Is Pinterest’s New Smart Feed Hurting Small Businesses?

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I’m a pretty active Pinterest user and last Fall I started to notice that my Pinterest feed looked different. And not a in a good way that made my pinning experience better.

I knew that Pinterest was making changes to allow them to start selling their version of promoted ads in the site. And I didn’t have an issue when I saw something called Related Pins showing up in my home feed as they were testing out their programs. But when I started to see pins from people I wasn’t following or one specific topic flooding my pins, I knew something was going on.

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Is Pinterest’s New Smart Feed Hurting Small Businesses?

020915 pin it

I’m a pretty active Pinterest user and last Fall I started to notice that my Pinterest feed looked different. And not a in a good way that made my pinning experience better.

I knew that Pinterest was making changes to allow them to start selling their version of promoted ads in the site. And I didn’t have an issue when I saw something called Related Pins showing up in my home feed as they were testing out their programs. But when I started to see pins from people I wasn’t following or one specific topic flooding my pins, I knew something was going on.

Read Full Story

from Blogger http://evangelinagius.blogspot.com/2015/02/is-pinterests-new-smart-feed-hurting.html