Another stupid question....

[TheIdeaMan]

I hate to reveal my newbiness, but i have another stupid question for you guys.

On my website that is selling my ebook I have set up the buy now buttons from paypal to send the customers to my thank you page after successful payment where they will be able to download the book.

Here comes the stupid question part... How do I make it so they can click on a "download" button and be able to get the book? I have no idea how to do this... please help

-chad

[nado]

It depends on how you want it setup. But at the most basic level, you can make the thankyou page something which would be difficult to guess the URL for: e.g. www.yourdomain.com/files/thanks187623048723.html

Then on that page you could simply make a "download" button graphic called "download.jpg".

Then you might put code like:

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/files/23465256264/myebook.pdf"><img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/download.jpg" border=0></a>

That would do the trick and stop people from being able to easily guess the location of the ebook

Then you just need to hope Google doesn't index the thankyou page

[NeeJam]

Then you just need to hope Google doesn't index the thankyou page

You put the robots tag to stop it indexing it, heres all the help you'll need here http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html

[more freedom]

Hope you have got the answers here.

I just want to say your question is NOT stupid, so please don't beat yourself up