Checking your Google Analytics or Stat Counter accounts you must have noticed the enormous potential of Pinterest for increasing your traffic. It would be a pity not taking full advantage of it, especially if images represent the core of your blog (this applies to blogs about food, fashion, beauty, marriage, decoration, etc.).
Many bloggers have stated that Pinterest generates more than 40% of their traffic – a dream, isn’t it?
We present you 3 plugins that will boost your conquest of this social network:
The Pinterest badge connects your Pinterest account with your blog and allows you to share your recently pinned pictures as well as the ones of other Pinterest-users! At the same time your readers can use a button to follow you on Pinterest with a single click.
The value added? If you are active on Pinterest and have already taken our recent advice, your goal is to gain followers! Pictures illustrating the content of your blog and hence appealing to the interests of your readers are much more attractive than a simple button “Follow me on Pinterest”.
You can personalize the plug-in by choosing your own title, the number of images, their sizes, the size of the widget, the text color, etc.
Until now you have had the option to add a button “Pin It” automatically at the end of your posts. This is handy, if your reader has not installed the button in his personal navigation bar. Efficient? Yes, but still. After finishing the article the reader won’t actually bother with a tiny button at the far end of the page, and even though he adored the image at the beginning of your post it will not be on the top of his mind anymore.
With this plugin you can add the button “Pin It” directly to each photograph. Don’t worry, it’s not a big button that ruins your layout – it is only visible if you slide the cursor across (settings: untag the box “Disable the fade in/out on the button?”). Try it with our images!
The best for last: you can create your own button “Pin It” fitting perfectly with your design!
On the left the original button, on the right the button customized by Wedding Chicks
It’s only a beta version so far and not yet available to the public, but the developer Wilco de Kreij gave us the pleasure of testing it in advance. To be honest, we at Made in Blog just could not wait any longer after it had been announced in April. The perspective of being able to pin automatically all the images from our WordPress blog, schedule the pins, and directly follow the stats (repins, likes, clicks, etc.) on our WordPress account seemed too tempting! Check out their video to learn more!
We have to say that at the moment the WP pinner plugin works only about 10% of the times, however its future is very very promissing and it will facilitate our lives as bloggers by far! And it’s for free! 🙂
