How to Protect Your Thank You and Download Pages
You could be the victim of Internet theft, you may not even know you are being victimised by the clever Internet fraudsters, are your products being advertised on Facebook or YouTube? Unfortunately this happens all the time and unsuspecting Internet Marketeers are completely unaware they are being taken for a ride.
There are however, certain ways you can help to protect your products, and consequently, your cash, which will help to stop the theft you may be suffering right now.
What's more, they are simple and very affective procedures, it will literally take you ten minutes to protect your Thank you and resources folders on your server.
1.
Do not call your Thank you or Resources folders "thank you" or "resources", call them something that is hard to guess like "T73483yfY" and "Ruevj9vS" respectively.
2.
If there is not an index.
html in the "my products" directory, every file you have in it could be displayed to the user just by removing the "ebook1.
zip" part from the end.
Insert a blank.
html file in each folder, you can use a re-direct in this file to your home page, or any other page you like.
Doing this makes it impossible for anyone who has your Thank you or Resources folder name, for instance a customer who has actually purchased something from you, from accessing the folder and downloading everything else you have in it.
When the folder name is entered into their browser window the index.
html page will show, or re-direct, depending on how you have set the page up.
I have included some code for this below, so you can use the code if you wish, just change the name of the DESTINATION_URL to http://www.
yoursite.
com.
3.
Our third restriction to protect you folders is this: We need to tell the Search Engines NOT to index your pages.
When you write your Thank you pages use the following Meta Tags to tell Google and other Search engines not to index your pages, this will prevent your Thank you pages from being displayed in the Search engine results pages.
Believe me when I tell you that many unscrupulous people spend hours searching for free products and not without some considerable success.
Try entering the following into your browser search window, "allinurl: pdf", without the quotes, I am sure you will be surprised at what you may find.
You can use the same search term for any file type; Microsoft Word (DOC) PostScript (PS) Rich Text (RTF) Plain Text (TXT) Excel Spreadsheets (XLS) PowerPoint (PPT) These will all produce results for the would be thief.
If your pages and files aren't indexed the results will not include your folders and files, the way to do this is to place the following code right at the top of your pages, between the and html code in the "source" view of your editor.
Preferably immediately after the tag.
This will help to prevent the Search engines indexing your pages, although it is not infallible, with the protection you have already used this should be enough to protect you from the Internet thieves.
Ken Trueman
There are however, certain ways you can help to protect your products, and consequently, your cash, which will help to stop the theft you may be suffering right now.
What's more, they are simple and very affective procedures, it will literally take you ten minutes to protect your Thank you and resources folders on your server.
1.
Do not call your Thank you or Resources folders "thank you" or "resources", call them something that is hard to guess like "T73483yfY" and "Ruevj9vS" respectively.
2.
If there is not an index.
html in the "my products" directory, every file you have in it could be displayed to the user just by removing the "ebook1.
zip" part from the end.
Insert a blank.
html file in each folder, you can use a re-direct in this file to your home page, or any other page you like.
Doing this makes it impossible for anyone who has your Thank you or Resources folder name, for instance a customer who has actually purchased something from you, from accessing the folder and downloading everything else you have in it.
When the folder name is entered into their browser window the index.
html page will show, or re-direct, depending on how you have set the page up.
I have included some code for this below, so you can use the code if you wish, just change the name of the DESTINATION_URL to http://www.
yoursite.
com.
3.
Our third restriction to protect you folders is this: We need to tell the Search Engines NOT to index your pages.
When you write your Thank you pages use the following Meta Tags to tell Google and other Search engines not to index your pages, this will prevent your Thank you pages from being displayed in the Search engine results pages.
Believe me when I tell you that many unscrupulous people spend hours searching for free products and not without some considerable success.
Try entering the following into your browser search window, "allinurl: pdf", without the quotes, I am sure you will be surprised at what you may find.
You can use the same search term for any file type; Microsoft Word (DOC) PostScript (PS) Rich Text (RTF) Plain Text (TXT) Excel Spreadsheets (XLS) PowerPoint (PPT) These will all produce results for the would be thief.
If your pages and files aren't indexed the results will not include your folders and files, the way to do this is to place the following code right at the top of your pages, between the and html code in the "source" view of your editor.
Preferably immediately after the tag.
This will help to prevent the Search engines indexing your pages, although it is not infallible, with the protection you have already used this should be enough to protect you from the Internet thieves.
Ken Trueman
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