Protecting your pdf download file and page in SBI

How much should you spend protecting your pdf download file and page when using SBI?

I feel download protection via software such as DL Guard is really needed when you offer products in the Internet Marketing (IM) niche (work from home niche sites and sites that sell products to improve your site, sales, etc.). For other niches, not related to IM products, I think a simple solution may work well.

1. upload your pdf to Special File Manager (SFM)
2. copy the url to the pdf
3. go into Tracker Library (TL) and create a tracking link from the pdf url
4. create your download page, make sure and set the robots noindex tag into the page (see the FAQ of the HTML forum for the code).
5. Use the pdf TL url in your download page, not the actual direct link to the pdf file.
6. Set up your download page as a TL url also in the Tracker Library.
7. Go to your payment processor to link your payment processing to the download (d/l) page BUT use the TL url, not the direct link to the d/l page.
8. Test to be sure everything works properly.

Now, by using the TL urls, you have set up some good tracking to see how often the page and pdf are accessed; you can compare these to actual sales you get. Expect the sales to be slightly lower than the TL urls; some people have issues downloading and may access the items multiple times before being successful.

As a precautionary measure, I recommend you do the following once a month:

1. change the name of the pdf file on your hard drive,
2. upload again via SFM,
3. get the url,
4. do a new TL link for the new file,
5. change the name of your download page,
6. edit to include the new TL link;
7. do a new TL link for the newly named download page.
8. Go to your payment processor and update the d/l page url to the new TL link for it.
9. Test, if all is ok,

a. delete the old TL links for the pdf and page;
b. then delete the old named pdf also from SFM.

This will keep theft to a minimum. If you find a lot more accesses to the pdf and d/l pages, you can do the above changes more frequently, or make the decision to then go with a product such as DL Guard that needs to be hosted off SBI.

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