How to do affiliate marketing on Pinterest more effectively

Key quotes:

• "For example with Leadpages I can promote links to their free 14 day trial, pricing page, Facebook advertising course, coaching consultancy ebook and more."
• "Each offer you promote will have its own affiliate link allowing you to track traffic, clicks and referrals for that offer."
• "But if you want to create different pins for the same offer/link you need to know which pin is referring the most traffic, clicks and referrals."
• "You can’t do that unless you create a separate affiliate links for each pin."
• "The image below is a screenshot showing the affiliate management dashboard for Leadpages and a custom affiliate link I created for a pin."
• "Here’s an example of one of my pin descriptions offering free Facebook advertising ebook by Leadpages."

Key quotes:

• "When I first started my online business, I thought of creating my website so I can post my affiliate links."
• "When I first created my Pinterest account, I was surprised that my pins had impressions even when I don’t have followers yet."
• "Also, take note that you cannot simply pin the photos of the product as it appears in the affiliate network."
• "Once you have canva, click on the Pinterest graphic and start creating your pins."
• "After joining Tailwind for free, I was able to have followers and increased my monthly views and impressions."
• "To upload pins to your board visit other users pins, and click on the tailwind logo."

Key quotes:

• "It’s a large web-board, where users can share, create, and look for pins."
• "As Pinterest provides users with an opportunity to choose from a wide range of activities from sharing ideas and searching out useful content to driving traffic and boosting sales, a website has a large active audience."
• "It seems that the main goal of most users is to entertain and share pins, however, according to the stats, 40 percent of users say they plan purchases through the platform and use it as a search engine."
• "A user just needs to create a pin, include a description with some visual content (image or video), and insert an affiliate link."
• "To sign up for this program, at least 100 Pinterest followers are needed."
• "MagickLinks single program can cover thousands of products from various retailers, thus you won’t need to apply to several programs separately."

Transcript: All right what's up everyone welcome to the Surfside PPC youtube channel today's gonna be our Pinterest affiliate marketing tutorial so I'm gonna show you a few different strategies to increase affiliate marketing clicks by using Pinterest the first thing you need to get started is you're gonna need a website so when you're signing up for affiliate programs you're going to need some website to show them how you're going to promote their products so regardless of what you're trying to promote you need something that when you're filling out an application for a program like Wayfarer or something like that that you need to show them this is how I'm going to promote your products the other thing is you need to make sure that the programs you're signing up for do allow Pinterest affiliate links so some programs don't for example I use Wayfarer on Pinterest I'll use their affiliate links and Wayfarer is done through ShareASale com so ShareASale is a really great affiliate marketing network with tons of merchants on it so regardless of what you're trying to promote you can usually find a merchant with products that you can promote so Wayfarer is one... See more →

Key quotes:

• "Affiliate marketing is when you promote a product you love to your audience and when they make a purchase from your link, you earn a commission! Let’s go through the steps you should take if you want to create pinnable images that are connected to your affiliate links."
• "In order to pin your affiliate links, you will need to create a pinnable image to start."
• "Creating your pins is super easy with programs like Canva, so you don’t need to worry about learning any fancy software."
• "After you’ve created your pinnable image, you will want to create an affiliate-friendly description that is optimized for Pinterest."
• "In order to create a pin description that is optimized for Pinterest, you’re going to want to do a bit of quick keyword research to see what keywords you should include in your description."
• "Are you going to try and use Pinterest as part of your affiliate marketing strategy? Don’t forget to sign up for your free affiliate workbook to make sure you are writing blog posts that will convert your readers into affiliate sales!."

Key quotes:

• "However, as I marketed my weekly blog posts on Pinterest, I started to see some issues that I am learning to watch out for."
• "The first thing I learned while reading endless e-books and blog posts about Pinterest was to use a scheduler such as the Tailwind Scheduling Application."
• "There are a number of ways I track my click throughs to my website: People will tell you that they have 300,000 monthly views on their account."
• "Actually, as a parenting blogger, I know that to be a success on Pinterest driving thousands of clicks to your website daily, you need probably a million monthly views or more."
• "You schedule your pins on Pinterest and share them on group boards and tribes, then you are good to go."
• "In order to have a “good” Pinterest account that will actually give you the click-throughs that you will need, it’s essential to manage your account to select the best pins, delete pins that don’t work and repin pins that do work."