The swapper ratios will be no different than anyone elses. They are not majically only swapping a buying surfer, they are swapping every surfer and then receiving signups from the entire set of traffic, just like a real affiliate.
So ratios won't work.
Talking to surfers won't work... they are sheep and lazy sheep at that.
How many fucking whales do most programs have? 10? 20? 50?
If you have 1 whale out of 30 whales and the other 29 are Sleazy, WiredGuy, etc, I think the outstanding Russian with Igor Yavstrinski would look pretty fucking obvious... Especially if you went to his homepage and alexa'ed it and saw that it gets 2K in traffic... And then you noticed his referrer log is full of Sleazy and Wired Guy's websites... yeah... it'd be pretty fucking obvious...
So I think the real question is why aren't sponsors doing a fucking thing about it? Because just like surfers they are sheep and lazy ones at that... They really don't feel like lifting a finger since they are making money either way and possibly avoiding a whale bonus on some of the sales....
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