Download thousands of products for free with Alexa
Here is a sneaky trick that will allow you to download thousands of various products such as software and ebooks for free. Due to the nature of Alexa it will index pages that other search engines won’t. All it takes is for somebody to visit a particular page with Alexa toolbar. For example try searching Alexa for thank you for your purchase and you will find 96.000 results. Most of these pages will contain direct download links. Please note that it might be illegal for you to download these products. It is up to you to check the license of the file you are downloading as well as your local laws. Use your imagination and common sense to find even more products.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
A-ha, so that’s how people are finding all of these! I knew there was a trick to this, I just didn’t expect it to be so easy. I would never download copyrighted material of course but this is good to know for the sake of reference.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
This technique can be used for industrial espionage
March 12th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Wow!! I hadn’t realized you could do this. Scary!
*A good reason to control the number of downloads from a download link.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Or just have a secure, password protected download area.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Or create a key for each purchase which is required to download. A key which will expire after a set length of time. i.e.,
Thank you for your purchase! [a href="/download.php?key=autogeneratedkey"]Download your product[/a]. Then download.php will check that the key is valid.
I would have thought that was the obvious thing to :/
April 17th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Add Download in the search with thank you for your purchse :).You will get more targeted results !!!
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:35 am
Wow that’s kinda funny. The first result is 250 Internet marketing video Tutorials.