Making Your Blog Pinterest Compatible

Written by: Justin Germino

February 16th, 2012 3:00 pm - 13 Comments

I found out the hard way last week that nobody would be able to “pin” one of my poetry blog posts because there was no media fitting the criteria needed for Pinterest to create a pin. This is a high quality (larger) image or embedded video that it can detect and use as a thumbnail when adding a pin.

Check out this video showing you how to check for Pinterest compatibility and what to do to make sure all of your posts and pages are Pinterest compatible.

Make sure you double check your blog to see if it is Pinterest compatible, because with 10+ million users already, this is one network that can’t be ignored.

I have already heard some bloggers talk about how Pinterest is showing as a referrer in Google Analytics to their sites, and I am curious to know how many of my readers are already using Pinterest?

I also added a Pinterest Pin button here on DragonBlogger.com, to make it easier to Pin an article with 1 click.

In case you can’t watch the video, here are the steps.

Step 1 – Attempt to PIN one of your blog posts to Pinterest if you get “no suitable image or video found” error you know you have to make a change.
Step 2 – Make sure you either change your header logo/image in header.php to a larger one that Pinterest can recognize or make sure you embed a picture of at least 350px width in every article to allow for Pinterest to have a “set” image it can pick up for the article.

-Dragon Blogger

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Article Written by Justin Germino (1579 Articles Published)

Working in the IT Industry for over 10 years and specializing in web based technologies. Dragon Blogger has unique insights and opinions to how the internet and web technology works. An Avid movie fan, video game fan and fan of trying anything and everything new.

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davelucas 5 pts

Hey Justin - it would be relly helpful if YOU and other bloggers included TRANSCRIPTS for videos. I'll bet you get a TON of bounces from people who have either exceeded bandwidth or don't have the capability to watch the video from, say, a certain brand or carrier's smartphone.

They arrive here thinking they'll get solid info only to get a video they can't watch (and did you know, some videos display a "blocked in your country" message - I've had that happen to me trying to watch video on a blog from Montreal, just a few hundred miles North of where I am!)

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Dragon Blogger 213 pts moderator

davelucas I did not realize this, I thought YouTube only blocked content from actual media broadcasts, they can block our own personal content from other countries? That sucks, I will find time to summarize video with steps right now and will make note of this for the future.

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make money 6 pts

I personally found that pinterest is great tool for blogger but compatibility is very important when we use pinterest

Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com 6 pts

The problem is most of the audience are female and our photos are "techie" or "gadget" related most of the time. My funny pictures or jokes get the most repinned and likes but the gadgets, maybe 1 or 2 lol

Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com I agree, it is a female dominated social media network, so I would pin tech or a few articles that would appeal to female audience. Use graphics that women would respond to on occasion could be an eye catching way to get likes. A techie kitchen gadget showcase once in a while too!

Dragon Blogger Just have to find one to review now lol

SarahArrow 208 pts

Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com I don't see the audience being mainly female a problem. Did you know every major purchasing decision is run by at least 2 females? That males rarely buy a major appliance or high cost purchase without gaining advice from the females in his life? You want to influence the influencers.

You should be pinning and engaging with gusto as these women hold $5 billion in purchasing power in the US alone.

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SarahArrow Hi Sarah, it's not that I'm trying to prove anything, but my blog's niche is mostly about gadgets - and although I know many women like technologies and gadgets, it's not as popular as men :) (judging by the percentage of people commenting and liking my Facebookf an page)It's like you have a parenting blog - though men are parents, parenting blogs are more popular toward women

Sorry if my reply offended you somehow

Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com Ok, you have offended me now :) , I have a blog about women in business. I own a site for parenting but it's not my thing so someone else manages it. The post that LiveFyre links to is written by a bloke and is about 6 months old and as I no longer use LiveFyre on my blogs, I am stuck with that post as my link. So I can understand why you *think* I may be a parent blogger.

I am actually a transport blogger. That involves things like gasoline (it's what your wife uses to make your car run), logistics etc, feel free to ask her about every day transportation issues.

My point that I am making is, even if you share tech and gadgets you are in the peripheral vision of your influencers. My hubby asks me what I think if a certain GPS system, I don't google it, I see what's already known in my circle of contacts. And if something is pretty cool, I'll say... " the Tom-Tom XXX looks pretty cool and has a few shares and followers and I got chatting to so and so and they love it".

When you share your stuff, remember the secondary customers, the ones that influence your primary customers - they can make a big difference. But hey, what do I know?

For the record, I have transport pinboards as well as pinboards for business, infographics, G+, things that I will buy the kids and places I will visit in New York. I'm a goldmine of data .

SarahArrow lol yup, cool. Point taken :)

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The advice in this article is for more than just Pinterest, it is important to have a quality image that can be set as a thumbnail for any service, or even your header image be recognizable so it can be set as a thumbnail.