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 now just for the newcomers affiliate marketing is a business model where you promote others people's products or services and you earn a commission for each sale or referral the next question is why would you use Pinterest for affiliate marketing well because with about 482 million users Pinterest is among the top platforms for free highquality traffic and 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 and a crucial step for Success on Pinterest is to choose the right niche you see 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 on photos because this is what Pinterest is in its Essence it's a visual search engine full of images and full of people who search for stuff on Pinterest and their visual searches they care about the images and how things look on the photo photos and you should mostly aim for stop this primarily targeting women because currently it's about 60% of Pinterest audience think about stuff like fashion home decor beauty products yummy food stuff for kids and babies or even Fitness Gear anything that's a fist for the eyes and can Jazz up your pins 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 smallish social media following that is why I decided to show you a relatively new platform that not many people he 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 and you will find the link to it in the description below it will be perfect for beginners because first On Wayward you can download a CSV file of your customer list and create tailored content for them which allows you to make even more affiliate commissions from the same visitors of your shop the second reason is that Wayward has a free metop integration followers can shop without leaving the Instagram app boosting your commissions then another reason is that Wayward doesn't require you to have your own website like I said essentially you can create a storefront that includes a lot of affiliate products and it helps you create this High performing store in just minutes you can categorize products and Collections and customize it to your desired look and feel also you can create a shoppable Linkin buyer On Wayward allowing you to go beyond generic URLs and showcase specific products with Rich descriptions directly in your Linkin bio this removes the extra click for your followers the faster they understand the quicker they will shop then also there is a great match with Pinterest audience because the majority of products On Wayward fall into the most popular niches and topics on Pinterest like I already said Beauty maternity products for kids home decor items and and so on another reason why you should focus on Wayward is because you can skip the tedious steps of creating and getting approved for an Amazon Associates account add any Amazon products to your wayward store and receive well-earned commissions not in the typical 60-day weight but in just 3 to five business days and you will get earnings dropped to your bank account 10 times faster than any influencer or affiliate platform does once you have an account account On Wayward you can quickly create a store that looks similar to mine and many products don't require any application usually they're in the top selling product collections for this all you need to do is just click on create a link and this is basically your affiliate link that you can copy and then I will show you in the next step how you can use it on Pinterest so stay with me for that step sign up On Wayward as a Creator using the first link in the description below and we're moving to the next step and that step is to optimize your Pinterest account okay so getting your Pinterest account looking sharp is key even though people might buy stuff without checking out your first page but you still want to grow your following on Pinterest right and for that your page your profile needs to be something that people really like first thing 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 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 and here is a pro tip for you make sure to choose a nice username because Pinterest will give you a random one so change it to something that doesn't have those funky numbers or letters include some keywords in your profile name like I have here for example Anastasia blogger online business tips blogging for beginners and make it Su friendly this helps you show up in searches and gets more eyes on your content on Pinterest your profile description is important too keep it short sweet and stuffed with a few keywords it's all about giving people a heads up on what they're getting by following you and you can even ask chatty to craft this quick buyer for you no need to overthink it next up Pinterest boards they should also be optimized for cords both the titles and board descriptions now it might be getting to SEO dance for this video topic so if you want to dig deeper and ler 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 this page 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 more visibility and potentially more commissions more sales and then aim for at least 5 to 10 boards for a new Pinterest account then save to each board around 20 to 30 pins that closely match the board name I actually use this handy free Chrome extension called sort pin for this purpose what it does is when you make a search for any keyword say I wanted to save pins to my new Pinterest board with maternity products this extension will show you a ton of information about the pins that you cannot see as a Pinterest user otherwise like how many repins or other engagements each pin has and when you're trying to build up your boards from scratch you should only repin to it the most popular pins that already have the right keywords attached to them because Pinterest will mix up a lot of new pins to test if they are worth it but you only want to repin the most popular ones to your new boards so if you want to try it you'll find the link to sort pin in the description below as well it's a free extension and it's very helpful when you're building a new account on Pinterest it also helps you understand which pins of your competitors are truly viral and so you can later think of making some some of your own pins using this information for inspiration I also recommend you to pick a catchy cover photo for each uh Pinterest board some nothing that grabs attention you don't need to create cover images by the way you can just choose some of the most attractive pins on that particular board and use it as a as a board cover now let's talk growth strategies and 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 and I've seen similar spikes on weekends on most of the accounts of my Pinterest clients 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 kle and I occasionally repurpose my own content from other platforms like I have a bunch of video pins that are just short clips from my longer YouTube videos if you have your own content on Tik Tok Instagram or Tumblr you could repurpose your own posts from there on Pinterest but if you do it make sure that you removed that Tik Tok 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 and if you watch some other videos about Pinterest affiliate marketing some of those other YouTubers would casually mention that you can download posts that were created by other people from other platforms like Tik Tok or Instagram and just republish under your own account with a text credit to the Creator well I will go against the crowd in this case and I will ction you because there is a thing called dmca complaint on any major online platform and Pinterest is no exception even if you gave a tax credit to someone and then they're still unhappy that you used their content without their written permission well you're on your own that's the part that a lot of Youtubers with million views on their videos about Pinterest affiliate marketing forget to mention you might get away with it for a while and I've seen accounts on Pinterest that do it but no one can guarantee that you will never get a dmca complaint for a at least a few of the hundreds of pins on your account and if you go down this route of copying content from other people and if you get say three complaints like this Pinterest might close your account permanently so here we go I told you the truth you might not like it or you might actually like my video because I'm being honest with you unlike many other YouTubers who have close to zero real experience on Pinterest and who will will just tell you that it's super easy to just copy and paste content from others and get away with it when it comes to the formats of pins currently I recommend everyone to stick to image pins or short videos but not idea pins earlier this year Pinterest announced that this format will be removed from the platform you can still create idea pins and I still have it on my accounts on one of my accounts but I don't see the point in making them if they they will be anyway converted to video pins later according to pinterest's own statement always keep in mind that standard image pins usually are the main money makers because they have higher click-through rates than video pins people cannot do much with an image you see it you click on it with a video people tend to watch them and move on more often than clicking on the links attached to them to make your pins pop in Pinterest search results make sure that you used keywords in the pin titles and descriptions this might help you get traffic not just from Pinterest but even from Google Images because for a lot of keywords Google will show Pinterest images close to top of the search results now one more thing that you should remember on this step and I want us to pause for a second and pay attention here this is very important and people often forget about it you have to make an affiliate disclosure in the pin description it's very simple Pinterest doesn't ask for too much just add a hashtag something like hasht add or sponsored or promotion or something along the lines to your PIN description that's it bonus tip that works great for viral pins stay active in the comments below your pins at least for your most popular pins sometimes people cannot find the link and they simply ask where can they find the product in your PIN then you can just drop your affiliate link there and catch those extra sales also being active in the comments on your top performing pins helps them get even more Impressions and they might stay viral for more time because of that next let's see how you can add those affiliate links to your pins and 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 wered direct affiliate links and they work just fine but I have to give you a word of CTI here because Pinterest doesn't treat all affiliate networks and even all link shorteners equally for example I know that it wouldn't allow you to use hop links from ClickBank or maybe use beatly as a link shortener if they do block a certain affiliate link or domain you will know it right away because Pinterest won't even let you save a pin with that link and it will just show you a warning that you're trying to link to a domain that is blocked on their platform now 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 caring 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 taged to your main pin you can click save product and once you're done saving your PIN these taged products will appear as little dots on top of your pins and they will show up under the original pin with this tagged products you can get more impulse buys people see the product on the pin image they kind of Click right on that product uh that they liked and they go straight to your affiliate product page now the Third Way is by using your profile link on Pinterest personally I have a website Anastasia blogger.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 now I want to give you just a few few Pro tips that will allow you to scale your Pinterest affiliate game and answer a few more questions that I've I've got from people in the comments on my previous video about Pinterest affiliate marketing 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 schedule up to a month in advance so you don't have to log in multiple times a day you can leave your life and do other stuff and just bash schedule your pins in one or 2 days and then sit back and relax for the rest of the month 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 so there should be a healthy balance between content curation and the affiliate products in your boards third don't try to promote the same product URL over and over and over again every day even if you change the image and save it to a different board every time after three or four pins saved daily you need to make a break or even better don't save them daily give them intervals of about a week between the pins and that way you will save just one pin with that exact affiliate link per week and you can save many other pins in between even to other f it products and the most important piece of advice is patience and 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 your pins it takes time to build traffic engage with your audience it's not a onewe 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 and if you like this video don't forget to hit like And subscribe I'll see you in that next video