"A Pinterest Spammer Tells All"

talkmeow said:

I know somebody that was spamming Pinterest 24/7 a few weeks ago (before they implemented the 1 post per day limit) and they weren't making anywhere near $1k per day. The women on that site like to look but rarely actually buy stuff.

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Well. Women do buy, but they don't like seeing tons of pins that all direct to Amazon. I market my products on Pinterest from my store and I am getting sales from Pinterest, but that's a bit different. Point is that women are buying. With that said, I don't believe the person in that interview is making that much per day on Pinterest. There is a very long thread on Pinterest in the money making section here on bhw with lots of suggestions, ideas, and lively conversation. The people who are using Pinterest for Amazon commissions are not making that much at all, and they are working hard with their pins. They're making under ten dollars in commissions. The person in that interview would have to have at least 800 Pinterest accounts to make that much per day. I'm sorry but I don't believe it.

redrubies said:

Well. Women do buy, but they don't like seeing tons of pins that all direct to Amazon. I market my products on Pinterest from my store and I am getting sales from Pinterest, but that's a bit different. Point is that women are buying.

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Agreed. I'm in a similar situation. Whitehat linking direct to my own targeted business, and it's doing well with Pinterest.

redrubies said:

The person in that interview would have to have at least 800 Pinterest accounts to make that much per day. I'm sorry but I don't believe it.

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This doesn't seem unfathomable to me. We definitely hear of people with that many accounts or more on Twitter. There's definitely more overhead to do this on Pinterest. (The FB/Twitter requirement.) But we've seen crazy stuff.

In any case, whether he's telling the truth or not doesn't make much of a different to me. I'm mostly disappointed in the fallout from the interview: Public/VC pressure on Pinterest to add a bunch of new rules/limits, and a new spotlight on this very forum (hello new readers!).

He did say that he had multiple amazon accounts. He might have showed one of them, or he faked it. He really did not give up any method. Pinning an affiliate link on pinterest is not new.

There is no way any intelligent person would give up this income just for a web interview. Doesn't smell right.

Seems more like either:

1. They wanted to get Pinterest's attention so as to ruin the party for the real money-makers.
2. They are selling bots here, and this was a pre-sell stunt to drive traffic to their sales pages to make a quick buck off the newbs who want to 'get into spamming'. Everyone knows it's only a matter of time before Pinterest puts an end to these bots. This person probably figured, 'Hell, the ship is sinking, but that doesn't mean I can't keep selling admission'.

Was anyone else astounded at the blatant misogyny?

Trust me when I say Pinterest is NOT invite only. That's a marketing ploy to get people interested, and women will fall for it instantly. No disrespect intended to anyone.

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mafilippone said:

Was anyone else astounded at the blatant misogyny?

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Yeah, I read it and winced. I haven't said anything because the way women are referenced visually and verbally in IM communities is so surreal to me, I figured I was alone in how I saw it.

mafilippone said:

Was anyone else astounded at the blatant misogyny?

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Nope. . . its funny if you reversed the role and made a similar stereotypical claim, most people (women included) wouldn't bat an eyelash.

e.g - they put a sex reference in the ad and men fall for it instantly.

Not to mention i do believe that pinterest is predominantly a female audience. Stereotypes whilst not always true to the individual are often true to the herd, otherwise they would be a different stereotype.

Anyone who doesn't believe that can try doing things against the grain. . . e.g - try selling porno to women, or curtains to men. You can, but you'd make better money doing the inverse.

BTW . . it doesn't mean this clowns claim was true. . to be honest i'm not sure that women fall for that trick any more than men. . . but honestly i really did miss the misogyny . . . cause its only there if you are looking for it.

That guy is so full of shit...

Pinterest does not convert well on amazon. Anyone that has tried it would know.

Just look at the images of the products being pinned... they look nothing like what amazon carries.

Freakin liar.....
I am tempted to cookie stuff the shit out of his affiliate link to get his amazon banned....
but then it would not hurt him... because he is not making any money anyways..... not from pinterest and amazon.

Another reason, to never share a good trick or tools with the public. Some fuckers are just plain attention hungry. Mofos.

eyssir this would help alot thanks!

Was good while it lasted I guess...

Who knows how many amazon id's he has!
It's sometimes normal to blow the horn on what we have done. we couldnt control to show our greatness

meathead1234 said:

Wonder how long until his Amazon ID gets banned. What a dumbass move showing the whole world that.

He could probably have hit some pretty good numbers if he just kept quiet for a while

I have a few sites doing $1000/day right now and I would NOT tell anyone about them or how they earn.

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josepdx said:

Agreed. I'm in a similar situation. Whitehat linking direct to my own targeted business, and it's doing well with Pinterest.



This doesn't seem unfathomable to me. We definitely hear of people with that many accounts or more on Twitter. There's definitely more overhead to do this on Pinterest. (The FB/Twitter requirement.) But we've seen crazy stuff.

In any case, whether he's telling the truth or not doesn't make much of a different to me. I'm mostly disappointed in the fallout from the interview: Public/VC pressure on Pinterest to add a bunch of new rules/limits, and a new spotlight on this very forum (hello new readers!).

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I'd love to know how he can keep up with close to a thousand accounts. I am having enough trouble keeping up with one account.

it's annoying to see our forum all over the news

Did anyone notice the update at the bottom of the article? Interesting.

He is either very dumb (for revealing his money-making method, which I doubt it) or very clever (he is broke, and he faked some info to make some $$$ with that interview, and will use that money to kick-start his IM career)

Fame at last! With a quite basic imacros script as well!

The guy doesn't have permission to use my BHW username in his shitty articles, think i should sue.

Wonder if the owners of BHW will let me CPA lock my profile link with all those millions of visitors i will be receiving.

Amazon is really quite shit with Pinterest. As i have stated in another post, the female contingent on Pinterest go crazy over recipes and go nuts for tasty looking food pictures that lead to a recipe to make it.

So anyone looking for a method should probably create a recipe blog and monetize with CPA lockers or some amazon recipe books or something.

hawke said:

True, but I do have to point out, that the article does look sorta made up. Just didn't feel right.

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I don't think it's made up. I think that I just now figured out who did the interview. I would never say because it could be wrong, and it's not my place to say even if it was right. But I don't think the writer made it up.

mafilippone said:

Was anyone else astounded at the blatant misogyny?

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Lutherblissett said:

Nope. . . its funny if you reversed the role and made a similar stereotypical claim, most people (women included) wouldn't bat an eyelash.

e.g - they put a sex reference in the ad and men fall for it instantly.

Not to mention i do believe that pinterest is predominantly a female audience. Stereotypes whilst not always true to the individual are often true to the herd, otherwise they would be a different stereotype.

Anyone who doesn't believe that can try doing things against the grain. . . e.g - try selling porno to women, or curtains to men. You can, but you'd make better money doing the inverse.

BTW . . it doesn't mean this clowns claim was true. . to be honest i'm not sure that women fall for that trick any more than men. . . but honestly i really did miss the misogyny . . . cause its only there if you are looking for it.

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I've seen the data that shows that the majority of Pinterest users are female. It's indisputable. Usefull, even. One would better on Pinterest promoting women's clothing rather than men's clothing. There is nothing wrong with any of this.

The problem arrises when one creates correlations that just aren't there. There is nothing in that data that reveals any indication of the users' intelligence.

Furthermore, why even refer to it as 'falling for a trick'? It's a matter of willingness, not ignorance. No one can say for sure if any given user is aware of this tactic or ploy or 'trick' or whatever you want to call it. But even if they are aware, why would it stop them if they want to use the site? You can buy an item from a store fully aware that the store bought it for less. Does that mean you fell for a trick? Absolutely not. People pay the price they are willing to pay, and if they are not willing, they move on.

Also, I disagree with the 'only there if you are looking for it' mentality. It sounds like what you are saying is that it's my fault for being bothered, and that there wouldn't be a problem if I wasn't so uptight. It's like telling Rosa Parks, "If you don't like the racism, don't ride the bus." You can turn away from it, but it's still there, and it's not making the world a better place.

hawke said:

That dude made bank on that interview, I guarantee it... only way he'd of given up a $1000/day method....

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Never underestimate the stupidity of some people. Some people just like to blab/brag even when it is not in their best interest.

Pinterest scammer claims hoax?but the facts check out

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http://www.dailydot.com/news/pinterest-scammer-hoax-controversy/


The man who said he spams Pinterest for $1,000 may or may not actually be a spammer. But he's definitely a liar.
On Tuesday, the Daily Dot published an interview with Steve, a 24-year-old, self-described spammer who claimed to be making thousands on Pinterest by connecting spambots to an Amazon Affiliate account. The revealing interview seemed almost too good to be true.
Now, after requesting a follow-up interview, Steve claims that is the case.
Steve continued to say that he faked the verification screenshot he sent us using FireBug, a Firefox plugin that allows users to alter the appearance of a website within their own browser.
But is Steve a prankster, or is he a spammer having second thoughts, concerned that publicity will clear his lucrative business off the pinboard?
Unfortunately, there?s no way we can verify the answer either way.
The privacy policies for both Pinterest and Amazon forbid the companies from publicly disclosing personal information about users. And since all of the spambots in question are just that, bots, it?s hard to trace the owner behind them.
The Daily Dot can verify that final-fantas07, which inspired our original report on Pinterest spam, is a real Amazon Affiliate account, because we?ve found dozens of working affiliate links?like this one?that include the username. Amazon did not respond to requests for comment.
While we can?t verify Steve?s identity, spammers from the site Black Hat World not only confirmed the facts in his account as realistic but also derided him for sharing his secrets.
?I have a few sites doing $1000/day right now and I would NOT tell anyone about them or how they earn,? wrote meathead1234 in a discussion about the interview.
Steve?s second most fantastic claim?that Pinterest has only shut down one of his bots?continues to check out. The account final-fantas07, regardless of who actually operates it, is still out there scamming Pinterest.
And if the dozens of bots we highlighted in our previous story are any indication, no major shutdowns have taken place. Even the most obvious bots, such as Dinorah Ohotto, Josefa Galea, and Gerry Nishi?each of whom pin identical images to one another?are free to continue their automatic ministrations.
So who is this spammer? Unfortunately, there?s no way to tell right now. Even if another person claiming to be final-fantas07 came forward, the only way that individual could prove his or her identity?a screenshot?could be faked (again).
Yet, according to Matt Collins, the blogger at Total Pinterest who first discovered final-fantas07?s botting network, Pinterest has taken some preventative action.
?This week, looking through the ?Popular? tab, we couldn?t find any pins with his affiliate ID,? Collins wrote on Tuesday. ?Perhaps Pinterest have simply identified the pins with his ID and removed them from the ?Popular? list.?
Black Hat World confirmed that after Steve?s story went viral, Pinterest changed its algorithm to make the site more difficult to scam.
Regardless of its validity, Steve?s story helped expose a very real issue for Pinterest and, perhaps unintentionally, contribute to a solution.