Password-Protected Area

Although most of your Web site is usually open to everybody, you can "hide" selected areas of the site behind passwords.

Here are some of the benefits:

• Increase passive income: Your private area could be open to "members only", for a subscription fee.
• Add value to clients: You can give out passwords to clients, for access to additional material. For example, professional speakers can give out passwords to audiences for supplementary material after their presentation.
• Deliver private information: You can deliver client-specific information by uploading it to your Web site.
• Leverage your intellectual property: Instead of making everything public, you can make selected information private.
• Marketing value: When you meet somebody at a networking function, you could give them your business card and a password to download, say, an e-book from your Web site, so that they have a good reason to visit it.

How does it work?

By default, all pages you create on the site are public, so anybody can see them. However, you have the option to mark any of them as "restricted", so they don't appear to the public.

You then create as many different user names and passwords as you like, and give them out to people as you wish. When somebody "logs in" using their user name and password, the restricted pages magically appear on the Web site menus.

Would you like to try this?

Go ahead - click the "Members Only" link on the right-hand side of this page, and log in using the user name "demo" and password "demodemo". You'll then see a new menu item "Goodies" just below the Members Only link. Click that and you'll get some special things I've set up for you.