Comments on: Study: Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Google+, nearly on par with Twitter

By: Tom Meshanko

Tom Meshanko — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:43:38 +0000

Yikes. This meaningless data has gone viral. You have got to be kidding me. The social media manager for Constant Contact has twisted the words around and is now reporting that Pinterest is driving more WEB traffic than the major players COMBINED. It is laughable that Google is in 3rd place on this chart and YouTube is in 6th place on this chart. That alone makes you question what the hell is going on here.

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:08:42 +0000

Clearly, you don’t have a site that caters to Pinterest’s audience. If you did, (like I do) you wouldn’t question these numbers at all. The proof is in the referral data – Pinterest drives between 5% and 10% of total traffic to all seven of my websites.

By: A Modern Dad

A Modern Dad — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:29:55 +0000

Hi everyone! We have found Pinterest to be a great tool for our A Modern Dad community for discussing relevant books and product, and providing parenting advice and recommendations… http://pinterest.com/a_modern_dad/.

- Brad S from http://www.AModernDad.com

By: Ziyaad

Ziyaad — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:01:32 +0000

@Nadav, thanks for breaking this down.
@Janet, can we get your response to this?

By: Wei Yang

Wei Yang — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:27:25 +0000

“Pinterest is now driving more referral traffic on the web than Google+, YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn — combined.”

My question is so what? The nature of the latter four sites is to trap users on those sites, not to refer traffic to other sources.

By: Ryan Boyles

Ryan Boyles — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:40:07 +0000

Where is Tumblr? Let’s make this a complete real picture.

By: Colleen Taylor

Colleen Taylor — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:30:54 +0000

Hi Sally, thanks for your comment. The amount of data they are serving is pretty massive — the technology under the hood is something I’m hoping to dig into in a future story.

By: L'oreal

L'oreal — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:48:49 +0000

I see the same things on Pinterest every time I visit (a) desserts (b) wedding dresses (c) bare-bodied hunks (c) high-heeled shoes.

I would hope that there are lots of other things shared on the internet that do not fall into these buckets.

By: Shuchi Mehta

Shuchi Mehta — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:38:11 +0000

have you tried http://www.polyvore.com/ for Fashion?
wish Juxtapost had an app

By: Shuchi Mehta

Shuchi Mehta — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:31:58 +0000

Sally try infographics to convey the white paper case studies, icharts.com is another way to represent information graphically.