Submit your demo to shareware sites

When you are ready to start selling your game, what do you do ? well, you set up your website. Get your demo ready to go... work on it to get your conversion ratio (cr) up... Then submit it to shareware sites.

There are a few types of sites you can submit to. Demo sites, and affiliate sites...

A Shareware demo site hosts your demo for download, and links back to your homepage for purchasing.

An affiliate site hosts your demo then links to a buyer site like RegNow or Plimus using an affiliate id number. generally affiliates get about 35% of hte profit from any sales that were made through there sites. But, it is my opinion that putting your site EVERYWHERE possible is the best way to ensure success.

Portals are HIGH traffic sites that sell games relatively cheap... I listed a few. They send you a royalty, but only accept little puzzly games, and often only flash based games.

you can do this automagically with programs like sharewaretracker or robosoft... but you will find that about 50% of hte sites they submit to are completely irrelevant...

It is easier and more efficent, not to mention it is free, to do it your self...

So here is a list of all the relevant sites (or most of them) that accept game demo submissions...

Demo posting
www.atsofttop.com
www.2haveit.com/category.php?cat=Games
www.3d2f.com
www.4-software-downloads.com
www.5starfiles.com
www.5star-shareware.com
www.aaasoftware-ezine.com
www.ab-archive.com
www.addmine.com
www.winappslist.com
www.amazingfiles.com/
downloads.asp-shareware.com
www.bulldownload.com
www.bykeyword.com
www.completelyfreesoftware.com/index_all.html
www.2000shareware.com
www.demonews.com
www.dirfile.com
www.downloadfreetrial.com
www.net-matrix.com
www.downloadjunction.com
download-by.net
www.downloadsarea.com
www.downloadthat.com
www.downloadwasp.com
www.downseek.com
www.ez-freebies.com
www.filehungry.com
www.filebasket.com
www.filecart.com
www.filechicken.com
www.filedevil.com
www.fileplanet.com
www.fileprofile.com
www.files32.com
www.filesland.com
www.finaldownload.com
www.findsoftonline.com
www.flyingmonkeystick.com
www.free-downloads.net
www.freefunfiles.com
www.freewarearena.com
www.freewarefiles.com
freewarepro.com
www.freshfolder.com
www.gamearchives.com
www.gamenews.ro
www.gogetfiles.com/
www.goodfiles.com
www.grab.com
www.homeshareware.com
www.indiankey.com/shareware
itprodownloads.com
www.itsfree4u.com
www.itshareware.com
www.katstorm.com/downloads
www.key-download.com
www.macosxapps.com
macgamefiles.com/index.php?cat=2
www.macosarchives.com (MAC)
www.aquafiles.com (MAC)
www.masterdownload.com
www.maxwebportal.com/dl.asp
www.miseajour.net
software.networld.com
www.neverexpires.com
www.onlythebestfreeware.com
dmoz.org
www.padring.com
www.pcnewsflash.com
pcwin.com
www.pcworld.com/downloads/index/0,00.asp
www.peachseed.com
www.perfectdownloads.com
www.programjunction.com
www.realshareware.3rdrock.co.uk/cgi-bin/realshare.cgi
www.rebusnet.biz
www.rocketdownload.com
www.service-1.org/shareware-directory.html
www.shareq.com
www.sharewareconnection.com
www.sharewarejunction.com
www.sharewareking.com/listings
www.sharewaretree.com/index.php
www.sharewareviking.com
sharewareville.com
www.superfolder.com
www.abuys.com/calvgar/software.htm
simplythebest.net/shareware
www.smartdownloads.net/
www.sofotex.com
www.softtester.com
www.soft20.com
www.soft411.com
www.softandco.com
www.softslist.com
www.softwarekb.com
www.softwarelight.com
www.softpicks.net
www.softwareawards.net
www.totalshareware.com
www.trialfiles.com
www.tucows.com
www.tudogs.com
volftp.tiscali.it/indexe.htm
www.voodoofiles.com
www.willingsoftware.com/pad
www.windowsmirror.com
www.winsite.com
www.winsw.com
www.winwarelinks.com
www.worldssp.net
www.3dgamers.com
shareme.com
www.actiontrip.com/
www.game-revolution.com
www.gamezone.com
www.videogamenews.com
www.gametunnel.com
www.diygames.com

They put your game up for sale (affiliates)
www.browsesoftware.com
www.1000files.com
www.1000apps.com
www.5cup.com
www.afreego.com
games.yamisoft.com
www.allthesoft.com
www.biz2consumer.com/downloads
www.bluechillies.com
www.brothersoft.com
www.bumpersoft.com
www.buy-software.org
www.canistotasoftware.com
download.com
colinproof.com
www.cutedownloads.com
www.daolnwod.com
www.dissoft.com
www.downloadatoz.com
download.e-not.net
www.download2pc.com
www.download3000.com
www.eurodownload.com
www.fileboost.net
fileforum.betanews.com
www.fileguru.com
www.fileheaven.com
www.filelight.com
www.FileLover.com
www.filetrial.com
www.free-download-game.com
www.freewaretown.com
www.gamesarc.com
www.globalshareware.com
www.goldenshareware.com
www.hotdownloads.com
www.hotlib.com
www.hot-shareware.com
www.hotwinfiles.com
www.isofthouse.com
www.jqml.com
www.jump-to.com/shareware
www.macwares.com
mostshareware.com
soft.necromancers.ru
www.needmoreshareware.com/index.htm
www.newsoftwareproducts.com
www.pcwdld.com
www.buydownloadedgames.com
www.popsoftlib.com
www.programfiles.com
www.scriptfreebies.com
www.shareseek.com
www.sharetool.com
www.shareup.com
www.sharewareisland.com
www.sharewareriver.com
www.sharewared.com
www.sharewarehunter.com
www.swiftdownloads.com
www.smesource.com/Downloads
www.softempire.com
www.softhypermarket.com
www.soft14.com
www.soft32.com
www.softak.com
www.softaward.com
www.softdepia.com
www.softforall.com
www.softempire.com
www.softizer.com
www.softloaded.com
www.softpile.com
www.softsia.com
www.softviewer.com
www.softwarearchives.com
www.softwarelab.us
www.topshareware.com
www.xkee.com
www.yankeedownload.com
download-soft.com


Portal
www.download-free-games.com
www.download-online-games.com
www.bigfishgames.com
www.gamealbum.com
www.realarcade.com
www.simtel.net
www.terragame.com



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