Amazing.

Whilst doing research for my new membership site coming on line properly in the first week of January, I decided to spend an hour or so doing some research on competitors to see what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, and the prices they charge for it.

Do you know, I could have got, literally, thousands of pounds of PLR & MRR goods for absolutely nothing. I find it amazing. Lots of webmasters have spent hours and hours uploading files and web pages to sell their products and offer direct downloads.

Those same webmasters have left their download folders totally unprotected, allowing me - and anyone else who knows how to do it - totally unrestricted, untraceable and totally free, open, access to hundreds and hundreds of files.

And you’d be suprised at some of the webmasters - the so called gurus - that have not protected their downloads.

Obviously, I’m not going to say here how to do this, but I WILL tell you how to stop it happening to your download folders. And it’s easy.

All your download folders and membership areas should be protected by an index page that prevents search engines spidering them. If you don’t put up an index page like this, Google and other search engines search and index all your folders - and lists them, and all their contents (and therefore, download locations) in the normal search results. And that’s exactly how I found them.

To prevent this happening to you, simply design an index page on notepad. Save the file as index.html and upload it to your respective folder. Every folder needs it’s own index file.

To create your index page to prevent search engines listing your secret folders, simply copy and paste this code using notepad, changing the ( and ) signs to < and > respectively.

(html)
(head)>
(title)…(/title)
(META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”)
(/head)

I’ve had to change the html < & > signs to the normal bracket signs ( & ) to stop my blog reading it as a genuine index page!

So, to recap, on all your secret folders, simply copy the code above onto a new notepad file. Don’t forget to change the bracket signs.

Save your new notepad file as index.html

Upload this index.html into every secret folder on your web server. All your secret folders then cannot be found by the search engines.

Tags: code, folders, html, nofollow, noindex, secret, web server