SEO tip: using PAD files for link building
SEO link building is important, and one way to create links to your site is to submit them to PAD-enabled software directories or freeware download sites. Finding these sites is not a problem as there are hundreds of them that can be found on the Internet.
When submitted to a PAD site, a software package is submitted for listing, which is not like submitting to a traditional web directory. For regular web directories, you submit your website content along with a link and anchor text, so users can link to you.
A PAD file is software in which all the information is placed in a standardized format and that the software developers send to the various free programs and share directories on the Internet. It contains information about archive sites, download URL, relevant keywords, and other data about your site that are typically filled in by web developers when submitting to regular web directories.
And for better SEO, a quick tip is to make sure to update the listings and information displayed on the front page of the software download site as you get the most exposure. This can provide better optimization when the links can be returned to your site through the links you get from the download site as well.
And a quick tip is also that when you ship, you need to make sure that the release date of your software in the PAD file is actually the actual ship date. If you have presentation dates the same as the launch date, you will have a better chance of having exposure on the main page.
When you create a PAD file that uses your site as the URL for download information and submit this PAD file to the shareware and freeware directories, you will already have the links available. The directories will create a page that lists all the information in your PAD file along with a link, which is the URL of your site that you have provided.
In any SEO campaign, link building is very useful, but it is also very tedious as any web marketer will do whatever link building strategy they can find useful. This PAD file submission strategy can be a great SEO building technique that can generate links for you.
And for the links to be more valued by search engines, you must ensure that the links generated from the download are relevant to the content of the niche site. By having your PAD files flooded with quality content that contains relevant keywords listed, you will be able to improve the quality of all the links that you will generate from this method.