Pinterest is the hot button word on everyone's lips these days. How can you better take advantage of pinning in order to drive business objectives? Here are 10 Things You Need to Know About: Pinterest

1. 10 Things You Need
to Know About:
Pinterest

2. 10 Million+
users
*Pinterest

3. Drove 3.6% of
referral traffic in
Jan. ’12
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4. 80% of pins are
repins of existing
content
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5. Pinterest
descriptions can
be up to 500
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6. Maximum width
of images is
554px (no limit
for height)*http://4.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/updated-
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7. Most eCommerce
images usually
don’t work –
they’re too small
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8. Most links on
Pinterest are
nofollows, but
factor into search
* http://4.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/updated-
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9. Repins create
more links to
your site + raise
your search rank
* http://4.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/updated-
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10. Pinterest (unlike
FB) lets search
engines crawl
their site * http://4.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/updated-
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11. Pinterest board
titles show up in
URLs – use
keywords * http://4.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/updated-
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