Any idea how I can create a piece of script / code that will monitor the amount of times someone has clicked a link that will proc a download? So in theory I can acknowledge how many times someone has downloaded free content that I may provide.

i was about to type out a detailed how to then I realised there was little need

reverse engineer one of these http://www.hotscripts.com/ASP/Scripts_a ... index.html

failing that to do it yourself you want a simple script that is

<%
do db update for file downloaded and user

response.redirect "file.pdf"
%>