Set your program featured on Download3k.com

Software developers ask us all the time for ways to maximize exposure for their programs on download3k.com. We ran a promotion in the past allowing authors to set programs in better positions on our site and now that promotion is back.

When set featured, a program appears (all 3 below):

on the first page in its category (rotating - 3 spots) - click here to see an example
on the first page in its subcategory (non rotating) - click here to see an example
in the right side boxes in other programs' pages, related to your program (rotating - 7 spots) - click here to see an example

For this promotion you need to place a link to http://www.download3k.com or to your program's page on Download3k on a software related page (site, blog, forum) with minimum Google PageRank 4 or the homepage if you don't have Google PR4 pages yet. Please don't use redirects or "nofollow" links.

After you place this link, fill in the form below and submit it. We will get back to you shortly, in less than 24 hours usually.
We'll keep your program featured as long as you keep the text link back to us. We verify this weekly.

Please note that we reserve the right to decline programs we don't find suitable to set featured. We recommend you read the suggestions below the form as well.

Alternatively, you can send an email to .

A few suggestions:

Subcategories with fewer featured programs should be a better target for this promotion so if there are more than 3 programs already featured in your program's subcategory, we won't usually accept it.
Verify if the current category of your program is the best choice for it. If not, we can change it. Just add a note about this in the "other comments" box above.
Check out your program's page on download3k.com to see if it has received our "pick award" or if we did an antivirus test on it. In these cases, you can use an award image or the antivirus test image for the link if you wish.
Place the link in context if possible. Having pages filled with outgoing links only will most likely hurt your site's performance in search engines.
If you have a news section, awards section or blog you can write a paragraph there. Here are a few examples:
- "Starting Today, our program is being featured over at download3k.com."
- "Download3k.com did a complete antivirus test for our program and it was found 100% clean and safe to use. You can see the full report right here (link to the report if you wish)."
- "Our program has received another recognition. Download3k.com now recommends our program to their users with their own "Pick award". User ratings and download count reflect this action as well.".
If you need a description for our site, you can use "Download3k.com is a software archive with more than 50,000 software programs, shareware and freeware, daily updated and also tested with some of the best antivirus engines available today.".
A text link is enough, but if you need a logo for our site, you can choose from below:

Site statistics:

According to Google Analytics, download3k.com has an average of 2,000,000.00 visits per month. September and October 2008 Analytics stats can be downloaded here (PDF). Other statistics, based on sample data, can be found at Alexa and Google Trends for websites.