Software sites listing or hosting my freeware program Words,Extended.

Blowing my own horn would seem to compete against humility, but it appears that if I don't do something to get the word out, even a great program like Words,Extended (WordsEx), even priced beyond right, even free, will just sit there on the shelf.

First, I submitted just the Words,Extended executable file to one site that I knew by name, Download.com. I somewhat nervously anticipated as the three weeks went by to get it approved and listed. Then I expected to see the download count shoot up, maybe 4, 5 digits, but it's still only in the hundreds. (How many were my own?)

http://www.download.com

http://www.download.com/WordsEx/3000-2356_4-10800328.html?tag=lst-1

Here's another of my first manually submitted sites. Softpedia found Words,Extended to be "clean" and "100% free", and already with 500 downloads, seven users ranked it as "Good" (3.0/5)!

http://www.softpedia.com
http://www.softpedia.com/progClean/WordsEx-Clean-93644.html
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Search-engine-tools-submiting/WordsEx.shtml

Then I finally made a PAD file, which is a "Portable Application Description", which is an XML file describing my application program in a structured way. I used a freeware application PADGen from the Association of Shareware Professionals, from http://www.asp-shareware.org/pad/ to fill in my information and create the structured XML data, and validate it.

Click here, and you can read my XML PAD file, and see what information I put in it: My PAD file for Words,Extended

The mere act of submitting my pad file to the Association of Shareware Professionals caused me to receive two e-mails within hours saying Words,Extended was now listed, from two web sites that actively monitor the ASP database. Download3k.com also made some tests that my code is clean, and emailed me this clean award link.

http://www.download3k.com

http://www.download3k.com/Internet/Browsers/Download-Words-Extended.html

http://www.padtube.com

http://www.padtube.com/index.php?tag=dl&prod_id=68304

I took a brief thrill ride on the free trial run of an application called GSA Auto SoftSubmit, found at http://www.gsa-online.de/eng/index.html that submits your PAD file to about 5000 web locations, but only to about 100 web sites in the trial version. It was a delight to watch that multi-threaded program work, making intelligent guesses, even at interpreting the Captcha's (images you have to type in). From that profligate program I have about 30 links spread around, which I will endeavour to visit and tabulate here. Their domain names all start with a digit, which is one of the limitations of that GSA trial version.

Disappointingly, the majority of them appear to be web-link farms (who link one another to rank higher in search engines), not worth mentioning here. There only seemed to be this one that was a bona fide software download site:

http://www.fivesign.com
http://www.fivesign.com/downloads/program/WordsExtended_61189_67.html

Now I am on a manually guided course, having surfed with WordsEx.exe for "submit PAD files" and having a great many web sites to visit personally and make my submissions, as follows. One need for this page is that many web sites require a link back from you to them in order to list you, but a long list will also be like a merit badge for suffering many submit process. Some of these submissions may still be in progress.

http://soft.easyhtools.com

http://soft.easyhtools.com/29462/details-words-extended.html

An email from Free-to-try came on the heels of submitting to easyhtools, and they looked very similar. Then I was studying my "submit pad" query results, and found lemonfiles.com, and when I looked there, lo, Words,Extended is there aready too.

http://www.free-to-try.com

http://www.free-to-try.com/29462/details-words-extended.html

http://www.lemonfiles.com
http://www.lemonfiles.com/29462/details-words-extended.html

Words,Extended received its first award for function, rather than mere cleanliness, due to a review at Download25.com. I'm so proud that I put up both the text and graphic version of their offered link:

http://www.download25.com
Words,Extended received "5 stars" award on http://www.download25.com

http://www.download25.com/wordsextended-download.html

This site's unusual: It offers a database full of PAD files for free, to start whomsoever would like to host a freeware/shareware download web site. Getting in there would be like getting into an unknown number of as-yet-unborn software web sites.

http://www.ancysoft.com
File Recovery :: Data Recovery Software and Undelete tools at Ancysoft.com
site WordsEx URL TBD

This was pleasant: Immediately after submitting my PAD file to bestsoftware4download.com, the next page displayed had a URL to the newly created Words,Extended entry, and also, a link to another site, bestfreewaredownload.com, and my one click added Words,Extended immediately there too!

http://www.bestsoftware4download.com
http://www.bestsoftware4download.com/software/t-free-words-extended-download-xsxmpeek.html

http://www.bestfreewaredownload.com
http://www.bestfreewaredownload.com/freeware/t-free-words-extended-freeware-ijjkfrcv.html

Soft14.com says that the free level of software submissions are processed in two years without a backlink, two weeks with one, surely the most extreme claim I've heard!

http://www.soft14.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

Here's one that won't be happening: Grailit's submit page is dysfunctional:

http://http://downloads.grailit.com

site WordsEx URL TBD

The following several web sites came up grouped together in Words,Extended, for all of their program submission pages are essential identical boilerplate, hence Words,Extended ranked them as quite equal, and both software2have.com and freeware2have.com redirected me to ksourcerer.org;:

http://www.software2have.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.freeware2have.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.ksourcerer.org
site recommended HTML link TBD
http://www.ksourcerer.org/34216/details-words-extended.html

http://www.file-cart.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

Fileplaza.com had another non-functional submission form, saying, Error: "Price is required!" Well, you can't put a price on a good time, but perhaps even freeware must have its price.

http://www.fileplaza.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

5Cup.com had another non-functional submission form, which vomits back JavaScript.

http://www.5cup.com/
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.findfiles.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.fileheap.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.amazingfiles.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.freewarebox.com

http://www.freewarebox.com/free_19890_words-extended-download.html

http://www.sharewareabc.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
http://www.sharewareabc.com/details.php?progid=24802

http://www.bestvistadownloads.com
Best Vista Downloads - Windows Vista software, freeware and shareware downloads
http://www.bestvistadownloads.com/software/t-free-words-extended-download-vlqdtmaa.html

http://www.softwaremass.com/
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

Mein Deutsch ist schlect, aber ich glaube, Words,Extended ist vortragen... Yup!

http://www.freeware-download.com

http://www.freeware-download.com/downloaddetails/18748.html

http://www.eurodownload.com
Free Words,Extended download
Download Words,Extended from the best download software source
http://www.eurodownload.com/download-software/113640/Words%2CExtended.html

http://www.downloadjunction.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.softplatz.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.softizer.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

Not submitted to 10,000 files: Need a vendor Id to submit.

http://www.10000files.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.freevistafiles.com

http://www.freevistafiles.com/Glenn-Scheper+Words-Extended.html

A coupl'a hours at the library's hotspot, and I got another dozen submissions going forth...

http://www.freewarefiles.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.soft411.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.filetransit.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.filedudes.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

DoDownload.com has also "approved" Words,Extended, which review you can read by clicking icon. Well, actually I find no review there, just my pad-file statements:

http://www.dodownload.com

site WordsEx URL TBD

http://pcwin.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.sharewaretown.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

"Dear Publisher,... Words,Extended was fully tested by our [TopShareWare.com] editor. It has been granted the Trusted Software Certification. This means your product does not contain spyware, adware, viruses and other malware. You can see your product and its certification icon on the download page at: http://www.topshareware.com/WordsExtended-download-61208.htm"

http://www.topshareware.com

http://www.topshareware.com/WordsExtended-download-61208.htm

I'll have to try submitting to fileedge.com again: SCE Error: Failed to establish database connection

http://www.fileedge.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://www.submit-pad-file.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

http://filegets.com
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

Upon submit, yankeedownload.com responded right back with a new Words,Extended URL. That's the immediate gratification that I like! Why doesn't everybody automate? Why, they could apply a computer to this mundane task!

http://www.yankeedownload.com

http://www.yankeedownload.com/software/words-extended-jqdck.html

It's been months that I haven't worked on submits, but these diligent people wrote to me!:

http://www.freedownloadsplace.com
http://www.freedownloadsplace.com/Products/38379/Words-Extended

And yet another site found me, on May 1 2009:

http://www.filesarchive.com
View this program at www.FilesArchive.com
http://www.FilesArchive.com/LinkToItem.aspx?id=59633

site URL TBD
site recommended HTML link TBD
site WordsEx URL TBD

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