If you have set up a website can u answer this question...

It depends on what you want to do. Draw out the process on a bit of paper to help you to clarify it in your head before you actually start creating anything.

You can do what ever you want, try to think about the user experience too. Don't confuse people or make it harder than it needs to be.

Not sure if this helps but good luck anyway

Be careful when having your thank you page the same as your download page as that link is easily sharable, the thank you page is traditionally just for contact info and a link or information to get the product. I've had times where I put products directly on the thank you page and noticed my downloads were drastically higher than sales...

Yes MoneyLand it is possible. Someone may have told you not to put them in the same folder but that may just be what they prefer to do.

Personally, all my bonuses have backend products in them and affiliate links and what not so I want them to get them just in case.

How I do it is I zip them all together in one folder but have folders within the folder that may say "bonuses" or just the name of the bonus. I also have a separate folder for the main product sometimes if it contains lots of files. But I always zip them together. The reason I do this is because its annoying to download lots of files and even more annoying if you realize you need the bonus or want to use it a week later and you have to find the download page which is probably not available anymore if you make the link expire.

I can see reasons for not including the bonuses though. For example if you offered the resell rights as a bonus you might have a separate link to download the reseller package. This might limit the number of ppl selling the same product. But like I said, even products that I offer resell rights with still have backend products and affiliate links that I can earn from even if someone else is collecting the sales price.

Hope this helps

Hi Moneyland,

I hope this doesn't sound too confusing. But it if does, it should be a piece of cake for your web guys.

To protect you download page ( folders) from being picked up my the search engines that would also lead to bookmarking site, all you have to do is create a text file named "robot.txt". Inside of the text file you would only have to place a couple of sentences.

1: " User-agent: * "
2: " Disallow: /download_folder_name "
or
1a: " User-agent: * "
2a: " Disallow: /website_folder_name/download_folder_name "

example: " Disallow: /mydownloads " (you would make a more secure name).

if your download folder is inside of a another folder.
example: " Disallow: /Video/mydownloads "

Do not type the quotes.

That's it. Just upload the newly created robot.txt file to your main folder of the your website and your done. "

This little text-file tells the search engines - "Hey, don't even think of crawling this folder or looking inside of it." This will prevent your download pages from being seen by the search engines and bookmarking sites.