Affiliate link spam or save-for-save deals
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What triggers it
Asking others to save your affiliate Pins in a quid pro quo, paying people per save, using fake accounts to save affiliate links, or posting affiliate Pins repetitively or in large volumes.
What Pinterest says
“Creating affiliate Pins repetitively or in large volumes - marketers should follow our spam policy and use affiliate links in moderation.”
We last checked this against Pinterest's page on .
How to fix it
Add original value to affiliate Pins and keep the volume moderate.
Good to know
Captions like 'save this Pin and I'll save yours', affiliate links with no original content.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in the caption. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: not for this rule
- Speech: not for this rule
- On-screen text: not for this rule
- Caption: looked at for this rule
- Hashtags: not for this rule
Part of this rule depends on your account or on what happens after you post, which a check before posting can't see.
The free caption check below looks for wording linked to this rule in a caption and hashtags.
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Is my caption at risk?
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Related Pinterest rules
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