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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
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Paul, the hardest part is that in theory, the conversion rates don't change... NET NET NET the same number of people are going to signup, because there isn't new surfers being generated from this, just existing ones hijacked.
However, it is worth looking at people with exceptionally GOOD conversion rates (they might be doing substitutions or overwrites only at the join page, example) or people who have a significantlly larger number of refering URL than normal, or people who have huge amounts of traffic with NO refering URL.
Especially important if someone is generating signups with the traffic apparently coming from domains they do not own.
Alex