Thanks for your response. Now I have 2 questions because of it. They are:
1) should I forget about statcounter – it was recommended that I use it on VIPProfits forum
2) in regard to links, I’m a little confused. First, I thought that you should not have more than 100 links. Secondly, I thought that the links should be meaningful to your site (in other words since I’m a SB & poker site that those are the only links that I should have). By the way, I’ve got less than 100 links since I removed the casino & bingo links.
Finally, I’ve been told that I should avoid Alexa’s info since only webmasters looked at it and it wasn’t correct. Should I look at them and add their tool bar? I now have google’s tool bar and it hasn’t helped!