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How do I keep a page from being seen?

by Theory5
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Ok so I setup a website from a kit, but now I don't know how to keep the download page from being accessed without someone paying to see it.
Help?
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  • Profile picture of the author JacksSmith
    Originally Posted by Theory5 View Post

    Ok so I setup a website from a kit, but now I don't know how to keep the download page from being accessed without someone paying to see it.
    Help?
    If you are using .NET then make make one page that should be filled first for payment related information such paypal and if this form processed then only give the download page access. It is done by the mode of the page. Set it as modal.
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Originally Posted by Theory5 View Post

    Ok so I setup a website from a kit, but now I don't know how to keep the download page from being accessed without someone paying to see it.
    Help?
    You know you haven't given us even a small percentage of the information we would need to help you here.

    "I setup a website from a kit" - what on Earth do you mean by that?

    Perhaps you could provide some useful information, such as what platform (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, custom..) that you are using and/or what coding language (PHP. ASP .NET) it's written in. You might go over what you have tried already and how it failed.

    And a link to the site wouldn't hurt either!

    If you truly want help you are in the right place, some of the most talented people on the planet scan these pages. Most are happy to help, but you have to actually ask a sensible question!

    Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author Theory5
      Originally Posted by mywebwork View Post

      You know you haven't given us even a small percentage of the information we would need to help you here.

      "I setup a website from a kit" - what on Earth do you mean by that?

      Perhaps you could provide some useful information, such as what platform (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, custom..) that you are using and/or what coding language (PHP. ASP .NET) it's written in. You might go over what you have tried already and how it failed.

      And a link to the site wouldn't hurt either!

      If you truly want help you are in the right place, some of the most talented people on the planet scan these pages. Most are happy to help, but you have to actually ask a sensible question!

      Bill
      Sorry, I setup an HTML website. It has two pages a pdf file for downloading. One of the HTML files is the "download" page which has the direct link to the ebook. I set it up so you have to click on the paypal button on the index page (home) and after that it directs you to the download page. I want to make the download page invisible so someone won't go to my page and then get to the other page using google or something else. I don't really worry about them figuring out the URL, but I don't want search engines picking it up. The entire thing is just in HTML.
      Look at it here:
      PLRmem.com
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      • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
        If you don't want the search engines picking it up you need to use a robot.txt file. Do a google search on "robot.txt" and you will find all the information you need.

        As for protecting it I can only suggest doing it with ASP because that's really all I work with. I'm sure it can be done with php, I just don't know how.

        In ASP you would setup membership and roles. Once you have that the visitor would go to a signup page and create an account. You then setup your files/folders so that only someone with an account has access to the folder where your "Buy" page is located.

        Of course using ASP means hosting on a server that has ASP support.
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        • Profile picture of the author Janet Sawyer
          The first thing you need to do URGENTLY is change the name of the download page. Change it to any old garbage like oopsiamnotdownload.html

          Never ever name your download page download.html or thanks.html it's too easy for people to guess.

          The second thing you need to do URGENTLY is put that PDF file into a zipped folder - search engines do index pdf files.

          (I already have this product, so there was no need for me to steal it from you. )

          The third thing you need to do is to ensure that on the download page you have these lines included, whilst it is not failsafe, it's better than nothing, and does stop some search engines indexing your download page.

          Place this line underneath your tile tags on the download page, make sure you don't title the download page download page in the title tags.
          <head>
          <title>Here is Your Product</title>
          <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
          </head>

          Hope that helps.
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          • Profile picture of the author Theory5
            Originally Posted by Janet Sawyer View Post

            The first thing you need to do URGENTLY is change the name of the download page. Change it to any old garbage like oopsiamnotdownload.html

            Never ever name your download page download.html or thanks.html it's too easy for people to guess.

            The second thing you need to do URGENTLY is put that PDF file into a zipped folder - search engines do index pdf files.

            (I already have this product, so there was no need for me to steal it from you. )

            The third thing you need to do is to ensure that on the download page you have these lines included, whilst it is not failsafe, it's better than nothing, and does stop some search engines indexing your download page.

            Place this line underneath your tile tags on the download page, make sure you don't title the download page download page in the title tags.
            <head>
            <title>Here is Your Product</title>
            <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
            </head>

            Hope that helps.
            What happens if I already have a metadata line in my header?
            <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
            should I just add a new line or delete this one?
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            • Profile picture of the author Janet Sawyer
              Originally Posted by Theory5 View Post

              What happens if I already have a metadata line in my header?
              <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
              should I just add a new line or delete this one?
              That code describes the make up of the page "content- Type" and what it is i.e. "Text and html" and the charset = the character pattern being used.
              You can leave it in place.
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  • Profile picture of the author TelexTape
    I know you were looking for a way to hide the link, but this info my also be valuable to you if you are not aware that this is possible.

    You could find or have made, a script that changes the name of the file for each person that purchases it and only make it available for a certain amount of time. That way, it is always different and if they share the link, you will only lose a small amount of downloads before the link expires.
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  • Profile picture of the author Theory5
    Thanks for all your help Janet.
    Oh and Charlso I am not using Joomla.
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