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Looking for a free pdf host that WORKS

by rustyshelton
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For the life of me, I cannot seem to find a way to host a pdf ebook online. It is INCREDIBLY frustrating, as every turn leads you down one time-sucking rabbit hole after another.

keepandshare.com is pretty good but your reader has to get an account and log in before they can see your pdf. That's just too annoying to be useful.

There has GOT to be a simple and effective way to host a pdf online and keep it there. Webhosts won't do it because a pdf isn't a webpage.

I admit it, I'm stumped.


The funny thing is, I've actually been doing OK with these last two years spent developing my affiliate programs, but man-oh-man does that technological barrier smack me in the face now and then.

Getting signups isn't my problem - it's the tech side that I continue to struggle with when creating products, doing graphics and now this. I'm happy with the ebook, I just can't give the thing a consistent URL...
#free #host #pdf #works
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Rusty,

    Welcome to the WF.

    First of all, avoid free hosting.

    How do you now upload files such as your index.html file to your website? You will upload your .pdf the same way.

    Actually, in its simplest form you just use your FTP sofware (filezilla is a free one -I like CuteFTP, the inexpensive one) to upload the .pdf file to the public HTML folder at your website. This is the same folder that holds your index.html page.

    Once the pdf is in on your site anyone can access it by typing in the URL.

    For example a while back I wrote an ebook showing how to make ebook covers and/or software boxes in Photoshop. I then stuck it up at one of my websites and told folks here at the WF about it, and where to get if free. So I just uploaded (using FTP software) the .pdf into the public folder at my website and it becomes: the website URL/ebooknamed.pdf -Thus it is...

    http://www.ideapage.net/HowToMakeEcoversInPS.pdf

    This is done by uploading HowToMakeEcoversInPS.pdf to the public folder. Try it now.

    When someone double left clicks on this, the .pdf opens and they can read it and/or save it. If they right click they will get the option to open or save as.

    If you are adding an optin by using an autoresponder company like Aweber so you can collect email addresses in exchange for your free ebook download, you will make an extra webpage called a thank-you page, which gives the location of the ebook, and people only find out that page after they double optin. Aweber (and other autoresponder companies) automate this whole process for you. And they will teach you how it is done.

    If you are selling the ebook and don't want people to download it free, you have several options. The simplest is to give it a funky, confusing name like 8jh4dfUThY9.pdf and have your Paypal only send people to this after they have paid. Many people here will recommend zipping your ebook so that Google won't index it to the public.

    You can also purchase a script - a very inexpensive one that works well is the $7 script - google it. This will take a little reading of the instructions because setting it up is not intuitive. After you have worked your way through it once it will make more sense.

    You can also use a download guard system like DLguard or ejunkie to help automate the download and still keep it safe from "free" downloads.

    Does this help? Or have I added to your confusion.

    :-Don
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