Software indexes as a source of traffic

[DartVoter]

Hello everyone.

I' am about to launch my site for shareware business and I' am interested if submitting my program on shareware indexes will be effective way of promotion.

Did anyone used this way? I mean I not going to submit manually, and think outsourcing is too expensive compared to feedback. Seems some kind of submission program may be helpful, but I don't know if any really works.

Can anyone help?

[Brian911]

there are demo versions of software submission programs available over at download.com. In general most of these programs come with a quite big database of software review sites, but of course fail when the sites use image verification or other stuff to keep bots from accessing their sites. Make sure that the site database is up-to-date.

[keenman]

There are a lot of such program on the market, but most are junk.

Main type - semiautomatic programs. They'll help, but still take A LOT of your time (maybe days). Use it if you have some.

Automatic ones are faster, but it is hard to find one really works. I personally found only one at www.develab.net (they call it PromoSoft). It works (I've tested), and does the job well. You may try it yourself (they have a limited trial to download).

[DartVoter]

Thanks for the link. I liked the program, suits me well.