There are plenty of software solutions to getting
your web site promoted. However, if you are a software author you
need more than web site visitors. It is vital that you get your
software mentioned in the various shareware and software listing
sites on the Net. That can involve tedious work with search
engines, Notepad and lists, or a ten minute breeze with SiteTrak.
Managing a shareware listing site can also involve hours of
cutting, pasting, getting missing information for authors and
getting rid of junk mail sent to the submission address. Or it
can be a ten minute job setting up the template, and then let the
free import tool from SiteTrak take the submissions for you.
I gave SiteTrak a real test - I invented a software package that
goes to work for you, so you can stay home and surf (I wish..)
The screens I had to complete in SiteTrak were simple, giving my
company name and details and all the information about the
software itself only took five minutes. SiteTrak has been careful
to include all the information review sites insist on, so you
cannot go wrong.
Then I launched the Distribution Centre, and selected which sites
I wanted to advise about my software. For a real app I could have
used the full list - you get five with the shareware version but
can manually add as many as you like - but for my purpose I used
Shareware Junkies and a fake submission site which was in fact
me. I deliberately used Junkies because we do not have email
submission, only form based.
It worked beautifuly - my fake submission site received a mail
within a few minutes giving full details of my spoof software in
a professional manner, the layout is neat and the content so
comprehensive any shareware site would post it immediately. And
SiteTrak kindly provided a print out of the sites that do not
accept mail submissions, so that I could pop over and fill the
form in (copying and pasting from my SiteTrak files to save
stacks of time)
SiteTrak keeps a log of every submission - no problem with
multiple mails by mistake, which would annoy the shareware sites.
If I change the version number it will resubmit, and I could also
mark the Junkies Site as "success" after I had filled
in the form. You can promote as many software packages as you
like.
SiteTrak really is an ESSENTIAL tool for shareware authors. With
it thay can promote their hard work all over the Internet - the
registered version has over 100 popular sites listed - without
spending too much time. An author needs to spend his valuable
time working on software, not researching promotion. SiteTrak is
an automated promotions expert, it will do all the hard work and
organising for the author, and leave him or her free to
concentrate on their programming.
There is a free logo and link system available for Shareware
sites too, to encourage authors to use SiteTrak. With it the
shareware sites gets a FREE import tool, which means no more
tedious cutting, pasting and editing - instead the submissions
are consistent, neat, comprehensive and automatic! What could be
easier? And it costs nothing - the import tool is free to
shareware site webmasters
Registration provides a listing of over 100 sites, and takes the
message off the mails about the submission being made with an
unregistered version of SiteTrak. You can buy it using a secure
connection from the Lincoln Beach website.