Are you getting real security, or is someone stealing your products,
a few simple steps will help you to prevent Internet theft.
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You could be the victim of Internet theft, you may not even know
that you are being victimised by the clever Internet fruadsters,
are your products being advertised on Facebook or Youtube?
Unfortunately this happens all the time and unsuspecting Internet
Marketeers are completely unaware they are being taken for a ride.
There are however, certain ways you can help to protect your products,
and consequently, your cash, which will help to stop the theft you
may be losing right now.
What’s more, they are simple and very affective procedures, it will
literally take you ten minutes to protect your Thankyou and resources
folders on your server.
1. Do not call your Thankyou or Resources folders “thankyou”
or “resources”, call them something that is hard to guess like
“T73483yfY” and “Ruevj9vS” respectively.
2. If there is not an index.html in the “myproducts” directory, every
file you have in it could be displayed to the user just by removing the
“ebook1.zip” part from the end.
Insert a blank .html file in each folder, you can use a re-direct in this
file to your home page, or any other page you like.
Doing this makes it impossible for anyone who has your Thankyou or
Resources folder name, for instance a customer who has actually
purchased something from you, from accessing the folder and
downloading everything else you have in it.
When the folder name is entered into their browser window the
index.html page will show, or re-direct, depending on how you have set
the page up.
I have included some code for this below, so you can use the code if
you wish, just change the name of the DESTINATION_URL to www.yoursite.com.
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Refresh” content=”0;url = DESTINATION_URL”>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
3. Our third restriction to protect you folders is this we need
to tell the Search Engines NOT to index your pages.
When you write your Thankyou pages use the following Meta Tags to
tell Google and other Search engines not to index your pages, this will
prevent your Thankyou pages from being displayed in the Search engine
results pages.
Believe me when I tell you that many unscrupulous people spend
hours searching for free products and not without some considerable
success.
Try entering the following into your browser search window,
“allinurl:pdf”, without the quotes, I am sure you will be surprised
at what you may find.
You can use the same search term for any file type;
Microsoft Word (DOC)
PostScript (PS)
Rich Text (RTF)
Plain Text (TXT)
Excel Spreadsheets (XLS)
PowerPoint (PPT)
These will all produce results for the would be thief.
If your pages and files aren’t indexed the results will not include
your folders and files, the way to do this is to place the following
code right at the top of your pages, between the
<head> and </head> html code in the “source” view of your editor.
Preferably immediately after the <head> tag.
<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW”>
<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOARCHIVE”>
This will help to prevent the Search engines indexing your pages,
although it is not infallable, with the protection you have already
used this should be enough to protect you from the Internet thieves.
Ken Trueman
http://www.e-bookslive.com
