Social Pinboard is the name of this application, and unlike other clones like Cogzidel or PinterestClones, it comes wrapped into one of the most flexible and powerful CMS’s out there offering you all of the resources and tools that comes with it. Social Pinboard is an all in one pack extension created for Joomla users by Apptha, the company responsible for many incredible online apps and tools including the Pinterest WordPress theme described in our article and lots of extensions designed for Joomla or Magento.

Is Social Pinboard Good For You?

Like I said, the “Social Pinboard” is based on Joomla which is the second most popular content management system out there offering you a large community of developers, thousands of free and premium extensions and a highly comprehensive platform for you to manage content in a pleasant way.

The main idea behind “Social Pinboard” is to make the customization process much more accessible for everyone bringing fun along with it’s user friendly interface. In order to enhance that experience, you also get an admin management integrated in your Joomla installation that will handle the customization process in just minutes.

Another thing worth mentioning is the potential that Social Pinboard has for your business. It can sustain an unlimited number of images on it’s pinboard and at the same time has very attractive self marketing options too. At the moment, image bookmarking is the hottest trend among web startups so it can be a real income generator even for newbies.

The Authenticity of Social Pinboard

If you are familiar with the Pinterest interface, then you will notice that Social Pinboard offers the same structure, post formats, menu and even the same features designed to let everyone repin, like or comment on each picture available on the site. One other great thing about the Social Pinboard is that the login/sign up process are available through the main website or using the social websites Facebook or Twitter.

Along with these features, the extension also brings the “classic” pinning panels available in each registered user account and profile.

Marketing Potential Behind Social Pinboard

This is undoubtedly the main reason why I chose to turn my attention to Social Pinboard. The extension comes with a giant list of features to help you create a marketing strategy, in fact you will see that over the time Social Pinboard will market itself passively.

Passive marketing is like the greatest dream of every entrepreneur out there, so the fact that you get this on Social Pinboard is simply amazing. In simple words, Social Pinboard is a one of a kind money maker! How does it do it?

Integrates Social Media Profiles

For starters, like I said earlier, Social Pinboard incorporates a login/registration system based on two of the most popular social media website out there – Twitter and Facebook. In simple words, Social Pinboard will enable fast registration using these two and with it, will give the users possibility to promote your website to their social media friends in just seconds.

Invite Only System

Another great thing is that Social Pinboard has a system similar to Pinterest that requires invitations. This way, you will manage to attract loyal members to your site referred by their friends whom they trust most. The system is still active on Pinterest and it is considered one of the top marketing strategies out there and it’s responsible for over 20 million registered users on Pinterest.

Profiles

The profiles on Social Pinboard come with a minimalist and lightweight design that is easy to manage letting everybody share their favorite images and videos while creating a good looking output. These kind of profiles will keep your visitors connected to each other and allow them to share content in a jiffy. Not to say about the styling available and the cool thumbnails!

Repin and Like System

The repinning process is what makes things go so well in the Pinterest world. Repinning will allow every user on your website to share a certain image with the entire website via his profile in just seconds. This way, the user will add a description and some of his thoughts to that image creating fresh content for your website.

There’s no need for me to tell you how valuable this can be for your online business because everybody knows that search engines love fresh content.

Social Pinboard vs Other Similar Solutions

As I mentioned earlier, I choose Social Pinboard because of it’s great marketing potential which is unique and can’t be compared with other software on the market, but that’s not the only thing that I appreciate at the extension. Making a comparison between Social Pinboard and other popular solutions made me find out that they are also great, but they lack some essential features which can be found in Social Pinboard:

1. Authenticity

2. Pinning Bookmarklet

3. Social Integration

4. Advanced User Profiles

5. Great Support and a Trusted Company Behind

So, if you like the Social Pinboard extension for Joomla you can get it now at Apptha for just $249 along with a free installation and free support for the first 6 months.

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Here listing the latest online marketing strategies for 2012 that will help you to be successful in your online service/business. You can start by implementing two to three once in a month/year than going ahead with all.

1. Re-launch your product

Generally you know your audience well, which you can launch a new service or product as per their feedback. This will help you to meet new clients who have missed your service as well your regular clients can make use of new offers.

Tip: Keep in mind to plan things profitably when viewed from both the sides (as a consumer, as an owner). You can re-launch a product that has gained more attention in the last years in a creative way with more offers and bonuses.

2. Know what you post

Post contents or videos or links that are totally related to your service. A negative or loose content will create a bad impact about the company. Make sure to add positive impressive contents each day that will help to gain great web traffic in your site.

Tip: With spending just one hour every day with posting quality contents in the networking sites will help to keep up your online reputation.

3. Stay more active on social sites

If you are using Facebook or Google + it is necessary to use them on a best creative way in increasing more traffic. Post quality contents, service related videos or like weekend quotes to keep your audience engaged. Weekend offers will help to gain new exclusive weekend shoppers/consumers. Keep in mind that now more then ever social websites are playing a decisive role in your overall ranking over the web including search engines too.

Tip: It is important to meet the consumer needs as promised. Satisfied consumers will surely turn up for more products or other recommendations. And moreover, your positive approach will be shared/viewed by other users. Therefore, make sure to stay in touch by using these networking sites.

4. Smart SEO Contents

Arrangement of words/phrases, keywords plays a major role for online marketing. A thorough research with web analysts will help you to know online activities of the consumers.

Tip: Use common words/phrases that are short as keywords in your content. It is important to post error-free, plagiarism free contents in your back link sites or service related website. Make sure to post fresh, updated interesting contents that will bring more readers/viewers.

5. PPC Campaign

Pay per click commonly known as PPC is one of the best tools to market your products. With using PPC services like Facebook ads and Google Adwords you can easily target your clients in affordable means. It is worth to pay as it will definitely attract targeted groups of people.

Tip: Use attractive, crisp contents in your ad post. You can also get assistance from professional writers or designers to design banners that help the audience click your website.

6. Use Image Bookmarking Sites

The year 2012 proved to be the most friendly year for image bookmarking websites, especially Pinterest which is responsible for starting the actual trend.  Now sites like Pinterest are very popular and solid traffic builders for retailers and websites based on images not to say about their power to help you build a social community.

Tip: Keep updating your image bookmarking profiles regularly and try maintaining a friendly appearance while embedding commercial messages in a friendly/not spammy way. You should also take a look at our tips on how to get more followers on Pinterest.

7. Make Sure You Are on Mobile Too

Yes, you have a great product, an amazing website and also great content at your disposal, but believe it or not, it is certainly not enough according to 2012′s ideal. Based on Gartner insights, by 2013 more people will use mobile phones to get online than PC’s and that means if you haven’t created a mobile version for your site, now is the right time to do it.

Tip: Think about every possible way to approach the mobile field including building a news app, launching an interactive application promoting your website. Make sure to check out our list of mobile app developers there to help you do this.

Just stay patient, work effectively with regular on-page and off-page SEO marketing strategies and that will help to gain great success in short time.

Google is even more interested in working on improving their social media activity and as a result to this, Google+ is becoming even more influential on our daily search experience, the result being a social search engine optimization.

Now, I guess the guys who are 100% in favor of classic SEO will be a little upset of this change, but that’s what big G wants and we have to go with it if we want to keep the traffic flow in balance.

What you need to do in order to survive the change?

Is pretty obvious that Google wants to promote Google Plus and the websites affiliate to this social network, so is recommended to work on getting hq backlinks, write good content, but at the same time try to give your content a boost in Google Plus. When I say that I mean:

Start a Google Plus Page for Your Site

It is recommended to do this step because it will give you more exposure in the Google+ community and at the same time it will increase your chances to get more +1 votes from people, not to say getting in circles.

Be Active in The Community

You want exposure, you want to receive Google +1 votes, so in order to get you have to give first, this is the rule of all social media websites out there. Start being active by commenting on others posts, start clicking +1 on interesting content and you can even invite your friends to join the community.

Don’t Refuse any +1 or Any Circle!

Like I said, if someone adds your website in his circle that means that person is “friend” with your website and the results he gets on Google search will be influenced by that. The same principle is true for +1 votes too! Of course, these are just for personal results only, and that will not go as well if the person will disable it, but let’s be honest! How many will disable the personal results version?

Will this last?

Personally I believe this will work only if you have extremely documented, active Google+ users who are not spammers, flooding your personal search results with whatever crazy unwanted stuff. You also have to know that this feature is not fully integrated in Google search so you have full control over choosing to use it or not, but it comes as default option so unless you know a bit about Google search, you will use it without your knowledge. I believe people with less tech knowledge will use it because they are somehow forced. You can check more reactions here: Search Quality and Outrage

We want you to know how to disable this feature so…

Whenever you search for something using Google, on top-right you will be able to find 2 buttons (one grey human icon and one world icon). I guess it is pretty obvious that selecting the human icon will give you personal results and the world one will hide them, bringing you all Google search results. Check out the image bellow to see what I’m talking about!

This is just a temporary solution for getting rid of the personal search results. You can also disable it for good, check out the 3 Ways to do so bellow!

The first and second ways are just for the current search, but the third one is permanent, it will use just general search until you will choose otherwise.

Should I Forget Classic SEO?

No, you should not! Just think of this as an upgraded version of SEO. Google is trying to do this step in order to get search results generated by human preferences and not based on simple algorithms. If by now links were powerful, now Google counts friends opinion much more important. Still, don’t forget that links are vital, but you should give more of your attention to Google’s social website because Google’s still the ruler in this search industry.

In fact, we’ve approached some of those content writing SEO tips and tricks in the “WordPress SEO” article, the “SEO Analysis Tools” and also in the “Improve Your Website Speed” post. Now is time to approach a less known, but extremely effective SEO matter – domain optimization. Even though many forget about this, over the time the domain optimization brought several rumors and uncertainties. In this article I brought together the myths and the facts about domain optimization with the hope that you will manage to get rid of those questions, and make you understand the importance these facts have for your website.

Domain Extension and Better Ranking – Myth

Most people come with the belief that registering a .com, .net or .org domain will make their website rank better in search results. The truth about this is that domain a extension has no actual importance on how your website is ranked in search engines. In simple words, that means that a .info or a country specific TLD like .us or .co.jp can rank as good as a .com domain names. The only thing you have to consider though is that .com, .net and .org are the most popular extensions also known as first gTLD’s or Generic Top Level Domains and each of them is representing somethimg. The .com extension is short from commercial, the .net obviously for network and .org for organization (initially intended for non-profit organizations). I would recommend registering a .com domain because of it’s popularity, but if not possible websites like Wikipedia are there to prove that you can do great with other domain extensions too, and that SEO doesn’t count them as ranking factors.

Domain Age – Fact

As you probably already heared about, search engines like Google tend to find websites with older domain names more “interesting” and as a result, these websites get a higher ranking than newer ones. Well, things are a bit different because Google doesn’t rely on domain Who Is and they rather rely on domain’s backlinks, so it takes into consideration when was the domain first listed in the search results. Still, according to Matt Cutts, the domain age doesn’t weight as much as receiving quality backlinks brought by quality content and that the difference between a 1 year domain and a 3 month domain is extremely small. That means you should forget ideas like “if you are there for long time, that means you are publishing great content” – NO! If you are there for long means just that you are there for long. So you shouldn’t worry much about domain age and focus on building really good content. The guys at Search Engine Journal talked a bit about this matter.

Avoid Unwanted Characters – Myth

Even if providers will not allow any special characters in the domains you register, that doesn’t mean that placing “-” in domains brings a professional aspect. In fact, there is a large chance for many other websites, directories and search engines to categorize your domain as being spammy and untrusted just because of this myth. Also, placing numbers in the domain isn’t always a professional thing to do. Still, if you believe you can pick a domain with high significance such as W3C.org or W3Schools.com, yes it is fine because in that case we talk about W3 which means (World Wide Web). Even though these might not be always very user friendly, they don’t weight much in search engines opinions.

Expand Domain Registration Period – Myth

Domain registration services usually allow you to register a domain name for a period up to 10 years. Doing so will let people know that you are running a serious and reliable business, but that doesn’t necessarly mean you have to do it in order to increase your website SEO value. Matt Cutts of Google says that is a domain registrar marketing strategy to ask customers to expand their registration period and it seems that many jumped to wrong conclusions while managing to create a cool “trend” among SEO marketers.

Keyword Rich Domains – Fact

Regardless of the extension, it is well known fact that when you manage to buy a domain name containing a keyword or two keywords for a certain niche, is like you stumbled upon a treasure. If you want to go deeper and look into domain tld extension importance, then is well known that .com’s are best, but not necessarly because it ranks better, but because is the most popular domain extension. In fact you can take a look at some more details on SEOMoz – About Exact Match Domains. Of course, this is true only if you can really manage to find a niche with large potential, lots of interest in the niche and if you really take advantage of the fact that you have keyword rich domain. As usual, search engines will grand you special attention if you keep your focus on the niche that is described in the domain keywords and also if you manage to provide good content on that topic and that topic only. Don’t just expect to be ranked #1 if you don’t do anything and have a good keyword rich domain – you will rank better easier, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t work at all.

Domain Lenght – Myth

Another myth that I’m sure created a huge dillema and headaches. There’s no proof of any important search engine to consider domain lenght as factor for ranking, so don’t worry about this. As expected, there’s a thing about this one too. Even if search engines don’t care much about domain lenght, your visitors clearly do, so if a domain like: http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/ is fun and creative, that doesn’t necessarly mean is a professional one and your visitors will remember it with ease. Usually is recommended to keep your domain short and easy to remember – under 16 characters domains are great for branding reasons and for people to remember it. Of course, if you don’t want to brand your domain, Google won’t care about your domain lenght and give it as much importance as shorter domain names.

Registering Multiple Domains for Same Brand – Fact

If you are serious about your online business, then it might be a good idea to register all important domain names or similar ones for branding reasons. For instance, you are the owner of example.com and you want to buy the example.net which is already registered, but it comes with a PR3. If you make a 301 redirection to your example.com website and you choose to keep the content from example.net on your website where you redirect it, then all the SEO benefits of example.net will be transfered to your example.com website. You can also opt-in for building content on both websites and exchange links between them which is also beneficial. Also, in some cases, webmasters decide to register similar domain names in order to avoid misspells such as exampl.com and redirecting it to the main domain name.

No Good .com Domain is Available for Registration Anymore – Myth

Who’s there to tell you that there’s no good domain name available for registration? This is a myth because people come with the idea that because main keyword domains like computer.com or flowershop.com are taken, they cannot register a good SEO friendly domain anymore. Well, I am here to tell you that if you are serious on research and you are creative enough, you can pick some cool domain names in a jify. The possibilities are endless. Keep in mind that domain names appeared as a way for humans to access web content based on a character address instead of a numerical IP address. So, as long as you keep it related, short and keyword rich, your domain is perfect for SEO.

With that being said, I guess is vital to know when you should send an email and what do do in order to obtain attention while keeping the content brief and obtain best results. Bellow is a nice infographic explaining in detail how, where and why you should or you shouldn’t send an email.

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Personally, I recommend you to take your precautions and consult optimization experts before starting your SEO campaing, and if not, check out these great tools. Most of them are free of use and you can use them on as many projects as you wish.

Device Compatibility Optimization

According to Gartner Technology Research, by 2013 more people will access online content from mobile devices than PC’s. In 2015, Gartner says that there will be at least 1 mobile phone for every person on Earth. That’s one of the reasons why social and search sites place great emphasis on bringing best to their mobile users and believe me…the list goes on and on.

Google Gomo

Is a new web project launched by Google as a sign of support for mobile users. The website represents a call to action for webmasters that are interested just in optimizing their website for desktop use forgetting about traffic that comes from mobile devices.

W3C mobileOK

As usual, W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is placing it’s focus on cutting-edge technologies and in this case we talk about mobile web and optimization. W3C mobileOK tool allows you to check how your mobile renders up in the mobile browsers by introducing an URL, upload a file or simply validate the code you enter in their box.

mobiReady

With mobiReady you can test a specific page, check-out the markup language on the mobile or check out the entire page. mobiReady will provide a comprehensive page containing all reports about your website or page along with data collected from W3C mobileOK, device emulators and an advanced error report and how to fix every issue.

iPhone 4 Simulator

The name says it all even though this is not specifically created for iPhone 4 users. Is a 100% Safari browser opened in a iPhone device offering you the same experience and it also helps you to view the content in a landscape mode too. Before using it though…make sure you choose the mobile version of your website because you access it from a computer and it cannot convert automatically.

iPad Peek

Undoubtedly the most popular tool created to help you check out your website on iPad. If you don’t own an iPad and you want to optimize your website for iPad users, then this is the place to go, but like iPhone 4 Simulator, this cannot detect automatically your mobile stylesheet so you might have to activate it yourself or just test the full desktop site.

Keyword Research Tools

I guess is no need for me to tell you how important is to do use the proper keywords in your content because we all know how search engines are working and even now in 2012 most popular search engines are still powered by words.

AdWords Keyword Tool

This tool was created in order to provide Google AdWords members with relevant information about their advertising competition and prices for every keyword. Even if you are not a Google AdWords user, this is considered to be a goldmine just because it makes you aware about monthly searches for certain keywords and phrases telling you what chances you have and very detalied info containing even related searches.

KeywordSpy

The number one online tool dedicated to keyword research. It gives you comprehensiv analysis tools and reports based on a certain domain, keywords, ad copies and you can even compare two sites or more to check out on your competition.

Wordtracker

Is one of the top providers of keyword research, complete SEO analysis tools and link building applications. Of course, like the name says, Wordtracker is specialized in keyword research, and they are offering 3 plans: Wordtracker Keywords, Linkbuilder and Strategizer to help you start a powerful SEO campaign.

Page Speed Optimization

Yes, search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and some other major search engines are place great importance on website speed optimization because it is one of the most important factors when talking about optimizing user’s experience with your website. We talked about making your website faster in a previous article.

Google Page Speed

Is one of the most ambitious projects started by Google for Developers and Webmasters. The Page Speed tool analyzes your website content and loading time and afterwords, it brings up a complete report along with all the facts and things you have to change in order to improve your web page loading time. Google Page Speed also provides same service for mobile device testing too.

GTmetrix

Not just another great tool for page speed testing, but also a brilliant collection of tools and resources to help you optimize your website speed. On GTmetrix you will also be able to find a toplist of fastest websites on the internet.

Pingdom

It analyzes HTML, CSS, Images, JavaScript and pretty much every heavy element on your website to see where you can bring improvements and of course, they also give you detailed info on how to solve it. They also check DNS health and have a service for Pings and tracing route.

WebPagetest

Don’t get fooled by the minimalist design, because WebPagetest has among partners sites like AOL, maxCDN, Bo.LT, Fasterize and many other important players. What’s great at their tool is that you can even check the website speed based on different locations and based on multiple browsers.

General Page SEO

Usually, these kind of tools are used to give you a score of your page in search engines along with some advices and tools to help you improve that score and with it your performance in search engines.

WooRank

In my opinion, WooRank is the most complete SEO optimization tool out there because unlike others, it provides loads of info about subjects ignored on other services. They give you comprehensive info about In page optimization, Social Optimization, Link Optimization, SEO Authority backlinks and even mobile stats.

Open Site Explorer

This is a service brought by the popular SEO experts at SEOMoz.org . In fact, the rank that you get on the site explorer is critical because many advertisers are placing this on their priority list when choosing a website. Sites like BuySellAds has already implemented their ranking among Alexa, Compete and Delicious.

Website Grader

Yet another amazing tool created by HubSpot bringing you advanced reporting tools for your marketing campaigns showing you how good is your website doing and if there is room to improve it. They also have a marketing blog and a grader for Tweets, and search.

Check Website Health

Is very important to be fully aware of the health of your website elements because, for instance, if Google finds out that one of your pages is not accessible, a link is broken or your content doesn’t show correctly in the browser, your web page will drop in ranking and even risk to get penalized by the search engines.

W3 Link Checker

Simple, fast and comprehensive tool created by W3C which helps you track all the links on a certain website or page and see if there are issues or if one of them is broken.

BrowserShots

One of a kind online application build to help you check how your website renders on all major and less popular web browsers out there. BrowserShots brings up a variety of over 100 browsers and it creates a screenshot for each of them so you can be sure that all of your visitors benefit from your website the right way.

Like I said, there are plenty of great gigs offering help for web design projects, online marketing and even social promotion, but besides those I’ve found out some crazy, weird gigs too. Some of them are simply awkward, others are crazy funny and some of them are sexy meant to obtain audience.

Nevertheless, I am sure that all of them will bring you joy, amusement and even bring you some benefits so that the ROI will be unexpectedly good! So…without any further ado, I present you Fiverr’s CrazyTown! Each of the gigs bellow contains a presentation video which is quite funny, the video is available just on Fiverr.

Man Doing Testimonials in Plastic Bags

This is probably one of the most creative Fiverr gigs I’ve ever seen. The guy has also created a video of him while he is dressed in plastic bags and talking about different stuff.

Woman Dancing in Hot Dog Suit

This woman will dance on whatever song you choose for 2 minutes. What’s crazy and funny is that she will do all of these while she’s dressed in a hot dog suit.

Singing in a Bubble Bath

A very bizzare Fiverr gig in which a man sings and tells whatever promotional message you have while he’s having a bubble bath.

Photo to Funny Video Transformation

Creative and worthy gig. This guy actually attaches a photo of a face to a body created by him and animates everything in a very funny and nice way.

Cat Trainer

I don’t actually know how to categorize this! No matter what I believe, if you are a cat lover, then you will enjoy this gig for sure.

Over Reacting Guy

A very funny British guy with a nice accent who’s going to over-react on whatever subject you choose. I seriously see this guy to be a successful actor soon.

Singing Cleaner

As you probably have already figured out, this guy, George will sing about your name while cleaning the house. He’s very funny especially because he has a nice afro hair.

Baby Face Dolls

He will create advanced origami paper dolls just from using your baby picture.

Happy Bday Weird Voice

Funny and also professional happy birthday singer. He can make his voice sound like Frank Sinatra.

The Fake Fortune Teller

This woman will read your future, will tell you about the fortune and give you life advice while posing as a crazy witch. Everything is fake, of course, but is very funny.

Funny Voices

A talented guy who can impose as whatever character he wants by changing his voice.

Underwater Advertising

This guy is actually pretty cool, and probably brought an innovation in the advertising industry by bringing the water advertising idea.

Smeagol Voice

If you are a fan of the popular “Lord of The Rings” series, then you will definitely love this gig. The gig provider is definitely a big fan because he’s quite good.

Whoever says you can’t do much with $5 has clearly haven’t heard of Fiverr.

Like Twitter, Pinterest is preparing to start a social revolution based on a followship system that continues on the next level. Having many followers on Pinterest doesn’t just mean that you get authority on the site, but you also get more exposure for your online business and a dedicated active community on your side. That’s why, as a smart online marketer, you want to settle the ground in the early times so that you can enjoy great benefits when everybody is on Pinterest.

Since Pinterest is based on visual objects, it is only obvious to get best results for pins that are appealing.

Free Ways to Get More Pinterest Followers

Is not always the fastest way to bring Pinterest followers, but if you are dedicated and really enjoy spending time browsing Pinterest’s content and don’t have money to spend, then you should approach it!

Twitter Principles

Just like Twitter, Pinterest is a social community based on followship and that’s why you must be very interested in offering users what they really want…followers. So, by following others people will notice you and as a sign of appreciation they will follow you back in no time. Now, I’m not saying you should start following like a freak, but try to find people with similar interest and try to build a bond with them.

• Use Hashtags

Yup…hashtags are quite popular on Pinterest too, and like on Twitter and Google+, these are the ones helping users to easily find your content. So use them, but try to be relevant and don’t overdo it.

• Talk About Popular Pinterest Subjects/Users
  

Popular means that there are lots of people in…which means huge opportunity for you to explore. Get in the buzz by mentioning popular people, events, subjects. Use the “@mention”!

Comment

Being active is vital in every social community because that shows your followers and other members that you are interested in doing great things. Besides that, commenting on others Pins means feedback for others which in most cases means a lot especially if that person doesn’t receive lots of comments.

Picking popular accounts can bring you even more exposure and if your comment is relevant and comes with great arguments, you can even bring a large number of their visitors to your Pinterest.

Organize and Pin

Personally I like to focus on just one niche for my every Pinterest account because it allows me to better focus on what really matters and helps me provide better content for my followers. Of course, this doesn’t mean you need to do the same thing for your account. In fact, you can pick as many subjects as you wish and spread them in as many Boards as you wish, but keep in mind that you need to handle all of them with ease and provide users best experience.

My advice would be to start simple and grow from there. Spend some time on creating or picking a pin that can easily go viral. This will bring you lots of attention and as a result, you will get tons of followers.

Sync Your Pinterest Account With Social Websites

This is a vital step if you want to obtain best results on Twitter, Facebook and also keep a place open for the new Pinterest. You can easily synchronize the Pinterest account with Facebook and Twitter by going to: Your Account -> Settings -> Simply Click on to Link Facebook or Twitter to your account. You can also add Pinterest to your Facebook timeline as long as you don’t decide to post the same story manually.

Once you synchronize Pinterest with Facebook and Twitter, you get access to many possibilities including the friend messaging/following option which allows you to send as many Pinterest invites you wish and also to follow your Facebook friends who are already on the platform. The following process is almost instant and since they are your friends, it’s a huge possibility to follow you back in no time.

No Spam, Be Professional, Be Cool!

Nobody likes spam and definitely nobody likes weird and unappealing. So give your pins viewers reasons to follow you by setting up some ground rules. Schedule a time for posts, they shouldn’t be to often, but at the same time you have to keep your account updated. Personally I believe that 1 to 5 pins/day are ok! By doing this, your user will get used to your posting schedule and visit often.

Paid Ways to Get Pinterest Followers

Trading money for time is always best option, but you should also have the certainty that those money are invested in a smart way and you will receive best results. Bellow I have listed some of the most secure and reliable ways to drive followers to your Pinterest account.

Buy Followers

Easy, fast and in most cases it does not require a large sum of money. In fact, buying followers for Pinterest is quite cheap and I’ve seen some great websites out there providing quite professional services too. Among them you can check:

• PinterestRepins

A serious service created to offer repins and build a serious viral marketing campaign for your business

• PublicMonkey

One of the greatest deals when talking about followers. They are new in the industry but already rocking the place! You can get Pinterest followers in a jiffy, a great number of Facebook fans and some other SEO services too at a great price.

Pay Others to Promote Your Pins

Fiverr, eLance, Freelancer.com or whatever you choose can bring you professional pin promotion which can result in a nice amount of traffic and why not…followers and authority on Pinterest. Just a simple search on Fiverr for “Pinterest” brings up lots of results and all are for just $5.

That’s extraordinary considering the fact that Pinterest is online for less than 2 years now and without to much experience they managed to exceeded many expectations. Still, I’m sure that many of you are pretty new to this photo-sharing social experience and that’s why I wanted to present you some other great alternatives to big Pinterest.

1. Dribbble

This is my personal favorite of the list because Dribble really places great importance on quality and it also let’s you build a profile where you can showcase some of your works. The community is very friendly and also very active.

2. Zootool

Pretty popular visual bookmarking tool and it has a nice catchy name too. Zootool let’s you interact with a large number of people in a nice way and they also provide tools for browsers so that you will be able to bookmark with ease.

3. VisualizeUs

A very friendly and active community of nice images from all kind of topics from technology and design to fashion and funny elements. Another great thing at VisualizeUs is that you can also install a Firefox addon which adds a right-click menu that can be used whenever you want to bookmark a image from whatever site you want.

4. Image Spark

Simple yet a very modern look which focuses it’s attention on ergonomics by letting you save, share and tag all kind of interesting web articles.

5. FFFFound

Simple and easy to navigate structure, the website is pretty popular and it actually has a PR 7 which can be very useful for your website promotion too.

6. Reform & Revolution

Is a image bookmarking site based on WordPress which currently doesn’t allow any registrations, but you can already check out tons of great images and cool web content.

7. FreshBump

If on Pinterest you have the pin word for saving a bookmark, here is obviously the bump. On FreshBump you can bookmark any kind of content and use advanced categorizing and you can even upload your own image from PC.

8. WeHeartIt

A very nice image pinning system with a lot of great content and great members. The only thing that I don’t like at this website is that there’s way too much pink. The site allows you to create picture albums which are called “hearts”.

9. Piccsy

100% Image based website which is not very popular at the moment, but I’m sure it will be soon. Piccsy comes with great organization tools for it’s bookmarks so you have categories, tags, names and advanced search to help you find whatever you seek.

10. PicoCool

A classic way to display image bookmarks along with a simple vote button after every bookmark. What’s interesting at PicoCool is that here the dominant content is based on technology, architecture, culture and design…unlike most image bookmarking websites.

11. GetVega

A very nice looking  image bookmarking website where people feature everything they like, they desire along with the price of that product and some additional information about it.

12. GentleMint

This is the very first image bookmarking website dedicated exclusively to men users. While there are tons of image bookmarking sites for fashion, make-up products, women related products, I guess it is great to see some tech related, cars, sports etc. fans too!

PS: If you don’t have a Pinterest account and you would like an invite, then don’t hesitate to use the contact form! I would love to send you invites!

According to YouTube Global, the list looks like this

These are “Most Popular YouTube Videos of 2011″ excluding the ones from popular music labels

1. Rebecca Black – Friday (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

2. Ultimate Dog Tease

3. Jack Sparrow (feat. Michael Bolton)

4. Talking Twin Babies – PART 2 – OFFICIAL VIDEO

5. Nyan Cat [original]

6. Look At Me Now – Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes (Cover by @KarminMusic)

7. The Creep (feat. Nicki Minaj & John Waters)

8. Maria Aragon – Born This Way (Cover) by Lady Gaga

9. The Force: Volkswagen Commercial

10. Cat mom hugs baby kitten

Great list, great videos and all the appreciation from me to those who managed to build such impressive pieces of art, crazyness or just amazing shots thanks to their video skills and synchronization.

Now, the funny part is that YouTube decided to also create a video presenting Top 10 most watched videos and the one who presents them is nobody else than Rebecca Black. Everybody knows Rebecca, the girl who brought up the “megahit” Friday which is also the most popular video of this year.

It is indeed great, but what I actually forgot to tell you is that Rebecca’s video is also the most disliked video of all times and probably that’s the reason why she removed the video from YouTube. Of course, the video has been re-uploaded and gain some millions of views, but same with millions of dislikes. Anyway…now Rebecca has been chosen by YouTube to represent the Rewind Show and list the “Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2011″ (YouTube…is funny).

Rebecca Black and Top 10 YouTube Videos

The video has been uploaded few days ago, but it already managed to gather few “fans” and going towards becoming the next most disliked video ever. Is this the best marketing strategy ever or what?

Besides that, as you can see there were lots of videos featuring Charlie Sheen, Nyan Annoying Cat and Ray William Johnson who managed to make quite the Buzz this year by becoming the most subscribed user on YouTube. Again, here we don’t talk about official music videos from major labels. Take a look at YouTube’s Rewind to find out more about this year on vids.