How to Make $10000 Per Month with Pinterest Affiliate Marketing No Website

Hi, guys. 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 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 would you use Pinterest for affiliate marketing?

Well, because of its about 482 million users, Pinterest is among the top platforms for free, high-quality traffic, and a high percentage of that audience is made up of 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.

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 in 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 in the photo. Photos, and you should mostly aim for stuff that’s primarily targeting women because currently, it’s about 60% of Pinterest’s 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 feast 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 reading this blog are quite new to affiliate marketing and are essentially beginners who have no website and perhaps a smallish social media following. 

That is why I decided to write you about a relatively new platform that not many people hear about. It connects creators with brands and allows you to earn great commissions. 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 to your shop.

The second reason is that Wayward has 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 website. As 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 them to your desired look and feel. Also, you can create a shoppable link in your bio on Wayward, allowing you to go beyond generic URLs and showcase specific products with rich descriptions directly in your link. 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 the 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 so on. Another reason why you should focus on Wayward is that 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 wait 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 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 on 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, you still want to grow your following on Pinterest, right? And for that, your page and your profile need to be something that people 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. 

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 SEO-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 ChatGPT to craft this quick bio for you. There is no need to overthink it. 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 Masterclass 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 visibility and potentially more commissions and sales.

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 use this handy free Chrome extension called Sort Pin for this purpose. What it does is, when you 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 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, so you can later think of making some of your own pins using this information for inspiration. 

I also recommend you pick a catchy cover photo for each Pinterest board—something 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 board cover.

Now, let’s talk about 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, and I’ve seen similar spikes on weekends on most of the

accounts of my Pinterest clients. 

What kinds of pins should I 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 content from other platforms. I have a bunch of video pins that are just short clips from my longer YouTube videos. If you have your content on TikTok, Instagram, or Tumblr, you could repurpose your posts from there on Pinterest. But if you do it, make sure that you remove that TikTok icon from your 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 will casually mention that you can download posts that were created by other people from other platforms like TikTok 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 caution you because there is a thing called a DMCA complaint on any major online platform, and Pinterest is no exception. Even if you give text 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 millions of 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 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 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, I currently recommend everyone stick to image pins or short videos, but not idea pins. Earlier this year, Pinterest announced that this format would be removed from the platform. 

You can still create idea pins, and I still have them on one of my accounts, but I don’t see the point in making them if they will be converted to video pins later, according to Pinterest’s own statement. Always keep in mind that standard image pins are usually 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 up in Pinterest search results, make sure that you use 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 the 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 #ad, #sponsored, #promotion, or something.

along the lines of 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 they can 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 Wayward direct affiliate links, and they work just fine, but I have to give you a word of caution 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 Bitly 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, and 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. 

You can click “Save Product,” and once you’re done saving your PIN, these tagged products will appear as little dots on top of your pins, and they will show up under the original pin. With these 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. I have a website, digitalprojuktibd.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 pro tips that will allow you to scale your Pinterest affiliate game and answer a few more questions that 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 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. 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 pin 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 on your boards. Third, don’t try to promote the same product URL 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. You can save many other pins in between, even for other affiliate products.

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. Thanks for reading this blog post.