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How Pinterest Can Increase Your Google Rankings

Dear Wedding Professionals:

A few weeks ago, I shared 6 Tips on How to Use Pinterest to Grow Your Wedding Business. For those of you who haven't heard, Pinterest is the new social network that both brides and wedding pros are embracing. It is different from Facebook and Twitter because it is far more visual. It’s not about posting a sentence or paragraph in hopes of starting a conversation. Instead, members post images of things that interest them. That’s what gets the conversation started. Pinterest gives us an opportunity to share our interest in weddings and to find brides who enjoy the same things.

Today, I'm going to hand my blog over to my dear friend, Kathy DalPra of BrideAppeal.com. She is a wedding SEO expert and created a special video to teach you how to use Pinterest to increase your website's Google rankings. Oh, and if you'd like to share your Pinterest address, please comment below. Our Pinterest address is Pinterest.com/BridalTweet. You can also follow Kathy DalPra at Pinterest.com/BrideAppeal. We'd both love it if you followed us! Or better yet - pin this page! Pin It

Here's to your success!

About This Blog: Christine Dyer is the Creator and Founder of BridalTweet. Christine has an MBA in marketing and shares over twelve years of marketing expertise with the wedding community. In this weekly blog, you'll find advice on an array of wedding business topics such as how to market to brides, social networking, wedding PR, wedding sales, vendor networking, branding, pricing and much more. Please pass this news along to your own professional wedding network. To receive this advice in your email inbox each week, Sign Up for a Free BridalTweet Membership.

Comment by Dressy Girl Kouture on February 14, 2012 at 6:16am: Thank you for for this very informative blog!

Now following both of you :)

Ours is http://pinterest.com/dressygirlk

We follow all of our followers xoxo

Comment by Nadine Zaun on February 14, 2012 at 6:19am: Another thing to learn......oh my gosh! Thanks for the video tutorial! As always Christine you deliver up to date info.

We just started our pin board http://pinterest.com/adornbrides/

We have also added coding to our products so that visitors browsing Adorn.com can now pin jewelry ideas.

Comment by Jenny from Something Forever on February 14, 2012 at 6:21am: Thanks Kathy, there are tips in there that I will definitely utilise. Pinterest is my new obsession! http://pinterest.com/s_thingforever/

Comment by Pamela Plant on February 14, 2012 at 6:26am: Thanks Christine and Kathy for sharing that video. My Pintrest address is: http://pinterest.com/timeflownbye/

My website is www.timeflownbye.com.

Comment by Audrey Jeanne Roberts on February 14, 2012 at 6:30am: I've been working at Pinterest for a month or so. It's such a great research tool for me as I design my original watercolor illustration wedding invitations. Here's my page: http://pinterest.com/audreyjeanner/

Comment by MariLynn McCloskey on February 14, 2012 at 6:46am: Great video, I've been focusing really hard on optimizing my website, Etsy shop, etc., Been using my Pinterest, but had not considered the benefits of optimizing my verbal content on it as well! Thanks for sharing

My pinterest adderess: http://pinterest.com/DesignsbyDaffy/

Comment by Anita Mistry on February 14, 2012 at 6:55am: My pinterest link is http://pinterest.com/itsamistry/# I've followed both accounts and have shared the video on my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ItsamistryDesignStudio1

Anita

Comment by Durango CO Photographer on February 14, 2012 at 7:04am: Thanks for the tip on adding my website address to the link box. Don't know why I didn't think of that, duh!

My site address is http://pinterest.com/karenskelly/

Comment by Emee at EJP Events on February 14, 2012 at 7:14am: Interesting tips. Regarding editing links, I think it's really important to make sure that you are not just editing links to send people back to your website or blog, but also to make sure that credit is given to the original maker of the image.

For example, if you blog about someone else's image, idea, or creation; then pin an image from your blog post to Pinterest, and edit the link to send people back to YOUR website, it is YOUR responsibility to make sure that that creator is credited very clearly on your website.The ideal thing to do would be to edit the link so it sends the reader back to the ORIGINAL creator's website.

Be wary of pinning and repinning from sites like tumblr and weheartit.com -- although people sometimes try to link back to the original source, many times they do not. If you repin those bad links, you are perpetuating an intellectual theft. A quick Google search often reveals the original creator and it only takes seconds to do the right thing.

And I will add, although I try my best to credit, every now and then something gets by me. So I welcome it if someone alerts me to an incorrect or uncredited link so I can make a correction.

My pinterest is: http://pinterest.com/ejpevents