See here, I post simple images and videos on Pinterest and make thousands of dollars
a month with affiliate marketing. Takes me only 10 minutes a day!
In this video, I'll show you how to easily tag products with your affiliate links when you
create your pins on Pinterest, how to get a lot of traffic and how to monetize it in 4 simple steps.
Find an Offer to Promote Design Pins in Canva
Create Pin with ChatGPT Tag Products (2 Methods!)
Find an Offer to Promote
And step number 1 is to Find an offer to promote. to do this go to one of these affiliate networks:
Impact
RewardStyle Shareasale
There many other networks but these are the ones I personally use and the commission
rates are great which is not always the case with affiliate links from Amazon Associates program.
For example this is how you can join RewardStyle. Just google their name to get to their homepage
and choose to Login as a Creator, then you'll find this button below saying Apply Now.
Click on it and submit your information. They'll ask you the primary audience region,
and in my case, the majority of audience lives in the Unites States - that's totally
thanks to my audience on Pinterest because this platform is mostly popular in the US.
Then I'll add Pinterest as my primary posting channel but if you have other social media
like Instagram or Tiktok, do mention them too, I'll add my Youtube channel.
They'll also ask you about your experience as an affiliate marketer and how often you post on
your social media. Then check the box for their Terms of Service and submit your application.
Pick a niche that's popular on Pinterest - anything that would be interesting for women
will do well cause the majority of Pinterest audience are women. So think of topics
like home decor, fashion, food and so on. I will open for you the trending products
on RewardStyle right now and you'll see that the same categories are popular here,
so it will be easy for you to find a lot of products to promote on Pinterest.
To get an affiliate link, you'll just need to click on a product and click
Get Link. That's all! You just need to paste it somewhere on Pinterest right?
So stay tuned, as I'll show you on the next steps how to make pins,
tag affiliate products and generate income from your Pinterest account.
Next up is Designing a pin in Canva To create a pin you need to know
a few important things first: Your pin should be vertical and
The recommended pin size is either 1000 by 1500 pixels or a taller version which
I prefer because it gives me more space in the Pinterest feed is 1080 by 1920 pixels.
You can find both of these sizes are available if you start creating a pin in Canva. It's a
free graphic design tool that works right in your browser, it offers thousands of pin templates and
you can start your forever free account using my link, check it out in the description below.
This is the pin I created and let me show you how you can make one like this.
So you click Create a Design, I chose the taller pin template. Then you can type in the search bar
the word collage to see templates for pins where you could include a bunch of products.
You will find then templates like these, I recommend you to pick the pins where text overlay
is in the top part of the pin because text overlay is very important for your click-through rates.
It helps users understand what your pin really offers better than just the images.
Once you pick one of the designs, you can stretch the image by dragging it by
the corners because many of these designs were originally made for the shorter pin templates.
I bet you would have picked one of the pins that has a text overlay at the bottom of the pin,
right? Because there are plenty of templates like these on Canva but
if I didn't tell you this, how would you know that they are not efficient?
Well, I am trying to spill the real secrets that can make a difference in your income from
Pinterest, so give me a like if you want me to share more tips like this in my future videos.
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want to ask me something, the best place to do it is in the comments below this video!
Anyway, this is my pin and to make it I first found 3 popular patio chair models on RewardStyle.
Here you can check the most popular products or even make a search for the keyword to find the
exact products you want to promote with your pin. Then click on the product and you already know
this is your affiliate link. Now you can go to the product page
and check some of the photos they have. I usually don't take those product photos
on the white background, instead I choose a photo of the product in a lifestyle situation
so that the potential buyer can imagine how it would like like in their patio or garden.
Then you simply right-click on the small image here on the
right side and save this photo to your computer.
Now we go back to Canva and click on Uploads in the left menu. Upload the photos of the products
for your collage pin. I've already uploaded 3 images of patio chairs to my Canva account,
so I just need to left-click on one and drag it to the part of the grid where I want it to be placed.
If you have a nice template, it can take you just a couple of minutes to create a new pin like this!
To download this pin Click Share, then Download, choose the PNG file for the best quality because
Pinterest does care about the resolution of your pins. When you save the file to your computer,
make sure you included the main focus keyword or what is on the image into your file name.
It will help you with Pinterest SEO and by the way if you want to learn more about it, watch my
Free Pinterest Masterclass, you'll find the link up there and in the description below this video.
And hey,, you can also save this as a video pin. To make a short video from this image,
I can simply click on the animation and choose anything that looks nice,
then click Share, Download it and save the file as an MP4 file. That's it! You just
created a second different format of a pin from the same image you made in Canva. It
will be a unique pin for Pinterest and it only took you an extra few clicks!
Ok Now our next step is to Create a Pin on Pinterest with the help of ChatGPT and later
in this video, you'll learn the 2 methods you can use to Tag your Affiliate Products to the pins.
So I'll go to ChatGPT first and will ask it to make a pin title (up to 70 characters) and
description (up to 300 characters) for the most trendy patio chairs.
Your pin title and description can actually be a bit longer but knowing that AI tools usually
make texts twice longer than you needed them, I gave ChatGPT a lower limit of characters.
Did you notice as well that I asked it to make sure the keyword "patio chairs" is at
the beginning of the title and description. You want it to be there as well for the SEO purposes.
Now I'll go to Pinterest, click Create a Pin, upload my 6-second video pin in this case.
Now I'll copy the pin title and description that ChatGPT generated for me and then I'll add a few
relevant tags again to help Pinterest categorize this pin and show it to the right audience.
Your interface might look a bit different because Pinterest is rolling out an update,
you might not see the tags if you are creating an image pin but anyway,
you will always have the pin title and description.
Then I can find a page on my blog that has some similar content with outdoor decoration ideas.
You have this destination link field and you could even give a link to an affiliate product
here but it would go then to just one of the 3 products that I picked to promote.
Instead, I can use this pin to drive traffic to my website where I can monetize traffic with display
ads. And I can also drive traffic from this pin to the affiliate products. Where do I tag them?
And we are moving to the next step when we'll tag the affiilaite products.
Right here don you see this tag icon? I can click on it and then I need to click
on the specific part of the pin image to highlight the particular product and
then you'll have here an option to add your affiliate link URL.
If the affiliate link is linked to a product page, to an eCommerce store,
Pinterest will typically fetch the images from that page and you can
choose any image you like as the tagged product. In some cases however the affiliate links goes
to another type of page which is not categorized as a ecommerce product page on Pinterest and then
you'll see no images and won't be able to tag a product by just using the affiliate link to it.
I'll show you in a few moments a workaround that solves this problem but first you should
know that you can tag more than one product so I would easily tag 3 products that I have
on this pin with 3 different affiliate links. And let me finish saving this
pin. I need to choose the most relevant board on my account and publish the pin.
As you can see once the pin is published,
the tagged product appears below the pin and if you click on it, it's techncailly a new
separate pin with the image you grabbed from the product page and with your affiliate link.
Now if you want to promote a product that doesn't generate any images,
you can create a separate pin with your affiliate link first and then tag it as a product.
See what Pinterest does when you tag something on a pin,
it's basically just creating a pin with your affiliate link,
using an image it managed to fetch from the product page, it automatically generates a
pin title and description from the information on the product page and what's interesting it
automatically saves all these pins to a Protected board on your account called Products you tagged.
When there is no image or something else is preventing Pinterest from fetching an image,
you won't be able to generate a tagged product using this method.
But it doens't meant you can't use these affiliate links!
Look, I have some products on another affiliate network called Shareasale. And
I used a Wordpress plugin called WP Rocket that helps you with sitespeed. I'll copy
the affiliate link from this platform. Now if I wanted to tag it to my existing
pin about best blogging tools, see I go to add the affiliate link and get
an error saying there is no image on the page so Pinterest can't generate a pin.
I've seen comments on my previous videos saying that Shareasale links don't work on
Pinterest. I assume people think this way when they see this kind of error.
But it only means you can't get the image from the product page.
So instead, you can go ahead and create your own pin with whatever
vertical image for this product you have and with your affiliate link.
See I created in Canva this pin for WP Rocket plugin, generated pin title and
description in ChatGPT and this is the destination link, I will add it here,
see this is my shareasale affiliate link and it really goes to WP Rocket site. Hold on a moment,
I forgot something important but it's an easy fix. I'll open the pin I just created click
Edit and add a hashtag #promotion in the pin description. You could use something
similar like #sponsored or #affiliate. That's our affiliate disclosure which
Pinterest requires when you create these kind of public pins with a direct affiliate link.
I'll go back to tagging this product but this time I'll change from Product pins to All pins
over here and your most recent pins should popup at the top so you can click on the pin
you just created and it will be tagged to your existing relevant pin as a product pin below it.
If you ask me should you use this tagging feature on all if your pins? Honestly, I don't think it's
worth the effort to do it on every single pin. But I think it's totally worth doing it on
your top performing pins that are getting the highest number of impressions and engagements.
You can find those pins in your Pinterest analytics and usually you should have an
option to click on this icon in the left top corner and tag products even to your old pins.
I think it's also important to mention that tagging products on Pinterest sometimes is
a necessary. Because in some niches, especially in home decor and fashion,
Pinterest will automatically add these kind of tags to popular pins and the tags will go to
some radom eCommerce stores that have similar products. See like when I hover over this pin,
it shows multiple tagged products and they all go to external stores that have nothing
to do with the website which created this pin. So your pin will be losing traffic.
You can easily fix this and delete Pinterest's automatic tags by simply
adding at least one tag to an affiliate product on your own pin. Once you've
done that, Pinterest will never add automatic tags to that pin again.
Now if you want to learn even more about leveraging ChatGPT
for Pinterest affiliate marketing, check that video but not just yet! Subscribe to
my channel for more videos like this one and I'll see you in the next one!