094 – Sell Digital Products on your WordPress Site

Sep 19 2012 | 19:56 | Dustin Hartzler | Podcast

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Tools / Plugins

Listener Feedback

Kristi Mallet – How to hide a page from search engines. Will not linking to the page work?
– First, do not post a link anywhere
– Use Yoast SEO (or other SEO plugins) and select no-follow from the advanced section on that particular post or page.

Sell Digital Products on Your WordPress Site

Create the content (audio, video, written)
Upload your content to your web server
Link / Embed / Attach your content to a WordPress page – IMPORTANT – this page should not be easily found
Password Protect this page
Create a summary sheet that give people access to your page that’s password protected
Upload this to the media library
Create a short link to this document (using Pretty Link Lite)
Sign up for an account with e-junkie
Add a new product to e-junkie
Name the product and select redirection and give your item a price. Nothing else should be checked. It will automatically generate an item number
Paste in the redirection URL (from previous step)
Set download link validity and item expiration (if necessary)
Next screen gives you the ability to cross promote your products
Finally, you will get “Add to Cart” and “View Cart” code
Paste this information into WordPress on your Products / Shop page

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Do you have a preferred method to selling digital products online?

warnerchad Reply
Thanks for sharing how you sell digital products, Dustin. I’ve used WooCommerce, a free plugin from WooThemes (http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/). The plugin allows you to create digital products, and puts the files in a secure directory. It creates a shopping cart that can be integrated with a number of payment gateways; I’ve used PayPal. You can allow buyers to immediately download a product, or receive a link via email, or both. You can also set expiration dates and limit the number of downloads. WooCommerce is very polished in the admin area and the front end, and I highly recommend it.

WooCommerce has a doc specifically about digital products: http://wcdocs.woothemes.com/user-guide/digitaldownloadable-product-handling/
Sep 19, 2012

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Nov 17, 2012

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