Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat

this is from the owner of the hoes.com linklist:

I'm hoping those of you who have been following these stats for a while have noticed that my conversion ratios aren't that good overall. You would think that with the amount of quality traffic I hammer at these programs every day that I'd have tons of 1:200 converters in the list. Well, let me say it loud and clear... As long as a program is counting hits correctly, namely first page uniques, you won't see average ratios even close to what they typically advertise.

and i unfortunately agree with his statement

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