Authors Area - Getting your software listed at filedownloadz.com

You do not need to submit your software to this site directly because we regularly collect the details of software that has been submitted to the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) website using the PAD format.

To get your software listed here you must first create a PAD file, make it available on your web site and submit the link to the ASP PAD Repository. We will find it and if our PAD parser can read the file successfully we will be able to list your software. Please note that we only list products which have descriptions in English.

You can create a PAD file using PADGen which can be downloaded free from the ASP site.

Manual PAD Submission

If for some reason you do not submit your PAD files to the ASP site we do have a PAD submission form and can accept the submission of new, modified or deleted software. It requires the URL to your PAD file. You can search our database to check if your software is already listed.

Modifications

When you modify your software, simply update your PAD file and resubmit it to the PAD Repository. That will enable us to update the software listing. We will not detect updates unless the modified PAD file is submitted to the PAD Repository. Similarly, if you discontinue your software product, you can remove it from the PAD repository and we will be able to remove it from our site.

We run our update weekly so inclusion of new products that long to take effect. Updates take longer but we do poll PAD files at intervals and we will update the listings as a result. Use the PAD submission form to update a listing more quickly.

If our PAD parser is unable to read the file, your software will not be added to our site. Possible reasons for this might be failing to specify a valid category, missing an essential field or having a critical field with a length that is longer than the specification allows. We also apply filtering to block the large amount of fake, duplicate or unsuitable PADs. PADs may be blocked if there is no valid company address. This address is not published on this site but genuine software publishers usually have a genuine address.

We reserve the right to omit software from our site if we feel it is unsuitable, or if it is a duplicate or copy of another product.