Affiliate marketing can be a great way to make money sharing products that you use and love.

Luckily, you can do affiliate marketing right on Pinterest! Many users have made money on Pinterest by promoting their affiliate links for free, and this guide will show you how to do just that.

This comprehensive guide will teach you exactly how to share affiliate links on Pinterest with AND without a blog and how to set your account and strategy up for success.

How to do affiliate marketing on Pinterest

To do affiliate marketing on Pinterest, you need to:

Find affiliate programs and networks with products you want to promote
Create pins and add your affiliate links
Add proper disclosures and publish your pins

Preparing your account

Before you start your affiliate marketing, first you want to prep your account for success. Here’s how:

Create a free Pinterest business account

The first thing you want to do is make sure that you have a Pinterest business account. If you don’t you can make one for free

Having a business account is great for many reasons. Not only does it make your account appear more professional and legitimate, it also gives you access to in-depth analytics on your account, pins, and boards, which are really important for adjusting your Pinterest strategy and seeing what’s working.

Optimize your boards for Pinterest SEO

Pinterest SEO is really important for getting your pins seen. It helps Pinterest to understand what your content is about and to distribute and rank it where it is most relevant.

Pinterest board SEO is an essential part of Pinterest SEO. Pinterest utilizes data from board titles, board descriptions, and the pins saved to a board to help better understand your content.

Create a professional-looking profile

Pinners may be more likely to listen to your product recommendations when you seem real, legit, and professional. That’s why it’s important to do things such as including a descriptive bio, a high-quality logo or headshot profile picture, and more.

Creating pins

Pinterest has three main pin formats that you can use to share affiliate links: Standard Pins, Video Pins, and Idea Pins. While Standard and Video Pins are relatively similar, Idea Pins are drastically different from the two.

Each pin type has a different purpose. Standard Pins are the “original” pin format that can be great for driving traffic. Video Pins are very similar but are often harder to click through for pinners.

Idea Pins, one of Pinterest’s newest pin formats, are really great for reaching new people, especially since they are pretty favored by the algorithm. They help Pinterest Creators and Pinterest influencers to grow and connect with their audience and are relatively similar to Instagram Stories.

Canva is one of the best design platforms out there, and I personally use it to create nearly all of my pins – both image and video! If you need help creating pins, you can try using pin templates to help you with the design process.

Add affiliate links to pins

Once you have your affiliate links and your pins, it’s now time to add your affiliate links to the pins.

I generally find that it is easier to create and add links to Standard Pins and Video Pins on desktop. However, for Idea Pins, you currently need to use the mobile Pinterest app. You will need a way to access your affiliate links from your phone to connect them to Idea Pins.

Publish your pins

Once you’ve added your affiliate link and optimized your pins, it’s time to publish!

When you publish your pins, make sure you save them to the most relevant.

Seeing results can definitely take time. However, keep consistently publishing new pins to Pinterest and the results should hopefully start rolling in.

Conclusion
I hope that this post has helped you learn about affiliate marketing on Pinterest and how you can get started to hopefully make some money!

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