I found an interesting article on the blog BluehatSeo, explaining how to make $100 per day by creating screensavers.

The post, written last year, was claiming you could achieve this within 6-8 weeks.

I have spent a bit of time time recently trying to implement the idea and even if I am far from the $100 per day, I have to admit I make some bucks from it. Don’t expect to achieve it within 8 weeks though, it represents quite a lot of work to do.

The good thing is that once you have made a screensaver, it will bring you an automatic income. You won’t have to care about it anymore. So it’s exactly the kind of projects I do

One of the main problems people seem to encounter is the promotion of screensavers. The main way to promote the screensavers is to submit them to software repositories. Software repositories are websites that collect information about many downloadable softwares. They offer a convenient way to promote your screensaver, as they are usually quite well ranked.

The difficulty comes from the time you need to submit your screensavers to all the websites. Two popular programs exist : Promosoft and Robosoft. I tried them both (even bought a licence) and even if they are really good, they are not fitted at all to this particular project. Indeed, Promosoft is way too unstable to submit more than 3 screensavers without crashing (it represents 3 times 700 websites). Robosoft is way too slow (it took me more than 5 hours for submitting one screensaver).

Moreover after a while, I decided to track the results of my submissions, and count on how much sites I was listed. Both promotion softwares claim they will submit your software to 800+ websites, but it turned out that my sceensavers were listed on only a hundred of websites!

I didn’t want to pay a $100 for these softwares which were clearly unadapted to my needs, so I eventually wrote my own Pad submitter tool. The first version was submitting to only 25 websites, I thought it was way too low, but something interesting happened.

When submitting a screensaver to those 25 websites, I saw that because they were all well ranked, if I did a google search, my screensavers website was not in the top 10 results, but at least one or two of those websites always were in the top 5! So eventhough I promoted my screensavers to less places, they could be found really easily in google.

After more stats tracking, and improving my software, I found out that submitting to 100 well chosen software repositories was as effective in numbers of downloads as these expensive softwares with 800+ submissions!

Because my blog is new, as a “grand opening” gift I give you my free pad submitter.

Please find it here.

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