The requirement is that a thank you page has to be created on the website that is selling the product which will be displayed after the purchase has been made. Many Clickbank webmasters put download information of their products on this page to make it as easy as possible for their customers to download the product once the purchase has been made.

Guess what happens if you search for terms that have to be on those pages on Google ? Right, hundreds of Thank you Clickbank pages appear that can be used to grab the product without purchasing it. This is illegal and I’m only writing about it as an informational article.

I add some tips on securing the pages at the end as well. Most Thank You pages will contain the following or a similar sentence:

Please Note: Your credit card will be billed by “CLKBANK*COM”. The name “CLKBANK*COM”will appear on your credit card statement.

A search for Clkbank is however not enough and we need to find another phrase that is on most of those pages, and that one is “right click”. Searching for clkbank right click reveals hundreds of product pages that offer the product as a download after making the purchase. You could try other phrases such as “Clkbank thank you” for instance.

And here is how you could try and stop this. I’m not a Clickbank affiliate and do not know if Clickbank offers a better way of protecting those pages. The first thing that comes to my mind is add a referrer check using simply htaccess to those pages. If the page before opening this was not on the same domain do not display it.

This would get rid of most users from Google because this is obviously not the correct previous page which should be the Buy page instead. This could be countered by Referrer spoofing but you probably get rid of the majority of downloaders this way.

The only other way to make it more secure would be to create a unique password for each purchaser and send it to his registered email account with a link to a website where he could download the product after logging in. This is a bit harder to code and puts additional burden on the buyer but secures the product.