I don't understand the full concept. How does this compare with platforms that allow you to set up affiliates?
Referly (YC S12) Launches API: Now Any Site Can Have A Referral Program
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#12This is awesome. I was just about to write a basic referral system for my site but this looks like it fits the bill. I'm going to give it a try.
There's also Zferral. FYI.
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#13Instead of the button, is there a way I can just give each customer a unique referral link?
I'd much prefer to simply give them a link they can pass along instead of requiring them to click on a button off my website.
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#14Instead of the button, is there a way I can just give each customer a unique referral link? I'd much prefer to simply give them a link they can pass along instead of requiring them to click on a button off my website.
Absolutely, using the API you can generate a link and give it to them however you wish
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#15Is there a way to send users rewards that are not straight cash? We would like to reward users with coupon codes, or links to pages where they can select a free t-shirt and such. Is this ability on the roadmap?
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#16Is there a way to send users rewards that are not straight cash? We would like to reward users with coupon codes, or links to pages where they can select a free t-shirt and such. Is this ability on the roadmap?
Yes, we currently do not offer this in the API but have a few customers trying this with other forms of rewards. Email support@refer.ly and we can help you
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#17I'd be overly cautious with this company. I've had over the minimum required to cash out for a month, and they will not let me cash out my account. The claim is that there are still in beta, so they won't pay you yet. Will they ever exit beta? Will I ever be able to cash out?
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#18How far along is the ruby API? I'd throw this up on my business for a little just to test it out, see what happens
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are definitely right, and while we've thought through several threat models blackhat marketers are endlessly creative. Might make for a good blog post depending on what we learn
The major one I can think of right now is using lifted financial information and Mechanical Turk to make new accounts and use it to juice SEO or FB fan pages. There are some that have made amazing use of Mechanical Turk without actually getting caught - that is one vector I think the affiliate industry has greatly overlooked.
Can you give us some examples of who has done this and how they avoided getting caught on Mechanical Turk? I've had legitimate HITs removed for apparently violating policy recently, so in my experience AWS is fairly vigilant in looking out for HITs that attempt to juice SEO or promote.
I guess it could work if you abstracted it enough so that it's not apparent to the worker, but it wouldn't be trivial to execute. Using VAs on Odesk might work better.
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#20I'd be overly cautious with this company. I've had over the minimum required to cash out for a month, and they will not let me cash out my account. The claim is that there are still in beta, so they won't pay you yet. Will they ever exit beta? Will I ever be able to cash out?
We are happy to pay you directly via Paypal, please email your information to support@refer.ly and we can process this for you immediately. We don't have a self-service process yet.