Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I change the appearance (images, colors etc.) of my site?
- How do I submit PAD URLs list to my database?
- How do I manage new submissions?
- How do I update the existing listings?
- In which cases do PAD errors arise?
- How do I become an affiliate at RegNow, Share-It, eSellerate and Plimus?
- How do I link to a custom download URL for current listing instead of specified in PAD file?
- How do I specify listings for random displaying in 'Featured' section on front page?
- How do I remove unwanted reviews posted by site visitors?
- How do I sign up for Google AdSense?
- How do I submit my XML sitemap to Google, Yahoo and MSN?
- My question is not answered here
1. How do I change the appearance (images, colors etc.) of my site?
To change the colors of your pages you need to edit 'styles.css' file (CSS knowledge required). To change the images you have first to open 'config.php' file in any text editor and replace the default prefix for graphics ('ysn', acronym for 'Your Site Name') with your own, then go to your 'img' subdirectory and replace the existing images with your own.
Note: We recommend you to keep images width and height unchanged, otherwise you will have to edit also the PHP files containing appropriate <img> tags!
2. How do I submit PAD URLs list to my database?
Go to 'New Submissions > Submit multiple PADs' from where you can submit multiple PAD URLs both by filling text field (one URL per row) and/or by uploading text file containing PAD URLs (one URL per row). As soon as the submission thread has started, you can close the browser window (this will NOT stop the process!) and wait for email notification upon finishing.
3. How do I manage new submissions?
Go to 'New Submissions > Manage New Submissions' where you can find all new submissions by PAD authors (by default only the first 30 submissions are displayed, but if you want to get the whole list, you should click on 'Show all submissions' link on the top of the page). From there you can check the most important data (redarding affiliate data display color - red color shows that it is newly submitted or not the same as previously specified in your database, therefore you should check it before accepting, otherwise it is displayed in green color) and refer to author's web site, program home page, PAD file and program download. If the submission meets your requirements, click on appropriate 'Accept' link to add the listing to your active listings, otherwise click on 'Decline' link to reject the submission and remove it from your DB.
To reject and remove multiple submissions from the same IP or by the same Company Name go to 'New Submissions > Delete Multiple Submissions' page and fill the appropriate field. To prevent further submissions by persisting abusers you can add the domain name part of their PAD URLs (e.g. domainname.com) to your Black List at 'Black List > Add Domain to the Black List' - each new submission is being checked against the black list, and if its domain name matches a domain name in the black list, it is automatically rejected.
4. How do I update the existing listings?
Go to 'Active Listings > Poll PADs for updates' and establish the range for PADs to poll. As soon as the polling round started, you can close the browser window (this will NOT stop the process!) and wait for email notification upon finishing. Do not forget to poll PADs DAILY, this will keep your database up to date and reduce the amount of resubmissions for listed software.
For better performance you can also run multiple polling threads simultaneously, e.g. you can open 3 windows and establish different ranges to include all the listings (e.g. from 1 to 5000, from 5001 to 10000, from 10001 to 15000 etc.).
5. In which cases do PAD errors arise?
You will get PAD error in the following cases: broken PAD URL, XML structure errors in PAD file, missing obligatory fields, broken or invalid download URL (e.g. taking to a web page instead of download file), invalid release date etc. When polling PADs, the script counts all errors and saves the results in DB. As soon as the number of consecutive errors reaches 5 (can be changed by modifying the value in padpoll.php), the listing is automatically removed from DB and you get a copy of removal notification email sent to the author, but if errors are fixed earlier, the counter changes back to 0. Please take into account that the polling script DOES email software authors ALL error reports both to contact email address and to automatically generated address using "info@[company_web_site]" pattern, so if no action is taken, either the program is no longer available for downloads or the author is just an idiot and his software in most cases has no real value.
6. How do I become an affiliate at RegNow, Share-It, eSellerate and Plimus?
First you should sign up for your affiliate accounts at RegNow, Share-It, eSellerate and Plimus (other popular registration services, e.g. RegSoft, SWReg, eMetrix etc., do NOT currently support affiliate partnerships). Then, open 'config.php' file and replace the existing affiliate IDs with yours for each payments service - this will apply for all listings containing affiliate data on your site and set affiliate tracking cookies on user's PC when downloading the software via your site (eSellerate does NOT currently support cookies). After that you will be able to become an affiliate for software products sold via appropriate service by logging in your affiliate account, finding the appropriate software and submitting your affiliate partnership request to its vendor.
Note: Be aware of adding affiliate data for all submitted products without thoroughly checking authors web sites as many of software developers use different cheat techniques to prevent affiliate cookie tracking, e.g. linking to another registration service then submitted to affiliates, specifying fake affiliate ID in purchase links to overwrite the real affiliate cookie on user's PC etc.
7. How do I link to a custom download URL for current listing instead of specified in PAD file?
Go to 'Featured Listings > Add/Modify custom download URLs', specify the ProgID for current listing and the Download URL for custom build (starting with 'http://') and click 'Submit' button to apply changes. After that the new Download URL will be called for current listing from 'dl.php' download redirection script instead of the original URL, and the appropriate listing will be additionally included in your 'Featured Listings' section and displayed in random order with other featured listings on the bottom of all pages of your site.
Do not forget to rate the software product before adding its listing to 'Featured' section, to do this you should go to 'Active Listings > Rate software', specify the ProgID and select rating value, additionally you can add '100% clean' award by checking the appropriate checkbox and write your comments to developer.
8. How do I specify listings for random displaying in 'Featured' section on front page?
Open 'config.php' file in any text editor, find the $fpprogary variable in 'Front Page settings' and add/replace the existing ProgID values (coming after '=' inside round brackets, comma separated) with your own, save the file and upload it back to the root directory on your server.
9. How do I remove unwanted reviews posted by site visitors?
Go to 'Users Reviews > Manage/Remove users reviews', specify the date interval from when the review has been posted, find it in generated list and click on appropriate 'Remove' link on the right.
10. How do I sign up for Google AdSense?
First you shoud register at https://www.google.com/adsense to get your own AdSense ID. Then open 'config.php' file in any text editor and replace the existing ID with your own - this will apply for all Google Ads on your site. Additianally you can change from here the colors for borders, text, links etc. to suit with your site design.
11. How do I submit my XML sitemap to Google, Yahoo and MSN?
First you shoud register at http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps (Webmaster account on Google), http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit (Webmaster account on Yahoo) and http://webmaster.live.com (Webmaster account on MSN/Microsoft Live) and upload tracking files with custom filenames to your site to get authorized (see detailed instructions inside each account). Then you can submit your XML sitemap from within your accounts by specifying the full path to XML sitemap as 'http://www.your-domain-name.com/sitemap.xml' (the XML sitemap is generated on-the-fly and gzipped with sitemap.php script located in your root directory).
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