PeerFly FAQ

Do you have questions about PeerFly? My PeerFly FAQ goes through all the most frequently asked PeerFly questions.

PeerFly now supports Payoneer

By Luke | March 6, 2012 | PeerFly FAQ | No comments

Getting payments to our publishers as fast and efficient as possible has always been one of our primarily goals at PeerFly. It’s the reason we have the PeerFly Cash Flow program and have always paid on time. Obviously the quicker and more efficiently we get your payment to you the quicker you can reinvest into your PeerFly campaigns making it a win-win situation for everyone. With that being said, I am happy to announce that PeerFly has partnered with Payoneer and we will now be using them as an alternative payment option!

The Benefits to Payoneer

When you sign up for Payoneer through PeerFly you will be sent a Payoneer Prepaid MasterCard. If you are already signed up with Payoneer through another affiliate network and have a card you can simply link your current account to PeerFly as well. PeerFly can then pay you through your MasterCard. It’s quick and easy for us and you have immediate access to your money within two hours of us sending it!

Payoneer has a one time activation fee, but if you sign up by the end of March then PeerFly will waive that fee for you. This option is available for all of our international publishers as well.

Adding Payoneer as your PeerFly Payment Option

Changing your payment option to Payoneer on PeerFly is easy. Simply head over to your Profile page on PeerFly. Once you are there, scroll down to the bottom of the page where it says Payment Information. Select Payoneer as your Payment Method and it should look something like this:

Once you have done one of the three options available go back to your Profile. We can automatically detect that you have a Payoneer account and the page will change so you can choose Payoneer as your payment option. At that point, you will be all set!

Your Payoneer card will take a few days to get to you, but we can start paying you on it immediately. It can also be used for early payments through PeerFly Cash Flow.

Please let me know if you need any assistance getting setup to receive payments via Payoneer. Let’s make some money!

Add your tracking pixel to a PeerFly offer

By Luke | January 5, 2012 | Affiliate Marketing, PeerFly FAQ | 9 Comments

It is important as an affiliate marketer to be able to collect as much data as possible from your traffic in order to optimize your affiliate marketing campaign. I recently discussed how to optimize your 7Search campaign. Most seasoned affiliate marketers will do this using a 3rd party tracking system. It’s not always required, but it’s usually a good idea.

For example, at PeerFly we provide you with quite a bit of information about your traffic on your PeerFly Reports page. You can see how many clicks you got (unique and total), how many conversions you got, your EPC, and your conversion rate. You can even break those statistics down by subid and have the option to export your click statistics into a CSV file. However, there would still be benefits to using a 3rd party tracking system. For example, with Prosper202 you can easily track your campaigns ROI (something I’ve always found useful). In order to do this you will need to be able to track your conversions on your 3rd party tracking software.

There are a few ways to track your conversions using PeerFly and a 3rd party tracking system, but the method that most people use and the one that seems to work best is by placing a tracking pixel on the offer on PeerFly. Luckily, PeerFly has made it very simple for you to do this!

Add your pixel to the advertiser’s conversion page

If you have picked out an offer you want to run and have your pixel ready to go simply go to the offer page on PeerFly. Once there, scroll down to the red Tools tab. Click that.

The Tools menu should be showing. Click the Place Tracking Pixel link.

Now, you should be at the page where you can actually place your tracking pixel. Simply copy and paste your pixel into the box. If you have more than once pixel you can use them both, simply put a space between each one.

Once you push submit your pixel will be automatically added to the offer page so whenever you get a conversion we will notify your 3rd party tracking software.

If you have any trouble placing your pixel or would like me to check to make sure it has been added properly just let me know. Also, if you’d like me to do a test lead to make sure everything is setup properly that is fine (do not do a test lead yourself). Let’s make some money!

My PeerFly Application is Pending. Now What?

By Luke | December 5, 2011 | Affiliate Marketing, PeerFly FAQ | 4 Comments

So, you have finally completed your PeerFly Publisher application. Congratulations! If you have completed the entire application and the verification steps then you should have a black box telling you that your application is pending review.

If you are seeing that box than you are all set. Charlie, the PeerFly Approvals Manager, will review your application as soon as possible and you will get an email letting you know if you have been approved or not.

How long before your application is reviewed?

Well, as you can see in the image above, the number in yellow tells you how many applications are ahead of yours. Typically Charlie is able to go through 75-100 applications a day. Currently we are looking at an average wait of 1-2 weeks. We are working hard to lower that wait time.

What can you do while you are waiting for your application to be reviewed?

There are some things you can do while you’re waiting for your application be reviewed that can prepare you so once you’re approved you are ready to start making some money. I suggest:

Read through my PeerFly FAQ articles
Check out our offers on PeerFly at PeerFly Offers
Get some ideas on WarriorForum

I have written about 20 articles on the different parts of our Publisher backend at PeerFly and they are all listed under my PeerFly FAQ category. These articles discuss everything PeerFly and will help you get familiar with our backend, before you can even access it! Once approved you’ll have no problem navigating through our already easy to use backend.

I have created a public directory of all of our offers on PeerFly that you can access at PeerFlyOffers.com. You cannot access our offers on PeerFly until you are approved, but with PeerFly Offers you can search through the 1,300+ affiliate offers we have available on our network anytime. You can also look through a list of our top converting offers to see what’s working for our other publishers so once you’re approved you’ll be ready to setup your first campaign immediately.

If you aren’t already a member of WarriorForum, I highly suggest you sign up. If you’re interested in PPV traffic then you should check out CPVDen as well. These forums have thousands of members who are trying to make money online using affiliate marketing, just like you. They are all sharing free information that can be very helpful to any affiliate marketer.

Once you complete your application it will probably be a week or two before it is reviewed, but there are things you can to do help prepare yourself once you are approved. Please be patient. We want to work with you as badly as you want to work with us!

The ID on your PeerFly Application

By Luke | November 4, 2011 | PeerFly FAQ | 6 Comments

One of the methods we use in our PeerFly Publisher applications to deter fraudsters from getting approved into our network is that we require each publisher to upload a photo copy of their ID. We are one of the few affiliate networks to require it and because of that, experienced affiliate marketers sometimes question it and some new publishers are uncomfortable providing that type of sensitive information. Well, it is a requirement and we will not review your application without it so here is some more information to help why explain it is required and what type of ID is acceptable.

Why is it required?

It all goes back to helping stop fraud. There is a lot of fraud in the affiliate marketing industry. Requiring all publishers to upload a copy of their photo ID has really helped stop most of those fraudsters from applying to PeerFly. Sure, some still apply and some try to upload fake IDs, but our compliance and approvals guys are very good at detecting fakes and stopping them from getting in.

By stopping fraudulent publishers from joining PeerFly we are able to keep our overall network traffic quality up, which makes advertisers happy and in return we are able to get higher payouts on our offers for our publishers and that keeps them happy as well. Don’t believe me? Take a look through our offers!

What type of ID is acceptable?

We try to be as lenient as possible when it comes to the actual ID provided. We know that the laws and types of ID distributed throughout the countries in the world are different, but you should have no problem providing one of the following:

Driver’s License
Identification Card (state, military, school)
Government issued National ID
Passport

You must submit a color copy of whichever ID you choose.

How do I upload it?

When you complete the profile on your application you will be asked to complete the 3 verification steps. When you select the ID upload you will be presented with two options:

Upload a picture from your computer.
Use your webcam to take an instant picture.

If you have trouble uploading the image from your computer (the file type is not allowed or the image is too big) you are welcome to email it to me as an attachment and I will take care of it for you. Contact me for more information.

You can also take a picture of your ID with your webcam. Here is an example:

Your ID is securely stored on our server while your application is reviewed. You can find more information on the ID upload process on our PeerFly blog here. Please let me know if you if you have any questions.

PeerFly is NOT a Scam

By Luke | October 26, 2011 | Affiliate Marketing, PeerFly FAQ, Personal | 3 Comments

We get quite a few new people to the industry joining PeerFly on a daily basis and one of the questions I often get is Is PeerFly a Scam? Well, simply put, no. Of course, the people who are asking have no idea of our history or really anything about PeerFly so they’ll simply say “I Googled PeerFly Scam and found several articles about people not getting paid”. Anyone who is not new to the industry will know that these people are the ones who are completing the offers themselves or doing some other fraudulent activity and have gotten themselves suspended and then decide to post on all the forums about us PeerFly being a bad company, but someone new might not know that. So, here’s some information that I present that user with to help settle their nerves about working with our company.

Our Reviews on Affiliate Paying

AffiliatePaying.com is one of the most respected sites in the industry when it comes to affiliate network reviews. PeerFly has 145 positive reviews on AffiliatePaying and is currently ranked the #3 network on the site. There are also quite a few proof of payment screenshots from our publishers on there as well.

PeerFly payment proof 550x122 PeerFly is NOT a Scam

Obviously I am going to be a little bias (I am the affiliate manager), but these are real PeerFly publishers simply sharing their results from working with our company.

Memberships

We are also proud members of:

Rankings

As I mentioned above, we are currently ranked the 3rd best affiliate network according to AffiliatePaying.com, but we are also ranked #1 on AffiliateSeeking.com. We were recently voted the 2nd best CPA affiliate network in a survey performed by OfferVault out of over 4,000 votes and also ranked one of the top 20 networks in Revenue Performance magazine.

I hope this helps settle the fears of any publisher worried that PeerFly is a scam. We are not. We pay out millions of dollars a year to our publishers and that number is going to continue to increase so you should definitely hop on board and join PeerFly!

Can I promote PeerFly offers on YouTube?

By Luke | October 24, 2011 | Affiliate Marketing, PeerFly FAQ, Traffic Sources | 10 Comments

We have recently had a lot of publishers start to focus part of their affiliate marketing strategy on YouTube. YouTube is a great place to pick up some free traffic for your affiliate marketing campaigns, but we do have some guidelines that we require all PeerFly publishers to follow if they want to promote on YouTube and those are:

The offer must have Social PPC listed under Allowed Marketing.
You must own the rights to the video content you are promoting on.
The offer must be related to the video content.
You must use a redirect on your own domain if you are going to direct link.
You are not allowed to post links in the comment sections of the video, just the description and in your video.

The offer must have Social PPC listed under Allowed Marketing.
This rule has been set in place because, although you are not technically doing pay per click advertising, it is still social traffic and in order to promote on social traffic our advertisers must agree that they want that type of traffic being used to promote their offer.

You must own the rights to the video content you are promoting on.
We cannot allow you to promote our offers on videos with content that you do not own. You will have to create your own videos or have videos created for you.

Pro Tip: You can get really good videos created for $5 on Fiverr.com.

The offer must be related to the video content.
If you’re going to promote an offer on a YouTube video than the offer needs to be related to the video. This will help keep the quality of the traffic up for the advertiser and at the same time should help increase your conversion rate. So, if you want to promote an offer for the new iPhone 4S, make a video about it. Don’t make a video about how to teach your dog fetch (although we do have some great dog offers as well).

Of course, if you have any questions you are always welcome to contact me or post them below.

Getting paid via PayPal with PeerFly

By Luke | September 2, 2011 | PeerFly FAQ | 2 Comments

One of the many payment methods we have at PeerFly is the option to be paid via PayPal. As I mentioned before, we try to do what we can to keep our publishers at PeerFly and although there are some risks to paying with PayPal (which is why a lot of affiliate networks still don’t offer it as an option), we have offered payment through PayPal since our beginning. However, there are a few steps that you need to do on your end to make sure you will have no problem receiving your PeerFly earnings through PayPal.

Your PayPal account must be Verified

We require that all publishers who would like to receive their earnings payment through PayPal be PayPal Verified. You can find out if your PayPal account is verified by simply logging into PayPal and looking at your account Status (highlighted in green in the image below). You can also check by going to:
https://www.paypal.com/us/verified/pal=Your PayPal E-mail Here

You can learn more about how to make your account PayPal Verified here.

Your name on your PayPal must match the name on your PeerFly account

We also require that the name on your PayPal match the name on your PeerFly account exactly. The name on your PayPal account that we check is the one highlighted in red in the image below. When you log in to PayPal at the top it says “Welcome, Your Name“. That is the same name that must be on your PeerFly account (and obviously the ID you upload).

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If you cannot meet both of the requirements above it is likely that we will not allow you to receive your payment via PayPal. We have several other payment options available, which you can find on our Cash Flow page. If you believe you meet both of the requirements, but the page is giving you an error and telling you that you do not, please do not hesitate to contact me.

We plan to introduce a few new payment method options in the upcoming months so keep your eye on our e-mail notifications and PeerFly blog.