Get How many times a link has clicked

Place webuser control

C# code for webuser control

<pre lang="c#">
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Data;

public partial class WebUserControl : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        this.countMe();
        DataSet tmpDs = new DataSet();
        tmpDs.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("~/hitcounter.xml"));
        lblCounter.Text = tmpDs.Tables[0].Rows[0]["hits"].ToString();
    }
    private void countMe()
    {
        DataSet tmpDs = new DataSet();
        tmpDs.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("~/counter.xml"));
        int hits = Int32.Parse(tmpDs.Tables[0].Rows[0]["hits"].ToString());
        hits += 1;
        tmpDs.Tables[0].Rows[0]["hits"] = hits.ToString();
        tmpDs.WriteXml(Server.MapPath("~/counter.xml"));
    }
}

<asp:Label ID="lblCounter" runat="server"></asp:Label>

<counter>
<count>
<hits>0</hits>
</count>
</counter>