• What?
  • Who?
  • Contact Jonathan Jeter
  • Privacy Policy

Jonathan Jeter

Director of Application Development

  • Jonathan Jeter on Google+
  • Jonathan Jeter on Facebook
  • Follow Jonathan Jeter on Twitter
  • Jonathan Jeter on LinkedIn
  • Jonathan Jeter's rss feed
Home Archives for user-generated content

Pinterest IS Making Money… …Off of YOU!

February 13, 2012 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

Pinterest

I’ve been watching Pinterest with fascination because of the massive appeal it has for certain demographics. It’s really clever because it is a graphical bookmarking site billed a social online pinboard that allows you to “organize and share the things you love.” Everyone expects that a popular site like Pinterest should be making money, but noticeably absent from the interface are any advertising blocks or any other promotional spaces.

It makes sense, though considering the findings posted on Digital Trends that Pinterest is converting shared links on the site to affiliate links. This is not surprising, as it seems one of the most logical ways to convert the user-generated content on the site into monetizable traffic. However, the interesting thing is that they don’t disclose anywhere on their site or their blog that they are modifying the links that members are “pinning” to their “boards”. Looking through their terms, copyright notice and privacy policy, the standard items are in place, but nothing about modifying the content uploaded to the site to generate income via affiliate relationships. What I’m curious about is how this fits into the FTC guidelines for disclosing affiliate relationships. Maybe it only applies to bloggers and only applies to those who blog about items provided via affiliate relationships.

Read the rest of Pinterest IS Making Money… …Off of YOU!

Like this:

Like Loading...

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: advertising blocks, affiliate link, Affiliate Link Practice, affiliate relationship, affiliate relationships, Alicia Navarro, articles intro, certain demographics, copyright notice, Digital Trends, Facebook page, Federal Trade Commission, FTC guidelines, graphical bookmarking site, greatest asset, interested parties, interesting thing, logical ways, massive appeal, monetizable traffic, Pinterest tab, popular site, privacy policy, profit model, promotional spaces, Social Media, social online pinboard, standard items, Technology Internet, user-generated content, user-submitted content

Strategic Use of User- Generated Content for SEO

November 15, 2011 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

By Michael DeHaven, Group Product Manager, SEO, for Bazaarvoice

Bazaarvoice manages User-Generated Content (UGC) for over 1300 brands.

Compared user reviews from the audience for a chocolate caramel square to the marketing text on the package. Some negative and positive reviews.

User-generated content

80%-90% of UGC on major brand web sites is actually written by users.

Language styles – the words that you typically think of (or marketers think of) are totally different than what actual users write when writing reviews.

7 Principles of User Generated SEO

Read the rest of Strategic Use of User- Generated Content for SEO

  1. Don’t forget the fundamentals of SEO – UGC will not fix a site with poor SEO
  2. Search engines get bored – they want new stuff. By leveraging UGC, you can keep content fresh.
  3. The Primanti Principle – a primanti sandwich has French fries in it. You want to have the right amount of fries. The same applies to search.

Like this:

Like Loading...

Filed Under: SEO Tagged With: actual users, algorithm changes, better product, brand site, brand web sites, chocolate caramel square, Content Beyond SEO, Entertainment Culture, French fries, Group Product Manager, insert 40 reviews, keyword footprint, Language styles, long-tail vault, major brand web, marketing content, marketing text, Michael DeHaven, Multi-environment interactions, new stuff, non-optimized site, online research, page target keywords, poor seo search, positive reviews, Primanti Principle, primanti sandwich, product description, Relevant times, right times, rosetta stone, Search Engine, Search engines, SEO traffic, separate review pages, SES Chicago 2011, Social integration, social properties, Strategic Unlock, Strategic Use, Take phrases, Target keywords, Targets Target keywords, Technology Internet, top-level domain, traditional seo, UGC pages, User Generated SEO, user-generated content, vice versa, Web search engine, web site, well-optimized site

Stuff I Like to Talk About:

  • Business
  • Digital Imaging
  • Internet Marketing
    • Email Marketing
    • SEM / Paid Search
  • Life
  • Other Stuff
    • Health
    • Taekwondo (TKD)
  • Sports
    • Football
  • Technology
    • Augmented Reality
    • Awesome or Scary?
    • Marketing Technology
      • Data / Analytics
      • Omnichannel
    • Mobile
      • Android
    • Virtual Reality
  • User Interface / User Experience Design
  • Web Development
    • Browsers
    • CSS
    • Front-End Development
    • Google+ (Google Plus)
    • HTML5
    • JavaScript
    • jQuery
    • Mobile
    • MVC
    • Responsive Design
    • SEO
    • Social Media
    • UI/UX
    • WordPress

HTML

  • HTML Entities

JavaScript

  • MEAN.js

My Sites

  • Head Turning Media
  • Jonathan Jeter (Brand Yourself)
  • My Humor

Online Experts

  • Bryan Eisenberg
  • Danny Sullivan
  • Duane Forrester
  • Keith Brown
  • Louis Gray
  • Matt Cutts

UI / UX

  • Jared Spool
  • Paul Jeter
FreshBooks
Genesis Framework for WordPress Premise Landing Pages Made Easy

Most Popular

  • Exploring Standard Ad Unit Sizes: Google AdSense 300…
  • The Relentless Pursuit of the Right Answer: Why…
  • To The Moon And Back: Taking The Leap Towards…
  • Looking for Instagram or Android fonts or logos and…
  • Verizon Wireless – My Favorite Mobile Provider
  • My Notes on “Marketing Technology as Force…
  • Exploring Standard Ad Unit Sizes: Google AdSense…
  • In Data We Trust
  • A Brief History of the Complete Redesign of Google…
  • Ultimate Engagement: Data Driven Email Tactics

Copyright © 2025 Jonathan Jeter

 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d