If you are a shareware developer you know that promoting your software can take alot of time and effort. I don’t want to say as much time as writing the software, but it’s close. There are automated tools that can help you promote the the software to hundreds of the various download sites out there. The one I use is PromoSoft from Develab. If you choose to do it manually, I have included a short list of sample sites below. However, if your really serious about promoting your software you probably want to invest in a tool as there are literally hundreds if not thousands software download sites out there. A tool will take most of the the legwork out of the submission process. As an added bonus, each of the sites you submit to will create a link back to your site which ofcourse will improve your link popularity. The other thing you’ll need to do is create a PAD file. PAD stands for Portable Application Description. PAD is an XML fomatted file that describes your software. Most if not all of the sites you submit to will accept a PAD file which save you keying information hundreds of times. These are some of the sites I recently submitted my shareware tool QuidProQuo product to. Anyway, here is the list in the comments below: