Or “How to steal ebooks.” I keep thinking I should write this from a different angle. I should reword this so that you can be sure your info-products are protected. But I think it’s valuable to see the technique I have used to hijack hundreds of ebooks over the years. Yes,it’s wrong. I’m not reselling them and half the time I don’t even read them. I’m in it for the thrill of the catch.
OK- here’s how it usually works. Someone sends me a SPAM email about their awesome digital infoproduct that’s guaranteed to teach me a new system for making money online.
Even if the content isn’t that compelling,I sometimes still try &see if I can hijack it. Just because. Here are the steps I take:
Click on the Ad
The first thing I do is click on the ad and visit the original vendor’s website. Once I’m there,I do a google site search for every file that’s indexed in their system,using site:nameofwebsite.com. or .pdf site:nameofsite.com
That doesn’t work very often and when it does,frankly,I’m disappointed. Usually the results are thousands of copies of affiliate-branded free .pdf reports and a million blog articles from their site talking about the pdf file.
The next step is to use Google’s Advanced Search feature to look for all .pdf files on that domain. I don’t often find it that way,but when I do,it’s a bummer. That was too easy.
The file is usually found on someone else’s server. And I NEVER EVER download from torrent sites,it’s just a personal pet peeve,viruses creep me out.
In the image shown,the top red circle shows Name of Ebook in the “all of these words”but you may need to enter the exact name of the book in the field below (this exact wording or phrase).
Another term you can use is the author’s name.
But the most important thing about this screenshot is that you’re only searching for .pdf files. In the “file type”section,you select “.pdf files”and then click on the “Advanced search”button to reveal only the .pdf files that contain the words you’re searching for.
I estimate that I have about an 80% success rate with this method.
I actually have a little notepad file list of ebooks I have failed to find this way because when I publish MINE,those are the authors whose security tactics I will take seriously.
Please use this information in an honest way.