Mastering Pinterest SEO: An insider's guide

Pinterest is a cancer in the world of useful content. It&#x27;s bad enough that they&#x27;ve destroyed Google image search, but now I see results from them bleeding on to regular search as well, which boggles my mind because Pinterest just links to other sites (while making it next to impossible to find the actual site.)<p>I hate Pinterest so much that I&#x27;ve set up a keyword shortcut in Chrome search for image search that adds &quot;-site:pinterest.com&quot; automatically when searching.

I honestly do not understand why google allows pinterest to wreck their image search.<p>I&#x27;m sure there is some sort of ad kick back, but it is just awful.<p>Its one of the main reasons I switched to duckduckgo as my default search.

What John says in this post about &quot;Pinterest as a source of inbound links&quot; is false. Pinterest uses rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; on external links, which severs any value the links have for SEO.<p>For example:<p>Pin collection page: &lt;a class=&quot;GestaltTouchableFocus&quot; href=&quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etsy.com&#x2F;listing&#x2F;83131400&#x2F;ornaments-pine-cone-gnomes-elves-set-of?ref=sr_gallery_5&amp;amp;ga_search_query=ornaments&amp;amp;ga_order=most_relevant&amp;amp;ga_ship_to=US&amp;amp;ga_view_type=gallery&amp;amp;ga_search_type=handmade&amp;amp;ga_facet=handmade&amp;amp;epik=dj0yJnU9ZzlQMjJYUEJEZXc2MF9haHRxUk8tRFBjVHIzVjdlbUomcD0wJm49Sk1GUUtISnJzR3hPVXhBRXRFWF9iUSZ0PUFBQUFBRi1LS1NF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etsy.com&#x2F;listing&#x2F;83131400&#x2F;ornaments-pine-cone-gn...</a>&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;<p>Pin detail page: &lt;a class=&quot;linkModuleActionButton&quot; href=&quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etsy.com&#x2F;listing&#x2F;83131400&#x2F;ornaments-pine-cone-gnomes-elves-set-of?ref=sr_gallery_5&amp;amp;ga_search_query=ornaments&amp;amp;ga_order=most_relevant&amp;amp;ga_ship_to=US&amp;amp;ga_view_type=gallery&amp;amp;ga_search_type=handmade&amp;amp;ga_facet=handmade&amp;amp;epik=dj0yJnU9ZzlQMjJYUEJEZXc2MF9haHRxUk8tRFBjVHIzVjdlbUomcD0wJm49Sk1GUUtISnJzR3hPVXhBRXRFWF9iUSZ0PUFBQUFBRi1LS1NF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etsy.com&#x2F;listing&#x2F;83131400&#x2F;ornaments-pine-cone-gn...</a>&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;<p>You aren&#x27;t going to improve your SEO by being on Pinterest, at least by getting links from Pinterest. It&#x27;s possible someone else sees your site from browsing Pinterest and then links to it from their site.

Pinterest and GIS (Google Image Search) are so bad now. I find things in GIS and click on it, and it opens pinterest. And then when I&#x27;m in Pinterest I click on the image again because I&#x27;m trying to track down the original place the image came from, and when I click on it, it literally LOADS a Google Image Search Result page. For Google to reward this behavior must mean they no longer have anyone actually updating GIS anymore. It&#x27;s probably in permafrost maintenance mode.

I am just waiting for the (moment of true) to hit us all. After 20 years of advancements in web technology we are an inch from making it useful only for ad companies and consumer driven behaviour. Is usenet valuable alternative for filtering out tons of crap pushed by ad empires ?

To be honest, I think Google and search engines should delist Pinterest pictures from their image search. And from all search in general.<p>Why? Because their data is not really usable. To even view it, Pinterest forces you to log in.<p>Why must I log in? If your data is not meant for the internet, then don’t allow it to be indexed.

What I don&#x27;t understand is why pinterest can survive in a world of DMCA takedowns.<p>I mean, their whole business model is stealing content they don&#x27;t own.

Alternative title: How to make people waste time when they&#x27;re using Google Images.

Pinterest is honestly a relatively fine platform with interesting and well thought out apps (can&#x27;t say that about some of the major players). It just hurts that they keep spamming search results. You&#x27;d think at this point it would do more to hurt their brand than help it.<p>If they had the simplest tool to help tracking down an image&#x27;s source at least they would provide <i>any</i> value.

Message to pinterest: Please stop ruining google image search. Please. Just stop

For the sake of SEO, Pinterest needs to go.

So I wonder how long it will take the disinformation teams to start leveraging their content on Pinterest (or did I miss the start already?).

Probably Pinterest is preparing to be acquired. That&#x27;s why their SEO strategy is perfect!