:09PM (#15262627)
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.

Re:Pinterest reports 40% growth YoY, now at 200M monthly act... by orliesaurus on Saturday September 16, 2017 @03:32AM (#15263424)
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?
Re:Pinterest reports 40% growth YoY, now at 200M monthly act... by stevesearer on Saturday September 16, 2017 @05:16PM (#15266805)
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.