How to Make Money on Pinterest

Do you use Pinterest to share your favorite products, pictures and links with your friends and followers on this site? Pinterest is a great collection of top things that interests you and top products that others are looking for. It's one of the most popular site on the Internet and the community is growing very fast. Everyone is submitting their favorite stuff to different niche categories and everyone is sharing products that they bought or want to buy. If you want to know more about Pinterest you can read about it here or follow the links at the end of this page to better understand the benefits of Pinterest.

But do you know that you can also make money on Pinterest? You can monetize your boards and pins with some great affiliate tools and affiliate strategies. Millions of users are looking for products from the categories that interest them and many of these users are purchasing products online thanks to the Pinterest. This site is surely a great referral for many online purchases. So in this article I want to present the best way to use Pinterest to make some real money online and present some great tips that will help you in the process.

It's a great money making opportunity so be sure to give it a try! It's simple and profitable!

So how to make money on Pinterest? There are millions of boards on this site and even more pins that users are submitting. Some are submitting stuff and other are searching for stuff they like. You should target the last group in order to benefit from the site. The majority of Pinterest users are women who love to shop online and are searching for niche product and pins. Weddings, clothing and food are one of the most popular niches on Pinterest and most of product pins from these niches are affiliate links. So you must pick some nice niches and start to pin lovely products on different boards on your profile.

There are two main things you need to know before you start pining hundreds of products on your boards. First of all, don't spam! Do not spam at all! You should grow your audience first, gain some trust and add only products that you find interesting and worth buying. Pining everything is just like writing a blog post about stuff you don't know and can't review.

The second thing you definitely should do is start using affiliate program for link cloaking. You can learn more about this in the next paragraph.

Before you post pins on Pinterest you must cloak your affiliate links. Pinterest uses a service called Skimlinks that scans all boards for affiliate links, and then change those links to their affiliate ID! So  you must cloak your links to preserve your your affiliate IDs. If you don't do this you will give all your earnings to Pinterest!

So how do you cloak your affiliate links? The best way to do this is by using the service called LinkTrackr. This is one of the best tools for affiliate marketing and it's surely the best link cloaking application for bloggers and affiliate marketers. The biggest names in the affiliate industry use this service so it's surely the program you should use to cloak your affiliate links for Pinterest.

LinkTrackr allows you to monitor clicks and conversions and make it easy to cloak your product links easy and fast. Pinterest will not change your pins with their affiliate ID and you will have access to detailed statistics about your links on Pinterest.

So if you have your affiliate link from Amazon.com that looks like amazon.com/productname/youraffiliateID you can change it to myname.me/customname-pin

Follow the link above to find more about LinkTrack and find all the benefits of this service.

I am making money on Pinterest and it's a nice source on my online income. But I was making zero dollars for month before I started to really monetizing my pins and boards. How? I made mistakes, learn from them and learn from others. I was trying many different strategies and tools and now I'm sticking with tools that actually work.

Here are top important things I've learned from my mistakes. My top ten tips for anyone who is trying to make money on Pinterest with affiliate marketing. Be sure to follow these tips to increase your earnings and become a popular Pinterest user.

1. Cloak your Links with LinkTrack

2. Don't SPAM!

3. Grow your audience

4. Create niche boards

5. Promote your boards

6. Connect with Twitter and Facebook

7. Follow hot topics

8. Follow other Pinterest users

9. Categorize your boards

10. Complete your profile with photo and info

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