There is a lot that can be said about the best practices for Pinterest: pin pretty pictures, build trust before selling, etc. In this blog I’ll focus purely on....

• ways to attract visitors to your Pinterest boards
• Add traffic on your YouTube videos

1. You can automate sharing by setting it up in your Pinterest profile. It brings traffic to your boards for two reasons: people love pictures, and they know that they are not being sent to a sales-related page. So they are more likely to click on your link.

2. Especially the “Pin it” button! Drag it on to your browser’s toolbar so that it is very easy for you to pin images from other sites on to your boards.

The main users of Pinterest are women aged 25 to 35/45 years, who have a college education and higher-range incomes ($25,000 – $75,000).

Now you know the demographics, you’ll want to find images that fit their interests. A good place to go is to Repinly, where you can see the most popular re-pins and boards, as well as many other stats that help you understand your public better.

Infographics are like posters or mind maps. They often explain a process or present products in an attractive way by educating the user without a long written text.

In most cases you probably won’t want to use them for selling but to create interest so that the user wants to learn more and is willing to pay for that information.

While beautiful, interesting images should make up the core of your Pinterest boards, it’s a good idea to place a few infographics on each one.

An interesting point about infographics on Pinterest is that visitors can’t see the details of images clearly, so they are more inclined to click through. The one above is quite big, but still not sharp. To see it clearly you’d need to click the image, so you’d be taken to the source website.

As with Facebook, when you see content that you think is interesting or entertaining, give it a thumbs-up by using the “Like” feature. This may encourage the creator or poster to look at your board and perhaps even to return the favor.

What’s your secret for driving traffic to your Pinterest boards? And how do you use those boards to drive traffic to your youtube videos? Leave your comment below.