How to Protect your content
By: Vern Simmons | Posted: 08th March 2011
Protect Your Blog or websites Content
Today's internet businesses spend a lot of time and money accumulating information that is sold online. For people trying to make a living selling information from their site, about the worst feeling in the world is finding out someone has managed to access their website's content without paying for it. Making sure this kind of content rip of doesn't happen to you is a top priority to all blog and website owners.
Investment in Security
Working with a WordPress site, creating a membership area is relatively easy and, when considering the cost of lost sales, can be an investment in your site's security. Membership sites are also great for communicating with others, but at the same time keeping your content away from prying eyes. Essentially, if you perform any type of sales or communications online, you will want to consider having a membership site for your protection.
For example lets say that you employ two article articles to create your daily content. With a membership site you can have a membership that is totally for your writers This is so powerful because it allows you to have your own little hub of work and projects that the article writter have to complete. You could also set up another membership level for customers that want to suggest different content. This site is also controlled by user ids and passwords.
Protecting Your Article Library
You might also have a storehouse of information available for sale online and you can offer free access to a certain amount of information to allow potential customers to peruse your available content, but if they choose to buy something, they have to be registered in your membership site in order to access the full content of the information.
Beyond that, your visitors can be given snippets of your information, but in order to gain full access, you can charge them a fee to view the rest of the content. Whether you charge a fee for one-time use or on a monthly basis can be established in your membership site and those not willing to pay for the information are blocked from access.
The best part of membership sites is that they can be established to allow access to some areas while rejecting entry into others. Say you run a business and you have the graphic's apartment working on a logo and images then you could set up a membership level so only they would be able to access there work, while the programmers on the other side of the room would have a membership area where they would be only able to see there side of the project. This is great because it keeps your workers working on what they are good at, and there side of the project.
Of course you can give a user access to 2 or 3 membership levels in the one membership site or all of them, and only some of the membership site software and plug ins allows you to track and see what member was in what area for how long.
Also some of the software can also alert you if your content has been accesed by someone that doesn't have the right to and will tell you how and when they access the content. This can occur if someone shares their user id and password with unauthorized users, as it can track the IP address of each computer entering the site. The alert allows you to block access to that user id until the issue is resolved.
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