HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON PINTEREST IN 2023 FOR BEGINNERS
ARE YOU EXCITED TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON PINTEREST WITH A BLOG?
I like keeping things real — I have to admit that I’m NOT an expert (and I don’t claim to be one), but I can offer you valuable tips and share my experience so you can avoid making mistakes as a brand new blogger.
In my free e-mail course, I will guide you from starting your blog to growing your Pinterest traffic and making your first income online!
This is the course I wish I had when I first started my blog! 
2. WRITE RELEVANT AND HELPFUL CONTENT.
Now that you’ve started a blog, write 5-10 blog posts related to your niche that will solve your readers’ problems.
Before you start writing, take a step back and figure out who your target audience is.
I always recommend choosing something you enjoy talking about.
Don’t choose a topic just because you think it will make money. Sure, it may work out, but can you really keep writing about something you don’t have a genuine interest in?
The last thing you want is for your blog to feel like a chore.
This diagram will help you determine what you can write about while solving your readers’ problems.
3. SET UP A PINTEREST BUSINESS ACCOUNT.
Make sure to include relevant keywords in your profile bio like what I did in the image above. This will allow users to find you more easily.
Now you can start creating boards and making pins for your Pinterest account. I recommend using Canva to make pins when you’re a beginner. The service is free and easy to use.
Like your bio description from step #3, make sure to sprinkle relevant keywords into your personal boards and pin descriptions. By the way, when I say “sprinkle” I don’t mean keyword stuffing!
In the past, I’ve made the mistake of stuffing keywords in my pins. It’s no wonder why I wasn’t getting any traffic when I first started. Without any traffic to my blog, there was no way for me to make money on Pinterest, so don’t make the same mistake!
These posts haven’t been updated since Pinterest made changes several years ago. Nowadays, content creators don’t rely on group boards as much as they used to. However, they are still used from time to time as I see some group boards do give me a boost in traffic.
If you’re a brand new blogger with no followers, you can still join a few group boards that are closely related to what you blog about.
For example, I am a personal finance blogger, so I would only join group boards that are all about finance, saving money, making money, and so on. That way I can pin and post my articles about personal finance, budgeting, earning extra money, etc. on those boards for Pinterest users to see.
On the other hand, if you blog about crafts, then you’ll want to become a contributor to group boards that only allow you to pin your posts related to crafts.
Or, if you’re a food blogger, then you’ll want to find members of group boards that blog about food and recipes.
Pinterest favors smaller group boards (relevant to your niche) with fewer contributors. While joining 3-5 group boards within the scope of what you blog about, I highly recommend you create personal boards for you to pin your content because Pinterest has shifted its focus to your personal boards.
6. UPLOAD YOUR PIN ONTO YOUR PINTEREST BUSINESS ACCOUNT
Some of you may be familiar with Pinterest as a visual search engine where you can view pictures of recipes, fashion, products, and more.
So, it’s no surprise that some might wonder how to earn from Pinterest by uploading photos onto the platform. This action is referred to as “pinning,” my friend!
Once you have started a blog and published your first 5 to 10 blog posts (along with creating a catchy Pin image for that blog post), upload your pins onto your Pinterest account. Uploading your pins and attaching the link of your blog post to those images, will help you get traffic to your blog.
Getting traffic to your blog means the potential to earn money online through monetization methods like display advertising (perfect for beginners), affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, and selling your coaching services or digital products.
For illustration purposes, here is an example of how much I’ve been earning per day with one of my anonymous blogs that gets traffic and visitors from Pinterest – this is purely from display ads which don’t include my other earnings sources like affiliate marketing or digital product sales:
You can see earnings from display ads for one of my blogs during the fourth quarter, which is purely from Pinterest traffic too.
Here is a quick step-by-step tutorial on how to upload your Pin to your Pinterest account (and link those images) to get visitors and pageviews. Again, this is assuming you have already launched your blog.
Step 1: Log into your Pinterest business account
Step 2: Go to “Create” >> “Create Pin”
Step 3: Select the desired Pin image from your computer drive and fill in the fields.
See the screenshot below to follow these steps:
- Select your desired pin from your computer drive
- Add your heading/title into the field.
- Add your pin description into the field (remember to optimize it with keywords and phrases)
- Enter your desired blog post link.
- Publish immediately or Publish at a later date (with a later date, you can preschedule your Pins, which I like to use)
- Select the relevant board that you want to pin this pin.
Here is a final result for you to visualize this part better – you can see that I linked to one of my articles called “The Best Money Making Apps” and filled out the heading, title, and missing fields:
Once you consistently create blog posts and pin out the images with the articles’ links, you’ll start seeing traffic to your site.
With traffic, you apply to ad management companies like Google AdSense, Ezoic, Monumetric, and Mediavine so you can start earning display advertising money through your Pinterest traffic. I elaborate on how to get traffic on Pinterest in the next section.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON PINTEREST WITH A BLOG BY DRIVING TRAFFIC
This is the moment you’ve been waiting for!
You are now ready to learn how to make money on Pinterest after you’ve mastered the following:
- Wrote 5-10 epic blog articles related to your niche that is inspiring and/or solve a problem.
- Signed up for a Pinterest business account and verified your domain.
- Created eye-catching pins with clickable images and titles
- Joined a minimum of 10 group boards and made 10 personal boards related to your niche.
- Optimized your bio profile, boards, and pins by sprinkling relevant keywords throughout.
Here are a few ways you can start making money on Pinterest after having your blog and Pinterest account set up!
Pinterest traffic is honestly a new blogger’s BFF! When you have a new blog or website, I recommend focusing your efforts on learning how to drive traffic from Pinterest for beginners and monetizing your blog! It’s definitely a lot easier and faster to get traffic from Pinterest than Google when your website is new.
When Pinterest is used correctly and consistently, you can drive a lot of traffic to your blog and make money through display advertising.
Again, you need to write blog posts that are helpful to your readers! Depending on how many ads you put and which ad network you’re with, you can potentially make between $6 to $50 per 1,000 page views each day.
If you’re already an intermediate or advanced blogger, you may also want to check out my other post that deep dives into answering this question — how long does it take to get traffic from Pinterest? I’ll also teach you how to go viral on Pinterest and increase your clicks and pageviews.
Here is my experience on how I first made money on Pinterest with Google Adsense followed by Mediavine when I was still a beginner.
My income has increased since then, but I kept these examples on this page to demonstrate that beginners like you can do it too!
2. APPLY FOR ADSENSE (AS A BEGINNER) AND THEN MEDIAVINE (AS AN INTERMEDIATE BLOGGER)
When you’re a brand new blogger, you can always start earning money with display ads on your blog by applying for Google Adsense.
Adsense won’t pay you a lot, but it’s a good way to gain a little bit of experience online before making the switch to a better ad management network like Mediavine or Raptive.
Here’s my experience and what I documented when I initially wrote this post as a beginner. A lot has changed, but showing you my beginnings will help you get started…
HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON PINTEREST WITH ADSENSE:
Yes, you can make money with Pinterest by displaying ads on your blog with Google Adsense.
When you’re a brand new blogger, I recommend applying to Google Adsense because they do not require you to have a minimum amount of page views.
However, they are not the best way to make money since they pay you very little. I used to be with Google Adsense and made roughly $50 to $200 per month with 10,000 to 40,000 monthly page views.
Don’t get me wrong, I was still happy as a new blogger. But we all have to start somewhere!
I personally used Google Adsense, and you can actually check out how I earn money online by using Google as a beginner.
Aside from Adsense, there are other ad networks you can apply to when you’re a new blogger without a lot of pageviews:
- Ezoic
- SHEMedia
- Monumetric (In addition to Mediavine, I am also using this ad network with one of my hobby blogs as a test to earn extra income on the side)
- MyFinance (great for bloggers in the personal finance and money niche)
EARNING MONEY USING DISPLAY ADS WITH MEDIAVINE:
I switched from Google Adsense to Mediavine after hitting 25,000 monthly sessions back in July. It takes 3-4 weeks to make the switch.
As I increased my Pinterest traffic to my blog a few months after July, I started earning a passive income online of at least $1,000+ USD per month by displaying ads like the one you see here…
I definitely saw a HUGE improvement in ad earnings once I made the switch from Google Adsense to Mediavine!
See below for my results…
BEFORE: USING PINTEREST AND GOOGLE ADSENSE METHOD
As you can see, I used to make on average $5 to $10 per day from ~1,800 daily page views from Pinterest using Google Adsense.
AFTER: HOW I MAKE MONEY WITH MEDIAVINE USING ADS
I officially became a member of Mediavine on August 17. As you can see below, I was able to make $348.39 in 9 days (August 17 to August 25)!
In a day with 1,800 page views, I would make ~$25 per day with Mediavine. There was even one time when I made $71 in a day when I reached 4,000 daily page views!
My earnings improved by 300% because I was able to drive traffic to my blog by using Pinterest! Here are screenshots of my first Mediavine ad earnings after moving away from Google Adsense!
Another update on how my second blog earned a monthly income purely from display ads – $10,159.58:
HOW TO GET PINTEREST TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG
To be very honest, I was able to increase my traffic and earn money on Pinterest because I invested my time to learn how Pinterest works.
After learning how to use Pinterest and pinning out my pins and images with these 30 Pin Savvy Templates, my traffic skyrocketed from 0 to 18,000 and is now consistently OVER 100,000 monthly page views!
I started using Pinterest as a traffic source and after implementing the Pinterest strategies necessary to get visits to my blog, I was able to apply for Mediavine and increase my ad revenue by over 300%!
In other words, I went from making ~$6 per day (Google Adsense) to ~$25 per day (Mediavine) when I was a beginner.
When stated in terms of months, that’s $180 per month (Google Adsense) vs. $750 per month (Mediavine).
As of today, those monthly advertising earnings with Mediavine increased substantially as you saw in my screenshot above.
With that said, you can tell me whether investing in a few Pinterest resources is worth the small investment!
It’s not the Bitcoin, weed stock or penny stock that are the best investments…
RELATED BLOG INCOME REPORT POSTS ON HOW I MAKE MONEY USING PINTEREST:
You can take a look at my blog income reports below where I write about my blogging progress as a brand new blogger.
This includes information on how I switched from Google Adsense to Mediavine, my Mediavine income reports, how I increased my affiliate earnings, and overall the things I learned as a new blogger when I was using Pinterest to make money online!
3. MAKE MONEY ON PINTEREST WITH AFFILIATE LINKS USING YOUR BLOG.
On top of making money with Adsense or Mediavine, you can also make money on Pinterest using affiliate links.
This is also known as the affiliate marketing strategy. Learning how to use affiliate marketing on Pinterest to make money can make a huge difference to your earning potential!
There are two ways to do that — with and without a blog.
I’m going to first talk about how to achieve this using the blog method. Again, this is my preferred method because it has worked well for me.
First of all, what is affiliate marketing? And how can you make money on Pinterest with affiliate marketing?
If you’re new to this concept, affiliate marketing is just recommending products that you love and/or believe will add value to your audience.
After they make a purchase through your affiliate link, you earn a small commission without any additional cost to the buyer. In other words, you get rewarded by providing value and/or solving someone’s problem through a product or service.
First, let’s talk about how to make money on Pinterest by driving traffic to your blog posts that have affiliate links.
This first approach is my favorite way to make money because, for one, you earn from display advertising by getting traffic; and secondly, you earn from potential affiliate sales when you offer a solution to your readers’ problems.
For example, you can create and promote a pin like this one here that teaches readers how to save money on food which includes affiliate links in the blog post. You can learn more about affiliate marketing and what affiliate .
PRO TIP: Use Canva to make pretty pins that will drive massive traffic to your blog post with affiliate links. I use the free version and it’s more than enough for beginners.
HERE IS REAL PROOF YOU CAN MAKE MONEY ON PINTEREST WITH AFFILIATE LINKS BY STARTING A BLOG
When I was still a beginner, I made over $1,000 from Pinterest using affiliate marketing, so here I show you examples of two different affiliate networks that I’m still currently with.
I’m earning money from many other affiliate programs, but I only show these two for illustration purposes to help beginners like you see the possibilities!
