The Free Guide: Make Money On Pinterest With Claude (Built 2026-09-20)

Every step below comes from a file that was checked. The file is named on the step. Nothing here is from memory. Where a step could not be confirmed from those files, the line says VERIFY LIVE BEFORE FILMING instead of guessing.

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What you get (read this first, it is honest)

This is the free way. It works, and it is slower and more manual than a paid stack.

Say it plainly to yourself before you start: the free route caps your image count, so you will make fewer pins a day than a paid stack, and you will wait for tomorrow.

The paid tools, named as paid

You do not need any of these to follow this guide.

The community upgrade is a local Pinterest posting app that schedules and posts your pins for you. It lives inside Wealth Academy Pro. No price is named here. (Source: card-video2-pinterest-2026-09-20.md, check 27.)

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Step 1: the word before the pin

Everything in this step is free. Source for the whole step: updated-tools-ideas-2-and-5-2026-09-20.md, row b, and card-video2-pinterest-2026-09-20.md, step 1.

1. Open a Pinterest business account. You need it for two things later: the free scheduler in Business Hub, and the shoppable links box. It costs nothing.

1. Open Pinterest Trends. It is free and it sits inside Pinterest. The search icon is at the top right of Pinterest Trends. This is the keyword tool almost nobody uses. Money With Mak calls it "a pretty hidden feature" at 2:33 of his video.

VERIFY LIVE BEFORE FILMING: the exact menu path to Trends from today's Pinterest home is not written in any checked file. Click it on camera and read the path off the screen.

1. Take the word Trends gives you. One word or one short phrase, the one that is actually being searched, not the one you like.

1. Drop your product photo into Claude and let it write the pin copy. This is the step the old video never had. It made the image with AI and never the words.

The pin copy prompt, written out in full

Paste this into Claude with your product photo attached, and swap the two things in square brackets:

Here is a photo of a product I am selling on Pinterest.

The keyword I want this pin to rank for is: [PASTE THE WORD FROM PINTEREST TRENDS]
The person I am selling to is: [WHO BUYS THIS, IN ONE LINE]

Write me, for this one pin:

1. A Pinterest pin TITLE, 40 characters or fewer, with the keyword in it,
   written the way a buyer searches, not the way a brand writes.

2. A Pinterest pin DESCRIPTION, 2 to 3 short sentences. Put the keyword in the
   first sentence. Say what the product is, who it is for, and what it does for them.
   End with a plain reason to click. No hashtag spam.

3. Three short alternative titles I can test.

Rules:
- Do not invent any feature, material, size or claim that is not visible in the photo.
- Do not use the words "elevate", "unleash", "game-changer" or "must-have".
- Plain words a normal person says out loud.
- If you cannot tell something from the photo, ask me instead of guessing.

That prompt is the whole free SEO step. You get the title, the description and three tests, from one photo, for nothing.

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Step 2: the pins get made, free

Source for this whole step: updated-tools-ideas-2-and-5-2026-09-20.md, row a.

You have three free doors. Use them in this order.

Why door 3 matters more than it looks. A beginner hits the free image cap in about three minutes and quits. The mockup button skips prompting entirely: you upload one design and the generator renders every garment colour and every product from that single file, free, no credits burned, no regeneration. (Source: updated-tools-ideas-2-and-5-2026-09-20.md, row g.)

That is the cheapest way to get a lot of pins out of one design.

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Step 3: the link that does not get you banned

This is the step that matters most, because the old version of it got somebody's account taken down. Source: updated-tools-ideas-2-and-5-2026-09-20.md, row d, and skyscraper-pinterest-2026-09-20.md, new angles 11, 14 and 28.

What went wrong before. The old method set the Pinterest default link to a raw affiliate link with nothing attached to it. A commenter on Money With Mak says their account went down for exactly that.

The safe version, four rules:

1. Put a visible #ad in the description. Pinterest allows an affiliate URL in the destination field today, but only with a visible #ad or #affiliate disclosure.

VERIFY LIVE BEFORE FILMING: Pinterest's own affiliate-links help article returned 404 on 2026-09-20, the page moved. Find the live page and read the rule off it before you say it on camera.

1. Use the FULL link, never a shortener. Bitly, TinyURL and redirects get flagged as spam.

1. Better than an affiliate link: send the click somewhere you own.

• A Printify pop-up store link. Free, no credit card, and it gives you a real product link for a pin (Money With Mak free video, 2:06).
• Or a Shopify CHECKOUT url instead of a product page, so the click lands one button away from paid (Money With Mak, 10:56).

1. Tick the shoppable links box. It sits at the bottom of the pin creation flow. Leave it wrong and Pinterest shows OTHER sellers' products on YOUR pin (Money With Mak free video, 7:44). Ten seconds, and it is pure money kept.

VERIFY LIVE BEFORE FILMING: the exact label on that checkbox today is not written in any checked file. Read it off the screen.

One more rule from the same research: link the single product listing, never the shop front (Money With Mak, 11:29).

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Step 4: posting for free, forever

Source for this whole step: updated-tools-ideas-2-and-5-2026-09-20.md, row c, plus the pricing pages named in each row.

The old video promised "10 videos for completely free with no credit card" on repurpose.io. That promise is dead. repurpose.io is a 14 day trial now, then $35 a month (repurpose.io/pricing, opened 2026-09-20).

Here is what replaces it, free:

Start with Pinterest's own scheduler. It costs nothing, it never expires, and almost nobody teaches it.

How often to post

• Three pins per product, one a week, never back to back. Fifteen pins covers five products across three weeks (Money With Mak, 5:39 and 7:35).
• Do not over-post. "Don't post a 100 pieces of content per day... it's going to trip some flags" (Santrel Media, 24:45).
• Old pins keep working: "pins from literally years ago still bring me traffic" (Money With Mak, 8:52).

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The 2026 Pinterest changes you need to know

All four of these landed after the old video was made. All of them are free and inside Pinterest. Source: updated-tools-ideas-2-and-5-2026-09-20.md, row f, and skyscraper-pinterest-2026-09-20.md, new angles 1 to 8.

One thing this guide will not teach you. The AI label is read from data the AI model writes into the image file, and a screenshot strips it. That is recorded here as a finding, not as a method. Do not do it. (Source: skyscraper-pinterest-2026-09-20.md, new angle 3, marked RISKY, "Report it, never teach stripping it".)

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Step 5: where the money actually is

Views are not money. The whole point of this step is the path from a click to cash. Source: card-video2-pinterest-2026-09-20.md, step 5 and the monetization lines, plus skyscraper-pinterest-2026-09-20.md, new angles 17 to 22.

The click to cash path

1. The pin gets the click.
2. The click lands on something you own: a Printify pop-up store, a Shopify checkout link, or one page on your own site that holds every product you promote (Santrel Media 19:22, Sara Finance step 6).
3. You capture the email before you send them to the product.
4. You email them, more than once, and that is where the money shows up.

The free email tool

Systeme.io's free plan is the one named here. It is the only email tool named anywhere in the checked files for this video, and it is marked PROPOSED, waiting on Reis's confirmation.

VERIFY LIVE BEFORE FILMING: Systeme.io's free plan limit (how many contacts, how many emails) is not in any checked file. Open its own pricing page and read the number out loud on camera. (Source: card-video2-pinterest-2026-09-20.md, "Open for Reis" item 1, and updated-tools-ideas-2-and-5-2026-09-20.md, "What is missing from this run", row 1.)

The old video said "platforms that can do this for free" and named none. That silence is exactly why the top comment on it is "789k views... not able to earn any money".

Four ways to get paid

1. Affiliate links, with the disclosure. Amazon's SiteStripe "Get Link" bar hands you your affiliate link from any Amazon page in one click (Santrel Media, 18:42). For brand programs outside Amazon, impact.com is free to join and carries Adidas and Nike level programs (Santrel Media, 8:11).

1. A Printify pop-up store. Free, no card, and the margin on the item is yours.

1. A digital product. Your own file, your own price, no shipping.

1. Flat payout deals. One Shopify signup pays $150 flat, no matter what they spend (Sara Finance, 15:19). This is the best kind of deal for a beginner because one signup is worth more than a hundred small commissions.

The money math

Two more things that work

• Run a second faceless account beside the one with your face on it, so the content on the earner cannot be traced back and copied (Sara Finance, 14:51).
• Cap the reposts at 10, about two weeks apart for the same post (Sara Finance, 19:39).

The honest ladder: what free gets you, and what paid gets you

The free route is Pinterest Trends plus Claude plus Printify, at zero cost. That is this whole guide.

The paid route is ads, and it is a different thing. Luc Bermond spent $21,000 and generated $117,000 in 30 days on Pinterest ads, with the dashboard on screen (youtu.be/Zpz8nFRw-Lg at 0:38). That is his own dashboard, it is one named person, and it is paid advertising, so it proves nothing about free traffic.

If you ever go that way, the numbers from that same source are: start at $5 a day for 7 to 10 days before you touch the budget (8:36), use the Conversion objective under 20 products and Catalog Sales over 20 (7:33 and 8:57), and target women 25 plus for a bigger basket (2:49). All of that is PAID. None of it is in this free guide's method.

One thing the money side never shows: the buyer

A woman paid $64 for a dress from a Pinterest ad and it arrived as flat polyester, with a tag saying 95% polyester when the listing said 50% linen, and several storefronts traced to one operator (Mia Maples, 8:28, 14:03 and 18:35).

That is the thing to avoid being. Sell something real, describe it honestly, and you are already ahead of most of this lane.

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Is it safe to hand the AI your product photos and your Pinterest account?

Yes, with one rules file. Here is how to keep it fenced in.

The AI reads a plain text rules file sitting in the folder you work in, and it follows it every single time.

Put it in the folder you work in, and write the fences in plain words, for example:

• Never touch, move or delete anything outside this folder.
• Never delete a file. Move it to a folder called Old instead.
• Never open my keys, my passwords, or any settings file that holds them.
• Never post anything, anywhere, without showing me first.
• Never send anything out: no email, no upload, no message, without asking me first.
• Always work on a copy, never the original.

Two habits that matter more than the rules file:

• Keep your Pinterest password out of the folder the AI works in. It never needs it to write pin copy.
• Show yourself every pin before it goes live. A preview takes two seconds.

(Source: card-video2-pinterest-2026-09-20.md, step 1 safety line, and the same rules-file pattern used in the video 1 free guide.)

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The community upgrade

There is a local Pinterest posting app built for the community: you point it at a folder of images, Claude writes each pin's title, description and link text, and the app schedules and posts them to your board. It runs on your own computer.

It lives inside Wealth Academy Pro. No price is named here. (Source: card-video2-pinterest-2026-09-20.md, check 27 and the ending line.)

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Links

TRACKED LINK NEEDED BEFORE PUBLISHING on every link that leaves with the video: the free guide link, the community link and the ending card link each go out as a named tracked address on Reis's own domain, added to the tracker first, never the raw destination. (Source: card-video2-pinterest-2026-09-20.md, metric 11.)

The video links quoted in this guide are citations shown on screen, not published links.

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