Secure Download pages

[jhiggins]

Ok,

This does indeed look interesting.

I have several questions, but I'll only address one per post for simplicity's sake.

How do I create a secure download page?

I have the site set up. The pal pay isn't a problem. I just want to automate the purchase process and make it secure. I don't have experience with this.

Cheers mates!

Jonathan

[robertl]

https://www.payloadz.com/

I use them and it seems to work fine.

-Robert l

[Marc]

The other option is that if you want to manage everything your self is to use Digital Download Protection - protect your digital products from theft and link sharing with DLGuard

I have used the software on a few sites and am quite pleased with it so far.

Regards
Marc

[robertl]

How hard is it to use the dl guard? It looks like a good software but I am real slow at learning stuff. Can a non teck guy get through it pretty fast?

[Marc]

What is your definition of non-tech?

I mean I am real geek, so there is not much I can't install and I found it easy.

But that doesnt mean it is easy for everyone.

have you installed scripts before on your site?

Regards
Marc

[Jim G]

Anyone familiar with this product?

I've spent a few minutes on their site and on the surface it looks like an inexpensive solution for those of us with limited budgets AND 36 sites to manage over the next 12 months. The other products so far have site limited licenses (as in only on 2 sites for $xx.00 per month) or escalating monthly costs according to sales volume, etc.

I haven't seen anything limiting the number of installations for a buyer. Being open source there may be even better deals around for a home grown version but I think I'd like some tech support and for 40 bucks, well...

On the other hand maybe there's some technical thing that makes it easy for anyone to beat?

Anyone with ideas on it?


DigiVendor : Digital Download Delivery - Sell Digital Goods.

[slowcoach]

I don't think we should get hung up on this.

Keep the name of your download files to something obscure - certainly not www.mydomain.com/download. You should be able to see how many people get to the page. In a non IM niche it isn't much of a problem, and it is a diversion of effort for you.

At the end of the day 1% of nothing is nothing. Worry about it when you are making $$$$$.

You can also change the download link every few weeks if you want to.

This is advice I have been given by several different guys, all earning a lot of dosh from niches.

As an aside, I remember once buying a forex trading guide. The pdf was locked up so tight I could not save it on my work computer to put it onto my home computer, and neither could I print it. The vendor was quite friendly and helpful luckily, but really, he had made his product so difficult to use it was bad news. How to increase your refund requests!

Also, it is a good idea to embed some links into the downloadable product, so if a copy does get around more than it should, at least some benefit may come back to you. That's the basis of viral marketing!

I think never p... off a customer is a good rule........

[Brenda]

Hi
Maybe someone can answer this for me- it's just an idea I had- could you put your download on another domain, so they could search for it on your sales domain, but it wouldn't be there?

If your sales domain was www. magicmemory. com- could you have the download on an entirely different domain-like www. abcwidgets. com
That might be a more secure way- without the expense of a security program for each ebook--

but, I have never tried this, so I don't know if it would work.
Brenda

[Jim G]

Hi, Brenda.
I'm hardly any kind of authority but I'd certainly second the spirit of the earlier post above by suggesting that putting your download on another domain is probably an unwarranted diversion of your time unless you're already getting tons of traffic. Or, that you're way more experienced than I am and you have reasonable expectations of having tons of traffic shortly. No sarcasm or nastiness intended especially since all of my sites suffer from terminal loneliness.

I posted one of the above questions, thought about it for a minute then went off and built my site.

It's live, ready to sell my product and when/if I see more traffic going to my download page (which is not /download/) than is reflected in actual sales then I'll focus some time on securing the download page. Until I have a bunch of unruly traffic I've personally moved on to other things.

Just my thoughts.

Good luck to you.

[slowcoach]

www.mydomain.com/cvi34md/67hw or something is not going to be easy to find. And you can change it every few weeks if you like. My example is a folder, as you may well have downloadable items other than the ebook itself, and it is tidier to keep them all in a folder together.

Action! No paralysis of analysis (although I'm a fine one to talk, I admit)