Great Pinterest Resources

Anyone who knows me will tell you: I'm completely commitment phobic. And nowhere is this more apparent than in the world of emerging social media networks. I cringe whenever a new one is released because I simply Can't. Handle. Another. I'm on Twitter, I'm on Facebook - what else do I need?

On Pinterest? Follow Mashable to check out our favorite infographics, tech news, internet memes and digital culture! Pinterest has been one of the hottest new social networks on the radar for a few months now. In fact, Pinterest has cracked the current list of top 10 social networks - and it's technically still invite-only.

Now that more and more brands (and users!) are joining Pinterest, I wanted to bring you the ultimate guide to Pinterest, with some top tips on how to improve your account, build followers and also generate traffic and sales through to your own site.

SOCIAL MEDIA It may not be as popular as Facebook or Twitter, but this virtual pinboard service is attracting plenty of eyeballs. Here's how to make it work for you. One social site has captured the attention of the masses recently... and it is not called Facebook or Twitter.

Last week, Neil Patel wrote a huge article on The Marketer's Guide to Pinterest which was a hit! It covers how to use Pinterest, how to find content to pin, 9 reasons marketers should use it, the brands using it, 14 marketing strategies, 9 ways to get followers, and optimizing your profile for local search.

Finding new and exciting ways to engage with your customers online can help to revitalize a stale social media marketing campaign. Pinterest, a new image sharing social site, has built quite an online buzz and some brands are using the platform to engage with customers.

Pinterest is hot. White hot. The 2011 Crunchie award winner for Best New Startup has been on a roll lately, hitting almost 12 million monthly unique visitors and crossing the 10 million milestone faster than any previous independent site, according to comScore. And a new report from Shareaholic in..

Business is booming on Pinterest. According to data from Monetate, a testing and personalization firm, from September to December 2011 estimated unique visitors to Pinterest.com increased by 429 percent. Total same-store referral traffic from Pinterest to five specialty apparel retailers rose 389 percent from July to December 2011.

Learn about Pinterest, how it works, and why you should optimize your website for Pinterest users in mind.

Pinterest was one of the most heavily trafficked social media networks of 2011, which was surprising to many because its rise to success was a quiet one. Pinterest is a form of social bookmarking where users pin different images and YouTube videos from across the web to boards they've created based on a subject area of their liking.

I've seen more SEO interest in Pinterest in the last month than the rest of the image bookmarking site's life. One day, I saw multiple veteran SEOs ask for an invite and I'm pretty sure they're not going for cute animal pictures and interior decorating ideas.

I'm sitting here next to an empty pan of mini red velvet donuts, and all I want to do is find another recipe to bake this weekend. No, my first stop won't be the Food Network, Gourmet, or Cooking Light.

Over the past few months, you may have heard some chatter about a brand new social network called Pinterest. Not surprising. According to Compete, unique visitors to Pinterest.com increased by 429% from September to December 2011, and the social network already boasts a user base of 3.3 million.

Pinterest is a site your business should have on its radar. It's like a virtual bulletin board, allowing users to curate a collection of things they like from around the Internet into various layouts, or boards. And its popularity is booming, with 11 million reported page visits during one busy week last December--a 40-fold traffic increase over six months.

Unless you're living under a rock, or started boycotting the internet when SOPA was first introduced last year, you've heard Pinterest is growing. But just how much traffic is Pinterest getting these days? According to ComScore, Pinterest has over 4 million users and is rapidly growing.

In case you've been living in a mountain cave in Bhutan for the past couple of months, Pinterest is a relatively new social networking site that allows user

Move over Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Another social media site is stepping up as a valuable marketing tool for businesses. Pinterest, an online bulletin board for your favorite images, launched in 2010 and is already experiencing wild growth. The site registered more than 7 million unique visitors in December, up from 1.6 million in September.

HGTV. Nordstrom. West Elm. ModCloth. Those are some of the big name retailers who are using Pinterest to drive significant traffic to their retail websites. In fact, Pinterest has become so popular it is driving more traffic than Google+ to retailers' sites.

Many start-up founders and owners of existing small businesses wonder what their companies could possibly gain from yet another new form of social media. Finding adequate time to properly manage business profiles that already exist on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is enough of a challenge.

Let me guess, you heard about Pinterest. Or more like, you can't spend 15 minutes online without hearing about it... And now you're thinking, "should I jump on the wagon too?" or "another social network to keep up with?"

The current toast of the web is Pinterest, the visual pinboard for collecting and sharing content online. The "pinning" phenomena is spreading from its modest beginnings to appearing in national media outlets. There are over 2.5m monthly active Pinterest users on Facebook. A co-founder of the..

Pinterest's recent success, which flies in the face of so much speculation about social media fatigue and information overload, holds an important lesson: It's not social media we're frustrated with. It's with one another.

It may be a niche social network, but Pinterest is growing like mad. While other tools and networks like Quora, Instagram (my favorite) and Google Plus have stolen the headlines this year, Pinterst has quietly amassed a relatively huge user base--especially among young women (in my opinion).

Pinterest has emerged as the runaway social media hit of early 2012. You probably knew that already. But did you know the company just has 12 people? Or that 97% of Pinterest's Facebook fans are women? Lemon.ly, a visual marketing firm, took a deep dive into the data to catalog Pinterest's stunning rise and produced the infographic below.

"OMG! Did you see Brad Pitt's post on Digglr last night?" "No, I was too busy cruising Cr.us.ta.ce.an. What did he say?" "OMG, it was all over Regurgtatr!" Have you ever had the sinking feeling that the online world is moving so fast that you'll never catch up?