If you have an idea about a software application that you are certain will find mass appeal, don't hesitate on developing it. If you're not a coder (and it's assumed the vast majority of those reading this are not), you always have the option of letting other people develop your application for you. Development isn't necessarily as expensive as you may think, given that you have a solid plan and list of requirements of what your application should do. The development team at
Free Links Direct (the team who brought you the Free Links Direct website and service) can even give you a custom quote for your application. The price may very well surprise you! Anyway, we digress. Let's see how application distribution can help your website traffic.
There are hundreds, maybe thousands of websites that host free software applications. Perhaps one of the biggest and most recognizable is
Downloads.com from
CNET. Downloads.com has a huge repository of software that millions of people are looking through each month. Once you have that app developed, submit it to as many application hosting websites that you possibly can. You can leverage off their traffic and marketing efforts to gain visitors to your website. You can even gain some very nice one-way links in the process.
Application development isn't for everyone. As we said, you'll need to either be a developer or know a developer to build a quality application for you. Still, it's a very viable source for generating website traffic and one that can't be ignored. If you can build that one application that strikes a nerve with either the editors or the general public, you'll open your website up to a flood of traffic that can very well sky rocket you to success. Think innovative, think cool, and think outside of the box and you very well may develop the next hot app.
