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Welcome to The Blogger Genius Podcast brought to you by MiloTree. Here’s your host, Jillian Leslie.
It’s an exciting time for Pinterest, as they just unveiled the new “following tab.” Easy to access on both mobile and desktop views, this is a huge change that has the blogging community buzzing. And below is why you need to know about the new Pinterest following tab:
You may remember in 2014, Pinterest launched their smartfeed, giving users a custom experience based on their interests, instead of simply showing chronological pins from people they follow.
The new following tab allows users to scroll through pins exclusively from people they follow (with an occasional promoted pin in the mix). These pins have time stamps showing that they were pinned recently as well.
It remains to be seen what kind of an impact this could have on blogging traffic, but at first glance, this seems like a huge step in the right direction.
As a user, I am excited to see a feed that I’ve chosen for myself based off of my following habits, and as a blogger, I’m hopeful that this will mean my pins show up more prominently in the following feeds of my fans.
Have you looked at your following feed yet?
If you are on desktop, you’ll find the icon right next to the search bar.
From your mobile device you can click the button that says “following” down at the bottom of your screen when you are on the Pinterest app.
Are you as excited about this change as we are?
This marks a great time to work on increasing your Pinterest followers, so you show up in more ‘following’ feeds!
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What’s going on with Google and mobile pop-ups?
Google came out with news in late August, that starting in January of 2017, it would begin punishing mobile sites that use big, obtrusive pop-ups and interstitials.
Why is Google doing this? Because big, obtrusive pop-ups and interstitials on mobile annoy users. And Google wants to make sure that the search results it shows makes users happy.
So let’s cut to the chase. What does this mean for your MiloTree pop-up on mobile?
This image above comes from the Google announcement, and is an example of a banner that uses a “reasonable amount of screen space.”
So we’re in the process of redesigning our mobile pop-up to make sure it is Google-friendly. And we will be rolling it out in the next couple of weeks, way before the January 2016 deadline.
We’re in the same boat as you because we use our MiloTree pop-up to grow our social following on Catch My Party. So you better believe we take this stuff seriously.
We will send out an email and post on our blog as soon as our new mobile pop-up is live. So far, I’m loving the new design! Can’t wait to share it.
You can read Google’s announcement here.
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