Make no mistake, I am the concept of free software download sites and at a time, I was completely satisfied that it was the only way to get traffic and customers to buy new software via the Internet. Today, I don't know if that still holds true. I begin to have my doubts. Like everything in life, things change, and it must follow these changes or risk being left behind.
A few years back I helped one of my sons with a component software which it had developed and wanted to sell through the obvious advantages of the web, which, after more than ten years in our country, began to bear fruit. We tentatively started submitting software to different download sites; a work that I've managed personally while he struggled with the development of the application of the company that he was alone. At this time, I had to fill out by hand, of all forms was not a simple or a pleasant task by any means.
In any event, our combined dedication and traffic generated by download sites, companies around the world have begun to buy the component and the PAD file automated on auto-pilot removed the pressure of filling out forms with my hands. Without being really know sites exactly how the software has been registered and functioning, the results were very clear: this was the way to sell on the Internet for this particular product. At the same time, we have noticed that House Web site that was hiding the software received little attention in the search engines and Google was early in his career on the astonishing rise, but we don't worry too much because of free download sites were all the work.
This comfortable economic situation lasted approximately four or five years, but it began to decline in the past two years, and things have become uncertain, at least. We began to worry about the sustainability of software which had probably behind its possibilities of life cycle. My son was immediately began to make some revisions cruelly defect in the original source, migrating from other programming languages, began to rely on new applications such as WinForms, WPF and Silverlight to spruce up its output and a make-over of its Web site as a whole.
None of this was easy and sales have not been around as before, but something has definitely changed is that the search engines are beginning to recognize the Web site and a few high only download sites are always responsible for a much smaller part of the visits on the site. In our case, it is probably because our product is lost in the shuffle somewhere between thousands of different programs that hit the market daily. We have not yet been able to really put our finger on what has happened, but knowing that we cannot depend on more fully third traffic has been more aware of the great challenge that we face if we want to keep the company.
Julio Luzardo is a filmmaker veteran of the Colombia who studied film at UCLA before it important, which has always adopted technologies and believes firmly that the computer and the Internet are the most important inventions of mankind. He has his own film, TV and the portal of Spanish photography, En Rodaje, since 1998 and is now the webmaster of http://component-world.com.