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How to deliver ebooks after the sale?

by keyon
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Newbie vendor here...
The system CB has in place for processing a sale all makes sense to me -- up until the customer reaches the "thank you page."

If I'm selling a ebook, what's the best way to deliver the goods?

1) Provide a link to the ebook from the thank you page.
2) Provide a link to the ebook from an email.

Option 1 seems the easiest to do, but then I'll need to keep the page away from search engines?

Option 2 seems more secure, but then I'll need to way to automatically send the email (is this what an "auto-responder" is all about?)

Thanks for you help
#deliver #ebooks #sale
  • Profile picture of the author hometutor
    If you're completely new you might consider using Payloadz they handle all that for you. A few security tricks need to be done to help keep your thank you page from being spidered or found

    Don't call it a thnk you page

    Don"t link to it even with graphics

    There's some code you can look up online or I can grab you should place in your thank you page to help keep it from being spidered.

    Rick
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  • Profile picture of the author Studio13
    Places like eJunkie will store the "digital goods" on their server — and only send them once an order has been authorized and has cleared. Also, your email can contain a password, or unlock code to the ebook in secure-PDF form. This also works well.
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  • Profile picture of the author hassan001
    Option one is great.... Go with it.... Use these meta tags in your download page and it will be secured from google....

    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
    Its so simple.....

    Quick Tip: Use the name of the page like dstbdchkmltp.html and remove any other meta tags from the page like <description> and <keywords> meta tags if there are any and if you use above meta tag there is a guarantee that google is not going to index you.....

    So cheers.....

    Edit:

    There is a clickbank guide on how to protect your product......

    http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor...-your-product/

    Here you go.....

    Regards!
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  • Profile picture of the author itsjordan
    I hear DLGuard is pretty useful although I've never used it.

    I use the meta name trick above but I'm not sure how effective it is. I think more would be needed for major releases.
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    • Profile picture of the author macknox
      DLGuard is good. Secures your product and allows you you to bundle them together and has shopping cart. Products can even be put beyond public_html on the hosting server... very secure!
      Plus you can create a membership site.

      Also have a look at Easy Click Mate... you only need one Clickbank account with this... you can have different landing pages for each product... very clever stuff.
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    • Profile picture of the author keyon
      Thanks, everyone for your suggestions.

      Yes...I've included the no-index, no-follow, meta tag on the page -- which I assume is working because the URL doesn't come up in a search. And I'm also using an obscure file name so it can't be simply guessed.

      I'm also thinking there might be something I can do in Google Webmaster tools to prevent Google from indexing the entire site.

      I guess I don't want to make customers jump through too many hoops just to get the download -- and I certainly don't trust the technology behind Adobe Acrobat to embed some kind of password protection in the PDF itself (I've had enough problems with my PDFs suddenly not working each time a new version of Acrobat come out).

      I might just set up some Google alerts to let me know if the pages ever show up on the Web. Plus, I'll check DLGuard and Easy Click Mate. Thanks.
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