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A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide to Affiliate Marketing on Benable: Strategies, Tips, and More

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Ready to transform your recommendations into income? This comprehensive guide breaks down your Benable journey into four clear phases: from initial setup and crafting compelling content to expanding your reach and maximizing your earnings. Learn how ...
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Step 1: Starting Out & Setting Up

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.

 
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Check out my blog post explaining what Benable is and the benefits it offers to content creators - big and small, new and old - in their affiliate marketing journey.
Benable: What It Is & Why Bloggers + Content Creators Will Love it
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Join Benable now and skip the waitlist by signing up with my invitation code: H4WY3
Join Benable & Skip The Waitlist
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Your profile bio is crucial for first impressions. A well-written bio builds credibility and encourages users to explore your content. It should clearly state what types of lists you create, what makes your perspective unique, and your relevant quali...
Write a Strong, Trustworthy Profile Bio
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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.
Get Your Profile Verified

Step 2: Crafting Engaging Lists

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...

 
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Benable rewards high-quality lists with an Optimized List Badge. This badge signals to the platform's algorithm that your list is valuable and well-organized, leading to increased traffic from Benable. To earn this badge, follow Benable's best practi...
Earn the Optimized List Badge for Maximum Visibility
 
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To enhance readability and promote engagement, group related items and use section headers or categories for your recommendations. This makes your lists professional, easy to navigate, and encourages more exploration and clicks.
Keep Your Lists Organized
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PRO TIP: You don't need to monetize every list. Creating non-affiliate, informational lists that simply provide value is incredibly beneficial. This balanced approach helps build trust with your audience, establishes your authority in your niche, and...
Maintain a Balanced Content Monetization Strategy
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Step 3: Growing Your Reach & Audience

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...

 
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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
 
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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
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To succeed on Benable, it is imperative to actively engage with the platform. Like and comment on other lists, reply to comments on your own content, and regularly check notifications. Benable tracks your consistent participation through a monthly "W...
Be an Active Member of the Community
 
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Don't just wait for people to find you—help them get there! Promote your best Benable lists by sharing them on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X, Pinterest boards, blog posts and newsletters, and link-in-bio tools like Linktree. This brings in fresh traff...
Share Your Lists Outside of Benable
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#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

Step 4: Maximizing Earnings & Optimization

 
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To earn income on Benable, strategically select your recs and links. You have two primary choices: Benable Brand Partner Links, which are platform-tracked and affiliate-ready (find eligible partners on the Benable Brand Partners List), or your own af...
Use Affiliate Links That Actually Earn You Money
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You must include an affiliate marketing disclaimer for all affiliate links on Benable, and anywhere else, whether on your profile or within lists. The FTC mandates this for transparency, and failing to comply can result in legal issues and fines. Ben...
FTC Affiliate Disclosure
 
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Benable provides a built-in Tune-Up tool to help you maintain your lists, identifying issues like broken or outdated links and incomplete lists. Important: This tool isn't real-time and won't flag things like out-of-stock products, so regular manual ...
🔗 Go to Tune-Up 
Check the ‘Tune-Up’ Page Regularly
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My own blog post with tips and tricks to mastering Benable
A Comprehensive Guide to Benable Affiliate Marketing for Creators
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