Matching Pinterest & SEO strategy — Lindsay Shearer // BrandRanx Media

Lindsay Shearer, CEO of Pins 4 Profit, talks about social media and its impact on SEO. Come next year, the cookieless era will take full effect and advertisers will lose their ability to track and target consumers on different platforms the way they once used to. To build sustainable brands, eCommerce companies will need to master the search engine game on multiple search engines and they’ll need to do so using content. Today, Lindsay discusses matching Pinterest and your SEO strategy.
About the speaker

Lindsay Shearer

Pins 4 Profit

 is a little camera shy

Lindsay is the CEO of Pins 4 Profit

Show Notes

  • 02:06
    Matching your SEO strategy with a social strategy for Pinterest
    Look for keywords that are relevant to both Google and Pinterest and match those to pages on your website. Youre able to drive links back from Pinterest to your domain and rank your Pinterest content on Google's image algorithm.
  • 05:19
    The importance of updating your links on Pinterest
    Links on your Pinterest have to be updated constantly because they last forever. This is to avoid traffic going to invalid links.
  • 06:36
    Optimizing your content to outrank competing images on Google
    Using a rich pins plugin, you can embed images on your blog pages and share them from your blog page directly to Pinterest. That way, your content is able to show up and rank higher on Google and Pinterest.
  • 08:11
    Why eCommerce brands need to create content for multiple channels
    Due to advertising bans, privacy issues, and the coming cookieless era, eCommerce brands wont have the ability they once did to target on different platforms. So, brands need to increase their visibility on multiple search engines using content.
  • 11:43
    Pinterest user behavior and its effect on Google rankings
    Generally, content that ranks higher on Pinterest, affects your search ranking on Google. It is advised to create an influencer network so that your content can gain more visibility, rank organically on Pinterest, and increase your Google ranking.

Quotes

  • "When you drive links back from Pinterest to your website, and you're matching those up with a Google strategy, you're getting all of that traffic from Google and from Pinterest." -Lindsay Shearer, CEO, Pins 4 Profit

  • "You have to constantly update your links on Pinterest because they last forever. If you have an old image that has a link that's not valid and you're getting a ton of traffic to it, you're in trouble." -Lindsay Shearer, CEO, Pins 4 Profit

  • "I have stuff that I put up on my Pinterest page over five years ago on random topics like email marketing that still gets traffic to our website every single week." -Lindsay Shearer, CEO, Pins 4 Profit

  • “Typically, what we initially look at is our competitors for keywords on the image search, and 99% of the time no one's even paying attention to that.” -Lindsay Shearer, CEO, Pins 4 Profit

  • “Pinterest is indexed the same way a search engine is, so it's going to automatically have higher relevance for you.” -Lindsay Shearer, CEO, Pins 4 Profit

About the speaker

Lindsay Shearer

Pins 4 Profit

 is a little camera shy

Lindsay is the CEO of Pins 4 Profit

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