HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON PINTEREST [BEGINNER FRIENDLY] — EVEN IF YOU HAVE ZERO EXPERIENCE
- FartMan
- Sep 18, 2021
- 6 min read
You are here on this page reading this article because you are asking any of these questions, “How can I make money on pinterest, how to earn money using pinterest or even how to monetize your pinterest account. All of these questions or even more are a good way to start because the most important is not the fact that you are asking but have taken action to search and hence discovering this.
Alot of you reading might be familiar with pinterest and may have accounts too, yet for the sake of the few who are new to the online platform, allow me to give a brief description of pinterest before we continue.
WHAT IS PINTEREST
For many, pinterest is one of the already saturated social media networks where connections and relationships are built among people. But in reality, pinterest is far more than that. It is an SEO optimization friendly site that has good rankings with google. As such it is also a place where people come for inspirations as to what’s new, trending, etc.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON PINTEREST
This is the sole heart of this article of this article and would encourage relatively newbies go do a little research on pinterest from google themselves.
Pinterest deals with pins( known popularly from other platforms as posts). The best part been that its a visual platform and hence giving a better picture of what ever is in stall. When it comes to making money with pinterest, there are exactly many ways out there because I believe that it’s very dangerous to stick to one idea or way of doing things. Yet, not ever other way out there is actually profitable, hence we would be looking at just two ways of monetizing your pinterest account. One is this a blog post and the second without a blog post or website.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON PINTEREST WITHOUT A BLOG
I always share with you my most basic way of starting out because that is exactly how I started out since I basically started this whole online stuff as a broke graduated college student.
Anyway, the best way to make money on pinterest without a blog is by doing affiliate marketing. What a relief this has always been, to be able to promote others peoples products without any money as start up or capital.
It is important to know that to make money on pinterest with affiliate marketing, a few things have to be done well else this might turn out to be a nightmare. Therefore I would walk you through a few things to do well in order to start seeing results with pinterest.
BASIC STEPS NEEDED IN ORDER TO GET THE BEST OUT OF PINTEREST
I encourage you to take a closer look at these steps carefully and do them into practice and you would start seeing results and making money even if you do not have a blog post or website.
STEP #1: CREATE A BUSINESS ACCOUNT
The very basic step to begin with is by creating a business account on pinterest. This is a great feature to go with because inside the business account, you have the opportunity to view how your pins are doing. The number of impressions, engagements with audience, link clicks, etc. These helps you to know what is working best in order for you to focus your attention more. Inside the business account also, you get the opportunity to promote your pins to larger audience by running ads. A successful pinterest monetization really starts right here.
STEP #2: CREATE AT LEAST TEN (10) BOARDS
Since pinterest deals with boards and pins, the next step after creating a business account is by creating at least 10 boards that are related to whatever the account is about. Example: If the account is about weight loss, then your boards should includes things like “Nutrition”, “Lose weight quickly” , “Lose Belly Fat” etc.
Inside these boards, you have to pin other peoples stuffs or pins into them. These pins are popular and been activity used by other pinners and this is a great way to drive some of their audience to have a look at your account.
STEP #3" CREATE BEST OF BOARDS
This is where the real money is going to be made. Now, inside the best of boards, you are to post ONLY pins that belongs to you because that is where you would be redirecting links to your affiliate products. When the audience or traffic you are bringing over from other peoples pins begin to click through pins in your best of boards, they would be redirected to offers that are uniquely related to you as an affiliate and its money making time.
STEP #4: SEO OPTIMIZE YOUR PINS
As said earlier, pinterest is not all about social interactions but it is a very great place for optimization on google, therefore, go to the search bar and type in a word or sentence you want to target and after that pinterest is going to give you a bunch of other keywords related to what you typed into the search bar. This new suggestions are a great key to reaching more targeted audience with lower pins and this is how SEO optimization is done with pinterest. With time your pins would start ranking on google itself.
STEP #5: CONSIDER USING OPEN SOURCE WEBSITES AS WELL AS AUTOMATED TOOLS
Some affiliate marketplaces do not allow you to link them directly to pinterest and since we still want to make a ton of money with our affiliate offers. Once again there are free open websites like Medium and Google sites which I use very often to write a short article and put the affiliate links in them. These articles can then be linked with the pinterest pins in the best of boards.
Note also that there are automated tools like Tailwind which are very great in helping you grow your pinterest account to the reach more audience. They can also help your schedule post. Another place to help you schedule for pins is “Later”.
With these 5 steps in place, you have definitely set up your account to start using affiliate marketing to make money on pinterest.
BONUS: POST CONSISTENTLY
I advice you make a daily goal to post at least 5 pins daily with these optimized keywords. In no time, your post are going to start the ranking and that’s a huge ton of traffic for your offers.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON PINTEREST WITH A BLOG OR WEBSITE
Blogging is a good way to start out in this online money making space. Yet, whilst a lot of people have experienced life changing opportunities creating content and providing value for their customers, the bigger quota are unable to make any money with their blogs and are struggling to make ends meet. If you are one of such people, worry less because you are going to learn how to use pinterest to make the most out of your blog.
Now, blog posts (which I highly recommend) is a great way because, it is open to many possibilities.
It makes your brand unique
It creates a relationship between you and your customers or visitors
You get to advertise without much restrictions
Yet, if you are not receiving a good ton of visitors, how do you scale it up. and that is exactly the point where you need pinterest.
One of the basic ways to make money with your blog post is through “ad revenue”.
Google Adsense is a great way to monetize the traffic who visit your website every month and if you are getting 1000 and over per month, then you can make money with this system. For these reason, directing traffic from pinterest to your website is an advantage. To make the best out of this, you are still to follow the steps outline above and this time around put a link to your website in the bio on the top. with this all the traffic coming in from other people pins get the chance to visit your website too and this is how you generate the traffic to you site and hence monetization through the Adsense strategy.
The good news is that you can do both of them at a time and use pinterest as a good source of making money but I recommend the first strategy of affiliate marketing for complete beginners in order to build the raft and start scaling later on. These are methods that have worked for me and most of the marketers on pinterest. If you do it right, then it would surely work out well for you too.
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