How to Earn $10,000 a Month with Pinterest Affiliate Marketing

Hi guys, Anastasia here! Many of you really enjoyed the previous tutorial on Pinterest affiliate marketing. So today, we are diving deeper, step by step, to address all the questions I received in the comments below that video. I will show you how you can earn up to $10,000 a month using Pinterest. This includes selecting a profitable niche, finding affiliate products with high conversion rates, and effectively adding affiliate links to your pins. The great news is that you don’t need prior experience or any money to start with this method. All you need is Wi-Fi and either a laptop or a smartphone. You don’t even need to have your own website.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Just for the newcomers, affiliate marketing is a business model where you promote other people’s products or services and earn a commission for each sale or referral.

Why Use Pinterest for Affiliate Marketing?

With about 482 million users, Pinterest is among the top platforms for free, high-quality traffic. A high percentage of that audience are millennials from the United States and the United Kingdom, which means a higher purchasing power. And again, you can do affiliate marketing on Pinterest without spending a penny on ads and even without your own website.

Choosing the Right Niche

A crucial step for success on Pinterest is to choose the right niche. I’ve been in this game for years, and trust me, it’s been a mix of hits and misses. But really, it boils down to something pretty straightforward. On Pinterest, you need to aim for niches with products that look great in photos because Pinterest is, in essence, a visual search engine full of images. You should mostly aim for stuff primarily targeting women because currently, about 60% of Pinterest’s audience is female. Think about things like fashion, home decor, beauty products, yummy food, stuff for kids and babies, or even fitness gear—anything that’s a feast for the eyes and can jazz up your pins.

Finding Affiliate Products

Once you’ve got your niche down, the next step is hunting for some solid affiliate products. I’ll tell you more about that in the next step, but now, let’s talk about picking affiliate programs and products that really sell. I assume that a lot of people watching this video are quite new to affiliate marketing and essentially are beginners who have no website and perhaps a small social media following. That is why I decided to show you a relatively new platform that not many people know about. It connects creators with brands and allows you to earn great commissions. You should try to apply as a creator for Wayward, who partnered with me for this part of the video. You will find the link to it in the description below.

Optimizing Your Pinterest Account

Getting your Pinterest account looking sharp is key. Even though people might buy stuff without checking out your first page, you still want to grow your following on Pinterest, right? For that, your page, your profile needs to be something that people really like. First things first, switch to a business account if you haven’t already. You can do this in the account settings. Then pick a profile picture and a banner that match your niche. You can use your photo or a logo if you have one, and you want everything to look neat and on-brand. You can whip up something quick in Canva or similar tools using their templates, but stick with a consistent aesthetic or color scheme for your profile and banner. And hey, if you’ve got text or a logo, keep it simple—no more than three different fonts, or it might look like a hot mess.

Creating Pinterest Boards

Next up, Pinterest boards. They should also be optimized for keywords, both the titles and board descriptions. Now, it might be getting too SEO-dense for this video topic, so if you want to dig deeper and learn more about optimizing your profile, I will give you a link to my free Pinterest Master Class up there and also in the description below so you can watch it once we’re done with this video. You can also use Pinterest trends at trends.pinterest.com to research what’s hot in your niche and create new boards that target those popular searches. You can filter the results by different niches to see the most relevant suggestions, and this will help your account get more visibility and potentially more commissions and sales.

Growth Strategies

The best way to grow your Pinterest is by posting pins regularly. I’m talking two to five pins a day, every day, Monday to Sunday. But I would say that you can try to be even more active on weekends because that’s when I see traffic spikes from Pinterest on all of my accounts. I’ve seen similar spikes on weekends on most of the accounts of my Pinterest clients.

Creating Viral Pins

But what kinds of pins should you create that might have the potential to go viral? On my account, I use unique pins that I created myself using tools like Canva or Crello, and I occasionally repurpose my own content from other platforms. For example, I have a bunch of video pins that are just short clips from my longer YouTube videos. If you have your own content on TikTok, Instagram, or Tumblr, you could repurpose your own posts from there on Pinterest. But if you do, make sure that you remove that TikTok icon from your own content before you post it on Pinterest. Pinterest will not ban you, but they might limit how many people see your stuff because, well, obviously, Pinterest doesn’t want to promote as much content with their competitor’s logo on it.

Adding Affiliate Links

There are three different ways and different places you can add affiliate links on Pinterest. The first and I would say the main way is by adding the link to the destination URL field on each pin. That’s when we will go back to Wayward, and I will copy the product affiliate link and then paste it here. I can show you a bunch of pins that I created with Wayward direct affiliate links, and they work just fine.

Tagging Products on Pins

The second way to add affiliate links on Pinterest is by tagging products on pins. A lot of people completely miss this option because it’s kind of hidden and not very obvious. So I would appreciate a like here for sharing this extra way for you to make even more commissions from your pins. How it works is that after uploading an image or video on Pinterest, you will get this little tagging icon, and then you can again copy and paste the affiliate link here. It will take one of the products from Wayward, and what happens next is that Pinterest will automatically fetch some of the product images from that page, and you can choose one of them, and it will create a new pin with this image tagged to your main pin.

Using Your Profile Link

The third way is by using your profile link on Pinterest. Personally, I have a website, AnastasiaBlogger.com, so in my case, it makes sense to have that website in my profile. But for many of you who are watching this video, it might be the case that you don’t have a website and you don’t plan on starting one yet. The good news is that you could simply give a link to your Wayward storefront, which will have all of the products and affiliate links in one place.

Pro Tips for Scaling Your Pinterest Affiliate Game

The first tip is: don’t miss the scheduling functionality on Pinterest. Instead of trying to manually post at a certain time of the day when more Pinterest users are active, you can schedule your pins even on the native Pinterest scheduler up to a month in advance. So you don’t have to log in multiple times a day. You can live your life and do other stuff and just batch schedule your pins in one or two days, and then sit back and relax for the rest of the month.

Balancing Content

Second, don’t create an account to post only your own pins with affiliate links. This is not how Pinterest wants us to use their platform. In their affiliate guidelines, they say that you can use direct affiliate links on your pins, but it should be done in moderation. It shouldn’t be the only type of pins that you’re saving to your account. So if you don’t have a website with content that you could link to, then what you could do in that case is mix into your pinning schedule some repins of popular pins from other accounts. There should be a healthy balance between content curation and the affiliate products in your boards.

Patience and Consistency

The most important piece of advice is patience and consistency. I get loads of messages asking why they’re not making money after just one week. Look, it takes time for the algorithm to catch on to your pins. It takes time to build traffic and engage with your audience. It’s not a one-week miracle, but stick with it for a few months, and you will see the results.

If you’re serious about Pinterest, check out my video linked up there on all the ways that I use to make money on Pinterest. If you like this video, don’t forget to hit like and subscribe. I’ll see you in that next video.

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