What to look for in a digital download protection system
This article will examine what a digital download protection system is used for and why you need one.
For starters, a download protection system is a highly useful piece of software to buy for anyone who is involved in selling digital products. It will stop anyone from discovering the download location for a product and therefore cut down losses to anyone trying to steal from you.
Apart from the major benefit of protecting all your digital downloads from thieves it can fully automate the delivery of digital products so you can be literally be making money while you sleep.
Once it is installed on your website and someone buys something it will automatically verify that it has been paid for before showing the legitimate buyer the download link page. This download link page can be set to expire after a certain amount of time or even after a certain number of downloads so it won’t be available for anyone else to use later.
As an added precaution, it can also automatically send an email to the buyer telling them where they can download their purchase from in case they didn’t see the download page after payment.
An effective digital delivery system should have these features;
1. Verifies the payments.
2. Allows only legitimate purchasers access to your products.
3. Protects your products from digital thieves.
4. Automates the delivery of digital products to make your life easy.
5. Does not cost a fortune.
6. Has a good backend control panel.
So what download protection software is available?
At the moment, I can think of four reasonably-priced programs that are designed to protect your digital downloads, with one of them being a complete sales system for your digital products.
- Download Guard
- SmartDD
- Digital Product Guard
- Rapid Action Profits
A great choice has to be Download Guard because it can do so many things apart from protecting your digital products and delivering them to the buyer. You can view all sorts of stats to help you get a good idea of what is selling well, and what is not.
I don’t own Download Guard but I have heard good reports about it and the support is first-class.
Another great choice for delivering and protecting digital products is SmartDD.
It’s a good alternative to Download Guard if you don’t need all the bells and whistles. It is continually being improved too and the support is excellent. I should know because I bought it.
By the way, you can have a free copy of SmartDD (Lite version) if you sign up to my newsletter.
This is a superb system because not only will it protect your downloads but is a complete sales system in its own right. You can use it to sell digital products, and much more.
If you have some products with resale rights and ready-made sales pages then Rapid Action Profits is a great way to sell them. All you have to do is change a few bits of code on the products sales page and some settings in the Rapid Action Profits control panel and the job is done.
It allows you to add any number of products and then track sales for each. You can easily change product prices at any time without touching your sales pages again as it is all done behind the scenes via a sophisticated control panel.
You can also give discounts on any of your products and even split-test your sales pages to see which is most effective.
If that’s not enough, you can also use Rapid Action Profits to set up joint ventures with other people to sell your products and give them an automatic commission for each sale.
The support is top-notch and you will find lots of help and advice in the forum, where purchasers of the system hang out.
I bought Rapid Action Profits and I am glad that I did.
Last, but by no means least, is Digital Product Guard, which does the job at a reasonable price for those who can’t afford all the others or don’t need all the extra features.
Whichever digital delivery system you buy, once it is installed and configured on your website you can stop worrying about your product downloads being stolen.
No one will get illegal access to your products any more!
Conclusion:
I hope that you have found this information helpful. If you are selling unprotected digital products from your website then there is every chance that you have had some of them stolen. You have probably been ripped off and lost large amounts of money without even realizing it.
Installing a download protection system is highly effective and affordable, and will pay for itself in no time at all. Every day that you put it off is costing you money. Don’t let the thieves rip you off any more by stopping them in their tracks at source.
