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How To Protect Your Product Downloads

October 22nd, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed

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 rob your products.

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

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

1. Stomping the View Source Problem

The route for easy theft involves viewing the source 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 this line of code between the body and /body tags (to inhibit right mouse click) as follows: <body oncontextmenu=”return false”>

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

<AHREF=”javascript:void(0)” ONCLICK=”open(’orderpage.htm’,'private’,’scrollbars=1, toolbar=1,location=1,resizable=1,width=500,height=300′)”>Click here to Order</A>

This code shows “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 sales 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 amateur.

2. Request a order ID

A second no-cost method is to ask the purchaser to send you the purchaseID 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 good buyer to be sent to after the purchase. On that page, ask the buyer to send the purchase ID to an auto responder email you provide, you can get an auto responder from (www.AmericasHostingNetwork.com) which is the hosting company I use and closely integrate with and all projects including Protect Your Downloads !

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 order|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 Titling Your Download Page

If you name your thank you page is something like ‘thankyou.html’ or ‘download.html’ then it’s a pretty easy process for the average hacker to find 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 Folders

In keeping with point number 1, this is just a question of making it more harder for the average hacker to find your thank you 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:
www.yourdomainname.com/pizza.

In this example, your sales page is contained in the directory called ‘pizza’. Now, rather than put 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 thank you page.

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

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

Another method is to place your download page directory in a different place altogether on your website – thus making it even more harder to track it down.

5. Create an index.html Page for Every Folder

If you don’t have a page named ‘index.htm’ in the folder that has your thank you 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 snippet into a file named index.html

NOTE: Be sure to replace the URL with the website 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

<?php header(‘Location:http://www.yourdomaintoredirectto.com’); exit(0); ?>

This will achieve the same effect as above.

6. Protect Your Download Pages from the Search Engines

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

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

7. Change Your Download Links Often

This one is pretty self-explanatory. If you’ve followed the methods outlined above, then you’ve gone some way towards protecting your digital products. It’s not 100% protection such as excellent software provided at Protect Your Downloads. Which is why I recommend changing your thank you links regularly. This will help ensure that, if someone does manage to|gain 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 In Your EBooks

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

Closing

There are a number of methods that you can use to protect your products. In the end the bestto protect your downloads useing professional download protection software such as (Protect Your Downloads) to stop anyone who has not paid you in the first place.

This is a on going problem, and as more people turn to sell on the web, 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.

To your success!

Sonny Mataka

www.ViralBars.com
www.AmericasHostingNetwork.com
www.Protection4ClickBank.com

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