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I often use document and PDF sharing sites such as Docstoc.com , Scribd.com , Calameo.com and Slideshare.com to share information with my subscribers and attract traffic. If you choose your keywords carefully it’s often easy to rank extremely high in Google and other search engines. Why?

Because the Google ‘bots are hanging around these respected sites …just waiting for new content to come along they can spider and rank. Surprisingly, it can take as little as 2 minutes to get a page 1 ranking in Google for a PDF document you just uploaded.

This is good, because these document sharing sites allow you to place affiliate and other links inside your documents, wherever you wish.

The key is to use the right keywords and tags to get where you want to be. I just watched a new video showing you how to take a Word document, convert it to PDF free of charge, then use a special free tool to insert metatags into the PDF to get it ranked even higher.

I love tips like the one revealed in the video, above. Look what he does with the metatags – it’s not what you expect. And these are very simple, powerful tips that will truly help your PDFs rank quickly in Google.

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Ebooks have become a popular way for people to make money online. A lot of folks will set up niche websites that offer a related ebook for sale or they might just write several ebooks and place them up for sale on Clickbank for others to promote. The bad news is that the illegal copying of ebooks is increasing at a rapid rate. It’s not fair to you if you’ve put all the work into an ebook, then offer it for sale and have others that steal your work. There are some ways to help protect the security of your eBook to make sure it only gets into the hands of paying consumers.

While you can assume that most internet users are honest people, but there are always others that need to try and get everything for free. One easy way to prevent ebook theft is by registering for a copyright. Although your published work is automatically copyrighted, it doesn’t hurt to register copyright.

Another way that you can protect ebook security and digital security of PDFs is by requiring a password for users to actually open the ebook. You could make the ebook downloadable for them once they purchase it, but then they won’t be able to see anything until they type in a valid password. This can really help to cut down on stealing.

You can also format your ebook with a specific HTML command that will prevent your ebook from being indexed by the search engines. If you sell an ebook and don’t require a password, any body typing in a phrase related to your ebook might be able to find it in search results and read it for free.

Finally, you can choose to have a setting that prevents readers from being able to print out your ebook. If they are able to print it, they could easily sell it themselves or even rewrite the book in a different program and sell it as their own.

It takes a bit of hard work to write and publish your own ebook so you should do all you can to protect it. There will always be dishonest people in the world, but you can try a few of the above tips to help prevent them from stealing your work. With this problem being on the rise, it’s important to stay up to date on all of the things you can do to help protect the digital security of PDFs.

The Web has officially changed the face of business and in case no one has done this for you already, let me welcome you to the “PDF Data Age”.

PDF files on the Internet are not merely a fad or a flavor of the week.  It an important way for business to distribute information in a secure way, and it’s here to stay.  Most successful businesses are profiting from making PDF info available on the web.

Why  should you place your PDF files online?  Though there are many good reasons, here are five key ones:

1. PDF files on your site are expected.  The Net is one the primary places individuals look to seek out out additional about you, your business, and/or your product. If you do not make your info available, it can damage your credibility.

2. PDF files on the web are cheap.  Never in history contains a marketing medium been offered to all businesses, regardless of the size of your company.

3. PDF files on the web are immediate.  We live in a world of instant gratification.  We need everything yesterday.  If something isn’t immediately on the market, we simply could lose interest or worse yet get it from elsewhere – like your competition.

4. PDF files on your site are 24/7.  The Net never sleeps.  Having and implementing a good Web strategy can be like having a well tuned sales force doing your bidding around the clock.

5. PDF files on the web are global.  Why limit your business to the fifteen minute radius surrounding your workplace?  Your competition definitely isn’t and new competitors are seemingly coming back out of nowhere every day.

Take a look at the Web as a means to share your genius with prospects through PDFs, who otherwise may not have the opportunity to see what you’ve got to offer.

Need to protect PDF files, without using a password. And do it quickly? One easy way to prevent unauthorized circulation of your PDF documents, is to imprint the name of the authorized person or company directly into the PDF, so it cannot be removed.

That way, you should know where the unauthorized release of information originated. At the very least, it makes people a little less willing to distribute PDF files, if they know their name will be all over the PDF document.

Here is a free way to do this;

1. Go to http://Stamp.la

2. Select the PDF file you wish to stamp the name of the company or person on

3. Click UPLOAD FILE to bring the file into the system for processing;

4. Enter the name and email of the person whom you wish to imprint into the PDF document

5. The Stamp.la system will then give you a link for download of the imprinted PDF file

6. Download the PDF

7. When you open the protected PDF file, you can see that the person’s name and email is imprinted on every page, in the lower-left hand corner;

This method of protecting your PDF files is effective to a small degree, we recommend additional PDF methods, such as license code entry and live PDF access monitoring, for more effective PDF security.

If you are dealing with standard password PDF security (which we do not recommend) Advanced PDF Password Recovery enables you to recover PDF passwords and instantly remove PDF restrictions, according to specialist software research outfits. They claim you get access to password-protected PDF files quickly and efficiently. Also allows you to instantly unlock restricted PDF documents, by removing printing, editing and copying restrictions.

Advanced PDF Password Recovery recovers (or instantly removes) passwords protecting or locking PDF documents which have been created with all versions of Adobe Acrobat or many other PDF applications.

Book Guard Pro does not recommend the use of password security for a variety of reasons. Let’s take a look at the  features and benefits of PDF password recovery software, as stated by the manufacturers, to see the dangers PDF publishers are exposing their PDF ebooks and other PDF documents to, by using passwords alone;

* Supports all versions of Adobe Acrobat, including Acrobat 9
* Supports GPU acceleration
* Supports all third-party products producing PDF files
* Instantly unlocks PDF documents with printing, copying and editing restrictions
* Removes “owner” and “user” passwords
* Recovers passwords to open
* Supports 40-bit and 128-bit RC4 encryption as well as 128-bit and 256-bit AES encryption
* Patent-pending Thunder Tables technology recovers 40-bit passwords in a matter of minutes
* Dictionary and brute-force attacks with user-defined masks and advanced templates
* Three editions to satisfy the most demanding and savvy customers
* Optionally removes JScript code, form fields and digital signatures
* Batch mode allows automatic processing of multiple files
* Highly optimized low-level code optimized for modern multi-core CPUs