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E-junkie is a website that allows you to sell online digital goods through PayPal. Now this is nothing new but what is great about e-junkie is it allows you to have a protected download area. You see the normal process for selling with PayPal is as follows. You create your buy now button, you then redirect the customer to a special page on your website after purchase. That’s great and dandy, whoever two things can happen:

Your download page can get indexed by Google, thus allowing those who have not paid access to your product

Your download page can get shared by someone who bought your product.

Both of these scenarios are not ideal as it means lost sales to you and free products to people who should not get them (in effect they are stealing from you.)

With e-junkie you don’t have to worry about this. You upload your product to their site and set an expiration for the download page. This means that after X amount of hours or days the download page disappears. If the person did not download in time they must contact you to get a new code page re-issued.  Also you can limit the amount of times the product is downloaded so if the url or web address is shared potentially only X amount of people will be able to steal from you.

Although this sounds complicated it is very very easy to set up and will help you gain more customers and keep your products safe.  E-junkie also have an easy to use affiliate program that you can get people to sign up for.  In my experience it’s a great service.