Etsy Makes It Easy For Users To Post Items To Pinterest With New ‘Pin It’ Button

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21 points·FluidDjango··3 comments

I just added a 'Pin It' button to my friend's blog... why is this news? If anything, the design and vibrancy of Pintrest serves to highlight the lackluster design of Etsy's Treasury, their internal list-making section. The Treasury is rigidly laid out and uninspired, while Pinterest feels open and modern.

I'm guessing they feel it validates Pinterest's growth, which they seem to talk about a lot.

We recently added Pin It buttons too, not because we felt Pinterest was an amazing way to help curate and sell product. But because people were adding our products to Pinterest quite a bit anyways and they weren't correctly tagged, attributed, or priced. So we made the decision to add the Pin It button to assist with that.

Might as well if they are doing it already. I imagine Etsy saw something similar and did the same.

Since doing that, nothing has really changed as far as conversions or traffic, but at least most of the images are pinned with proper data now.

Oh, I see... so Pinterest is one of TechCrunch's favorite things to talk about lately? When they have a topic like that, they'll publish absolutely anything about the given company, no matter how trivial.

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