Rich Pins Increase Zazzle Sales

Quite simply, rich pins have the company logo and the price of the product on the pin itself and are updated automatically as the website is updated. For some companies, they also indicate availability but this does not appear for Zazzle, perhaps because, being a print-on-demand firm, most products are almost always available. Pinterest also claims that pinners receive a notice when a discount is offered on a product they pinned.

The big advantage is that people who repin a rich pin cannot separate the source information from the image.

Below you can see the difference between a rich pin (first image) and a regular pin (lower image).

First, get the URL of a product you want to pin. You find this on the "share" window, and use the link that includes your affiliate code as shown in the image to the left here.

Then, you go to the Pinterest Rich Pin Validator (see below) and add the URL for a product you want to pin.

Product pins are only one kind of rich pin currently offered by Pinterest. You can set up recipe pins, that show the ingredients right on the pin itself, movie pins that show ratings, cast and reviews, article pins that show author, title and article description and place pins that include a map, address and phone number.

Automatic and immediate approval may not occur for all websites that are set up for rich pins. I am still waiting for approval for a Wizzley pin, for example. But I am sure it will happen.

I don't know if that makes a difference, but I had heard that you should not promote too many affiliate sales items on a personal account. It was easy to do. Just use this business Pinterest link and click where it says "convert here".