BuildMyPinnedSite.com Launches Worldwide. 12,000 Top Ranked Sites Take Advantage of Pinning.

BuildMyPinnedSite.com Launches Worldwide. 12,000 Top Ranked Sites Take Advantage of Pinning.

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Today, we announce that BuildMyPinnedSite.com is available worldwide in 38 languages and 40 geographies, making it easier than ever to enhance your site with pinning. BuildMyPinnedSite.com provides you the ideas and all the code you’ll need to enhance your site with pinning in just a few easy steps and less than 15 minutes of development.

For businesses, pinning = more site traffic

Pinning is an opportunity to potentially grow your site’s monetization. There are four factors that influence this:

  • Engagement – Sites get an average of 50% more engagement through pinning
  • User Behavior – IE9 users visit a pinned site 30 times per month on average
  • Share Growth – In just 5 months since release, IE9 share on Windows 7 exceeds 25% in the US and 18% worldwide.  More consumers will be pinning their favorite sites to their taskbars.
  • Site Readiness – More than 12,000 top ranked sites, like Facebook, Yahoo, and ESPN already take advantage; WordPress.com made pinning available to their network of over 20 million blogs. When other sites take advantage of pinning, more users learn how to pin.

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DocStoc: users that pin 650% more likely to search docs

DocStoc maintains the world’s best collection of documents needed to start, manage, and grow your business and professional life. Their customers who use IE9 and have DocStoc pinned to their Windows 7 taskbar viewed 229% more pages and were 650% more likely to search for documents (over 60 days measured). They made three simple enhancements to their site to improve their customers’ pinning experience:

  1. Discovery – Built repeat engagement by showing users how to pin DocStoc
  2. Notifications – Pulled the user in by showing the number of new docs available outside the browser
  3. Jump Lists – Showed user’s favorite docs and newest docs based on their site preferences

DocStoc’s goal was to build relationships with their customers leading to more document searches. As Jason Nazar, CEO put it:

“IE9’s pinning feature has enabled us to create an even more immediate relationship with our users. They don’t have to be browsing and still they are one mouse click away from the documents that will best help them manage and grow their small business. We can also constantly market our newest content without having to worry about email deliverability and open rates. Pinning represents a great new customer communication tool for us.”

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Pinning gives your site a front row seat

The combination of IE9 share growth on Windows 7, feature discoverability of pinning, and the measureable customer engagement gains, make pinning an attractive feature for sites. Check out existing examples of pinning on Beauty of the Web. Learn how to enhance your site with pinning capabilities at BuildMyPinnedSite. Help us share your site’s experience on the IE Gallery.

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  • abm 268 Posts

    Great job IE Team. It would be really wonderful if we get built-in spellchecker from MS in IE.

  • abm 268 Posts

    Great job IE Team. It would be really wonderful if we get a built-in spellchecker from MS in IE.

  • BuildMyPinnedSite, the gears aren't working for me. No code shows up.

  • Thanks for this article!  I tried adding a jump list to my blog when I first heard about Wordpress.com sites having it build in.  Alas, all of the web articles I read had no working solutions.  

    I've got a jump list working on my site now, so thank you!

  • Pinning is a great feature to have :)

  • I hadn't seen this blog post until today but tried making my self-hosted Wordpress blog be pinned over the weekend. The sad part is that none of it worked. I figured it was a Wordpress issue so I downloaded a plugin that helped, kind of. It got IE9 to have the jump list but the icon doesn't always appear on IE9, even after clearing cache and history. It always appears on Google Chrome though.

    Even as I drag the tab to pin it, I can see the favicon.ico but it doesn't show up on my taskbar or desktop. Weird because some days it magically will show the favicon on IE9and some days it won't. Same thing goes for the navigation colors I set. Some days IE9 shows them and sometimes it doesn't.

    Any suggestions? My site, if someone wants to test it, is slythefox.com

  • Anyone on the IE team have a suggestion regarding my earlier post?

  • IE9 to have the jump list but the icon doesn't always appear on IE9, even after clearing cache and history