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Manual PAD Submission

Important PAD Submission Sites

• ASP: The inventors of PAD files. You must take a vision and typing test for each item you add. The security code, their term for a validation code. You must copy and key it case-sensitive. It is not obvious that your submission took. The only thing changed on the screen on success is a new security code. If you leave the code blank, there is no error message. On failure, you will see a big red error message. They take submissions from the general public. Last revised/verified: 2008-07-25 Membership is  per year for a standard membership.
• CNet : must set up a complex account with a lot of info. Big site.
•  TuCows: major site. Needs two account ids, one for browsing and a more elaborate one for submitting.
• For other important sites, look in No Hassle PAD Submission Sites and Hassle PAD Submission Sites for sites in the top 10, top 20, top 30 or top 100.

Hassle Free PAD Submission Sites

PAD Submission Sites with Minor Hassle

Pad Submitting Tips

The submission sites often hassle you in a variety of ways. They want back links from your site to theirs. They want you to retype parts of the XML file. They want you to read weirdly twisted letters and prove you can type them accurately. They want you to set up accounts. They want you to give them your life history. Just pass them by. There are plenty of other sites who won’t hassle you that way. Some refuse to list free software. They hope to make commissions from companies like RegNow that handle accepting money. Some hope to make money displaying ads. They want more visitors to their site, hence the request for back links. The back links also help boost their Google rankings.

PAD Submission Sites for Selling Software

• BMTMicro.
• eSellerate
• Bluesnap née Plimus
•  Regnow You can deal with RegNow three different ways:
  1. As a customer of software. You don’t have an account. You pay with a credit card each time you buy something from one of their affiliated vendors.
  2. As a vendor, when you want to sell your own products.
  3. As an affiliate. You advertise other people’s products on your website and get a commission from sales.
  You need two totally different accounts, one to as a vendor to sell your own software and one as an affiliate to sell other people’s. There are two completely different systems.
• TuCows: major site. Needs account id. You pay for clicks.
• YankeeDownload.com Product must be sold through at least one of RegNow, ShareIt, SellShareware, eSellerate, BMTMicro or Bluesnap (née Plimus). Must rekey ids in selling services.

PAD Submission Services

• Avangate: submit to 500 sites for  .
• Submit-Everywhere: submit to 1000 sites for   to  Last revised/verified: 2009-05-17
• SoftWebsNepal submit one PAD to 2000 sites for . I asked them how they defeated the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) validation codes required by many sides for submission. They replied that the process of CAPTCHA, username and password, backlinks and category selection are all done manually. What a bargain! It would take days of labour. They are headquartered in Nepal where labour is cheap enough for this tedious task.
• Ivertech: to submit to 35 sites for  .

Automated PAD Submitters

Here are some programs I have found to submit for you:

• Free Mini Pad Submitter: I wrote this submitter out of frustration with the poor quality of the existing submitters. You can download and run it, or run it on my website as an Applet without installing anything. It submits to all the hassle-free sites listed above. The Mini Pad Submitter submits your PAD to 66 PADsites for the general public to learn about it. It comes with Java source so you can extended it to other websites. If you come across any other hassle-free submission sites that don’t require a security code or login, please pass along the URL to  so I can add them to the list.
• RoboSoft advertises it submits to 1000 sites. Endorsed by the PADring and ASP people. Defeats CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Aparts), though permits manual help on difficult ones. Includes PADManager PAD editor and verifier. Avoids resubmitting PADs that a site already has listed, not just by keeping track of what it has submitted, but by scanning the site with site search engines to see what anyone has already submitted. Each time it runs, it collects descriptor files for new websites to submit to from the Rudenko server. It works with PADManager to create the PAD files with number of extra fields to help the submitter. It allows you to specify a number of category keywords which its uses to match against sites’ lists of proprietary categories. Has a 30-day free trial where you can submit as many products as you want. It will give you a report on who has your PAD listed already. It can be a surprise. Many sites you did not submit to will have taken your PAD from some other site. You can select categories of site to submit to, so that you don’t submit to sites who would have no interest in your PAD. You can also manually select the proprietary categories of sites. The submission process is multi-thread which greatly speeds it up. RoboSoft can get on with another site while it is waiting for a previous one to respond. RoboSoft somehow automatically responds to the confirmation emails. Unfortunately, you still get emails demanding attention. It makes it easier to manually key the Captchas by magnifying them. I think it gives you only one chance to get the Captcha correct. With manual submission you can try as many times as you want. It is by far the best autosubmitter I have tried, though the user interface is sometimes a bit confusing. Often you need to save and exit to continue with the next step. The ESL (English as a Second Language) author uses save and exit where most programmers would use OK. It just exits the dialog, not the program. The program is unusually polite, continually reassuring you about various worries you are likely to have. The bottom line is it submitted the PAD for the Canadian Sales Tax calculator to 492 sites.
• Pad Express. It submits to 100+ sites. It handles sites that ask for a proprietary category by asking you to manually categorise your PAD by 4 different classification schemes. It would have been more convenient if they used one combined scheme and translated. The trial version lets you see how it works, submitting to 50 sites. It creates a log with the responses from each site. The program is a bit long in the tooth. Its help files will not work with Vista. However, the program works better than any other I have tried. It successfully submitted to 50 sites and provided the logs to prove it. for personal use, for commercial use.
• gsa-online: program to submit to 8000 sites for  . I have not tried it. You can rent it for a month for  . The website claims it can defeat Captcha security. It uses multiple threads so it can submit 100 submissions a minute.
• GSA Auto Softsubmit: submit to 3000 sites for  .
• Easy PAD Submitter. Multithread. Submits to 48 catalogs. Adware. I could not get this program to work at all. It displayed in illegible pale yellow letters on a white background. The import wanted only *.dat files. There was no documentation to tell you what that meant. Adding an individual XML file with ADD just filled the screen with question marks.
• Shareware Tracker : Submits to 340 sites. Uses an SQL (Standard Query Language) database. The hard part is finding the way to import a PAD file. The trick is this: click Window ⇒ Project Manager ⇒ then click the red bullet plus ⇒ then select your PAD file ⇒ then click the project name box. It will fill in the details from your PAD file. A Project is the same thing as a PAD. You can only import them on at a time. When you hit submit it simply takes you to each site in turn and display helps to what you have to do. It does some filling in the blanks for you. It does not edit or verify PADs. This is not automation. You are supposed to manually decide whether each site fits its criteria. It does no filtering based on the contents of your PAD.
• SoftCab Submitter: free This program might be considered a virus. It is one of the most annoying programs I have ever encountered. It insists you put a link to their site on your home page. They are trying to artificially boost Google rankings. Its annoys you to death until you do, or uninstall it. The program is unusually opaque for such a simple task. It is idiosyncratic and difficult-to-use. One major stumbling blocks to getting started is having two links marked browse. They are associated with the padring.com people. It has 1100 sites in its database. It is free, other than the home page ad requirement. It is written in JavaScript. It leaves behind scores of files after an uninstall.
• SubmitMySoft: pretends to be a free submission program but it is actually just an advertisement for an expensive submission service.
• Trialware Submit: pretends to be a free submission program but it is actually just a short list of home page URL s, some of which are PAD submission sites. You have to navigate to the submit page manually and submit manually. Most of the URLs is the list don’t even accept PAD submissions.