Pinterest Becoming A Social Media Tsunami

by Rick Thomas on 2012/01/27

SEO and social media professionals in Fort Myers, Florida and all over the country are all talking about a new social media platform … Pinterest … a site that allows users to post and comment on pictures, images  and videos they find while surfing the web.  Pinterest describes itself as a “virtual pin board”  where people can post pictures of those things they find interesting, useful, or just plain fun as well as browse what others are posting either by searching keywords, checking the posts of their friends, or by choosing generic categories such as “everything” or “popular”.

 

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What people enjoy about Pinterest most is that it gives them an opportunity to paint a virtual self portrait of …

 

WHO THEY ARE!

As one goes from page to page while searching the posts it is truly amazing how quickly you get a feel for who the person who made the posts is.  Words can be disingenuous, sarcastic, manipulative, or ambiguous.  Words take time to read, thought to comprehend, and can completely change in context based on voice inflection or facial expression.  While browsing boards on Pinterest one can view up to 130 hand selected pictures in a matter of a few short seconds and make a meaningful decision on how well they relate to the individual that posted them.

THAT IS UNPRECEDENTED!

For SEO and social media professionals it gets even better!  It has long been understood that who you are friends with and the extent of your interaction with them is far more important than the number of people you have listed as friends.  Pinterest is a great tool for identifying who you are “friending” and what your common points of interest are!  Other great features of the site pertaining to search engine optimization (SEO) and social media marketing (SMM) are …

Easy to post live inbound links to your website!

Searchable keywords in description!

User Profile contains Links to other users social media sites!

Page rank is 6 … and rising!

Pinterest has an RSS feed!

All great reasons to recommend Pinterest to your SEO and social media clients!  I strongly recommend Pinterest to everyone I meet these days.  It is useful, it is fun, it is a fantastic form of self expression!  Give Pinterest a try and tell me what you think.  A word of caution though … it can be a little addictive!  If you need an invite send me an email with “Pinterest” as the subject and include your email address, and I will send out as many invites as I am allowed.

Social media, SEO, Advertising

Feel Free To Follow Ft Myers Marketing on Pinterest

http://pinterest.com/ftmyersseo/

HAPPY PINNING!

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An SEO “Night Before Christmas”

by Rick Thomas on 2011/12/24

SEO In Fort Myers, Florida

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!  HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Ft Myers SEO,Santa at Facebook Christmas party in Naples Florida

Last December 22 I was up late doing SEO (search engine optimization) for one of my clients, and wasn’t nearly finished.  I took a short break to put on a pot of coffee and enjoy a cigar outside.  The idea occurred to me that I was having a stereotypical “SEO guy” night before Christmas.  A pen and paper were handy and I played around until I had this …

 

T’was the night before Christmas and in back of the shop
the fresh pot of coffee just dripped it’s last drop.
The computer store geeks were at home asleep dreaming
while the SEO worked on some search result scheming.
From Facebook to Foursquare, to Linkedin he’d flitter
while checking if he was retweeted on Twitter.
He hyper linked keywords, checked rss feeds,
took care of his clients businesses needs.
New ideas for blogs in his mind started sparking
while engaged in a round of social bookmarking.
He never heard Santa or the 8 reindeer with him
he was focused on Google’s search algorithm.
Santa left him a stocking and a wrapped gift or 3
thinking I want this SEO marketing me.
As he left Santa shouted “… to all a good night …”
“SEO guy … I’ll call you about my web site”!

Hope all of you have a safe, fun, and memorable Holiday!  Wishing you a prosperous New Year!

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