As you know, regular search engines can easily search for HTML pages. How does it work? It's really transparent - each page has links to other pages. It makes possible to spy pages by jumping from page to page. Why not to apply this technology to PAD files?

PAD file is small XML file invented by Association of Shareware Professionals. It contains software description.

It's really simple - just put in your PAD file full links (with http:// prefix) to other PAD files like this:

<PADRING>
http://www.your-website.com/pad1.xml
http://www.your-website.com/pad2.xml
http://www.another-website.com/software.xml
http://www.your-friend's-website.com/path-to/your-friend's-PAD.xml
</PADRING>

Links to PADs must be space or new-line separated.

Just put category name between one of the following tags:

<Program_Specific_Category> here </Program_Specific_Category>
<Program_Categories> or here </Program_Categories>

For example, to put your program into Business/File Management category, you may modify your PAD this way: <Program_Categories> Business/File Management </Program_Categories>

It will be moved to chosen category next time we update our website (in about two days).

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