Pinterest Gets Business Friendly With Commercial Accounts, Widgets

Pinterest announced today that it will differentiate business pages from individual profiles and verify business accounts, making them display more prominently in search results. Commercial accounts were formerly forbidden, although the rule was widely disregarded.

Pinterest announced today that it will differentiate business pages from individual profiles and verify business accounts, making them display more prominently in search results.

Commercial accounts were formerly forbidden on the upstart social network, although the rule was widely disregarded.

“We want to help more businesses provide great content on Pinterest and make it easy to pin from their websites,” product manager Cat Lee wrote on the company’s blog.

The upstart social network sweetened the deal by offering a set of best

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