kapow - 7:42 pm on Aug 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

most of my hits like that are from spiders

I'm not talking about just traffic, I'm talking about conversion tracking ie those people who bought something sometime (minutes or weeks) after visiting the site. We capture the referrer on first visit and then make checks when they buy (no need to go into all the details).

The problem is the initial referrer logs are empty for a lot purchasers! ie no referring website. As far as I can tell that means they didn't come from anywhere e.g. they typed the domain into their browser (which is possible as the sites are popular).

Or am I missing something?