Pinterest Rich Pins: How To Be Featured In The Gifts Feed ?

Giovanni, I've never heard of 'rich pin' or 'gifts feed'.

Looks like I've got some Pinterest homework to do!

Wendy, take a look here: https://business.pinterest.com/en-gb/rich-pins

The pins from Etsy are rich pins, they are all over Pinterest... I think it would be great if FAA provides rich pins (for those of us who are on Pinterest).

Good suggestion, Matthias, would you place it in idea thread? :-)

Thanks for the suggestion Jenny, it's done:

http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2030952&targetid=2037216#2037216

Thumbs up, Matthias! Its really would be more profitable and useful to the artists and to FAA generally!

here here!

GA - what method did you use to create the embed? Do you have an example. I tried figuring it out but got lost. Maybe I need some more coffee...

Thanks for the link, Matthias!

I know I'm not using Pinterest to full potential. Time to get busy! :-)

I just noticed that pinning from FAA (not AW) now automatically adds the title and name of the work, as well as the lowest print price and the words, "in stock." Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be retroactive, and doesn't work from the AW (where I usually pin from). I usually pin my work once and then re-pin to different boards, but I might have to alter my strategy now...

Very interesting observation Priya! I tested it and pinned from FAA, looks good. I'm sure Sean will give us rich pins for the Artists Website also. :-)

Hi, <br>didn't know FAA supported rich pins. Anyway you have to submit your site to Pinterest for a validation (mine was validated in 1 week or so) so I'm not sure that pinning from FAA <br>does the trick 100%. <br> <br>Edward: <br>on your website you have to add html code to each page of your product. <br>I'm not allowed to paste html code here so drop me a line at info@allievi-photography.com. <br> <br>You then paste your html page in the validator here (<a href='https://developers.pinterest.com/rich_pins/validator/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' style='font: 10pt arial; text-decoration: underline;'>https://developers.pinterest.com/rich_pins/validator/</a>): on the left of the page you'll see green/red lights <br>depending on errors you made in the code. <br>When you have all the green lights you can apply for a validation of your site. <br>Kind of cumbersome but it is easy to do. <br> <br>My question still remains: how do you get featured in the Gifts feed ? <br> <br>

Just out of curiosity I edited the source of a pin, changing it from my AW link to the FAA one. The update shows the new rich pin format.

It's admirable that with FAA's rich pins all 3 possible links take you back to your image on FAA. But if someone were to use the search bar, for say 'sunrise' or 'sunset', it takes them out of your gallery and to ALL sunrise sunset images on FAA. If your not on the first pages there, who knows if the potential buyer will return to your work.

The process I use to post to Social Media is this:

The 1st SM site I bring up is G+ (even if I'm not going to promote to there).
I copy and paste all the written information below the image which looks, for example, like this:

Abbey Road Sunrise Photograph by Jo Ann Tomaselli - Abbey Road Sunrise Fine Art Prints and Posters for Sale
jo-ann-tomaselli.artistwebsites.com

This can then be pasted into Pinterest, G+, SU & FB and will link back to your AW Gallery. The beauty of this is that if the search bar is used, it searches within your AW Gallery. The only thing missing is the price.

Hope this helps for those of you who want to keep promoting from your AW Gallery :-)
Jo Ann

GA - Thanks, I'll take you up on your offer after vacation and the boy is back in school.

I'd really like to see rich pins added to AW :)

@Digital Moments: Yes. Me too! :-)

I remembered reading this and thought I'd pass along some info for those wishing the AWs had rich pins.

A few weeks ago I plugged in one of my prints to the Pinterest Rich Pin validator:

https://developers.pinterest.com/rich_pins/validator/

And since FAA has the code for rich pins, not too surprisingly, so does the AW. The results showed everything was in order. Given that was the case, the next page of the "validator" gives you the option to "submit" your site for them to review to turn on Rich Pins. So I submitted on that page and I got the email today that my request was approved.

Note, I'm using Version 2 of the AW under my own domain name. Not sure what they would do if you submitted this request as a subdomain of the Artist Website (i.e joe-artist.artistwebsites.com).

Anyway, thought that might help some of you.

Mark
http://tisdaleart.com

Mark,

Thanks, Done.

But what are Gift Pins?

Dave

We already joined the Gift FEED. The rich pins feed into the new commercial feed, gift feed.

http://blog.performics.com/pinterest-releases-new-gifts-feed-visibility-direct-sales-opportunity-brands/

Thank you Mark, I submitted my Artist Website!

Glad it was helpful Matthias!

@David - this is the gift feed that the original poster was talking about: https://www.pinterest.com/gifts/

You have to have rich product pins to appear there. So submitting yours for inspection is the first step. Beyond that, I'm not sure there's much control over where you appear there. If you go to the $$ option at the top, I did see some FAA pins in the gift feed. I read somewhere what the price ranges were for the different $ vs $$, etc. I don't remember the amounts but most basic prints (which is the price shown on a pin) on FAA would probably fall in the second price range based on what I read and sure enough that was where I saw pinned prints from FAA. Hypothetically having the rich pins gives you a chance to be there. I mainly just wanted my title and price to be "sticky" rather than depending on the person pinning it to put that in. :-)

Mark
tisdaleart.com

Mark,

What does Sticky mean?

Dave

David - not a technical term, just my way of saying that the price and title are integral to the pin. For example, if someone pins this from my site or re-pins it from me or someone else, it will maintain the title and price as long as they don't change the link to something else.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/98868154295593452/

Mark
http://tisdaleart.com

Yay, it worked! They approved my request, now I have rich pins when I pin from my AW. Thanks again Mark! :-)

Rich Pins are more often repinned and clicked - at least some Pinterest Experts say so...