{"id":491,"date":"2014-02-23T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2014-02-23T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T18:01:37","slug":"how-to-pinterest-like-a-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"How to Pinterest Like a BOSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to master the &#8220;<em>art of Pinteresting<\/em>&#8220;&#8230;aka., &#8220;How to Pinterest Like A BOSS&#8221;!!!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pinterest-logo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-517\" alt=\"pinterest-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pinterest-logo-300x163.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pinterest-logo-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pinterest-logo.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1) Verify the pin! Verify! Verify! VERIFY! \u00a0Click it first, prior to repinning. \u00a0Does it take you to what you&#8217;re really looking for? \u00a0What good is it if it doesn&#8217;t take you back to what you need later? \u00a0Save yourself the time and trouble now and verify the pin before you add or re-pin it! \u00a0If it doesn&#8217;t take you where you need to be, then do a Google search, find what you need and pin that one instead! \u00a0Be kind to your fellow pinners! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2) Follow boards of interest\/build up your boards! Trying to lose weight? When you pin a link that&#8217;s pertinent, check out the other boards that it&#8217;s also on! \u00a0Notice how (most of the time) after you add or re-pin a pin, you&#8217;ll see that &#8220;Also on&#8221; pop-up? \u00a0Click those!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PinterestScreenshot01a.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-516\" alt=\"PinterestScreenshot01a\" src=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PinterestScreenshot01a-300x215.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PinterestScreenshot01a-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PinterestScreenshot01a.jpg 1006w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow those boards and you&#8217;ll get more pins with that same interest! \u00a0Don&#8217;t be afraid to follow boards with few pins. \u00a0You know why? \u00a0If the pinner is following the <em>unwritten<\/em> rules of Pinterest, they&#8217;ll be building those boards up with <em>more<\/em> pins and you&#8217;ll get to see those pins in your feed so you can add them, too! \u00a0That is the point of Pinterest, <em>right<\/em>? \u00a0Right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3) Report fishy\/spammy links. \u00a0This one kind of goes hand in hand with #1, but if you do run across a suspicious link, report it to Pinterest so they can take care of it and save other pinners time later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to master the &#8220;art of Pinteresting&#8220;&#8230;aka., &#8220;How to Pinterest Like A BOSS&#8221;!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[47,149],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifehacks","tag-lifehack","tag-pinterest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}