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JOCELYN: Hey y’all, you’re listening to Q&A with S&J.
SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We’re your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let’s get started.
JOCELYN: Hey guys, welcome to today’s Q&A mini podcast. We are here today with a question from Walter Gould.
SHANE: Gould, G-O-U-L-D.
JOCELYN: That would be a G.
SHANE: G-O-U-L-D.
JOCELYN: Sorry Walter.
SHANE: Gould, Walter Gould.
JOCELYN: I’m sorry we messed up your name.
“My wife, Vicky, who is an elementary PE teacher, and I are in the beginning stages of starting a business, Elementarypeteacher.com. One of our struggles has been getting our arms around social media, in particular, Pinterest. We have started pinning pins on Vicky’s Pinterest page that link back to blog post but we’re not sure we’re doing it correctly and we’re not sure how to get the “learn more at website” to hover over the pins.”
All right, Walter, we have done some fine investigating on this topic.
SHANE: Sherlock Holmes has on this morning trying to figure this out. What Walter is talking about is in your feed on Pinterest or like when you search for something and all the little board show up or whatever, and I am by no means an expert on Pinterest.
Jocelyn is way more into Pinterest than I am. We looked at I and what happens is when you’re flipping your mouse like overall the little things that people have pinned, lo and behold, down at the bottom, when you hover your mouse over a certain thing, a little sentence pops up that says, “Learn more at Elementarypeteacher.com” if it was one of Walter’s pins.
The difference is if you go look at your boards, they do not do that. When you hover over your own pins, like on your own boards, that little sentence does not pop up like that. As far as we can tell, Walter, this only happens in the feed or the search results and does not happen on your own boards. If you’re looking at your own boards and that’s not popping up, as far as we can tell, that does not happen there so don’t freak out like you’re doing something wrong because we’re not sure for sure if it even is suppose to happen on your own boards. It only happens in the actual feed.
JOCELYN: Or at least from when I was looking at this morning. Another thing that you can do, there is a little pin it button and you can actually get this for any browser. We use the Chrome browser and it is an…
SHANE: It’s like an extension that you download into your browser basically.
JOCELYN: Yeah, and you can actually even download it from Pinterest. If you just type in “Pinterest pin it button,” it will take you right there and you can download for whichever browser you use. This is how I pin all of the things from my website and I like using the pin it button because you can pin it from your website and it will automatically pop up with all of the information that Pinterest wants.
Right there, you can type in the description of your pin and that’s a great way to type in something that somebody might be searching for in Pinterest so you want to make sure you have a good description there. Remember that people can change that so it’s always good to have some words on your picture as well. Also, it will automatically have the web address where that came from.
You want to make sure that that web address to that post is correct and as long as that is correct in the feed, you should be able to see the little “learn more at Elementarypeteacher.com.”
SHANE: We want to stress here too though, you’re over thinking this. This is kind of those, “It ain’t got to be perfect moments.” The key is just to get it onto your boards, pin things from your website, get it out there. If that thing does not hover up over your website, I don’t look through Pinterest and say, “That didn’t hover learn more. I’m clearly not clicking on that site.”
It’s more important that your Pinterest picture is great and that you’re working on your descriptions and your making sure your domain links are correct. Don’t worry about those little things like that on social media or especially like Pinterest. The key is to create great content, create very captivating images, and share those on Pinterest directly from your website. That’s what’s going to make your Pinterest following grow more than maybe that one link, it may be driving you crazy a little bit but it’s not going to make or break your business.
JOCELYN: Use that pin up button, like I said earlier, don’t go into Pinterest and add a pin. You can do it that way but you have more chances for typos and things like that if you pin it from Pinterest. So pin from your website.
SHANE: Also too, include a plug in. We have a plug in on our website on Flipped Lifestyle. If you go over there to FlippedLifestyle.com and you check it out, all of our pictures have a little button on the actual picture that says, “pin it.” What do you call that, Pinterest attraction?
JOCELYN: Pin button attraction and we will put a link to that in today’s show notes.
SHANE: All it is is a plug in. You turn it on. You can turn it off and on for any post or any picture and that not only allows you to have a thing where you can pin that page directly from your image but anybody that actually comes to your website over at Elementarypeteacher.com. You’ll actually be able to give them away to pin it as well. We are by no means experts of Pinterest. If we’ve done something or missed something, we’re telling this completely wrong, please come over to FlippedLifestyle.com/QA38 and leave something in the comments if you can tell us exactly why that “learn more” hover comes up. We would love to hear about it and as always, thank you guys so much for listening.
JOCELYN: See yah. Bye.
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Walter Gould says
Hey guys, I just wanted to say thanks for answering our question.. We thought that was the case, but wasn’t sure. Great advice on the plugins and on not letting little things like that get us distracted! Love your site, keep up the great work.. Also, our last name is pronounced like Elliot Gould’s last name (Vicki got a good laugh out of you guy’s trying to pronounce it)… 🙂