A long, long time ago in an office not so far away, we published a little blog post called Affiliate Marketing Terms Explained. While still mostly correct, the affiliate marketing industry has changed quite a bit since since 2013. With it, the methods PeerFly allows and disallows have also evolved so we thought it high time to reexamine what we do and don’t allow.
Social media traffic has long been a go-to for affiliate marketers but since 2013 we’ve seen a huge boom in publishers capitalizing on fanpages and viral traffic to promote offers. In additional to paid advertising platforms, we do allow traffic from Facebook fanpages, Instagram influencers and Twitter accounts. We just need you to make sure your promotion methods are inline with our guideline.
We began to allow publishers to promote offers on Facebook fan pages a couple years ago and we’ve seen some great campaigns come from it. As a result, we’ve relaxed our restrictions just a bit.
With the launch of Sale Groups, Facebook groups have definitely grown in popularity. However, due to the potential for abuse we’ve mostly stayed away from them. If you own a Facebook group that you would like to monetize with affiliate offers, please contact your Affiliate Manger. No Facebook group promotion without written approval from PeerFly is allowed at this time.
While previous disallowed, we have started to allow advertiser via Twitter’s paid advertising platform. Our guidelines are as follows:
We do allow promotion through Snapchat’s paid advertising platform. Please make sure the offer allows Social traffic and that allow creatives are submitted for approval using the “Custom Creatives” tab on the offer page.
We allow publishers to promote offers on Instagram on a case-by-case, approval basis. Our guidelines for approval can be found below:
Purchasing search traffic on networks like Bing is fine for any offer that allows Search. Make sure you’re aware of any keyword bidding guidelines before getting started. Here’s a blog post that goes over some of the finer points of what is and is not trademark bidding.
PPV stands for pay per view which usually means that your ad will appear in a pop up. If that’s how you’re planning to send traffic, make sure you pick an offer that allows Pops.
PPV can also refer to:
If you’re planing to use any of those, just make sure the offer you’ve selected allows PPV.
Contextual traffic refers to two traffic sources at this point. The first of which is in-text traffic that publishers can typically purchase from PPV networks. Once users have downloaded ad supported software onto their computer, publishers can bid to hyperlink offers to certain relevant text.
Contextual traffic has also come to refer to traffic from native ads. Native ads have been a huge traffic source for PeerFly publishers in the last couple years. Even if you’ve never heard of them before, you’ve seen them all over the internet on sites like Buzzfeed, CNN and Business Insider.
Our post popular sources for native ad traffic are:
Push notifications are a great way to monetize mobile traffic and like native ads, you’ve definitely seen them even if you didn’t know what they were called yet.
Users opt-into receiving notifications when they view a website on desktop or mobile. Affiliate marketers can then purchase that traffic to show users offers on the smart phones.
Our most popular push notification traffic sources are:
We’re fine with push traffic on any mobile offer that allows banner display. If you’re interested in getting started, Luke has a great blog post on push notification traffic sources and getting started on his blog.
Let us know if you have any questions!
I'm an Affiliate Manager at PeerFly.com.
Great info. Clear and concise. Can’t wait to get started…
Too bad, there is still no email marketing.
1. In Facebook Promotion
You have Mentioned that Not direct Link Allowed, So what about Custom Domain. if i have custom domian approved may i direct link ???
2. Custom Creative means ??? please explain It .
3.You said Creatives, links and pages need to be submitted to your Affiliate Manager for approval before going live.
Here is my question support service is too lazy To reply Instant. I have to wait so long for little information (Approx 24 Hours.) so when I chose One I have Some question related to them i get information Into 3 4 days. So sad
1. You can try. Check out my guide for direct linking PeerFly offers on Facebook.
2. Check out this article.
3. I don’t think our support is lazy. We’re definitely busy though. If waiting 24 hours for a reply is too long, you should find another affiliate network to work with. Our goal is to reply to every email as quickly as possible
So Helpful ans great explanations!
I did not see anything as regards mobile Ad networks like Leadbolt and the likes.
And what category could they be classified as ?
Thanks
LeadBolt is banner traffic.
Good to know about your restrictions and what’s allowed to promote Peerfly offers.
My question is about using copyright protected images in your banners.
Does Peerfly have any policy on that?
Since we require custom creatives to be reviewed, that would be up to the client who owns the offer you are wanting to promote.
Thanks for sharing this update! I’m geared up to get started knowing this guideline.
Thanks for clearing all the marketing strategies. Now it’s time to crush market 😉
Q1-Do we need our own webste to offer Advertiser products on Peerfly?
Q2-Like Question 1, can we work with Peerfly without having a website?
Q3-Is Email Marketing banned by Peerfly?
Thank you
Here are the answers to your questions 🙂
1) No, a majority of our publishers buy traffic for our offers through a variety of traffic sources.
2) Yes.
3) We do not currently accept email traffic.
Thank you Luke
Can i post my landing page link on forums?? Kindly reply!
Hi Yusuf,
If you own the forum then that would be fine. If you do not own the forum that would be considered spam and is not allowed.
Instead of using paid promotions, can I write content based on an offer that is still available?
For example: How To Make Money With Surveys In US
Overall traffic is only from a search engine like Bing or Google.
Why I’m asking is because my blog estimates 73% organic traffic and 37% are US residents, since the offer is only available for US users only maybe it is a great way to market to them by solving a simple problem.
Yes, that’s a great way to promote the offers 🙂
email marketing is not there. any solutions?
It is not allowed currently.
Meaningless support many times I received. If show those emails to others, they too may misguided. All landing pages are required to submit for approval but there is no space for sending landing pages URL..
Second, In waiting of dizzy help from peerfly offer either is stopped till traffic method takes time to approve it.
Difference bitween popup and popunder is amazing also. If one use them, he gets only Raw clicks and $0 conversion. I have ran many campaigns and saw this fact. It seems that there is a auto system in peerfly to put 60-70% affiliate hard word into RAW section. Only 20-30% people earn here and others can’t break their auto RAW system..
Good stuff but why did you leave out email marketing?
I was thinking on making some small ebooks/pdfs about relevant topics. Will it be allowed to put affiliate links in the text and on some promotion pictures inside the pdf?