What you can do, however, is use Instagram to drive people to your mailing list. For example, give away a free ebook through Instagram and then promote your affiliate offer via good old email marketing. Providing something free is often easier than selling a product that costs money.
Even things as simple as adding an affiliate disclosure to avoid legal issues is important.

Use these ad tools to direct people to your blog where your affiliate links are located. Similarly, you can use the paid ads to direct the customer straight to the merchants page using your affiliate links.
Affiliates, sometimes called publishers, can be individuals or businesses. More often than not, affiliates are content creators in the same niche of the product they're promoting. They promote products and services through content like social media posts, blogs, videos, and a number of other types of content. Affiliates can also use paid ads to bring in traffic, but there are typically rules around the keywords that affiliates can use for the products they're promoting, such as not using the brand name or trade names of the products.