Some of my favorite blogs have been talking about copyright issues lately with Pinterest. In matter of fact, if you do a google search, there’s about three million different sources talking about the Pinterest Copyright issues.

If you follow my pinboard and have been reading my blog for quiet some time, you’ll know that I absolutely love Pinterest. There are pro’s and cons to Pinterest, but when it comes down to it, I’m going to keep on pinning and blogging about it my heart’s content. This is why I choose to do so.

Cons

Business Insider posted a beautiful, well-written article about a lawyers perspective on Pinterest Copyright and terms. One of the terms which was pointed out is that Pinterest makes the user solely reliable for what a user puts on the Pinterest website. If you ask me, it’s Pinterest’s awful way to play the “blame game.”

Pros

My most popular articles are from me talking about certain pins on pinterest. Like certain ways to do creative projects with toilet paper rolls. My articles sometimes give me 30-50 visitors a day by utelizing other pictures (and given a proper credit to my source of course). You should keep pinning if you are a blogger who has paid advertisements, sponsors, or other sources of revenue on your blog. Why? The more visitors you have, the likely they will stay and revist, and it increases your chances of a visitor clicking on a paid advertisement or sponsor. Can we say cha-ching!

If I had a certain image of my own that I posted on my blog, and someone pins it, then it’s instant visitors. And bloggers love visitors!

I have pinned other people’s pins, and not only does the original source of the work get traffic from pinterest, but they also get traffic from me. How? I blog about their pin, give the original source credit, and people click on the source because they like it and want more of it. See the outbound links below.

Block your images from being pinned

Pinterest has made it possible for images not to be pinned by using a snippet of code in your meta tags.

I think it’s a great idea for people/companies to use the snippet of code if they don’t want their images pinned. I am hoping that SEO plugins will somehow add this meta option in wordpress. When a post is created, and there is a certain image that a user doesn’t want to be pinned, they can click an option for the Meta Tag to say “No Pin.” So wherever the image/post shows up on the users website, it will have the meta tag not to be pinned.

I bet since Pinterest Copyright is so controversial lately that this function will soon take effect. I’ll be looking forward to it. I’m not a programmer, I’m a designer. If you’re a programmer and you are reading this, then please program away (and give credit where credit it is due for your inspriation to create the SEO Meta Tag No Pin option.)

My Personal, Humble Opinion

From the age of time Bloggers have been posting images and crediting other sources for the actual image. So what’s the big deal about doing it through Pinterest? You’re just as liable to get sued directly on your blog as you are through Pinterest.

My final conclusion, I’m going to keep blogging about the things I love and I’m going to share the love. I’m going to give proper credit where due, and give pinning etequit. If someone wants me to remove their image, or doesn’t want me to send traffic their way, then that’s okay. They can contact me and ask me to remove their image or to stop sending visitors to them.

Lets Discuss

As always, I’m open for discussion, insights, and opinions. I know other people have deleted all their pins because they are afraid of being sued, but what do you think? Will you keep on pinning?

PS. As I was writing this post, a company on Pinterest started following one of my boards titled “Mantel Decoration.” Who is the company? Mantel’s Direct. It’s a great way of promoting themselves, and I’m flattered that a company is following one of my inspiration boards.

Pst – Someone did create a “no-pin” wordpress plugin for wordpress. You can find it here.

Wow, two posts in one day? Lucky girl I am! When I got a house full to myself, I thought I should probably catch up on all those posts that I should have made but couldn’t make because I have two babies, a job (but we would so love to change that), a husband and a house that has to be cleaned. I spent today pretty much pinning to my heart’s content on pinterest.com, so how about a little November recap of the things you probably missed but you should defiantly check out? Read on to get your fill!

Toilet Paper Rolls are a popular hit, and 18 Creative Ideas for Toilet Paper Rolls was something that you shouldn’t miss!

Here’s some tips to decorating your table for Christmas with a Thanksgiving twist. More so, this was a Thanksgiving post but we’ll get to Christmas tables later.

Not last, but least, make a snowflake ornament.

A sure fire-way to Love Your House.

Blog Stats

Well folks, Once a month I’m going to cover some juicy details on how this whole blogging thing is working for us.

I’m going to cover;

Visitor Goals

We averaged 171 unique visitors, and about double that with visitors overall. Not bad considering we became live on October 12th. The unique numbers is what we’re keeping an eye on. We would really like to become a part of the SAY Media network. The minimum requirement to get into the network is a website has to have 25,000 monthly viewers. We like Say Media because the advertisements are clean. Google Adsense also has clean advertisements, but Say Media is more our style. Another thing I like about SAY Media, is it is a part of Six Apart. For those of you who don’t know what Six Apart is, here’s a quick refresher.

About ten years ago when I first discovered the world of blogging, there was a very famous content management system. In my personal opinion, it was more famous than WordPress. It’s called Movable Type. Movable Type was created by a husband and wife team, and it was open source. Meaning anyone could contribute and help build the platform. Over the past 10 years, I’ve seen it grown, I’ve seen where they charged money for it, and from the looks of it today in 2011, it’s free and open source again.

However, that husband and wife team were able to build their mini media empire into something grand. They have other resources available that helped them build their brand. The reason why we want to become a part of the SAY Media network is because the brains behind the company started with a blogging publishing platform. Therefore, SAY Media knows bloggers. I feel comfortable conducting business with a company that knows about my business, which is blogging.

The Top 10 Keywords

Amazingly, the top ten keywords make me think I should start a blog dedicated to kitchen things only. :) These are what people typed into a search engine (yahoo, google, bing, etc). Through their search, they found my website and clicked on my link to find out more.

They were;

1. Small Kitchens
2. Small Kitchen
3. Small Kitchen Layouts
4. inetflavour
5. small kitchen design
6. small kitchen designs
7. martha stewart kitchen design
8. martha stewart kitchens
9. thanksgiving wreaths
10. fireplace mantel decor

The Money We Made From Blogging

In the 16 days that we were live, we hosted some affiliates. No one that read our website purchased a product, so therefore there was no money made. We did however get into an advertising program in November, and it’s already making us profits. How much? We’ll cover that next month. We have to follow precise rules with our affiliates and advertisement networks. You may have noticed some changes on this blog (such as a privacy notice, etc), that complies with our affiliates/advertisers rules.

If you missed it, the posts we think you should read;

Lower Your Utility Bill

Our Dream House Revealed

An awesome resource for visuals aids (kinda ironic how I don’t have a visual aid for this link).

Our proof that we’re hillbilly’s.