5 Easy Steps To Creating A Download Page, Your Gateway To Selling Online Products

A question online marketers hear a lot goes something like
this: How can I find out how to set up a download page to sell my
products?…

While that's a pretty common question, it seems to stump many
who download products all the time, but have no idea how
it's done.

If you are one who wants to get on the other side of the
sale - the selling side - the following information will
show you how it's done.

Here's a way to set up a download page so you can have your
products ready to sell.

Let's get started…

The first thing to understand is that a download page is
associated with a web site domain. It's one of the elements
within the domain where you'll have a main sales page that
offers your product. However, after a sale takes place, the
customer must be sent to the download page in the process.

Follow these 5 steps to set up your digital download page:

1) Create a new folder within your website root directory
and rename it. For the sake of example lets name
this download folder, dl-products. That stands for "download
products" but you can name the folder anything you prefer.

2) In this scenario… let's also name your product,
ebook-xyz.pdf, as the PDF file you want to sell.

3) Copy your download files like: ebook-xyz.pdf, etc, into
the dl-products folder. You can have several download items
in your download folder. These could be ebooks or software
you want to sell - even free reports to give away, etc.

4) Create a new web page in your web editor program like:
123WysiWyg, FrontPage or Dreamweaver, etc. For example,
we'll name your download page: dl-page.html.

Add written content to your download page that will
instruct your visitors on downloading from the links you'll
provide on this page.

5) To create a download link write text that says something
like: Click Here To Download. Next, highlight that text in
your web editor and while it's still highlighted go to the
area where you can insert a hyperlink and then type in the
web address to create your download web address.

Note: This is where you have to add in all the file name
elements into the web address as described in the following.

When creating a download web address (which is a link
your customers will download from) what you'll include is
the http, the www, your domain name, your download page
folder name, your download page name and that's how we
arrive at this web address:
http://www.1ofMySites.com/dl-page/dl-products.html
(this is your download page you send your customers to)

And finally, when you add the actual file name of your
download product (ebook-xyz.pdf) onto the very the end of
your web address, it will look something like this:
http://www.1ofMySites.com/dl-page.dl-products/ebook-xyz.pdf
(this is your download link your customers will download from)

Be sure not to have any spaces between your characters when
creating your download links used for websites.

Notice how each of the elements included within the download
link are derived from the hypertext transfer protocol (http
& www), your domain site name, the download folder name, the
download page name and the file name.

Therefore, your download web address can be put into a web
browser where your web visitors can visit your website and
download the products they bought and you're in business!

IMPORTANT: When you create this download page you must
understand you're building it on your computer's hard drive
first - then after it's completed, you must load the web
page and all its files up to your web server.  

This procedure is called FTP as in, File Transport Protocol.
But don't let the name scare you as I have a free report
that simplifies the process and you can download it right
here: http://oork.com/6w34z

Also Note: To sell digital products online you'll need a
shopping cart so you can receive payments and give your
customers a way to pay for your products.

Here's a few good ones you can use that make it easy:

Paypal.com
Clickbank.com
PayDotCom.com

If you want more shopping cart options, you can do a web
search on the term "online shopping cart".

Just let the shopping cart handle the credit card processing
and once you get your order buttons set up on your sales
page, you're ready to start selling online because now you
know how to deliver digital download products.

Article (c) By Michael Nicholas