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Originally Posted by troyid
Yes, my script counts SE bots. My rep hasn't indicated whether or not they weed out SE bots. I won't bring this up unless he does. If I did then that would give him an excuse.
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Do you do a single redirect to the sponsor? or do you do a double redirect and only count the 2nd one?
There are a SHIT LOAD of bots out there that hide themselves using "real" user agents etc. and they won't neccessarily following a redirect and thus the discrepency. 10% is pretty typical.
If you want to run some tests, put in a second redirect and only count the click after the first one. You can clean it up even more by making the first redirect a javascript one and also set a cookie. That way, you can scrub the click before sending it onto the program. That should tighten up that percentage and give you a far more accurate count of "real" surfers.