jxl3046 - couldn't find any account with the info listed in your profile (searched on nic, ICQ info etc). If you like, give me your OC username and I'll be happy to dig up the stats along with the IP logs, ref pages etc and take a look.
If you were using the clicks program your stats are probably quite accurate actually - we pay for second page clicks so that would mean you got a 70% clickthrough ratio to second page, not too shabby. Other than that, good luck with your program champ.
spacedog: Yep, we pay for second page clicks, not first. And no, you can't link to the end-url (out.php etc), it has to pass through our gateways.
TaDoW - Umm, see alot of successful shaving lawsuits in the US do you?
Other than that, How do we count hits? Well, I can't give away everything as it would open us up to cheaters, but lemme say this:
Imps & eXchange hits are successfully loaded consoles meeting the following criterias as being a "unique" hit:
1. The IP has not been recorded in our system since GMT midnight.
2. The browser does not have our 24 hour cookie present.
3. The browser is a mozilla type browser (sorry, lynx wont cut it
4. The surfers ISP is NOT located in China or Korea, determined by a realtime IP->GEO DB lookup.
Same goes for clicks, although here the same IP can click as many times as we have links on the gateway.