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Here’s a new case study in how NOT to release PDF documents;

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Hyper FB Traffic is a Clickbank product released on Monday, 13th September. The product is a how-to for marketers on how to get Facebook Traffic for affiliate sales. The product is made up of PDF documents and videos. The base cost was $79 and contained a number of upsells the buyer is presented with before they can access the course.

While we’re going to reserve judgment on the content quality of the Facebook traffic work, their security definitely is lacking. Here’s why;

Two days after release of the course (Wednesday, 15th September) massive file sharing was going on. With most of the course uploaded to rapidshare and other file sharing sites.

The PDFs contain no security whatsoever (not even a password – which is a really weak protection method anyway.

Here are some of the sites containing the info and how the files spread. You can also see the messages passed among file sharers, telling each other how to get the Hyper FB Traffic course files and course for free, on the file sharing sites;

Mediafire pdf links of HyperFB Traffic Core Manual;

http://www.mediafire.com/?th2n1ni7rn63zk2

Mediafire pdf links of HyperFB Traffic Action Guide;

http://www.mediafire.com/?cdxd17k6cy42sbq

See the free users discussing how to access all the additional files in the course;

http://www.blackhatteam.com/f51/get-hyper-facebook-traffic-27527-6.html

The above is just a very small sample of how the PDFs have been shared. Expect sharing of those files to go “parabolic” in the days and weeks ahead. All the people who paid for that course just got ripped off – as there was no advantage for them buying it. Thousands now also have access who did not pay a penny.

All it took was two days for massive PDF and file sharing to start. This case study serves as a warning to others, and illustrates why it is so critical to protect your PDFs with EFFECTIVE security (not passwords). If you release PDFs at all for profit, your business depends upon it.

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.

CLICK HERE to WATCH the Detailed VIDEO

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