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title: '5 EASY Ways to Make Money on Pinterest | How to Make Money On Pinterest in 2026 (Beginners Guide)'
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date: 2026-08-06
duration_sec: 634
channel: 'XB Marketing'
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# 5 EASY Ways to Make Money on Pinterest | How to Make Money On Pinterest in 2026 (Beginners Guide)

> Source: [5 EASY Ways to Make Money on Pinterest | How to Make Money On Pinterest in 2026 (Beginners Guide)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gMXbHLtMSvM)

## Summary

The video presents five methods for making money on Pinterest, emphasizing its advantages over mainstream platforms like Facebook and Instagram. It highlights Pinterest's long-term traffic potential through Google ranking and provides examples of successful accounts.

### Key Points

- **Pinterest as an alternative** [00:03] — Pinterest is a solid alternative to mainstream platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram, which are heavily moderated and extremely competitive. Pinterest also ranks high on Google, providing long-term traffic.
- **Three factors for beginners** [01:25] — Beginners should focus on methods that are easy to start, realistic, and scalable. These are the three most important factors when choosing a Pinterest money-making strategy.
- **Method 1: Digital products** [02:09] — Selling digital products like ebooks, templates, or courses is one of the best ways to make money on Pinterest. No manufacturing or shipping is needed; you just need knowledge in a topic. Platforms like si.io and Gumroad can be used.
- **Method 2: Providing services** [03:37] — You can promote your skills (e.g., logo design, video editing, writing) on Pinterest. An example account with under 500 followers gets over 5 million monthly views, attracting high-quality clients.
- **Method 3: Selling physical products** [04:52] — Pinterest is a visual platform ideal for showcasing physical products. Proper SEO for pins and descriptions can help you rank on Google and drive traffic to platforms like Etsy or your own website.
- **Method 4: Pinterest account management** [05:37] — If you master Pinterest SEO, you can offer account management services to businesses. This includes designing pins, structuring titles/descriptions, and keyword research. Many sellers on Fiverr charge $28–$90 per order.
- **Method 5: Affiliate marketing** [07:36] — Affiliate marketing is the easiest method and the creator's favorite. You partner with networks like ClickBank, D24, or Amazon Associates, get a unique link, and promote it on Pinterest. Commissions range from 5% to 80% of the sale.
- **Long-term traffic example** [09:07] — A Pinterest pin ranking on Google for 'keto recipes for beginners' was created a year ago and still drives traffic. The linked blog post from 2019 continues to earn affiliate commissions, showing Pinterest's lasting value.

### Conclusion

Affiliate marketing is presented as the easiest and most scalable method, requiring no product creation or customer support, and can generate passive income for years. Pinterest's ability to rank on Google makes it a unique long-term traffic source.

## Transcript

make money on Pinterest? If that is you, then you are in the right place. So, I'll be teaching you how to turn interest into a money-making machine in 2026. The funny thing is I see many beginners
rushing to make money from mainstream platforms like Facebook, Tik Tok, and Instagram. Not only are these platforms heavily moderated or it's extremely competitive on these platforms as well. The reason is because the way these
platforms design their algorithm, you need to get extremely creative to get a viral video from these platforms. And aside from that, your video stays viral
for maybe a month or two and then the video dies up. And this sucks especially if you are a beginner looking to make money online without having so much
creativity or without having to put in so much effort up front. And that is why so much effort up front. And that is why Pinterest remains a solid alternative. And Pinterest is not just a visual search engine. It also ranks very high
on Google search results. which means once you get your pins to rank on Google, you can continue to get traffic for months and years down the line. Now,
if you go over to YouTube and do a simple search like how to make money on Pinterest, you'll see a lot of videos on this topic. While many of these creators have shared their perspective on what
works for them, your main focus as a beginner should be is this method easy beginner should be is this method easy to start? Is it a realistic method? And is the method scalable? These are the three most important factors you need to
consider if you're a beginner looking to make money on Pinterest. And that is why in this video I'll teach you five ways to make money on Pinterest. And I'll also share with you my favorite method on the list. The first one is digital
product. This is by far one of the best ways to make money on Pinterest. And the reason is because it's a digital product. People can easily download a product to their device right away. Which means you don't have to worry
Which means you don't have to worry about paying or manufacturing anything. All you simply need to have is a knowledge in that topic. And once you have a knowledge on that topic, you can easily create an ebook, a template, a
course or whatever you want to create and you can sell it to people in form of a download. People just need to pay some money and they can download that content to their device right away. And there are so many platforms you can use for
this such as si.io. As you can see, this is a platform where you can easily sell digital product to people online. You can also use platform like gumroad.com to sell various digital products as well. Here is a Pinterest account doing
the exact strategy. As you can see, this is a Pinterest account about selfhelp. As you can see, this Pinterest account under 1,000 followers get 1.6 million
views every single month. can assure you they get a lot of traffic to their product right here which is hosted on road. The second on the list is providing services on Pinterest. If you are skilled in certain areas or
profession like logo design, video editing or you are a writer, you can basically go over to Pinterest and promote your skill. There are so many people already doing this on Pinterest and they are making thousands of dollars
every single month promoting their services on Pinterest. Here is an example of someone promoting their skill get your custom logo designer. So if I click on the profile of this account, as
you can see this account is under 500 followers and they get over 5 million monthly views on their profile. As you can see they offer custom logo design. And as you can see here, they have their WhatsApp on their profile. And I can
assure you, they must have received a lot of custom orders from Pinterest. And this is because you can find a lot of highquality clients on Pinterest. All you simply need to do is to make a pin about your services and upload them to
Pinterest. And I can assure you, you are going to find a lot of interested customers on Pinterest. The third method on the list is selling physical product. Pinterest being a visual based platform makes it one of the best places to share
images and videos of your products. And if your product is great and of high quality, you will definitely get customers from Pinterest. Just like I mentioned earlier, there are lot of highquality customers on Pinterest. All
you simply need to do is to do proper SEO for your pins and just by writing SEO friendly descriptions and title so that once people type in keyword related to your product, you're going to get a very high chance of showing up on Google
search results. And so you know there are various ways you can go about this. You can list the product on platforms like etsy.com. This is a popular website where people sell physical products. However, if you don't want to host your
product on etsy.com, you can create your own website where you sell product on your own platform and you can then ship out the product to customers. The fourth method is Pinterest account management. This is for those who have mastered the
Pinterest platform. If you know how to do proper SEO, get pins to rank very well, you can definitely sell your knowledge and you can make money from it. How do you do this? All you need to do is to simply help other businesses or
other individuals who are looking to grow their Pinterest account. You can basically help these people to run and manage their Pinterest account with your knowledge. Most of the time, all you just simply need to do for them is help
them design their pins, help them structure their title and description, do keyword research for them. This is basically how simple it is. You can help people grow their Pinterest account. And there are so many people doing this on
Fiverr already. If you go over to Fiverr and type in Pinterest, you're going to see a lot of people are offering to help you manage and run your Pinterest account. As you can see right here, this is someone here selling this service on
Fiverr. They're going to help you to SEO optimize pin. And you can see they have optimize pin. And you can see they have eight orders in Q with over 640 reviews already. And as you can see, their basic plan starts from $40 up to
$90 as you can see right here. Okay, this is also another account also doing the same thing, helping people create optimized pins for their Pinterest account and becoming their Pinterest marketing manager. So, as you can see,
marketing manager. So, as you can see, this person has more orders EQ, over 10 this person has more orders EQ, over 10 orders, and over 500 reviews starting orders, and over 500 reviews starting from 28 up to $85. And the final method
is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is by far the best method on this list and my favorite as well. And this is because unlike the other method I listed earlier which requires some form of experience, knowledge and
expertise, affiliate marketing on the other hand is suitable for everyone and this makes it the easiest in this list. All you simply need to do is to partner All you simply need to do is to partner with affiliate networks like ClickBank,
D24, Amazon Associates and once you sign up to this platform, you will get access to a unique URL which is known as affiliate link. Then once you grab an affiliate link to any product, all you need to do
is to promote this link on your Pinterest account. And once you promote this link and people start clicking on your pins, which then takes them to your affiliate link and they make a purchase from that link, you will receive a cut
of that sale, which is also known as commission. And this can range anywhere commission. And this can range anywhere from 5% up to 80% of the sale. So you can see right here, affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways because you
don't have to create any product. You don't have to deal with shipping and handling on of anything. You don't even have to deal with customer support. All you just need to do is to grab a link and make a sale. So, for instance, if I
come over to Google and I type in keto recipes for beginners and if you come as you can see right here, this Pinterest pin is ranking in the second position of this Google search result.
page. As you can see, here's another Pinterest pin ranking on Google as well. You can see another one right here. So, if I keep scrolling down, there are so many pins ranking on Google. And if I click on this pin, as you can see right
here, this pin was made a year ago, as you can see from the comment right here. And once people click on the link, it's going to bring them to this page. And as you can see, this post was published in 2019 and it's still getting a lot of
traffic. And as you can see here, they clearly stated this post contains affiliate links. And once people come over to this page and they click on any of the products on this page is going to take them to an affiliate product. This
page right here has been earning affiliate commission since it was posted affiliate commission since it was posted in 2019. And this is why I say Pinterest is one of the best traffic sources as you can keep getting traffic unlike
other platforms that your traffic dies out after some time. And for those who are looking for a step-by-step Pinterest affiliate marketing tutorial, I highly recommend to check out this video on your screen right