Say you've got something special, a chart, PDF or a video and you want to restrict access to it. You don't want to require an account setup and a login, but you want to make sure that someone fills in a form first, to get access.
If someone then copies that link and tries to share it, or post it in a forum somewhere, ideally it won't work, and people who try to access it will be directed to register for free access as well.
There are three approaches you could do to help deter abuse;
Depending on how much time you want to invest in that deterrent feature, you can use those in combination.
Of these, I favor IP-restriction, because it’s the cleanest and easiest to implement, and I think it offers the right capabilities in this scenario, unless it creates GDPR issues in your target market.
Unfortunately, if you’re wanting to build this in Webflow, it’s a bit involved, and will require custom coding, Airtable, and automation, working together. Features involving security tend to get complex quickly, but this is a pretty clean way to do it.
For this scenario, we assume the user fills out the lead form, and then is immediately and seamlessly directed to the content page.
The basic parts you need are;
Another popular pattern, slightly more complex, is to email a password to the user. They then have to check their email to get that, and click that link or paste that ID into a new page.
The mechanism here is similar but the added email step lets you verify the email is real and point to them, if avoiding fake emails is important to you.
