With the business account, you get access to analytics (something that is not available to the personal account). This alone sets it apart. This gives an idea of monthly viewers/impressions. And, what they save from your website.
Thanks

I believe I am using my personal account, I had it for couple of years

Business account, no question!

Hi Mike,
Thanks. I think I only did the personal account, I will have to double check.

Bill

To get the best from Pinterest you really need a business account. You can change your personal account into a business one if you are already on there with a personal account.
Without it being a business you can't post directly from your website or create Rich Pins. These are Pins that give more info to the reader. You can find my training on it here. Creating Rich Pins with All in One SEO Hope this helps.
With Grace and Gratitude
Karen

All good suggestions in the below thread.

If you are using Pinterest to promote your business, open a business account. It’s free! The dashboard has analytics windows that can help owners with their business insights.

If you already have a personal account, you might cross-post, but as Anita does, it’s best to manage them separately.

I already had a personal site, so I decided to open a business account for my website. It's just easier to keep the two separated for now.

This may help you out, follow link below How To Set Up Pinterest Business Account

They say Business account and you verify your website. It is also free and you have to have a business account if you ever decided to venture into ads.

I used a personal account, then created a board just for my website. But have never received traffic from Pinterest.

For me, When I'm on the give and take comment thread, and someone is asking for a comment, i will often times comment then request a return favor directing them to my homepage and let them pick which one they want to comment on, unless i'm the one requesting a comment then i submit a specific post..

On site feedback I submit the homepage so members can get a full overview of the site.

With site comments i just pretty much stick with particular posts exclusively.

Brad

I believe you would chose as to the area you desire a comment. You chose the post and so now it is clearer for others to do exactly what you want. I believe it would be better to spread them out.

Yes, your comments should go to the right page of your website, so others that are on that subject can see them.

When you are asking for comments on "site-comments" you can select what post or page you'd like to have the comment on and also whether it is a general comment you are after or a specific point you'd like to have commented on.

Hope this helps you out =)
Cheers - SF

Mike, you are supposed to request comments and feedback in the SiteRubix area. In SiteRubix, you click on SiteComments. There is a difference between "comments" and "feedback," so be sure you know which you are asking for.

You need to have credits to request comments. You earn credits by giving comments or feedback in those areas. This ensures that everyone gets the information and content they need (as comments are ranked in Google as content).

Comment to my blog now and you are one step ahead my friend.
Comment here: Monday Moods- Week1

I'm still on the fence with comments from WA members

Mick

You want your posts to rank as well. Request comment on all of your posts those (quality) comments are important to Google.

Comments are post/page specific Mike.
If I am understanding you clearly, when someone posts a comment, they are giving you a genuine and relevant response/contribution to what they have read.

I use better-recent-comments plugin to display comments via a widget on all of my pages...if that's what you mean.

David

Hi - no you can direct to any page on your site where you want comments e.g. If your website has navigation bar and you have three buttons such as hone, privacy, about me and you have added more content on 'about me' and want comments on that post that is possibles

Content is KING. Continue to work on that diligently and the rest comes works itself out. You will know when it's time to pay for anything...I think it's too early to give the engines money yet.

Hi Mike,

My websites are about 1 month old as well. One is ranked and the other one is not. I can't really figure out why. I used the same training and methods for both websites. Although the one that is not ranked is about 2 weeks newer than the first website.
I guess you should just keep writing engaging content with keywords and eventually it will get ranked. Also, my website that has rankings, some posts are ranked and some are not.

Best of luck to you!

Lisa

Not sure regarding benefits. I am staying away at the moment.

I would be careful. Paid ads bring traffic, but once you cut their budget the traffic stops. It is much better to have a solid base of organic traffic first.

Try using facebook or google+ groups to target more specific interests.

My past experience pre-WA with paid ads is that you really need to be diligent about checking performance of them constantly and taking down ones that don’t work and boosting ones that are working better for you. Otherwise you are just throwing money to the wind.

Even so, you can really rack up sizable charges doing so and the ROI on it isn’t that great in the end from what I can tell. For instance if you set a daily budget of $5 per day and had maybe 20 click through to your website for those ads, and only 1 out of those 20 actually made a purchase. In order to even break even, that 1 click would have to purchase at least $100 ($5 in paid ads divided by 5% commission).

Sorry for the numbers exercise but I have a bean counter background so I think of these things. Anyway, my point is, you would have to really hit upon a low PPC ad that works well for you in combination with customers who actually buy at a high ROI in order to make it worthwhile.

I hope this makes sense.

Dave

If that is the route you want to take then Bing Ads are not very expensive and not that difficult to get to grips with.

Facebook is very reasonable as well and you will see that quite a number of members have brought referrals in through this method.

Mick

Keep with the cheaper alternatives!

Having ads will not speed the process of getting traffic to your sites. There are things that will. Have you watched the following two Video training replays by Jay Neill? They are really good and the techniques that he teaches will increase traffic to your site. 7 SEO Strategies to Explode Your Rankings in 2018 7 Unconventional Ways to Amplify Your Brand in 2018 There is also this older training that has helped me: 21 Minute Ranking Method in 7 Steps Jay also has a Live Training tomorrow: 7 Brilliant Traffic Strategies You Must Know in 2018/ If you can attend the training Live, you should sign up for it. Otherwise, you should look for it to be released as a recorded training on Saturday or Sunday and watch it then.

I hope you find these videos as helpful as I did.

Anita

Interesting!

My experience with paid ads is that is not for the inexperienced or faint of heart. If cash flow is not a problem and you are up for a fairly steep learning curve then go for it. Otherwise I would concentrate on the courses and get all that stuff down first. As Kyle teaches ranking is not goal right now in the beginning and if you follow the courses it will come more naturally than you think.
Damo

Have had issues myself in other areas, but stuck to my guns and figured them out. Well done.

John

Glad you figured it out. Have a great one.

Hi Mike,
Here is a link that may help you with this error.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-getting-not-a-valid-amp-page-error/

Jerome

Hi Mike, you might want to check with site support. I know those people are busy, but they are busy but they're good at what they do. Good luck.
Don

When you click the link it leads to an unavailable page

This is not an issue I have had (yet anyway). I am sure someone will come along who will help you. Hopefully soon.