How I made my first $100 with affiliate marketing using Pinterest?
Have you tried recommending a product to your friends and family?
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How to Make People Click on Your Affiliate Links?
I used Pinterest to share my affiliate links and blog posts. I was getting clicks and traffic to my website because of Pinterest but it was not consistent.I realized that time and hard work were not the only investments I needed to take. As a new blogger and new to affiliate marketing I needed guidance.
I needed to invest in myself and be educated on how things work when it comes to making money blogging and making affiliate sales. Taking free and paid courses, ebooks and resources are a great help to learn fast!
I knew that I could use Pinterest to share my affiliate links but I was doing it all wrong. My pins were ugly and I was manually pinning without a strategy.
I was focusing on Pinterest so I had to make my pins beautiful to make people notice and click on it.
I came across an eBook that helped me make affiliate sales using Pinterest
1. It promised to speed up my affiliate sales.2. It promised the strategy to make pins go viral on autopilot.
3. It is affordable compared to other downloadable affiliate marketing eBook online.
4. Influencers are also recommending it. Reviews are excellent.
I was right this eBook was perfect for NEW bloggers who are still confused about using Pinterest to make affiliate sales.
This is a great small investment for new bloggers to learn the basic of affiliate marketing on Pinterest.
This book laid out the Pinterest strategy that you can copycat to make affiliate sales on autopilot. I made $40.00 the first week of carefully implementing the strategy of the eBook.
UPDATE:
Pinterest gives priority to the pins linked to your Pinterest claimed website or your own blog posts. I noticed too that pins linked to my own blog posts perform better than third party links or affiliate links.
If you are serious about making money blogging learn the strategy on how to structure your blog post to boost affiliate sales, use email to promote your affiliate links and use Pinterest to drive instant traffic to your posts. Learn all that here and get a free blogging planner!
Here is what I did that I think could help you speed up your affiliate sales using Pinterest!
1. I switched to Pinterest business account and enabled rich pins.
If you are using Blogger. Here is how to do it.2. Reading other bloggers income reports.
By reading income reports I was able to find an affiliate program that was already working for others. I was able to determine if a certain affiliate program was profitable to join.I was motivated by other blogger's success stories. From their difficulties when they were starting out until how they became successful.
3. I used Boardbooster
BoardBooster was a lifesaver for me. Instead of manually pinning I just scheduled my pins and not worry about it, by using Boardbooster I could spend my time on other important things on my blog. I did not have to worry when something came up and I would not be able to pin since I got Boardbooster working for me.UPDATE: Boardbooster is no longer available. So sad! You can also use Tailwind to automate your pins and the Pinterest scheduler for free.
4. I Joined a lot of Pinterest group boards.
By collaborating with group boards my contents and affiliate links were getting exposed to thousands of people even if I was still growing my followers.
Here are the lists of group boards to join for you to start. It would be better if you can join more.
1. Top Blogs - Pinterest Viral Board2. The Blog Squad
3. Share All Your Pins (Group Board - No Limit)
4. ~Bloggers Promote Your Blog~
5. ✿ Pin Your Best Pins ✿
6. Blogging tips from successful bloggers(Group Board)
7. Organization ideas for time management
8. Parenting tips
Get 50 Pinterest Group boards and 10 Facebook Groups here so you have more places to share your posts
5. I focused on pinning a lot of my pins!
Again, sharing affiliate links on Pinterest without a strategy is not going to work. You need to switch to business account, optimize your profile, group boards and Pin description to get your pins found on Pinterest.
If your pins are already showing up on Pinterest, make sure that they are also getting attention and screaming "click me" because it is ACTUALLY the click that matter most.
Get 3 Free Pinterest Templates here so you can make beautiful pins fast!
Also, read How to Increase Clicks on Your Pins and Traffic to Your Blog
This is what I did as a new blogger to make my first $100 online. Now, more than a year of blogging there's still a lot to learn and skills to acquire but I have more solid strategies that you can learn from.
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prettyfitfoodie.com
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www.pengandpaper.com
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prettyfitfoodie.com
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