Download.com

This week I listed one of our products on Download.com. The impression I got from looking around the web is that it's the only download site that generates enough traffic to justify the investment. If any readers have other suggestions please let me know.

I went for the basic listing package, it's quite reasonably priced at $79 for a whole year. They do have a premium package, which costs $199 per month, but that seems expensive. Also, they didn't really sell me on what the premium package had to make it so much better than the basic listing. I'm sure it's useful to have my updates processed and online in 1 day instead of 5, but I think I can live without it, and I can pay a $249 per update fee to have one rushed through in an emergency.

It's too soon to say if it's worthwhile, but as I write this we've had 14 downloads. It's only been up 2 days (and their figures don't seem to be instantly updated), so I guess that's a reasonable start. Some people could also be finding our software on download.com, then clicking through to our product site for more information, and using our standard download form. I've noticed a small increase in downloads over the last couple of days, download.com could be easily be responsible for that too.

The product I listed was our Staff Rota/Rostering software, Oriador Rota. If I still think it was a good idea in a couple of weeks time I'll list our web browser too.