This is a major problem that has came to my attention recently. When researching any product which has had a fair amount of sales or has been there for quite a while, it is ridiculously easy to access it for free via alexa. This is an example: http://www.alexa.com/search?q=site:drivewithwaterfuel.com&page=2&count=10 and look for the page with the "Thankyou" title You just type "Site:cbsiteurl here" on the search bar and you will be displayed every single pages from the site. Including the thank you and product pages. I believe publishers should do something about it. I think it should be quite easy to make a script which denies access to the thank you page to anyone not coming from a url related to the clickbank "thank you for your order! click here to access your product" post-payment page. On the thank you page should only be displayed a login and password which gives access to a htaccess memberzone on which the product is. What do you guys think?
You can do the same in Google, that's why you block out spiders from any pages other than your index as a CB product owner. For instance: http://www.alexa.com/search?q=site:sevendaymillionaire.com my product thank you page isn't displayed
This has been brought up a lot at the warrior forum. You should actually remove the method from your post and just put the solution (which is noindex, but I don't think alexa follows those commands)
I have a simple solution for that. My eBook can't be accessed outside the download page, and the download page cannot be accessed without a valid receipt. It's not foolproof, but it works. nadavs
Use the no index meta tag and do not name your thank you page thankyou.html. There is also products you can use to secure your download page.
You should do all of what is written above to keep people from stealing your stuff. However, if someone wants to work hard enough to steal it, they aren't going to buy your product anyway.
this is why my thank you page is not named THANKYOU. also the word THANKYOU is not anywhere on the page... Also I used the NO INDEX NO FOLLOW tags... it seems to work so far
Yep all you have to do is not let the google bot access the page and take steps to not allow the page to be indexed or accessed without a step of purchasing which can be done in php or by javascript.