Creating and distributing scripts

Python

Just curious would this be effective for promotional purposes?

For example if I wrote a bunch of scripts and then gave them away free and then if they all had a link in them back to my site... would it have any major effect do you think?

gilly

I have a link back on one of my scripts and its been downloaded 300+ times in about 3 weeks and since then my uniques has gone up between 3-8 extra each day, so hopefully the more its download there more visitors i will get from them! Also if you look at your logs and find the refers you can see they come from that script!

Personally i think it is worth it!

Nuvo

If you make a good script that people are likely to want, they'll need to know where it came from.
If the script has a link to your site, people who see it and would like to use it would probably find it easier to use that link than to search the net, find a link to your site and use it.
You can get a decent number of users coming in from links in your scripts just as long as the script is good enought to draw in potential users.
Nobody would bother surfing to your site if the script was poorly developed.
It's all down to if the user wants your scripts enough

pfgannon

I think it would be a great way to promote yourself. I almost always go back to the creators site when I download a script.

Python

So what if I was to create a good link directory script... Could be used as a complete site .... That should get some users right

pfgannon

Without a doubt.
Go for it:)

Nuvo

Python wrote:

So what if I was to create a good link directory script... Could be used as a complete site .... That should get some users right

Probably, yes...