Pinterest 101

Pinterest isn't social media. It's a search engine, which means a pin you make this month can still be sending buyers to your link in 2029.

This guide walks you click by click through setting up your account, finding keywords with Pinterest's own free tools, and building a pin from blank screen to published, with the title, description, and alt text written out word for word.

Then the part nobody explains properly: how to tag products step by step, Pinterest's five affiliate rules, which networks it partners with, what Amazon actually allows, and how to write a disclosure that keeps you legal. Plus the seven things that quietly get accounts restricted.

Forty-five pages with diagrams, four working models from a real blogger and affiliate marketer, a ninety-day plan, and a checklist to run before every pin.