Are you allowed to put affiliate links on Pinterest?
They were banned from the site back in February 2015, much to the dismay of bloggers and affiliate marketers who had concentrated their marketing efforts using Pinterest and suddenly lost their ability to generate revenue.
However, when the ‘Power Pinners' left, so did a good portion of Pinterest's traffic.
So, just over a year later, Pinterest announced that they would allow affiliates' links on their site once again.
In the past, we removed affiliate links from Pinterest because spammers were abusing them. Now that our spam detection system is so much stronger, we’re ready to allow affiliate links again. To make way for these changes, we’re making minor updates to our acceptable use policy. We’ll start rolling out all affiliate networks today and over the coming weeks.
Allowing affiliate links motivated Power Pinners to return to the site — a win-win situation for both the pinners and Pinterest.
For more information on how to use Pinterest, see their acceptable use policy.
Will you be monetizing with Pinterest? If so, you might also be interested in The Danger of Relying Exclusively on Social Media Marketing article.
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Cheers,
This is definitely good news and I had no idea until reading your post! Pinterest is a high-traffic area and being able to use affiliate links is something that could drive a lot of traffic and income. The majority of my audience comes from Pinterest. I’m off to re-strategize my Pinterest game now 🙂 Thanks for the post!
Hi Kiki,
So cool that your audience comes from Pinterest. Keep that up!
Cheers,
Ros
Might want to check Amazon’s rules about WHERE affiliate links and images can be used.
Hi Dee,
Affiliate marketers should check to see where ANY program’s links can or cannot be placed. I wrote about the dangers of not reading Affiliate Agreements just this week. 🙂
Cheers,
Ros
Amazon now allows their links on Pinterest,,, and yes, everyone needs to check to see how and where their merchant’s links are allowed to be presented on Pinterest.
Hi Rosalind. I do have your affiliate book. I will be using my affiliates to promote on Pinterest. I think this is great! I can really help my audience because I have affiliate links from Amazon and Udemy that I know are useful for my followers. I can’t wait to get started.
I’m happy that you’re happy, Katina. 🙂