They Are Stealing My Traffic
I`m not the best in Social media, or better said, I could never master facebook.So it was a real blessing when I started using Pinterest and mastered it fast enough.
Soon I had enough followers and started having some serious views to my site.Then out of nowhere, the views started going down and it was like a free fall. I follwed all the tips from someone who gets upto a million views a month but without much improvement.
So yesterday I started to check if maybe my pins are not working properly, to my sad surprise, someone stole my pins so if/when someone clicks my Pin, it leads to their site instead of mine.No wonder traffic dissapeared, now I have to search pinterest and find my stolen pins and ask for them to be removed.Upto now I have asked for 3 images to be removed.What a pain.
I`m so dissapoiinted in myself I did not watermark my earlier pins.Will invest maybe a week looking for my pins leading away from my site and ask to have them all removed.If you`re using Pinterest, please mark your images and pins.You don`t want to be me.
Example is below,these 2 images are mine 100% created by me, but now when I click them, they lead to a different URL.It`s sad
https://www.pinterest.ch/pin/642818546789887461/
https://www.pinterest.ch/pin/616078424002633515/
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Sadly there are people who take a short cut instead of doing the work. Make sure to report their site to Google too. Are they the manufacturer of the product you are promoting? If not, report the to the manufacturer as someone stealing. Find every place you possibly can to get them in trouble.
Soz to hear this, Roamy! :(
I really wished scammers and cheaters would just disappear online and do us all a favour.
I recently found the same person/people on Fiverr who copied one of my reviews and pasted it across multiple blogs that outranked my original work on Google lol.
I had Google remove 5 reviews, but the con artist still has not learned his or her lesson and steals content from other blogs.
It seems everywhere we look, the Internet is plagued by frauds.
Geez! How can someone still another person's pins? I'm lost. I use Pinterest and 25-30% of my traffic is from that platform. I've never had this issue and wonder how it's even possible.
Is there a way for you to report the person who's stealing your traffic?
One pin got removed today, I`m waiting for them to remove the rest and at the same time, going around pinterest looking for my pins leading to the wrong URL, it`s a tedious work.
Sure you can report it to Pinterest and the image will be removed https://policy.pinterest.com/en/copyright.you have to let them know which pin and prove it`s originally yours.
From the email I got from pinterest, the image will be removed immediately but it may take up to 24 hours to be removed from all servers.
Oh, dear! So sorry to hear you have to do this. It's a pity some people are not ashamed of robbing others this way. I wish Pinterest could find a way to ban them from their platform.
Wow, really sorry to hear this is happening to you. Honestly I have not yet tackled Pinterest yet.
Would you mind explaining how to go about marking ones own images and pins?
I sincerely hope you are able to recover all that belongs to you!
Marking your images is easy, place your logo in a place that`s not intrusive in your image. Most pinners do it with their URL which also works great. Anywhere in the image(mostly below the image) place your URL.
Because I realize these people want readers to believe the pin is theirs.so if a pin has a URL and you click and it leads you to a different URL as what was in the pin, you know it.that`s why they only chose unmarked pins as no-one will know the pin is leading to the wrong place.
Thanks for the heads up Roamy.
I'm so sorry you had to go through this but grateful that you have informed us.
I thought your pins were your pins and if someone decided to re-pin them, they would still link back to your own site.
Seems like I need to do a bit more research on how Pinterest works as I'd hate for all my hard work to be reaped by someone else.
It'll be additional work to watermark my images but it'll be worth the effort.
Wish you success in finding your pins and re-pointing them back to your site.
That`s how it`s supposed to happen but seems there are people out there that do not want to create pins and just go about stealing them.
Marking your images is quick, in the earlier days I did not but after I read in FB groups that pins get stolen I now (if I don`t forget) mark mine with my website logo a quick process really.
I will not give up but it will not be easy, there are XXX pins on Pinterest so it`s like looking for a needle really.
I knew (from facebook groups) that pins can be stolen,I just don't know how they do it, but instead of it leading to your site, it goes to a different site.I don`t know how they link it, like affiliate link I guess. It`s terrible.
I really don`t know how it works or how these people work, all I have found out is that they are able to make the image (when clicked)bring readers to their site instead of landing in the right place.
What I know is that it`s really hard finding stolen pins, as you have to go through XXX number of pins. But I keep looking, I had loads of traffic from Pinterest in the past, I only knew something was wrong when traffic from Pinterest disappeared.
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Actually guys, I have a training on watermarking images. Here's the link to the training: How to Watermark Your Images with FREE Resources I hope this helps you guys out.. :)