Where to submit your demo.

[ChrisLabombard]

Hey. I conpiled a list of places to submit your demos to and thought I would post it.

http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=31400

[svero]

Its a ton of work to submit a demo to all these sites. I highly recommend people use an automated tool like Promosoft (IMHO the best one available) to do the submissions for them. The return you get on site submissions these days is somewhat dubious anyway. Download sites by and large lead to very few sales these days. For games at least..

- Steve

[Emmanuel]

I would second that. Of course, things add up at the end of the month, so even if you only get one sale every two months out of a single download site, it's still worth the submission time (using a tool like Shareware tracker or promosoft, to be sure). However, submission is one of the least effective ways of spending your time to make sales. For me, getting press coverage, affiliation to selected partners (eg. Phelios, Search Amateur, Winterwolves) and search engine optimization are the most profitable activities.

Best regards,
Emmanuel

[Jack Norton]

For me, getting press coverage, affiliation to selected partners (eg. Phelios, Search Amateur, Winterwolves)
BWAHAHA you were one of the few lucky people to be gifted with a Winterwolves frontpage promotion! :D

jokes apart I agree to what you've said, except PR: it's a sort of hit or miss, depends mainly if you make it at the right time (if you do a PR just before Half Life 2 get released for example you'll be ignored...!)

[ChrisLabombard]

Sharewaretracker submits your demo to sites that it really shouldn't. Sites that don't care or dont even have game demos on them.

[soniCron]

This is usually the best resource if you're wanting to do it manually:

http://www.asp-shareware.org/pad/padsites.asp

[ErikH2000]

Sharewaretracker submits your demo to sites that it really shouldn't. Sites that don't care or dont even have game demos on them.
When you use ST it isn't like you press one button and then robots take over fully automating submissions. You manually submit to each site one at a time, and there are just some tools that make it go faster, like filling in forms for you. You have to review each step of the submission to make sure things are right. The main list with ST has many sites in it that won't take games, shareware, English-language software, etc. But it's easy to spot and skip these. Note you can read the site notes which say things like "Internet-related utilities only".

-Erik

[Emmanuel]

BWAHAHA you were one of the few lucky people to be gifted with a Winterwolves frontpage promotion! :D

Hey, it worked ;)


jokes apart I agree to what you've said, except PR: it's a sort of hit or miss, depends mainly if you make it at the right time (if you do a PR just before Half Life 2 get released for example you'll be ignored...!)

Well, you will agree with me that you get the most sales/day when the game is first announced "seriously" (ideally you'll wait to do that until you've tuned the demo to maximize the CR already).. You only get that once, so PR or not, it's better to wait until you know there's no major news anyway. It's not like you can't know that a big AAA title or major OSX release is coming out :)

Best regards,
Emmanuel

[Promaginy]

If your demo is listed on 50+ sites, does this help with being found with Search Engines? I had thought that increasing the number of times a name is listed or a website linked to would lead to a better listing on the search engines...

[Kai Backman]

In my experience being listed is worth it both in direct sales and in terms of SEO. In the long run the only way to get the top spot in your category is to relevant enough. Software sites is one way to be relevant.

Again, a lot of things tend to work for me that doesn't work for anyone else here .. YMMV :D

[Chris Evans]

I also recommend PromoSoft. Makes the whole process relatively effortless and you save tons of time.

Though I don't know how effective it is to submit to download sites these days. The most I got out of submitting to download sites is receiving incessant emails from David Tramble...

[svero]

Though I don't know how effective it is to submit to download sites these days. The most I got out of submitting to download sites is receiving incessant emails from David Tramble...

That's true.. I get MANY MANY more emails from tramble than I do orders from all download sites combined.

[Jim Buck]

David Tramble (http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegefootball/players/playerpage/422502)?