PAD-Portable Application Description
What is PAD?
PAD is the Portable Application Description, and it helps authors provide product descriptions and specifications to online sources in a standard way, using a standard data format that will allow webmasters and program librarians to automate program listings. PAD saves time for both shareware authors and webmasters.
Why we need Pad generator tool?
When you submit software to download sites, many of them will ask you to submit pad file of your software. This process must be very complicated and will waste you much time, because you have to fill in tons of different forms to different sites.
So you’d better use some software submission tool, as it has the function of Pad generator. After you fill all the required information, it can generate standard Pad files quickly.
Other features of submission software.
1. More visibility and downloads, which in the end means more shareware sales;
2. More back-links and increased link popularity, which enhance your website’s page ranking and position in the main search engines;
3. Easy way to promote your software, some sites include new shareware submissions in the most visible part of their home page, others may also include these in their newsletters;
4. Try to find the appropriate category for your site.
5. Write a high-quality site description. Some sites require a short description, others a more complicated one.
6. Keep track of all the sites and directories you have submitted you software to.
7. Bring more sales of your software product.
In order to continually promote your shareware, don’t forget to submit new or modified versions. As a software writer, you need to use much time on developing software other than to promote it. You can use some promotion software to help you to promote your software. You can have a try.