Pinterest known as a visual discovery engine for finding ideas like travel, recipes, home decoration, lifestyle inspiration, and more. It is a huge social networking platform that allows users to discover & visually share new interests by pinning images or videos to their own or others’ boards and browsing what other users have pinned.

Pinterest users has crossed the billion mark and most of the European people are connected with this social platform. Consequently, this platform’s popularity is increasing day by day.

Why do people use Pinterest?

People use Pinterest Extension as an image-sharing and media service platform where various information is saved, shared and searched on the Internet through images. But most people prefer to upload images here.

History Of Pinterest

If you look at the history of Pinterest, you can see that it started in March 2010. Evan Sharp,Paul Sheara,Ben Silverman have played a significant role behind this success because their hands started this social platform.

Then gradually, common people came to know that there is a social site called Pinterest. Within a year, the number of users of this platform was about 11 million, which was really incredible at that time.

As a result, this social media website took place in the top list of in December 2011 &  Pinterest’s Alexa Ranking reached 37 in April 2015.

What is Pinterest Good for?

There are many advantages of using Pinterest. Let`s know briefly about some of the significant good site:

#For Backlink Ranking

SEO optimization is necessary for website work & Backlink is most crucial part of SEO. Through the backlink, a website can be easily brought to top position of Google search engine. So by using Pinterest, that is very easy to create backlinks & bring visitors for the website.

#For Website Traffic

Visitor Traffic is very important things for the website or blogging sector. Alongside using Pinterest correctly it is possible to bring a lot of visitors to the website.  Which is very helpful for website income.

#For Sponsorship

When you have a Pinterest account with a large number of followers, you can get paid sponsorships of products from different companies or entrepreneurs & in return you can generate a good amount of income.

#For Affiliate Marketing

Pinterest is another innovative way to earn from affiliate marketing. A huge amount of money can be earned from here. Need to Join the affiliate program of the online shop or e-commerce, pin the affiliate link to your own Pinterest account. If anyone click on that affiliate link & buy some product, then you can take some money as a commission.

The amount of income will depend on selling the product.

Words Associated With Pinterest:

There are several things you need to know about using Pinterest.

·   Pins

When you manually upload a photo, or video to your Pinterest profile, then it will be called Pinterest Pins.

·   Boards

 The most exciting thing about Pinterest is Boards. When you put one or more pins in a specific category, the pins will be called boards.

·   Followers

Pinterest account has followed the option. Here you can follow other profiles if you want & They also can do the same things.

·   Re-pins

When you re-share someone’s Pins on your Pinterest account to your network. Then it will be called Repin. You can repin other people’s pins & someone can repin your pins if they want.

·   React

 When we like someone else’s post on Facebook and comment on that post. Similarly, we can give the love reaction on Pinterest.

Pinterest is an interesting site where you can easily promote your business for free and you can learn new things from Pinterest every day.