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How to Add a Pinterest Button to Wordpress
Aloha. Welcome to another Social Strategizer Marketing episode. In today's video, I'm going
to show you how to install this Pinterest hover button. This is the button that hovers
or pops up when someone hovers over the image on your website. And you may be asking well
why would I want to do that. Well one, it makes it really easy for people who don't
have the Pinterest bookmark like this or even know that they can do that. It just makes
it easier for users when they come to your site to pin your images because one, they
hover over the Pinterest image, hover button pops up.
Look at how many times this page has been shared--6,000 plus times, my business quotes
page has been shared. So just to give you an idea, when you get traction on a good Pinterest
board what can happen. Okay. So first thing you're going to want to do is go to Google
and type in Pinterest buttons. So Pinterest buttons--turn--and you're going to click on
this Pinterest widget builder and you're going to get to this page here. You're going to
choose the Pin It button, and then you're going to come down here and click on image
hover. Then you're going to choose small or large, rectangular, circular. Basically you're
going to customize it to fit your site look and how you want it to look, and then you're
going to come down here and grab this code.
And where this code goes is, now depending on your website, most people watching this
video are going to have Wordpress. I understand not everybody does but for the most part,
most people are going to have Wordpress. And there are plugins that you can install into
Wordpress to make this easy. I'm using the Genesis framework so it has this header and
footer built in so it's really easy. The takeaway here is you need to take that code that we
described here and you need to find where on your website, whether it's going to be
you or your developer, tell them you need to put this little piece of code in the WP
Head section of the website. If it doesn't have this WP Head section, you can just go
to the plugins, right--plugins, add new. Type in here header and footer hooks, and I just
did this before I turned on the video, and you can see there's definitely tons of plugins
here, insert headers and footers, and a simple plugin that lets you add scripts like Google
Analytics and stuff to your Wordpress site.
So that's exactly what this is, the Google Analytics code is right under that. There's
my Google Analytics code right there. That's what you're going to need to do. So if you
don't have this built into your site, go do plugins, get one of those, and then come back.
It will make a little area like this somewhere on the back end of your website and you paste
that right in there. Then you'll have a button like this on all your images, and scroll over
any of your images, the Pinterest button will automatically pop up. I'm going to also make
another video on Pinterest where I'm going to show you the--basically it's like a little
pack. Instead of posting normally straight to Pinterest like you would on Facebook or
Instagram, you actually go to your website first and that's how I was able to get this
page to be shared 6,000 plus times where Facebook likes is 10. Very little sharing there because
I don't really promote it. I only use this page to put my quotes on and then I add the
text to the quote.
In another Pinterest video, I will show you how to do this, the strategy I use to do it
real quickly so it only takes a couple of minutes. And remember, because every time
someone pins your image, when it goes out to Pinterest it actually has a link back to
the site. So watch--bam--right to the business quotes page. So that's how the Pinterest button
tracks all the backlinks on Pinterest and the trail. So that's how--Pinterest just keeps
going and going. That's how it's been able to get 6,000 plus shares and those go back
to your website. So remember, every time someone pins any image out from your website, it's
going to bring a link with it. It's the only site that does that. So if somebody clicks
through, it's going to go right to your website. Wherever that image came from, it's going
to go back to that page.
So keep an eye out for that video. I'll be releasing it somewhat soon. If you are not
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