Is Pinterest becoming King of the social media platforms?
Have you seen reports that pinterest is surpassing other social media platforms, including facebook, for driving traffic to various websites? Indeed, on checking my own google analytics last week, I discovered that traffic from Pinterest had surpassed that from Facebook for the first time, and not only were more people visiting but the bounce rate was lower, they were staying on the website for longer and they were looking at more pages. Of course, the next step is to put aside time to set up funnels for my Google Analytics to see if the traffic from Pinterest is resulting in sales (See CGOnline Marketing’s post on how to set up a funnel).
Are you wondering if Pinterest is right for your business?
Repinly will help you to determine this. You can check out the most popular pinners and see if you can emulate their success, read the statistics on the most popular categories and perhaps it is of no surprise that Food and Drink is the most popular in terms of pins, with its most popular pin of fish cakes coming in at 1,516 repins. Home Decor is the most popular category for boards. You can even find out your own pinterest score (Mine is 26 out of 100).
How can you use repinly effectively? It will give you pointers regarding how to create popular pins and how to gain comments, likes and repins. Of the Food and Drink category, the top pin with 1,516 repins may seem like a very high number of repins to reach but if you look further down the page, #16 has 53 repins, a relatively small number in comparison (at the time of my search). Having a pin repinned by one of the most popular pinners would certainly be an excellent method for your picture to go viral.
80% of pins on pinterest are repins, this is an interesting statistic especially when compared to the statistic that only 1.4% of tweets are retweets. It certainly demonstrates the high possibility of pins going viral. What is interesting is that while people repin or like a picture to show that they like it and wish to share it, they don’t spend much time commenting. I have to admit I rarely comment on pins – but perhaps we need to be doing more of this in order to build relationships on pinterest.
See the above table for the most popular categories – this also shows that it is important to categorise your boards appropriately. I was surprised the ‘Food and Drink’ was so low on the list considering the popularity of any pins related to food and drink.
Repinly is an interesting tool particularly if you love statistics but it is also interesting to see the most popular pins and wonder sometimes just what has made them so popular!
Are you on pinterest yet? If you have any questions, do ask them in the comment box below. You can follow me on pinterest here.
