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.
thanks for your explanation of redirect in comment i was gonna ask i am using bit.ly is that ok ,, but got my answer thanks :)
I am confused about redirects? I will point it to my site then redirect to the offer? is this allowed? i want to be super sure on this. Thanks.
You need to use your own domain to mask your affiliate links.
Like having a page on my own domain then redirecting it to the affiliate link, so that the traffic will not come directly from youtube. Is this correct?
Yes, but it’s more so there aren’t thousands of PeerFly links all over YouTube :)
LOL where have i been these times? all I know this has not been allowed lol. I will now start making my own video to YT, and redirect my own page to specific offers.
Thanks Luke!
Hi Luke, great post. I have a question, can I promote peerfly offers on other video sites besides youtube (e.g metacafe, vimeo, etc)?
Waiting Your Answer
Ryan
As long as you follow the guidelines above that should be fine.
Hi Luke, is it ok to use URL shorteners like Bit.ly or Tiny.url as redirection?
No, sorry. You will need to get your own domain, hosting, and setup a redirect page.
Hi Luke,
I try to learn fast. I did use YouTube to sell, it’s my favorite. But I’m new in CPA.
Not sure about one thing… I can’t prevent people from all over the world to find and click my link ( with redirection of course ). Facebook Page has that ability to display page content only to the users from certain countries. As far as I know I can’t do something similar on YouTube. If for an example, advertiser wants only US visitors, and someone outside US click on my http://www.xyz.com in comment section, which redirects him to advertiser page, he/she will get “Offer is not valid in your country”.
I come to the point. Although there are some tips & tricks how to attract only US visitors, as my video get more and more visits and likes, it will be most popular and people outside US will find it easy searching on YT for certain keywords. That leads to a lot of unwanted visitors to advertiser page. Will that be a problem? Can I be blacklisted by an advertiser if let’s say 70% of visits are outside US and offer is valid only in US? Do you have any suggestion how I can filter traffic BEFORE I redirect user to advertiser page? Any HTML or PHP script, or maybe WordPress plugin? I can google but as I said I’m new in CPA field so I want to be 100% sure.
You will not get blacklisted on an offer for sending international traffic because we redirect it. We have a system in place so that it won’t hurt you :)
What about tinyurl -> my website -> offer ? Is this allowed? I plan to upscale this but don’t want to leave a footprint for competition (flaggers) and it’s cheaper than buying .info domains.
That would be fine as long as you are going to your site and not directly to the offer.
Hi everyone, i am newly registered here. and i don’t know about work. please any one guide me abut work.
Mr. Luke guide me please how can i be a good member of peerfly. Thanks.
Luke, Boris Janevski asked a very good question. I would also like to know the answer. Thanks.
We redirect traffic from outside of the offer’s Allowed Countries so it’s not a problem.
what if social ppc is allowed, followed the guidelines it says “Do NOT use Youtube videos to promote this offer.”. Can I still promote the offer using Youtube?
No, if the offer specifically asys you cannot promote the offer with YouTube then you cannot promote the offer with YouTube.
Hi Luke very good explanation on everything about youtube. I want you ask you do I need have web site for redirect offer with “com”,”net” or “org” domain or can I have free domain like “tk” or create web page on weably, squidoo or blogspot which is free servis for creating web sites and pages. I want do now that for sure so I do not banned from Peerfly if I dont have paid hosting and domain. Thanks
You should use your own domain (not a free one).
So youtube comment rating is not allowed?
No
What if I comment about my Video offer .. Allowed?
You should not promote any offer via comments on YouTube.