SEO friendly click tracking?

is there an easy way to create SEO friendly links and track their clicks?

i am trying to use this code:

<script language="JavaScript">
function trackclick(id) {
    if(document.images){
        (new Image()).src="trackclick.php?id="+id;
    }
    return true;
}
</script>

Code (markup):

and then this as the link:

<a href="http://sample.com"
	id="1"
    title="title"
    onclick="return trackclick(this.id);">
    title</font></a>

HTML:

trackclick then gets the id and updates the clicks into a mysql database, does this look good? You have to have an image on the page for it to work in theory, but it only works like 1 out of 25 times, any suggestions? thanks