Problem #3 - Thieves Don't Need to Know The Name Of Your Download Page

You may feel that because you have placed your product downloads in a seperate directory you are safe.

Unfortunately this is not necessarily case. It is possible to list contents of a web site directory directly from any web browser. A thief could then see your product download files and just...well...download them.

Problem #4 - Your Recommend A Friend Feature May Be Losing You Traffic

A growing trend on web sites is use of a recommend a friend script to encourage visitors to recommend your web site to typically five of their friends, who in turn recommend to five of theirs, and so on.

A common accepted practice is to give away valuable free gifts to encourage people to come up with five email addresses and increase your web site traffic and hopefully product sales.

Whilst this system in theory can generate some traffic, system can also be abused by allowing would-be thief to get your free gift without providing you with any email addresses.

You, therefore, not only lose potentially valuable traffic, but also your free gift gets downloaded for nothing in return.

Problem #5 - Your Affiliate Commissions Can Be Hijacked

With incredible success of affiliate programs as a source of income, so too comes possibility of abuse and theft of your affiliate commissions.

It has been well documented that ClickBank affiliates are particularly at risk. A person visits your web site, sees a product they are interested in buying and replaces your ClickBank nickname with their own. They then get commission when they purchase product.

In fact it is not just ClickBank users who are losing commissions this way. Any affiliate link can be modified quickly and easily effectively losing you valuable commissions.

WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?

Each of these 5 areas can cause a potential loss of profit that you would find very hard to detect. If you are concerned about any of areas I have highlighted in this article I suggest you get hold of my comprehensive report entitled "WARNING: Your Products May Be Being Stolen".

This report is available from http://www.yourowninternetbusiness.com/warning.html .

It contains a step-by-step description of how a thief can steal your products using each of techniques I described above and shows you how to protect yourself from these problems quickly, easily and effectively.

Go protect your profit.

Thanks for reading.

Greg Spence

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