Pinterest Link Generator
Links to publish images from your web pages can get your images on Pinterest.
You'll find a quick and easy to use link generator further below. And also instructions for constructing the link manually.
The Pinterest link will work in emails in addition to web pages. In PDFs, too.
If you're publishing your own images in articles or blog posts, a Pinterest button is likely to get you some back links and traffic from the popular site.
A working example is on the left.
The "Pin It" button is an invitation to click.
People with a large or small presence at Pinterest can give you back links. The more emotion your image evokes, the more likely it is to be pinned and re-pinned and pinned again.
Just like any other link for web pages, email, PDFs, etc., the link to click for pinning an image on Pinterest can be an image, text, or combination thereof.
Using the Pinterest Link Generator
When you use the generator, the "Description" field is optional. All other fields are required for a correctly-
Use the Pinterest link generator to quickly and easily construct a copy-and-paste link for your web pages, emails, and PDFs.
Pinterest Link Generator
The URL of the web page where the image is published.
The URL of the image to pin.
(Optional) The text to publish below the image when it's pinned.
The complete img tag of an image to click and/or the text to click (pre-filled with img tag of a Pinterest-
[Pinterest Link code will be inserted here.]
You're welcome to use the Pinterest link generator on this page as often and as much as you want. Bookmark it and keep it handy.
Constructing the Pinterest Link
If you prefer to construct your own Pinterest link instead of using the generator, this section is for you.
Here's the template for the link. Following it are notes for replacing the placeholders in brackets with correct information.
<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=[PAGE_URL]&media=[IMAGE_URL]&description=[TEXT]"> [IMAGE/TEXT] </a>
To construct the Pinterest link, replace these placeholders with the indicated information:
| Placeholder | Replacement |
|---|---|
| [PAGE_URL] | The URL of the web page where the image is published. |
| [IMAGE_URL] | The URL of the image. |
| [TEXT] | (Optional) The text to publish below the image when it's pinned. If no text is to be published, the &description= part of the link template may be removed or left as is, but do remove the [TEXT] placeholder. |
| [IMAGE/TEXT] | The img tag of the image to be clickable and/or text to be clickable. If you want to use the Pinterest-provided button, here's the code (may be https:// instead of http:// if you prefer or your site is on SSL):
<img src="https://assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png" alt="Pinterest button" title="Click to pin on Pinterest."> |
To get your images pinned, give your site visitors Pinterest links. They won't tap or click what isn't there to tap or click.
The Pinterest links constructed from the template or generated with the tool accompanying this article can be published wherever links can be tapped or clicked — email, web pages, apps, PDFs, and you'll think of others, I'm certain.
(This article first appeared in Possibilities ezine.)
Will Bontrager
