What Do You Mean People Can Still Steal My Product

Imagine this - someone locking something valuable using a suitcase lock and thinking they’re safe.

Pretty stupid, isn’t it?

Well many people selling digital products are, in effect, doing the same thing. Here’s why

Imagine this - someone locking something valuable using a suitcase lock and thinking they’re safe.

Pretty stupid, isn’t it?

Well many people selling digital products are, in effect, doing the same thing. Here’s why - they haven’t learned how to think like a thief. Just like burglars know to look under your mat, or on top of your door frame for the key, online burglars know the tricks of the trade.

One of the first things they do is to look at robots.txt file. This is found at http://www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt If you have something that you don’t want PEOPLE to see, then don’t put it in there. To do so, is just plain stupidity.

Just today, I had to upload some files for a client. I noticed that there was a robots.txt file. I thought, “Surely he wouldn’t make this mistake.” Well, he did. It had the link to his download page. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

There are many ways to properly protect your download pages - those will be covered in future postings.

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