Now This Is What I Call Evil And Dark(in my language)
As some of you know, I`m terrible in Social Media,I tried facebook(still do) but it just feels like forcing a round peg into a square hole and expecting it to fit.Twitter...not my thing, Instagram ..foreign language to me.Still, I had to be good at some social media so I bought 2 courses on pinterest tutorial for business and got the best I could out of both so I can now use Pinterest.
What has always bothered me with Pinterest is that Pins gets stolen and re-direct as soon as they gain traction, there are people out there who somehow change the URL, so the pin appears the same but when clicked, it goes to a different URL.and they know how to "choose well" they do not go for poor performing pins.
Like in the past, I was on Pinterest this week when I saw my pin redirecting to a MMO site.MMO Pins rarely gets stolen(not that I know of, but my skin care pins I can say I Iose 30% to re-direction( + -).when I checked the persons Pinterest profile, I could not believe my eyes, according to Pinterest, they get over 10 million views a month from Pinterest.
Now how can someone getting so much traffic steal my pin? I was so hurt, I could never dream of getting so much traffic yet they stole a pin from my little board that`s supposed to get my little blog traffic. Kept checking and found another of my pins again on my MMO Pinterest board, I followed it and according to Pinterest, the person gets 1.8 million visits to their blog from Pinterest, I don`t even have a fraction of that yet they stole my pins.
What did I learn from this? even those BIG sites do not always play fair.
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Are you placing your logo or text like "@website.com" on your pins? It doesn't matter if someone steals it when you are getting publicity like that.
Yes I mark all my pins but I guess you know my logo or website name can`t be too large to distract. And yes it matters(to me) as the traffic is not going where it should.
I know this is for Roamy, but I wanted to explain that it does not help your website, but hurts it deeply when someone steals your pin even though the pin has my website name on it. Yes, it really does matter. I put my website address on all of my pins. When a potential customer click the pin, it should take them to my website, to the post that they are interested in. But, when someone highjacks it to their account, it goes to a completely different topic. So, in theory, it hurts my website and brand. The person is expecting a certain article, but the go to a different article, so it hurts branding, not helps it. Example... If I do a pin that should go to a post about Vitamin C Serum, but someone steals the pin and sends it to their site to an article about a foot scrub, it hurts the persons trust in you. If I am on Pinterest, and I click a pin about Vitamin C Serum, I want to read an article about Vitamin C Serum, not a foot scrub. So, if a person sees a real pin of mine that goes to my website, they won't click it because they know it doesn't match the pin. Hope I explained this properly.
Lisa
Hi Roamy,
I have my pins stolen on a regular basis. Mine are pins in the beauty industry too. I had one person continue to steal my pins, and Pinterest did nothing, other than remove it. They never suspended or closed this person's account. I am shocked that Pinterest does not come down harder on these scam artists. One person stole at least 30 pins of mine, and was never suspended. I get traffic from Pinterest, but I'd get a lot more if my pins were not stolen on a continual basis.
Sorry you are dealing with this. I know it is extremely frustrating. Doing all the hard work to make a great pin, only to have a person steal it and route it to their account.
Lisa
Sorry to hear you go through this, yes it`s very frustrating when Pinterest does not suspend these accounts, but I think it might be tricky for them too. I have come to know that my 90% of my stolen pins lead to 2 sites in beauty and skin care, but it`s like they have 100s of different accounts on Pinterest.
I even wrote Pinterest and explained this but.......nothing.
To be honest, I felt almost physical pain,if some small site with low traffic steal my pin=my traffic, it`s not really fun but bearable, but an established site............I know how to detect my stolen pins, but it`s a job on its own, really time-consuming.
Pinterest is great for traffic one good pin can bring you some serious traffic, but it seems there are people out there who just spend time looking for high ranking pins then re-directing them.
for example a pin I blogged about, it sent me so much traffic blogged about it here at WA, soon after that, the pin stopped sending me traffic and I can't seem to find it on Pinterest. You Need To Use Pinterest, 1 Good Pin can make all The difference .
Anyways, we can`t have them all so I accept loosing some and winning some till someone takes them away.
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Thanks for sharing, Alan