Having your software visible is the only way of making sales. The more shareware sites your software is listed with, the more downloads you will get and the more sales that will follow. Submitting software to shareware sites is very time consuming.
There are over 5000 of shareware sites and each site has a slightly different method of submitting your program information. You need to visit each directory, software download site or shareware search engine site individually and fill out the required information for that site. Some sites require a username and password that you choose while others e-mail you a special password.
Because of this variation, most commercially available software submission programs simply cannot work for every different site. Even the best ones require a visit to every site, not to mention the time consuming registration process for those sites that require you to login. That process however takes days, or even weeks, depending on how many directories and software download sites you wish your software to be registered with and how detailed the information you submit is.
Research shows that 85% of web traffic comes from search engines. But if your site is not ranked high enough on the search engines, none of that traffic will come to you.
