| If you sell any kind of digital products online such as an | | | | Using robots.txt can help prevent search engine bots |
| ebook, script or software online, then you will need | | | | from crawling your download page and listing it in the |
| digital product protection. | | | | search engines. |
| It is not easy to stop digital piracy completely, but at | | | | 3. Encrypting Paypal buttons |
| least you can make it a lot harder for people to steal | | | | If you are using paypal as a payment processor, make |
| your product illegally. | | | | sure to encrypt the pay button. It is easy to know your |
| Here are a few ways you can protect your digital | | | | download page when users can simply open your |
| product. | | | | source file and see the download page location. |
| 1. Thank You Page | | | | Paypal provide an option to encrypt your payment |
| One of the easiest ways to protect your download | | | | button easily. |
| page or thank you page is to name it with random | | | | There are also many digital product protection |
| characters. It will make it difficult for people to guess | | | | software that can make the task of protecting your |
| what your thank you page would be. | | | | download page a lot easier. You can specify the |
| It is quite easy for people to find your thank you page | | | | download time, download limits, limit the IP address as |
| if you simply named it as download.html or | | | | well as many other options. |
| download.php. Don't believe me, just do a search on | | | | You have worked hard to create your digital products |
| google for these terms and you will be surprised at | | | | and should not allow digital pirates to steal your hard |
| how many results are returned. | | | | earned profits. |
| 2. Use Robots.txt | | | | |