I Followed a Tutorial on Making $100,000 in Sales Using Automated Pinterest Posts and Here’s What Happened

I read a fascinating article about a man who set up an automated Pinterest affiliate marketing system targeting the women’s fashion niche using only a website and a couple of helpful plugins. He claimed to have “Made 100,000$ in 5 Months Using Free Traffic”.

I have a lot of experience building Wordpress sites and I was confident I could duplicate his system within an afternoon so I gave it a shot. I already had a well-seasoned domain (cutestuffalerts.com) set up with Wordpress that I wasn’t using for much so I figured it would be my best bet to use for the framework.

Before I get into how I set it up and the results, I want to tell you briefly why this system appealed to me so much. It’s important to you because of legal issues you might not know about.

First, in order to automate content publishing, you have to have content. Duh, right?

Content is, as I’m sure Medium writers already know, a lot of work to produce. Copying or republishing others’ content is not only unethical in many cases, it is also illegal in many cases (copyright issues).

A lot of the plugins you will find for Wordpress auto-posting involve scraping other website’s RSS feeds and reposting to…