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Jane_Doe - 4:20 am on Feb 19, 2007 (gmt 0)
The thing to look out for is that sometimes the "free" stats counters imbed hidden links within the counter code, so you end up giving a link from every page of your site to some spammy diet pill or Viagra site. [edited by: Jane_Doe at 4:21 am (utc) on Feb. 19, 2007]
nly Google staff would know the answer for sure but I've used free stats counters on smaller sites with no obvious ranking issues in Google.