PeabodyCash is a newly re-launched adult affiliate program featuring mainly amateur and solo model content. While there are 28 sites in the entire network, at present affiliates are provided linking codes and promotional tools to only half of those. I suspect many of the remainder sites will be added as they are likewise revamped. Although the program tour touts 100% exclusive content, that is a bit of a stretch as several of the sites contain content that is easily recognizable as licensed content found on many other sites as well. Best of all, PeabodyCash uses CCBill for tracking and sales so affiliates can be relatively certain that they will be credited with all referred sales, as well as including this program with other CCBill programs into a single umbrella account with a low minimum payout.
Join the PeabodyCash Adult Affiliate Program
About the program
Payment Structure: 50% RevShare
Payment Schedule: Weekly
Payment Methods: CCBill
Payment Minimum: $25 (CCBill)
Program features
Sites: 14 – Hover here to view them.
Hosted Galleries: YES
Type of Content: High Res Pics and Videos – WMV
Exclusive Content: YES
Updates: YES
RSS Feeds: YES
Morphing Feeds: NO
FLV Tube Clips: YES
Mobile: NO
Free Content and Hosting: NO
Hosted TGP/MGP: NO
Hosted POTD/VOTD: YES
Free Trials: NO
Cross Sales: None
Summary
CCBill programs have their distinct advantages – namely added trust in programs utilizing a third party to track sales as well as the ability to group all programs into a single account with a low weekly payout minimum. However, most CCBill programs suffer from the same shortcomings as well and PeabodyCash is no different. Particularly, I am referring to a lack of unique text scene descriptions in the galleries, and visitors being tracked entirely by cookies with no “hard” links with the affiliates ID once the visitor lands on the site. What this means is that if a visitor follows an affiliates link to a programs site, bookmarks it, and returns later to join, there is a more than passing chance the affiliate will not be credited with the sale – depending largely upon if the cookie has expired or the visitor has cleared their cache of cookies in the interim. For this reason, I typically recommend affiliates limit their linking predominately to galleries and consider using nofollow link attributes when linking directly to CCBill program sites.
While the redesigned PeabodyCash sites look good, the most disturbing thing I found is the prevalent links to Mister Peabody World, an all-in-one site which credits sales to user 2026216 – the ‘house’ ID I suspect, and not that of the referring affiliate. Additionally, this updates site links back to all of the sites with that same 2026216 user ID. I emailed the administrator concerning this seemingly intentional traffic leak in August 2011 and was initially told that a lot of codes had changed with the relaunch and they were still fixing bugs. I assumed this meant that the traffic leak issue would be addressed ASAP, but after a week of no change I emailed them again about when a fix might be expected. At this time I was told new tours were scheduled to be rolled out “in a couple weeks” which will be leak-free and not contain links to the Mister Peabody World update site. Three new sites have since rolled out – without any provided links or promotional material for affiliates to promote them, but the existing sites remain unchanged. While this would otherwise be a good adult affiliate program, until the traffic leaks have been addressed PeabodyCash has been downgraded to poor. Existing and potential affiliates alike should be aware of these seemingly intentional traffic leaks and take them into consideration when planning their promotional efforts.
