Submitting software before the affiliate is set up

[gcarlton]

I'm considering using Promosoft to blitz out my game to all the sites out there. However, I have noticed it doesn't support Kagi, nor SWREG. This means that I'd be adding the game as a 0% commission, ensuring a low priority placement.

I am working toward getting RegNow set up (3rd time lucky!), which seems to be supported everywhere. However, I'm unsure whether I should delay the promotion until I can enter the proper affiliate deals. Is it as easy to update this stuff as it is to do it in the first place? Or should I wait until RegNow is set up, so I can do it right first go?

RegNow may take some tweaking as I have my own C++ program to do the keygen, which has been somewhat painful to adopt from one company to the other.

[Nexic]

Most of these free download sites won't make you any affiliate sales. I've only ever received one (out of all my games) from such a site, and that was Softpedia. Really I think you will overall make more money by submitting to free sites, not giving the affiliate details and getting 100% of any sales they do manage to make. Because they don't even seem to give you much more promotion if your an affiliate.