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Re:Pinterest to get ads by gabemart on Thursday September 19, 2013 @05:17PM (#6414382) 

    Pin something, get a couple of repins, then repin that to
    a very popular community board (it takes work to get
    invites to those with followings of 150,000+).
I'm not intentionally being dismissive, but isn't this a little like saying "Pin something, get a couple of repins, [magic happens]"?

I would imagine that if you can get content posted regularly to any platform with 150,000+ followers/readers/subscribers, the traffic rolls right in.

Is there something particular to pinterest that makes it easier to get content posted to these community boards, vs. getting content posted on a popular blog or retweeted by a popular account?

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Re:Pinterest to get ads by austenallred on Thursday September 19, 2013 @05:34PM (#6414472)
There's no secret there, there's just a gatekeeper you have to get past, and it's a little bit different for every one. Some will let you right on through, but usually you get to know the board owner really well, interact with them a bunch on Pinterest, and ask for an invite. You can also create generic Pinterest accounts and use a bot to load them up with very similar content to what they're looking for with a couple search functions, but that's probably not worth explaining on this forum.

Also, getting on the community boards is only the beginning of the battle.

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