How to Make Money on Pinterest without a Blog in 2025

So you want to know how to make money on Pinterest without a blog? 

Well, It may excite you to know there are plenty of creative ways to get paid to pin, and that don’t require you to have a website. 

I, too, got started pinning on Pinterest before I became a blogger. Back then, it wasn’t as easy as it is now. And I don’t just say that for the sake of it.

These days, Pinterest is more welcoming of ALL types of creators, not just bloggers.

So if you’re a complete beginner at Pinterest or have no following and no blog, then this guide will help you quickly and safely monetize on the platform.

Before you get lost in this detailed post on making money on Pinterest, **PIN THIS ON PINTEREST** so you can come back to it again!

Why Pinterest? 

Simply put, people use Pinterest to shop. 

And the stats back this up.

According to Pinterest, “People on Pinterest tend to buy more, more often…they put more items in their shopping carts. And they spend nearly 80% more in retail than people off Pinterest.”

Pinners don’t just come to get inspired by ideas on the platform, they also act on those ideas.

If you want to be on the receiving end of those sales, then you need to be on Pinterest. 

Make Money on Pinterest with NO Blog

A profitable method to make money on Pinterest that requires little to no startup cost is affiliate marketing. 

Affiliate Marketing is a multi-billion dollar industry. And the crazy thing is that nearly everyone is doing it, but only a small percentage of people are actually getting paid for it.

That’s because not everyone is aware this industry even exists, much less that they can make money doing this. But that all changes today. 

What is Affiliate Marketing?

The idea behind affiliate marketing is that you recommend someone else’s product or service, and you get a cut of the sale when someone purchases due to your marketing efforts. 

Well known companies such as Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Sephora all have affiliate programs that pay you to recommend their products.

They pay you a percentage of the sale when someone purchases with your uniquely assigned affiliate link. 

What is an Affiliate Link? 

An affiliate link is simply a way affiliate programs track and give credit to the person who made the sale. 

Here for example is my uniquely assigned affiliate link for a book I promote, DotCom Secrets. 

Within the link is my affiliate tracking ID – ‘558129.’ This lets the affiliate program know to credit the sale to me when someone purchases this book with my link. 

Since affiliate marketing is becoming a more prevalent way to earn money on Pinterest, I’ll focus on this method of making money on Pinterest without a blog.

3 Ways to Start Affiliate Marketing on Pinterest

These three methods are all viable ways to make money doing Pinterest affiliate marketing.

• Add Affiliate Links to Idea Pins

• Beacons Link in Bio Affiliate Shopping Page

• Create an Affiliate Bridge Funnel

Let’s take a dive into each of these methods.

Add Affiliate Links to Idea Pins

Idea Pins are the evolution of Pinterest Story pins. 

They are multi-page video pins that can be stitched together to create a full story, and are often considered similar to Instagram reels.

Though with Idea Pins, you can create much longer video stories up to 20 minutes in length. 

The added benefit to creating pins in this format is you can add affiliate links directly to Idea Pins through a feature called product tagging or shoppable pins.

If you’re great at making short product video reels, then this is a method to consider when it comes to making affiliate sales on Pinterest. 

In order to get started, you must be signed up with a Pinterest Business account. If not, then this option will not be open to you. 

How it works is you add your affiliate link right onto the video, where viewers can easily see it and click to the product from the video.

Pinterest has a built in affiliate disclosure that you can toggle ‘on’ and will display a ‘sponsored products’ tag underneath the video. If you want to see this in action, then here’s a TikTok video tutorial where I tag my Amazon Associates affiliate link.

One of the downsides to doing affiliate marketing this way is that not all affiliate programs are supported on Pinterest Idea Pins. You can read all about it, as well as how to get started in my post on How to Pin Affiliate Links on Idea Pins.

Beacons Link in Bio Affiliate Shopping Page

This next method is one of the newest and most up-to-date ways to earn money doing affiliate marketing on Pinterest.

Best of all, it doesn’t require you to have a Pinterest Business account. So it’s a strategy that anyone can use! 

The premise behind this is you use a one page creator hub, such as a Beacons.ai link, to house all your affiliate links.

Creators on TikTok, Instagram, and Pinterest are placing these links in their profile bio’s, where one would normally place their blog link. 

(Hence, why they are commonly referred to as a ‘link in bio’ page.)

These links have gained in popularity over recent years, and they are much more prevalent now on Pinterest than they were in prior years.

Even though I have my blog linked to my Pinterest account, I still use a Beacons.ai link for my other social media accounts.

On my Beacons.ai link in bio page, I link to many of my top affiliate offers. Additionally, I use the page to share my YouTube channel, affiliate blog, as well as point to my other social media handles.

I recorded a YouTube video specifically showing you how to do Pinterest affiliate marketing with a Beacons.ai link. You can watch the video tutorial on YouTube.

Create an Affiliate Bridge Funnel

This third method is how I got started doing affiliate marketing on Pinterest prior to having a blog.

It’s not the easiest strategy on the list, but it will increase your chances of making high ticket affiliate sales. So if you plan to promote $100 – $5,000 affiliate offers on Pinterest, then I would suggest taking this route.

An affiliate bridge page is a simple funnel that’s sole purpose is to drive traffic to another site. In our case, it’s to an affiliate offer.

This affiliate funnel also bridges the gap between you and the affiliate offer, thus increasing your chances of making an affiliate sale. 

Done-For-You Classic Affiliate Bridge Funnel 

The classic Affiliate Bridge Funnel looks something like this:

Squeeze Page >> Bridge Page >> Next Funnel

In this classic rendition, you entice a prospect to give you their email address in exchange for an irresistible freebie offer. 

The Squeeze Page

Let’s say for example you signed up to be an affiliate for a frozen meals subscription program such as FreezeEasy.

One way in which you can entice someone to opt-in to your Affiliate Marketing Funnel is to offer a free Paleo Diet Recipes e-book. This would be your ‘Squeeze Page.’

The Affiliate Bridge Page

Once the prospect enters their email address, they’re taken to your ‘Affiliate Bridge Page.’ 

This is where you introduce yourself via a short video, or simply a paragraph about yourself. Share on this page why you are recommending a certain affiliate product that goes hand-in-hand with the freebie you just gave them.

Here’s just a quick example: 

“Hi! My name is Pilar. I’m glad you took me up on the 25 Free Paleo Recipes for Weight loss! Two years ago, I lost 30lbs with these exact recipes and I know they’ll help you too!

As much as I love these recipes, it was always a challenge to cook the delicious meals on weeknights after an exhausting day at work. 

That’s when I discovered MyFreezeEasy!

They have Freezer Friendly Paleo Meal Recipes that save me tons of prep time and help me stay on track with my weight loss journey!

They take all the guesswork out by also providing me with shopping lists for  my paleo freezer meals as well as instructional videos on how to package and cook them.

I invite you to check them out and take them for a free test drive today. Simply click the button below and you’ll get access to your Free Freezer Meal Plan!“

The Next Funnel

Now that you’ve bridged the gap between your prospect and the affiliate offer, you then send them over to the actual affiliate offer.

A great affiliate program generally has a sales funnel system in place that will make the sale on your behalf. 

If you want done-for-you sales funnels similar to the one mentioned in the above example, then you can download them here for $1.

How do Beginners Make Money on Pinterest?

Now before you start any of the methods mentioned above, make sure you follow the tips in this next section. It’ll help you optimize your profile for traffic and sales.

In order to profitably do affiliate marketing on Pinterest, you’ll need to decide on an affiliate marketing niche, or area of focus to concentrate your efforts on. 

Decide on a niche, and then follow these next steps to expedite your success on Pinterest!

1. Choose a Niche

A niche is a specialized segment of a particular market. For example, within the Health and Wellness industry are smaller subsets of specialized interests such as paleo diets, muscle building for men, herbalists, acupuncturists…you get the idea. 

Best Niches for Pinterest Marketing 

Having a defined niche on Pinterest will help you attract a targeted audience of buyers interested in purchasing your affiliate products.

This targeted traffic is one huge reason I’ve been able to consistently make affiliate sales on Pinterest.

You may be wondering, “Well which niche should I choose?” 

So that you’re not racking your brain too much on this, I’m going to help you narrow this list down a bit. 

First, you want to consider a niche that will fit well into Pinterest’s User Base. Below are some useful Pinterest statistics to help you with this.

Pinterest Demographics

• Woman make up more than 60% of Pinterest’s global audience

• Male Pinners and Gen Z Pinners are up 40% year over year.

• 45% of people in the US with a household income over $100k are on Pinterest.

• US Millennial Pinners are up 35% year over year.

• People who use Pinterest weekly are 7x more likely to say it’s the most influential platform in their purchase journey, compared to other social media platforms.

All of the above suggests that Pinterest has cemented itself as a product discovery platform for all ages. 

So even though TikTok and other social platforms are a popular source of entertainment, Pinterest is where people come specifically to discover new brands and make purchasing decisions.

Furthermore, it’s good to note that Pinterest users tend to be interested in the same topics year after year.

So when considering a niche to get into, it would be a good idea to choose a niche within these popular Pinterest Categories below.

Popular Pinterest Categories

• Fashion

• Home Decor

• Health and Wellness

• Beauty

• Food and Drinks

• Travel

This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise since most of what we as humans tend to be interested in is Health, Wealth and Relationships.

And one could reasonably argue that all the above mentioned popular Pinterest categories could fit into those three areas of interest.

For example, some of us go to the gym so we can look and feel great not only for ourselves, but for our partners. Fitness also strengthens our mental well being and overall health.

So now it’s time to choose. 

Decide on a niche that fits into the overall outline above AND that interests you. If you’re going to make money on Pinterest, you’ll need to stay consistent with pinning on the platform.

And the best way to start and stay motivated is to choose a niche that interests you.

If you’re still finding it tough to decide on a niche, then take a look at the Pinterest Predicts report.

It’s a glimpse into the future of what Pinterest believes will be the trend within each audience and category for the upcoming year.

Next up, you’ll need to set-up a Pinterest Business account if you don’t already have one. Thankfully, this is an easy and straightforward process. 

2. Set-up a Pinterest Business Account

Create a log-in and password and follow the simple prompts that Pinterest gives you to open your account.

I would highly recommend upgrading to a Pinterest business account.

This type of account will open a range of other monetization features to you, including being invited into the Pinterest Creator Rewards program.

It’ll also give you access to a wider range of analytics to help drive better marketing decisions and rank your pins higher on Pinterest.

While you do not need a business account for 2 of the 3 affiliate marketing methods mentioned here, it would be helpful to have one.

There’s so much more you can do with a professional account versus not having one.

Now, it’s time to optimize your new account in order to get your pins and profile discovered on Pinterest.

3. Optimize with Pinterest SEO

In order to get your affiliate links found on Pinterest, you’ll want to conduct keyword research first and have this ready for the next steps. Doing this upfront work will set you up for success with Pinterest affiliate marketing.

As a search engine, Pinterest curates its feed based on searches by its users, and pulls key terms from these searches to relevant pins from content creators.

The best place to look for relevant keywords in your niche is to look no further than Pinterest’s own Guided Search Tool. 

Simply enter a phrase associated with your niche into the search tool, and Pinterest will tell you what the most popular searches are right now in your niche.

In the example above, I have added the keywords ‘affiliate marketing,’ which is relevant to my niche, into the guided search tool. 

The keyword phrases populated underneath the search bar, starting from left to right, are in order of the most popular terms being searched for right now. 

With this in mind, Your keyword terms would be:

‘Affiliate Marketing for Beginners’

‘Affiliate Marketing Reels’

‘Affiliate Marketing Quotes’

‘Affiliate Marketing Strategy’

‘Affiliate Marketing on Pinterest’……and so on and so forth.

Where to Add Pinterest SEO Keywords:

1. Pinterest Username

2. Your Display Name

3. Your About Section

4. Pinterest Board Title 

5. Pinterest Board Description 

Now that you know how to find keywords and the 6 places to add these, let’s go over creating Pinterest boards.

4. Create Pinterest Boards

Each Pinterest board you create should be related to a theme or topic that your ideal audience would be interested in. 

Let’s take for example, the I Heart Umami Pinterest Account to get an idea of the kind of niche specific boards to create. 

This particular account is all about healthy asian-inspired meals including: paleo, low-carb, Whole30 and Keto recipes. Only people interested in this niche specific healthy living would be inclined to follow I Heart Umami.

The I Heart Umami boards have SEO friendly names and are well organized by themes such as: Easy Paleo Meal Prep Recipes, Healthy Asian Dinner Recipes, Whole30 Breakfast Recipes, Paleo Holiday Recipes, and Paleo-Gluten Free Healthy Stir-Fry Recipes.