Today’s guest post is by Lindsay Bell.

Ahhhh, Pinterest. How I’ve loved to loath you all these years.

Well, actually, it’s only been a couple of years, hasn’t it?

You little spunky punk, you.

You’ve done fairly well for yourself, I won’t take that away from you.

You made Time magazine’s list of “50 Best Websites of 2011.”

You managed to edge out LinkedIn, YouTube, and Google+ as a top driver of referral traffic to retailers.

Heck, by the end of 2011 you were one of the top 10 largest social networking sites out there!

But you weren’t gonna stop there, were you Pinterest? No way. By early 2012 you scored 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors – making you the first standalone site in history to have passed the 10 million mark so quickly.

And still I loathed you. In fact, I probably triple-loathed you, because gosh darnit, you were succeeding! (more…)