A Complete Guide to Pinterest for Starters
If you are into Social Media, and have heard alot about Pinterest, even tried your hands on the website, But couldn't get Success ? could you ? Most people don't, so if you're one of them, this guide is for you.
How to Repin and Like a Pin:
What Is Pinterest?
Image Courtesy: Pinterest.com
- And even better, there’s no real interaction required. You can sit back and look through thousands of recipe ideas, holiday suggestions, home decorating suggestions, Photography tips, inspiring quotes, DIY(Do It Yourself) projects and much much more.
- Yes, Pinterest has no chat Facility. This actually makes it even better, any one can follow you and you can follow everyone without worrying about "Privacy".
- Pinterest is all about 2 words: Pins and Boards.
What Is A Pin?
- Once you create a Pinterest account you can browse all of the “Pins” (Just like Facebook has posts, twitter has tweets, pinterest has pins). Pins are nothing but images/videos pinned by people whom you follow on Pinterest.
- Your Pinterest home page will be filled with lots of thumbnails of pins. Just like Facebook has News Feed where you can see posts from your friends, Pinterest homepage will show you posts from people whom you follow.
- This is how a pin looks like: http://pinterest.com/pin/150589181261345194/
How To Add Pins?
- The easiest and most fun way to add pins is through the “Pin It” Button.
- Simply Add the the "pin it" button to your Browser's Bookmarks bar and you are all set to pin from the web. Get the "pin it" button from here: http://pinterest.com/about/goodies/
- Now, if you visit any website and like an article/blog/image/video simply follow these steps:
- Press the "pin it" button on your browser
- Select the image from the list of images that generates once you press the "pin it" button
- Select the board you want to add the pin to.
- Add a description to the pin in the text box and press enter. That's it. You just pinned :)
What Are Boards?
- Pins which are of same type can be categorized into "Boards". For example, Home decor ideas can all be put into a board named "Home Ideas", pins of cooking recipes can be categorized into a board "Recipes". Some example Boards:
- Books Worth Reading
- My Style of Clothes
- Home Decoration Ideas
- Useful Recipes
- Things I wish to Buy
- Here is how boards look like:
Image Courtesy: http://pinterest.com/parekhreena/ date: Nov 1, 2012
How to Repin and Like a Pin:
- If you like a pin, simply press the "like" button. Just like you "like" the posts on Facebook/Google+ or "Favorite" tweets on Twitter. The "Like" and "Repin" buttons can be seen the screenshot which is following.
- Repin is similar to "Retweet" of Twitter or "Share" button of Facebook/Google+.
- Whenever you like something that someone has shared on Pinterest and want to save it on one of your Boards, simply click the “Repin” button at the top of the image. If you are viewing a thumbnail of the image hover your mouse over the image and the “Repin” button will show up, if you’ve opened the image in the full-size view the “Repin” button will be at the top. Checkout the screenshot below:
- Once you click on the repin button to choose the board onto which you want to pin it:
- Now the pin is saved to your Board for later reference. The pin will also be shared with your followers and it will retain the link, so if anyone clicks it they will be taken to the original site too.
Pin Prices:
- If you put the price of something in the pin description it will include the price in a banner over the image.
Mentions:
- If you put an "@" before a username of someone whom you are following, they will be tagged in your pin.
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