I generally post my all of products to a pinterest board and have always seen my affiliate link on the pin. I could then click on the pin which directed me to Zazzle and my product with my affiliate link attached to the url in my browser. As of today, I can no longer do that. There is no affiliate link in the "pin" box and although it directs back to Zazzle there is no affiliate link in the browser as well, and not only that- all 700 of my products on pinterest no long contain my affiliate link. Is this happening anyone else? I tried, as someone suggested, to hover over the pin and I would see the link with my affiliate ID and yes, I have done that in the past, but they are no longer there.

The share button still adds the referral ID to the link and pinterest is not stripping it.

If you refer to pinterests new policy to curate links to some extend and not allow user to edit links, I highly welcome pinterests new policy. I far too often saw links changed.

If you want to use tracking codes you have to start the pin from within pinterest. Unfortunaltely your choice of images changes and not always to the better. You can't enter image urls in the pin url field directly because then the link uses the zazzle image cache as back link instead of the product page.

Thanks all for the info.

Thank you for this information.

I needed to check my pinrest site for my zazzle store, can you tell me how it's done? thanks

It's being discussed elsewhere, but in a quick check, I couldn't immediately find it, but no matter because it essentially says the same thing: We can no longer edit our pins. It's a Pinterest thing, not a Zazzle thing.

Oct 14 - 2019
I've been attempting to post Zazzle affiliate products to my Pinterest account and Pinterest will not let me (i.e. no 'website' slot for the affiliate URL, and they block any of my other attempts, even with making a new pin).

I've sent in a message to Pinterest to ask what the deal is for affiliate pins. They must realize that affiliate marketing is big and many of their own Pinterest members do exactly that, and across many sell sites, even Amazon.

And Zazzle needs to look at their relationship to Pinterest as Z runs an affiliate program. Where else do you guys promote Zazzle affiliate products if not on Pinterest (I'm not doing it on Twitter anyway...)?

Once I get a response from Pinterest I'll try posting about it if I can remember this thread. But I'm feeling frustrated that these platforms seem to be doing everything not to enable business.

Hi Pacifier City,

Are your pins for your own Z products, or for affiliate products (someone else's Z products)?
Tx

Hi Kristin, try this...

go to a pin that should have your affliate id
hover your mouse over the link
while you are hovering look in the bottom left corner of your screen and you will see the URL of the link and can see if your RF id is there.

Recently Pinterest has started hiding the URL so that we can't go in and edit it for some unknown reason...

But you can still edit them on the mobile apps... that is another way you can check your links.

I hope this helps

Thanks very much, Shelli, I appreciate the follows!

Maybe this is a Canadian thing, I'm in southern Ontario, Canada, and we get some odd things...

Okay, so you looked at a pin of my own on my Pinterest page as I don't have any affiliate pins right now. When I hover over my own product pins, I see only "zazzle.com" and no other info, BUT the link takes me to my Z product correctly.

For the sake of example I've pinned another Zazzler's item into my Favourites of Pinterest 2019 board as an affiliate pin - a wedding favour bag. There is no edit URl line available to me to input the referral link that comes under the other Z's product for affiliates (I also made sure I've clicked off the box to be an affiliate recently) and no other way that I can tell that this item will credit referral $ if my pin sells this item.

At this time I can only wait for Pinterest to write back to me, I guess, with the current situation ? Thanks again for looking for me

Are you "opening" the pin, clicking on the pin so it opens in its own page, before you hover over it?

Will you post one of the pin links/urls?

Not having a blog is ok.

This is the url I get when I right click and select copy url: https://www.zazzle.com/z/pj2i2?rf=238010122048071792

at the end is ?rf and a string of numbers.

That is, or should be, your referral id.

I also see that url in the very bottom left of the screen when I hover over the pin. It pops up in a little grey box. Mind that I am on a PC...

Looks like you've done it right!

That is just the Pinterest URL that you have posted above... when you hover over or click into the pin then hover on the link you should see one that leads to Zazzle.com the ?rf=xxxxx part is like he said your referral id and it will even be on the links of your own products that you share with the share buttons, because we can self refer in this associate program.

I am going to post a link to the Zazzle associate handbook for you and I hope it is not too outdated and that it helps you!

https://asset.zcache.com/assets/graphics/z4/uniquePages/affiliate/Designer_Associate_Handbook_2018.pdf

you should be able to download it or print it if you need to.

Cheers.

edit: to add, I am glad you found it! the program is confusing when you are new so be nice to yourself