Sharing on Pinterest?

[Boki]

Hello,
I'm wondering if sharing on Pinterest is working for you (since there have been a lot of interruptions with sharing, so I hope it's a coincidence and that the links work for us, so that we can also sell something we shared), in the sense: have you sold anything from the beginning of April to today, regardless of whether it was something from your store or someone else's, and is it shown in your report? Thanks for the reply.

[Boki]

Can someone give me some impressions of Pinterest ? 🤓🙄😎

[YesItsRoy]

It's hard to say because we get sales, so we earn Royalties, but Referrals are so hard to come by, and that's when we might be able to tell where the Referral was generated -- with a Tracking Code.  I can tell you that I have a Product I where was getting decent Referrals from my website, but those Referrals have all but dried up since April 1.

But I digress -- sorry.

Yes.  I can tell you for sure where one Tracking Code wasn't stripped that I sold something from a Pinterest Pin I posted in January 2022.  My tracking code was very specific, and I'm sure that's when I shared the Product (someone else's and not mine). 

People think of Pinterest as Social Media, but I don't know any people who socialize on it.  They may collaborate on an event or project, but not really socialize.  Pinterest is really a search engine where they index all the things we post, and then years later, someone can swing in searching "Disney Princess Invitations," and -bam- here comes Boki's pin with the goods.  They've never heard of Zazzle -hopefully- and you are their first click, and if the sun and moon align, you earn a Referral.

I do it for the backlinks to my Products, but I pin other people's stuff for variety on my boards. It keeps my views, saves, and outbound clicks moving along.  Rarely, I do make a sale.  

[Deb1]

I noticed since I now post to Pinterest my Pinterest numbers are okay, but my Zazzle numbers are lower. I am wondering since they see my products on Pinterest do, they even bother to look at the Zazzle site at all. 

[tsikona]

Yes, I made some self referrals in April and in May (mostly digital downloads) but physical products sold also during this period. 

[Susang6]

I continue to manually share links to Pinterest to ensure they remain clean. Based on what I've observed, Pinterest does not add tracking cookies that would modify the link and turn it into a third-party referral. However, I haven't seen the same level of traffic or sales that would generate a higher royalty. Nearly all of my sales are still coming in as third-party referrals, even though I previously earned from Pinterest referral links before the Ambassador Program.

I rarely promote other designers products, due to so many "other designers" products on the landing page.  Its too easy to lose that sale. 

[Deb1]

I hope Zazzle goes back to how it was. I see pretty good numbers in Pinterest, but I lose sales due to how my product is shown. Also, one of my concerns are since they are going to Pinterest, they don't even bother to look at Zazzle at all. I'm just really disappointed in Zazzle right now.