How To Promote Digistore24 Products On Pinterest (Step-by-Step)

Most affiliate marketers chase the same three platforms and wonder why their results feel like a dead end. Pinterest is not on most people’s radar for promoting Digistore24 products, and that is exactly why it works. The average Pinterest user has a higher household income than users on most other social media platforms, your pins can rank on Google search without any SEO work on your part, and the reach you can build does not require a massive following. Alston Godbolt has built almost one million monthly views on Pinterest with just 3,000 followers, and in this walkthrough he shows you the exact process from product selection to your first published pin.

This guide covers the full step-by-step method Alston lays out in the video above: how to pick the right Digistore24 product, how to use AnswerThePublic and Canva to create eye-catching video pins for free, where to send your traffic for the best results, and how many pins you should post each day to start seeing movement. If you have been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the right moment to start, this is it.

What You’ll Walk Out With

A clear picture of why Pinterest beats most platforms for affiliate income
How to browse Digistore24’s 300+ products and pick one with real buyer demand
A free keyword research method using AnswerThePublic to fill your content calendar
A step-by-step Canva workflow for creating video pins that stop the scroll
Free stock video sources so you never pay for footage
The right way to link your pins so traffic converts, not just clicks
A realistic daily posting target and what to expect as you build momentum
Use finder.platformproof.com to find the exact niche and method that fits your situation before you pick a product

Why Pinterest Works for Affiliate Marketing

Pinterest is not a social media platform the way Instagram or TikTok are. It functions more like a search engine with a visual layout. When someone types “diabetes dinner ideas” into Pinterest, they are not browsing for entertainment. They are looking for a solution to a real problem they are dealing with right now. That buyer intent is what separates Pinterest traffic from casual scrollers on other platforms. Alston describes it as one of the top two or three places to find traffic for affiliate offers, and the data backs that up. The average household income of a Pinterest user sits higher than on most competing platforms, which means the people finding your pins are more likely to have purchasing power.

On top of that, Pinterest pins do not disappear after 24 hours the way a social post might. A pin you create today can continue to circulate and bring in clicks months or even years later, especially if it ranks on Google. Pinterest is indexed by search engines, so a well-crafted pin about a health topic or a financial tool can appear in Google image results and drive traffic long after you stopped thinking about it. That compounding quality is rare in traffic generation, and it is one of the main reasons Alston points to Pinterest as the platform he comes back to again and again. He is showing his own Pinterest account in the video, with nearly a million monthly views, and he is transparent that those numbers are lower than usual because he had not been posting as much recently. The baseline traffic the account holds without active effort is itself a testament to how sticky good pins can be.

Step 1: Pick a Digistore24 Product with a Hungry Audience

Digistore24 is an affiliate marketplace with over 300 products across a wide range of niches. You do not need to know everything about a topic to promote a product in that space. You do need to know that people are actively searching for answers in that niche and that the product actually addresses a problem those people have. Alston walks through the marketplace live in the video and lands on Smart Blood Sugar as his example. This product targets people who are pre-diabetic or diabetic and pays out approximately $29 to $30 per sale. That is a meaningful commission per transaction, and diabetes is a niche with a massive and growing audience that is actively searching for solutions online every day.

When you are browsing Digistore24, look at the commission per sale and not just the percentage. A product that pays 50 percent of a $10 product is a $5 commission. A product that pays 30 percent of a $97 product is almost $30. You want commissions that justify the effort you are putting into creating pins and driving traffic. Health and wellness products, financial tools, and online business education products tend to offer the strongest commissions on Digistore24, and all three of those niches have strong representation on Pinterest. Start by picking one product in one niche before you think about scaling to multiple offers. Spreading yourself across three or four niches from the beginning is a reliable way to make slow progress on all of them and real progress on none of them.

Step 2: Search Pinterest to Confirm Your Niche Has Traffic

Before you create a single pin, spend five minutes on Pinterest searching for your niche keyword. If you picked the Smart Blood Sugar product, type “diabetes” into the Pinterest search bar and look at what comes back. What Alston found when he did this live in the video was a page full of pins, most of them static images that all looked roughly the same. The boards blended together. Nothing stood out. But then one pin caught his eye immediately: a video pin titled “10 Best Diabetes Dinner Ideas” that was actually moving on the screen while everything else sat still. That is your entire Pinterest strategy in one moment of observation.

When you search your niche and see a mix of static pins, you are looking at an opportunity. If the majority of pins are static, you can stand out by simply creating video pins or animated GIF pins. You do not need to out-design anyone. You do not need professional equipment or a graphic design background. You just need movement in a sea of still images, and the eye goes to it every single time. Also take note of what topics are already getting pins. This tells you what the Pinterest audience in your niche cares about and what angle they respond to. Save a few of the top pins as references for your own content and use them to inform the framing of your first batch of pins.

Step 3: Use AnswerThePublic to Fill Your Content Calendar

AnswerThePublic is a free keyword research tool that pulls real search questions people are typing into Google and other search engines. Go to answerthepublic.com, type in your niche keyword, and click search. The tool returns a large visual map of questions organized by question type: how, what, why, where, when, and which. Click on “Data” to see a plain list version, which is much easier to work with when you are brainstorming pin topics. Alston demonstrates this live using “diabetes” as the search term, and the list that comes back is full of ready-made pin titles.

What comes back is a ready-made content calendar. “How diabetes affects the body.” “How diabetes is diagnosed.” “How diabetes affects the eyes.” Each of these is a potential pin topic. You are not inventing subjects out of thin air. You are picking up questions that real people are already asking and answering them with your pin, then pointing those people to a product that helps them solve the problem behind the question. Alston also points out that niche-specific terminology is worth targeting. A term like “A1C” is not something a casual health browser would know, but a diabetic or pre-diabetic absolutely would. Niche terms tend to have less competition on Pinterest and draw a more qualified audience, which means the people who find your pin are more likely to be interested in the product you are promoting.

Step 4: Create a Video Pin with Canva

Canva is a free graphic design tool and one of Alston’s top five websites for building an online business. The good news is that Canva already has Pinterest pin dimensions built in as a template option. When you open Canva, search for “Pinterest” in the templates and select the Pinterest video pin option. The dimensions are correct out of the box, which saves you from guessing at the right aspect ratio for mobile. You can start from a blank canvas or use one of Canva’s existing Pinterest templates as a starting point. Either approach works.

For the pin Alston creates live in the video, he uses the question phrase “how diabetes affects the eyes” from his AnswerThePublic research. He adds a bold headline to the pin: “5 Ways Diabetes Affects Your Eyes.” Then he adds a second line of text that functions as the call to action: “Click here to manage your diabetes.” He styles that CTA text to look like a button so that viewers instinctively want to tap it when they see it on a mobile screen. The goal of the first slide in the pin is to stop the scroll and communicate the promise of the content in two seconds or less. Every design decision on that first slide should serve that one goal.

Canva lets you set the duration of each slide. Alston adjusts the pin to approximately 15 seconds total. He then duplicates the first slide and adds a numbered list of points inside the pin itself, so viewers who watch past the opening frame get value from the pin before they ever click through. The example he builds lists “Blurry Vision” as point number one, with additional numbered points following in subsequent slides. This structure works because it gives viewers a taste of the answer while making them curious enough to click through for the full solution. The result is a video pin that is educational, visually engaging, and built around an honest promise.

Step 5: Get Free Stock Video from Pexels

You do not need to film your own video footage to make video pins. Pexels.com is a free stock video library where you can download clips with no attribution required. Unsplash is another option that works well for images and some video content. For the eye-related pin example in the video, Alston goes to Pexels, types “eyes” into the search bar, filters for vertical videos (important for Pinterest’s mobile-first layout), and finds a clip of someone looking directly into the camera. He downloads it straight to his computer. The process takes about 60 seconds.

The key when searching for stock footage is to find clips that are vertical and emotionally appropriate to your niche. A video about diabetes affecting eyesight needs a clip that feels health-focused and personal, not a generic lifestyle shot with a smiling person holding a smoothie. Once you download the clip from Pexels, you drag and drop it directly into your Canva project and resize it to fill the canvas. From there, you add your text overlays on top of the footage and build out your slides exactly as described in the previous step. The whole process from finding footage to having it inside Canva takes about two minutes.

Step 6: Build Out Your Numbered Slides

The pin structure Alston uses is a proven format for getting clicks on Pinterest. Slide one is your headline and CTA. Slides two through six (or however many points you are covering) each display one numbered item from your list. For the diabetes example Alston builds in the video: “1. Blurry Vision” on slide two, followed by additional complications on each subsequent slide. Viewers who watch the full pin get a preview of the list. The educational value inside the pin itself builds trust and positions you as someone who actually knows what they are talking about in this niche.

When you are done building the slides in Canva, export the pin as an MP4 video file. Canva handles the export automatically when you click the Download button and choose MP4. The resulting file is ready to upload directly to Pinterest without any additional editing or compression software. The entire production process from blank canvas to finished MP4 should take 20 to 30 minutes for a beginner and closer to 10 minutes once you have done it a handful of times. Speed comes with repetition, and your designs will improve significantly between your first pin and your twentieth.

Step 7: Upload and Publish Your Pin on Pinterest

To create a new pin, click “Create” in the top left corner of your Pinterest account and select “Create Pin.” Drag and drop your MP4 file into the upload area and wait for the preview to load. Once the video is ready, fill out the pin details. Your title should match the keyword phrase you used in the pin itself, for example “5 Ways Diabetes Affects Your Eyes.” Your description should expand on the topic naturally and include the keyword phrase again along with related terms from your AnswerThePublic research. You can also include a short call to action in the description directing people to click through to learn more.

Tags are the next field to fill. Alston points out that Pinterest tags are hard-coded, meaning you can only use tags that already exist in Pinterest’s system rather than making up your own. When he types “diabetes” into the tag field, some relevant tags appear including “type one diabetes.” Use the most specific tags that apply to your content rather than generic ones like “health” or “wellness.” Finally, paste your landing page URL, YouTube channel link, or affiliate link into the destination link field and assign the pin to the most relevant board you have. Then click Publish. Your pin is now live and searchable on Pinterest and potentially visible in Google image results as well.

Step 8: Decide Where to Send Your Traffic

This is where most beginners make a critical error. Sending Pinterest traffic directly to your affiliate link is possible, and Alston confirms in the video that Pinterest allows it. But it is not the most effective approach for building income that lasts. When someone clicks through to an affiliate sales page immediately, you have one shot to convert them. If they leave without buying, you have nothing: no email address, no way to follow up, no relationship. That traffic is gone and you have to start over with the next visitor.

Alston recommends three better destinations for your Pinterest traffic. First, a landing page where you collect the visitor’s email address in exchange for a free resource related to your niche. This lets you follow up by email and build a relationship before you ask for a sale. Second, a YouTube channel, which lets you grow two platforms simultaneously while building more trust with your audience through longer-form content. Third, a blog, which can generate its own traffic from search engines and give you a content hub that grows over time. Any of these three options puts more tools in your hands than a direct affiliate link does, and all three of them can also feed traffic back to each other as your platform grows.

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Step 9: Post at Least 5 Pins Per Day

Consistency is the variable that most people skip, and it is also the variable that separates the accounts that build real traffic from the ones that never get traction. Alston is direct about the daily target: at minimum five video pins per day. This is not a casual suggestion. It is the baseline that allows the Pinterest algorithm to start distributing your content to new audiences. The platform rewards accounts that post regularly and rewards them more as engagement data accumulates on the pins you have already published. If you post five pins one day and then nothing for a week, you lose whatever momentum you had built up.

Five pins per day sounds like a large commitment until you realize that the Canva and Pexels workflow Alston describes can produce a finished pin in under 15 minutes once you have a process in place. That means five pins is roughly an hour of work. You can batch that work on a single day and schedule pins in advance using Pinterest’s built-in scheduling feature or a third-party scheduling tool like Tailwind. The goal for your first 30 days is to publish consistently and let the data in your Pinterest analytics tell you which pins are getting the most saves and click-throughs. Then you create more of what is already working and less of what is not generating engagement.

Honest Drawbacks

Pinterest is a slower build than paid advertising or a single viral video. You are not going to post five pins and check your bank account the next morning. It takes weeks of consistent posting before you start to see meaningful traffic, and it can take two to three months of daily effort before you see your first affiliate commission from Pinterest alone. If you are looking for income within the next 30 days, Pinterest is not the right primary strategy. It is a long-term traffic asset that compounds over time rather than a quick cash machine. That said, the traffic you build on Pinterest does not require ongoing ad spend to maintain, which is a significant advantage over paid traffic sources.

There is also a real learning curve to creating pins that actually generate clicks and not just impressions. Your first few pins will not look as good as your tenth, and your tenth will not look as good as your fiftieth. The good news is that all of the tools Alston uses in this method are free, and the feedback loop on Pinterest is fast. Your analytics will show you within a few days whether a pin is gaining traction or sitting flat. You are never flying completely blind. The method itself is proven, and the gap between knowing it and profiting from it is just the daily work of showing up and posting until the results start to show up in return.

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Pinterest with Digistore24 is one path to your first online income. But the right path depends on your niche, your existing skills, your schedule, and what you actually want to spend time working on. The Platform Proof Finder asks you a short series of questions and recommends the specific method that fits your actual situation, whether that is affiliate marketing on Pinterest, building a blog, growing a YouTube channel, or something else entirely. It is free to use and takes less than two minutes to complete.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a Pinterest business account to promote Digistore24 products?

You do not strictly need a business account to start pinning, but switching to a Pinterest business account is free and gives you access to analytics so you can see which pins are performing and which are not. It also unlocks the ability to run Pinterest ads later if you want to scale your traffic beyond organic reach. For the strategy Alston describes in this video, analytics matter because they tell you which pins are getting saves and clicks, which is the primary feedback signal for deciding what to create more of.

Can I direct link to my Digistore24 affiliate offer on Pinterest?

Yes, Pinterest allows you to put an affiliate link directly in the pin link field. Alston confirms this explicitly in the video and says people ask him about it often. However, he recommends against it as your primary strategy because it gives you no way to capture the visitor’s contact information if they do not buy on the first visit. Sending traffic to a landing page or email opt-in first gives you a second and third opportunity to convert that visitor into a buyer through follow-up communication rather than one cold click to a sales page.

How long should my video pins be?

In the video, Alston targets approximately 15 seconds for his sample pin. That is enough time to show the headline, cycle through a few numbered points, and close with the call to action. Pinterest allows video pins up to 15 minutes long, but shorter pins tend to get watched all the way through, which sends a positive engagement signal to the algorithm. For the style of educational list pin Alston demonstrates, somewhere between 10 and 20 seconds is the right window. Long enough to communicate value, short enough to hold attention on a mobile screen.

What types of Digistore24 products work best with Pinterest?

Health and wellness products are a strong match for Pinterest because the platform’s audience skews toward people who are actively researching solutions to personal problems. Alston uses Smart Blood Sugar as his example because diabetes affects a large and growing portion of the population, and people dealing with it search for help online constantly. Weight loss supplements, natural health remedies, mental wellness tools, and relationship improvement products all have active communities on Pinterest. Financial education products also perform well. Avoid extremely narrow technical niches that do not have meaningful search volume on Pinterest itself.

Do I need to be an expert in the topic I am creating pins about?

Not initially. Alston explicitly says in the video that if you do not know much about the topic, go do a little research before you start creating content. Tools like AnswerThePublic give you a ready-made list of real questions people are asking, so you are working from publicly documented information rather than fabricating claims. That said, you should never make claims in your pins that go beyond what is accurate and honest about the product you are promoting. Misleading health claims in particular can get your account flagged, so stick to informational content and let the product’s own materials do the selling.

How do Pinterest boards work and why do they matter for this strategy?

Pinterest boards are organized collections of pins, similar to folders or albums within your account. When you create a pin, you assign it to a board so it is categorized correctly on your profile. Alston compares boards to the different walls on Facebook: your personal page has a wall, your group has a wall, and your business page has a wall. On Pinterest, each board is a separate organized space for a specific topic. Having well-organized boards around your niche helps Pinterest’s algorithm understand what your account is about and recommend your pins to users who are already interested in that topic area.

How long does it realistically take to start getting traffic from Pinterest?

Pinterest is a slower-moving platform than paid advertising. Most people who follow a consistent posting schedule of five or more pins per day start seeing meaningful impressions within the first 30 to 60 days. Actual clicks and affiliate commissions from Pinterest typically start showing up somewhere between 60 and 90 days of consistent effort. The timeline varies based on your niche, how well your pins are designed, the quality of where you are sending traffic, and whether your destination page actually converts visitors into buyers. Building a landing page or using your own content as the destination rather than a cold affiliate link tends to accelerate results.

Is Canva really free for creating Pinterest video pins?

Yes. Canva has a free tier that includes Pinterest pin templates, video creation tools, text overlays, and MP4 export. The workflow Alston demonstrates in the video uses only free Canva features. Canva Pro, which is the paid version, unlocks additional premium templates, a brand kit, and a larger library of built-in stock media, but none of those features are required to build the video pins this strategy depends on. For beginners working through this method for the first time, the free version of Canva is entirely sufficient. You can always upgrade later if you find you are hitting the limits of the free plan.

Sources

Alston Godbolt, “How To Promote Digistore24 Products On Pinterest 2021” (YouTube: youtu.be/bZXU5GzbHuE)
Digistore24 affiliate marketplace: digistore24.com
AnswerThePublic keyword research tool: answerthepublic.com
Canva design platform: canva.com
Pexels free stock video library: pexels.com
Unsplash free image and media library: unsplash.com