How can you tell if your item has been Pinned on Pinterest?

[Former_Member]

Is there a way to tell with the new Pin button that someone has pinned your item?

Thanks

[lewisandbucky]

Not that I know of...but if it's pinned, you will likely start getting pintrest views...

[Former_Member]

I don't think there's a way to tell. Probably a jump in pinterest views in your shop stats.

[Former_Member]

You can check your shop stats
If you are getting traffic from Pinterest, it'll be in your traffic sources
Once you click on the traffic source, namely, pinterest.com, via etsy stats, you will see which items have been pinned and how many views it generated so far (you won't see the source but you will know which ones have been pinned at least)

Hope that was understandable!

[Former_Member]

I think the only tracking you can do is:
1. what Susan recommended above
2. pin one of your items yourself. When you log into Pinterest.com, there's a bar on the left hand side that tells you who has repinned or liked something you posted, or is following one of your boards.

[LittleBitsOFaith]

This is something new to me....of course, I am a bit techno challenged. Do you have a pinterest account like facebook? I will have to check into this...i learn something new all the time, or at least i hope to!!

[Former_Member]

yes when some one pins me I get an email. Saying so and so pinned and what exactly they pinned you can click on them and see who they are. And pin them or follow them too

[Former_Member]

Elizabeth from LittleBitsOFaith says

This is something new to me....of course, I am a bit techno challenged. Do you have a pinterest account like facebook? I will have to check into this...i learn something new all the time, or at least i hope to!!

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Pinterest is basically a digital version of a pinboard/scrapbook. You create sections and add things you find across the internet to it linking with a picture. My acct has everything from stuff I'd love to get for my pregnancy/baby, recipes, great photography I just love looking at, jewelry etc etc

[Former_Member]

hu? what pin button? i guess i missed the train on this one.

[Former_Member]

We haven't joined Pinterest (yet) since we heard it's crazy addictive!
We were curious, though, as to how this site would impact traffic to our shop. We did discover multiple items of our have been pinned, and here's how...
Go to your web analytics
Choose "traffic sources"
Click "referral traffic"
If Pinterest.com is a source, it will be listed on the right.
Click "view full report" on bottom right, then choose "pinterest.com"
You will then have a list of all the referral paths/URLs for the pins.
We only had a couple dozen referrals from these pins so far, so we just copied and pasted "/pin/#######/" after pinterest.com in our web browser, and discovered about a quarter of them were actually our product! Exciting!!!
The other items were somewhat random, but some were similar products on Etsy, so people must have clicked on them then discovered our merchandise by browsing in the same category.

We did notice the "pinit" button by the FB "like" button in the item listings, but a little speech bubble with the number of pins does not appear as the FB "likes" do.
Wish there was a way of being notified when an item gets pinned!
Elaine Wilding from AStitchingAddiction, how do you receive email notifications?