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How To Pin Facebook Images To Pinterest With ShotPin

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How to quickly pin images from Facebook to Pinterest with ShotPin

This is a very quick guide and tutorial that will show you how you can pin images from absolutely any website to Pinterest.

It’s always a great idea to cross-promote between social media sites. It’s a social media strategy that brings in new followers and new engagement from one social media site to another. But for some reason, Facebook doesn’t always like to play with other social media sites one of which is Pinterest

How to pin Facebook images to Pinterest with Shotpin

But not to worry there is a very simple fix so you can now pin Facebook Images to your Pinterest Boards and boost your social media management strategy.

Pinterest share buttons just don’t work when you try to share images from Facebook to Pinterest.

Facebook doesn’t support pinning to Pinterest. When you click your button you get an annoying pop up stopping you fast in your tracks.

 

Pinterest Pop Up - Can't Pin Directly From Facebook

So How Do We Pin Facebook And Google Images To Pinterest?

Well the process is very simple and it starts by adding a very nifty social media browser extension to your web browser called ShotPin

Go to the post or image that you would like to share on Facebook and then click the date/time on the post.

ShotPin - Click The Date To Open Your Facebook Post In A new Window Ready For Pinning

Clicking the date/time will open the content up in its own tab with its unique URL showing at the top in the address bar. See below.

Click the Red ShotPin icon in the address bar to open up the ShotPin Button

Click-The-Shot-Pin-In-The-Address-Bar-Your-Pin-Button-Appears

Left click and hold, and then drag open the content that you want to share, a black outline then appears around the content, now click the ShotPin icon.

Left Click And Hold, Then Drag Open To Select The Content, Then Click The Shot Pin

The Pinterest Pin Box then opens.

The Pinterest Pin Box Now Opens

You select the board that you want to pin to and provide your title and description and click pin and you are done.

Here is the finished pin from my example, click the image below and it takes you to the Pinterest Image if you then click the image on Pinterest it takes you back to the original Facebook Post.

ShotPin Tutorial Image

With ShotPin you can screen capture and pin to Pinterest from any site. You can capture whole images or a section of an image or just text.

With ShotPin you can pin anything that you can screen capture.

 

If you have any questions regarding ShotPin or in fact social media and my social media strategy then please leave them as comments below and I will reply to them. If you found my blog article useful then please share.

To your continued success!

Regards

Dexter Roona

For a full guide to Pinterest then please check out our

Pinterest Traffic Generation Guide

 

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Shotpin - How to pin images from any site to Pinterest, including Facebook
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Shotpin - How to pin images from any site to Pinterest, including Facebook
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ShotPin is a very useful Google Chrome Extension that allows the user to pin images from any website including Facebook.
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