No counters, no way, no how. Sorry man, black letter rule. Click through scripts are OK with me, but you must use mouseovers to show the surfer (and me) where they're going. Links like "yourdomain.com/go.php?0453948" do not make me feel warm and fuzzy. Sounds like a lot of trouble to me.
Bear in mind that the top freesite builders in the biz find their server stats sufficient
