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A Beginner’s Guide to Affiliate Marketing on Benable: Strategies, Tips, and More
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items If you’re using Benable to share your favorite products, resources, or recommendations—and maybe earn a little money while you’re at it—this guide is for you. Whether you’re just getting started or already have a few lists live, these tips will help ...
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📋 Creating Effective Lists & Recommendations on Benable
🤝 Engagement Tips
🧰 Maintaining Your Benable Profile
📋 Creating Effective Lists & Recommendations on Benable
Creating high quality lists and recs makes a huge difference in how visible your posts are on the site and search engines. Learn how to craft lists people want to read and share the value of your knowledge and expereice effectively.
This is absolutely essential. Any time you include affiliate links—whether on your profile or within individual lists—you are legally required to display an affiliate marketing disclaimer. Even though Benable doesn’t proactively inform users about th...
FTC Affiliate Disclosure
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If your goal is to earn income through Benable, you need to be strategic about which links you use. You have two main options:
-Benable Brand Partner Links These are affiliate-ready and trackable through the platform itself. You can view the full list of eligible partners here: 🔗 Benable Brand Partners List
-Your Own Affiliate Links If you’re already working with affiliate programs (e.g., ShareASale, LTK, RewardStyle), you can often use your own links instead—just make sure they’re compliant with Benable’s rules.
Pro Tip: Many creators use Amazon affiliate links, but I personally avoid them. Even after generating confirmed sales, I’ve never received payment. Your mileage may vary, but be cautious and track your results.
Also, consider tracking your performance using tools like Bitly or your affiliate dashboard. Knowing what’s working helps you double down on high-performing lists and links.
-Benable Brand Partner Links These are affiliate-ready and trackable through the platform itself. You can view the full list of eligible partners here: 🔗 Benable Brand Partners List
-Your Own Affiliate Links If you’re already working with affiliate programs (e.g., ShareASale, LTK, RewardStyle), you can often use your own links instead—just make sure they’re compliant with Benable’s rules.
Pro Tip: Many creators use Amazon affiliate links, but I personally avoid them. Even after generating confirmed sales, I’ve never received payment. Your mileage may vary, but be cautious and track your results.
Also, consider tracking your performance using tools like Bitly or your affiliate dashboard. Knowing what’s working helps you double down on high-performing lists and links.
Use Affiliate Links That Actually Earn You Money
Benable uses an internal badge system to reward high-quality, well-curated lists. The Optimized List Badge acts as a signal to the platform’s algorithm that your list is valuable, organized, and not spam. Once you earn the badge, your list will start...Benable’s Optimization Guide
To improve your chances of getting the badge: Follow Benable’s best practices Make your list visually appealing and easy to navigate Use descriptive, SEO-friendly keywords in the: List title List description Item descriptions Category descriptions Al...
To improve your chances of getting the badge: Follow Benable’s best practices Make your list visually appealing and easy to navigate Use descriptive, SEO-friendly keywords in the: List title List description Item descriptions Category descriptions Al...
Earn the Optimized List Badge for Maximum Visibility
Publishing regularly helps build trust and keeps you visible to both the algorithm and your followers. Even just one new or updated list per week can help you maintain momentum. A great way to stay consistent is to batch-create draft lists when you’r...
Post Consistently
Group related items together and use section headers or categories to guide your readers through your recommendations. A well-structured list:
Feels more professional
Improves readability
Encourages people to browse longer and click more links
Feels more professional
Improves readability
Encourages people to browse longer and click more links
Keep Your Lists Organized
🤝 Engagement Tips
Engagement - from you with others, and from others with your content - is another important factor in your lists' visibility and commission earnings potential. Staying active in the community boosts your profile and links in the algorithm, and having...
Success on Benable isn’t just about publishing content—it’s about building relationships and staying active on the platform. Here's how:
Like and comment on other users’ lists
Respond to comments on your own content
Check your notifications regularly to stay engaged
Benable rewards creators who participate consistently. They track this via your monthly Wrapped Report, which gives you an Engagement Score. 🔗 View Your Wrapped Report
Your Engagement Score is influenced by:
The quality of your lists
The quality and completeness of your profile
Your activity: creating, browsing, and engaging with others
The higher your score, the more likely your content will be promoted across the platform.
Like and comment on other users’ lists
Respond to comments on your own content
Check your notifications regularly to stay engaged
Benable rewards creators who participate consistently. They track this via your monthly Wrapped Report, which gives you an Engagement Score. 🔗 View Your Wrapped Report
Your Engagement Score is influenced by:
The quality of your lists
The quality and completeness of your profile
Your activity: creating, browsing, and engaging with others
The higher your score, the more likely your content will be promoted across the platform.
Be an Active Member of the Community
Not every list should be monetized. In fact, it’s beneficial to create non-affiliate, informational lists that provide value with no expectation of return.
Why? Because a healthy mix builds:
Trust with your audience
Authority in your niche
Sustainability for long-term growth
Why? Because a healthy mix builds:
Trust with your audience
Authority in your niche
Sustainability for long-term growth
Maintain a Balanced Content Monetization Strategy
Don’t wait for people to find you— help them get there!
Promote your best lists by sharing them on:
Instagram, TikTok, and/or Twitter/X
Pinterest boards
Blog posts and newsletters
Link-in-bio tools like Linktree
This brings in fresh traffic, builds your audience, and increases your affiliate earnings.
Promote your best lists by sharing them on:
Instagram, TikTok, and/or Twitter/X
Pinterest boards
Blog posts and newsletters
Link-in-bio tools like Linktree
This brings in fresh traffic, builds your audience, and increases your affiliate earnings.
Share Your Lists Outside of Benable
#ad Pin Generator is a useful tool that automates the generation/design and posting of pins to your Pinterest account. Paste the link to your Benable list or blog post, and PG will pull images from the page and generate pin designs for you. Edit to y...
Pinterest Pin Generator & Auto Pinner
🧰 Maintaining Your Benable Profile
Benable provides users with a monthly profile score based on multiple factors such as the quality of your lists, your engagement and activity with your own content and others', amount of new lists and recs added each month, and more. Below are tips o...
Benable offers a built-in tool to help you maintain your lists:
🔗 Go to Tune-Up
The Tune-Up page identifies:
Broken or outdated links
Incomplete lists
etc.
Important: This tool isn’t updated in real-time and doesn’t account for things like out-of-stock products, so it’s essential to manually audit your lists on a regular basis.
🔗 Go to Tune-Up
The Tune-Up page identifies:
Broken or outdated links
Incomplete lists
etc.
Important: This tool isn’t updated in real-time and doesn’t account for things like out-of-stock products, so it’s essential to manually audit your lists on a regular basis.
Check the ‘Tune-Up’ Page Regularly
Your profile bio is one of the first things people see. A well-written bio builds credibility and encourages users to explore your content.
Your bio should include:
What types of lists you create
What makes your point of view unique
Your qualifications, background, or personal experience in the topic
A hint of personality—people follow people, not just links
Your bio should include:
What types of lists you create
What makes your point of view unique
Your qualifications, background, or personal experience in the topic
A hint of personality—people follow people, not just links
Write a Strong, Trustworthy Profile Bio
Verification gives your profile more credibility and may increase your visibility across Benable. It shows other users (and the algorithm) that you’re a trustworthy, real person.
The process is simple—usually a quick video call with a support team member.
If you're unsure how to start the process, reach out to Benable support directly.
The process is simple—usually a quick video call with a support team member.
If you're unsure how to start the process, reach out to Benable support directly.
Get Your Profile Verified
Completing the tasks in your ‘goals’ section of the ‘Wrapped’ feature on Benable raises your profile score each month you successfully complete them.
Complete Your Monthly 'Wrapped' Goals Regularly