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Anonymous
November 11, 2014
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How to prevent direct traffic to and sharing of thank you pages and PDF downloads?

  • November 11, 2014
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I searched the community and found this article, but the answer doesn't seem clear to me. Possibly bc I'm a noob!

I've read that I can add some javascript code to redirect back to the landing page, but I'll have manually change it everytime.

Is there a better way? And if not, what's the code? :)

 
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You could redirect if it is the incorrect referrer page. In other words, they would have to come from a certain page, or it would redirect to page where they would to fill out a form to get content. I created this example for you. Just add it before closing </body> tag on the page. 

<script>
window.onload = function() {
  if (document.referrer !== "CHANGE THIS TO THE PAGE THAT LINKS TO PDF") {
    document.location.href = "CHANGE THIS TO THE PAGE THAT LINKS TO PDF";
  };
 };
</script>

So it should look like this:

<script>
window.onload = function() {
  if (document.referrer !== "http://example.com/landingpage") {
    document.location.href = "http://example.com/landingpage";
  };
 };
</script>

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Anonymous
Accepted solution
November 11, 2014
You could redirect if it is the incorrect referrer page. In other words, they would have to come from a certain page, or it would redirect to page where they would to fill out a form to get content. I created this example for you. Just add it before closing </body> tag on the page. 

<script>
window.onload = function() {
  if (document.referrer !== "CHANGE THIS TO THE PAGE THAT LINKS TO PDF") {
    document.location.href = "CHANGE THIS TO THE PAGE THAT LINKS TO PDF";
  };
 };
</script>

So it should look like this:

<script>
window.onload = function() {
  if (document.referrer !== "http://example.com/landingpage") {
    document.location.href = "http://example.com/landingpage";
  };
 };
</script>
Matt_Stone2
Matt_Stone2
Level 9
November 11, 2014
An alternative is to do away with thank you pages/download pages and deliver everything via email. There's a lot of discussion on this, but it does ensure that you're getting a clean email (if they really want the asset).

Either way, you're going to fight a losing battle because if people want the PDF that badly, someone else could always just save it and deliver it to them that way.
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Anonymous
November 12, 2014
Murtza, I'll give that a try. Matt - I guess you're right. I can just show the TY page and say the email will have a link to the PDF.

I'll have to think about that.

Thanks both!
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Anonymous
November 12, 2014
Hey all I tried this but now the ty page redirects to the dl page even after I filled out the form. I want the code so that it doesn't do it for ppl who fill out form, but it redirects to those who somehow bypassed the form.
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