8 Ways To Protect Your Downloads

Posted on November 14, 2008
Filed Under Webmasters |

If you are using PayPal or Click Bank to sell your products, it is almost a certainty that people are using simple but effective techniques to steal your products.

All it takes is a simple search on a search engine as shown in the video on http://www.protection4clickbank.com.

Many are unaware that this is happening. So here are 8 simple Steps you could take now to protect your digital downloads! Although these underlining steps are not a complete and solid solution such as Protection4ClickBank you could use these methods to help secure you’re downloads.

1. Stomping the View Source Problem

The route for easy theft involves viewing the HTML code, which can be done
either by right clicking and selecting View Source, or by selecting Source
from the browser View menu (IE browsers). Inhibiting right click can be done by a single line of code. Here is how to stop this from happening

A. add a line of code between the body and /body tags (to inhibit right
mouse click) as follows:

B. Then, on your sales page, at the place where you want your customer to
select for payment, add the following line of code to generate a new
browser window.

Click here to Order

This code displays “Click here to Order” and, when clicked, opens the new
window. Be sure to change “orderpage.htm” in the above code to the name of
your actual order page. You can also change the window width and height can be adjusted, by changing the 500 and 300 in the line above.

On the new page containing the order code, your customer can neither right
click nor pull down a View menu. While this method can be defeated, it will stop those who are merely opportunistic.

2. Request a payment/order ID

A second no-cost method is to ask the purchaser to send you the purchase ID before receiving the product download address. But that makes each purchase a manual process… It could, but doesn’t have to, if you use this little psychology trick…

Just set up a page for the successful buyer to be sent to after the purchase.On that page, ask the buyer to send the purchase ID to an auto responder address you provide, you can get an auto responder from (http://www.AmericasHostingNetwork.com) which is the hosting company
I use and closely integrate with and all projects including http://www.protection4clickbank.com!

The auto responder reply message provides the product download address, and will be sent regardless of what information is provided by the buyer. Most likely the opportunistic thief will give up at this point because he doesn’t want to reveal his e-mail address, and knows he doesn’t have a valid payment ID.

Of course for good measure you should include the “no right-click” code given above on all your sales pages.

3. Give Thought In Naming Your Download Page

If you name your download page something like ‘thankyou.html’ or ‘download.
html’ then it’s a pretty simple process for the average hacker to locate your page and download your product. Give your download pages a complicated name that is neither easy to guess, easy to remember nor easy to recognize.

4. Create nested and oddly named Directories

In keeping with point number 1, this is just a question of making it more
difficult for the average hacker to find your download pages.
Let’s say you’re selling an eBook called “How to Make Pizza”. Now, let’s say you’re selling it at this URL:

http://www.yourdomainname.com/pizza.

In this example, your sales page is contained in the directory called ‘pizza’. Now, rather than store your download page in this same directory, you can make life more difficult for the hacker by creating sub-directories (or ‘nested’ directories) for your download page.

Just create a sub-directory inside ‘pizza’ called ‘QrB46z’ (for example) and another directory inside that one called ‘wKd12d’ and then place your
download page inside this directory. In this scenario, your download page
would be contained at this, more hidden, address:

http://www.yourdomainname.com/pizza/ QrB46z /wKd12d/

Another approach is to place your download page directory in a separate place altogether on your server - thus making it even more difficult to track it down.

5. Create an index.html Page for Every Folder

If you don’t have a page called ‘index.htm’ in the directory that contains
your download page, then your host server will display a page listing the
contents of that directory.Your ‘index’ page can be a regular page from your site or you can make it re-direct the visitor somewhere else like your homepage or sales letter To create your own re-direct page, simply paste the following into a file named index.html

NOTE: Be sure to replace the URL with the address you want to re-direct the visitor to.if your server supports PHP you could create an index.php file with this code in it

This will achieve the same effect as above.

6. Hide Your Download Pages from the Search Engines

It’s amazing how many download pages you’ll find via the search engines if
you seen the video on http://www.protection4clickbank.com. It’s a scary thought, but true reality.. (if you haven’t seen the video.. I suggest you do so now)

To get around this, you need to ensure that the search engines do not include your download pages in their index. To do this, just place the following snippet of code between the and tags at the top of your download page’s HTML code.

7. Change Your Download Links Often

This one is pretty self-explanatory. If you’ve followed the steps outlined
above, then you’ve gone some way towards protecting your digital products. It’s not 100% protection such as excellent software provided at http://www.

http://www.protection4clickbank.com, which is why I recommend changing your download
links regularly. This will help ensure that, if someone does manage to access your products, and has been leaving your download links on forums or social networks you’ll be able to cut them off.

8. Put a Statement On Your EBooks

If someone is giving your eBook away for free It’s a good idea to place a
prominent statement inside your eBook explaining that it’s not a free eBook. Ask readers to contact you if they received the eBook for free explaining where they downloaded it. You might consider offering a small ‘reward’ for taking the time to contact you.

Conclusion

There are a number of techniques that you can use to prevent thieves from
stealing your products. In the end the best solutions is to use professional software such as (http://www.protection4clickbank.com) to block anyone who has not paid you in the first place.

This is a growing problem, and as more people turn to sell on the internet,the more security holes are left open and venerable to attack. It’s up to you

to stop this problem for your business. All the hard work has been done for you, now it’s your choice to invest in your hard work.
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Sonny Mataka is an Experienced programmer and Internet Marketer - http://www.protection4clickbank.com protects your downloads for Clickbank, Save money now and get strong download Protection with protection 4 ClickBank. You can learn more at Sonny’s Affordable Hosting Network

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