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Download: Selling Ebooks and Files

(This is a copy of the web page in our software. None of the links below are live)

Selling ebooks or other files has never been easier. Everything is completely automated!

The download layout page allows your customer to view files they have bought. This can include ebooks, music files, documents and software.

Recommended Uses

• Can be used by your customers to access files they have bought from your site.

Screenshot

Overview

1. Uploading Files to Sell
2. How Files are Retrieved by the Customer
   • Authorize.net, PSIGate.com and SecurePay.com.au
   • PayPal
   • Manual Processing
3. Download Page
   • Adding
   • Deleting
   • Editing
4. Editing Your Title Tag, Meta Tag and Header Info
5. Adding a Friendly URL

Uploading Files to Sell

First you would add a catalog layout page to display your products. This is the only layout which is integrated with our shopping cart. To do this:

1. Click on "Add Page" from your toolbar.
2. Choose layout "Catalog."

3. Enter a page name for your new page.
4. Click on the "Add Page" button.
5. Choose from one of the three layouts and click on it.

Then you would add your product to your catalog page:

1. Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
2. Click on the "Add Item" tab.

3. Enter your info and click on "Save."

When adding your product information, make sure you upload your file you are selling as follows:

If adding a downloadable product, you may upload the file here.(i.e. e-books, software etc)

1. To upload a file that you would like your customer to receive after you have been paid, upload your file by clicking on "Click to Select a File."

2. A window will open up. Click on the "Browse..." button.

3. Your file manager will appear. Find your file and double click on it.

4. Your file manager closes. Click on the "Save" button and the window closes.

5. You then see your filename in the text box above "Click to Select a File"

If you would like full details on how to fill everything out, please go to Setting Up Your Products and Services on Your Page

How Files are Retrieved by the Customer

During the checkout process, the customer is asked to enter in a login and password. This serves a double purpose:

• To allow them to use their login/password the next time they purchase so they do not have to enter in all their billing and shipping information again.
• To allow them to get access to all files they have bought from the site.

Please see Buying Process for Your Customers When a file is paid for, the procedure differs slightly from this. Here is information on how it works for each payment processing option:

Authorize.net, PSIGate.com and SecurePay.com.au

After entering the credit card information, the customer sees:

The circled area shows the link to download the file bought. The customer clicks on the link and immediately they can open the file.

If you have added a download page, the customer can also go to your download page and enter in his/her login and password.

The customer then sees a list of files paid for:

PayPal

After entering their PayPal account information, the customer sees:

In the circled area, the customer sees:

"You will be emailed once your order has been approved. You will be able to access our downloadable through the downloadable area."

This means that after you confirm you have received payment (explained below), the customer is sent an email with a link to a download page. To confirm you have received payment, you have to do the following:

On PayPal, click on "Tools" and then the "Orders" button. Click on your order number. Mark off "PayPal full confirmation" and save.

The customer is then sent the following email:

John,
Your order from website www.ebooksgalore.com has been approved.
To download please follow the link below.

Your username is: johndoe
Your password is: john
Title: eBay Extreme Package Version 3
http://www ebooksgalore.com/downloads/download/1416.htm

The customer then clicks on the link and they are taken to a download page.

Important: The download page is created automatically. It is not listed on your site but has your same template design. You DO NOT need to have already added a download page previously.

The customer enters in his/her login and password.

The customer then sees a list of files paid for:

Manual Processing

After entering their credit card information, the customer sees:

In the circled area, the customer sees:

"You will be emailed once your order has been approved. You will be able to access our downloadable through the downloadable area."

This means that after you confirm you have received payment (explained below), the customer is sent an email with a link to a download page. To confirm you have received payment, you have to do the following:

The customer is then sent the following email:

John,
Your order from website www.ebooksgalore.com has been approved.
To download please follow the link below.

Your username is: johndoe
Your password is: john
Title: eBay Extreme Package Version 3
http://www ebooksgalore.com/downloads/download/1416.htm

The customer then clicks on the link and they are taken to a download page.

Important: The download page is created automatically. It is not listed on your site but has your same template design. You DO NOT need to have already added a download page previously.

The customer enters in his/her login and password.

The customer then sees a list of files paid for:

Download Page

Adding

1. Click on "Add Page" from your toolbar.
2. Choose layout "Download."

3. Enter a page name for your new page.
4. Click on the "Add Page" button.

Deleting

To delete your download page:

1. Click on "Manage Pages" from your toolbar.
2. Click on "Delete" beside the page.

3. Click the "Yes, Delete" button to confirm you wish to delete the page.

Editing

1. Go to your Download page.
2. Click the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
3. Add your text to your header and footer then click the "Save" button.

The result is:

4. Editing Your Title Tag, Meta Tag and Header Info

The title tag and meta tags you add to your site can help you with your search engine listing. Below is an explanation of what they are used for and how to enter them in. Additionally, for advanced members, we have included access to the <head></head> section.

Title Tag

The info in your title tag is often used by search engines as the text to link to your page.

Each page has its own title tag info. Some search engines may also look at your title tag for keywords that will bring up your site on their listings. Your title tag info also appears at the top left of your browser window.

To edit your title tag info on your page:

1. Click on "Edit Page" and then click on the "Internet Marketing" tab.

2. Under "HTML Title Tag," enter in your title.

3. Then, click on the "Save" button.

Note that if no title tag is entered, your title tag info is filled in with whatever page title you enter.

Meta Keywords and Meta Description

Meta tags (i.e. meta keyword tags and meta description tags) are sometimes used by search engines to help decide where to rank your web site. Each search engine has its own set of criteria and may change it from time to time. Usually the meta tags are inserted in the heading section of your html code. Within the tags, you would put a description of your site for the meta description and some keywords for the meta keywords.

We have two methods of adding in your meta tags. The first method adds the same meta tags to all your pages. The second method allows you to have individual meta tags for each page. The second method will override the first method for any page you add individual meta tags. For info on the first method, please go to Marketing Your Site: Meta Keywords and Meta Description

The second method is controlled right on your page.

1. Click on "Edit Page."
2. Click on the "Internet Marketing" tab.

3. In the space provided, type in your keywords (separate each keyword or keyword phrase by a comma) and your description. Please note that there is maximum character limit of 500.

4. Lastly, click on the "Save" button at the bottom.

Head Access

For advanced users, you can enter code designed for the head area of your source code. To do this:

1. Click on "Edit Page."
2. Click on the "Internet Marketing" tab.

3. In the box under "<head> </head> tag," enter in your code and click on "Save."

Please note that you should not enter in your meta keywords or meta description code here and leave the designated boxes we give you blank. When this is done, you end up with something like this in the code:

<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="cars,import cars,car detailing,car parts,honda,toyota,ferrari">
<meta name="description" content="The best source for import car information including tips on car details.">

Many search engines will only view the two blank meta codes.

5. Adding a Friendly URL

You have the option to customize your web address extension. For example instead of the www.YOURADDRESS.design-own-web.com/page/page/12345.html format you could have
www YOURADDRESS.designownweb.com/index.html To set this up, under "Add a Friendly URL," enter in the extension you would like. For example, if you enter index, the result is www.YOURADDRESS.design-own-web.com/index.html.

You benefit from this because:

• It makes your web page more search engine friendly and should result in a higher ranking.
• It makes it easier to give your customers a web address for any page on your site.
• It mirrors the structure for web page names on big corporate sites.

To set this up:

1. Go to the page you want to change the extension of and click on "Edit Page."
2. Under "Add a Friendly URL" enter in the extension you would like. For example, if you enter index, the result is
   www YOURADDRESS.designownweb.com/index.html

3. Save your page.

Notes:

• If you have your own domain name (e.g. YOURDOMAIN.com), your address will show as
  www YOURADDRESS.designownweb.com/index.html or www.YOURDOMAIN.com/index.html.
• Only letters, numbers and underscores allowed. Sorry, no numbers on their own (e.g. 9876) or underscores on their own.
• Once you change to a customized extension, you cannot change it back to the page/page/12345.htm format.
• If sites/search engines/directories/etc. have linked to your old page/page/12345.htm formatted pages, these links will forward to the new address. If you are listed on search engines/directories, note that they usually update their listings periodically. When they get to your link, they will delist your page/page/12345.htm formatted pages and in most cases will re-list the page with the new web address. Each search engine/directory has its own rules so there is no guarantee these pages will be re-listed. You may have to resubmit.

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