I recently signed up to the Peerfly Affiliate Network this week and this, my friends, is how a network should be. Right from the start it’s one of the most smoothest and easiest networks to work with.

To begin with, Peerfly has its own custom built tracking system. Not the usual DirectTrack that we see 90% of other networks using. In a way this will either be a hindrance or a help, because people like familiar offers that they can get on DirectTrack. But still, whether true or not, DirectTrack has built a reputation of having a dodgy tracking system at best.

Onto the signup.

Most people when applying to CPA networks crap themselves about a phonecall. When really, its just like a Phone Verified Account (PVA) of any market place. Sure the call is often to gauge whether you are a moron or not, but also to just put a phone with a name. Just that added level of trust. Peerfly does this so well, infact better then any other network i have applied to.

You see they have an automated phone operator that will call you (Internationally aswell i might add, i live in New Zealand), that will give you a pin that you then must submit back into the website. Simply to verify your account and that’s all. Its nothing new, but in the CPA world its actually fairly rare that you will get this. Infact 100% honest here, i have never ever seen this with other networks.

Usually when i see these sorts of automated phone setups i dread it. Even HostGator for instance cant work out how to put my phone, with area code, and then with country code into the system.  Usually its USA only, whether by design or fault.  Maybe Peerfly is just using technology that hundreds of other places are using but i have never run into before, but it just had that level of polish that i never really get anywhere else.

Once your inside,  they have this really awesome feature that, to be honest, should be in every single network out there. They have an “Offer Rating System” in place that tracks the “Trust” rating of each offer. Trust probably isn’t the right word as when you see an offer with a low “Trust” rating, your first instinct is that the advertiser is dodgy as hell. But it actually means the trust of the network wide EPC and Conversion Ratio.

As you can see from above, we have varying Trust ratings. From all that i could read, it seemed to be an indication of how much traffic that offer has actually taken. So for example, if an offer takes 10 clicks network wide, and gets 1 conversion. That offer is now on a 10% conversion ratio (Or that’s how its shown). But that’s not really a good gauge of how good the offer actually runs. 10 clicks is peanuts really. We want to track it over several thousand clicks to gauge a good EPC and conversion ratio.

Some people get confused with the Trust Rating meaning how long it has been in the network for. While to a degree this is true. An offer that has been sitting in the system for months may have got hardly any clicks (Maybe a Paid trial, Pay Per Sale etc), whereas a new hot email submit could drive thousands of clicks within the first few days (Like the Best Buy offer above)

After all my praise, i guess your now expecting me to post about my millions that i made with them . Unfortunately im still waiting for my adwords campaigns to be approved. But ill be sure to post my profit (Or loss) further down the track.