Be Aware When you Buy Software

Over the years I have purchased quite a bit of software. Each piece has performed assistance in whatever it was designed to do at the time. What I am finding slowly so slowly is that not many of them continue to work in the way they were originally designed to do.

Some of them no longer work at all because the providers/sellers have gone out of business, others because the software worked so well that it has been 'blackballed' by the search engines as spammy and others because there have been no updates made available for the programs. The products were designed, used, abused by too many people, and the manufacturers simply walked away. Some of them even took their websites down so they couldn't be contacted again.

So whenever you purchase software or 'wonder' programs be very careful who you are buying from and that they are not 'fly-by-nighters' (that is, here today and gone tomorrow) and will end up leaving you high and dry without any support services, back ups or updates.

If you are a software seller, then I think it only fair that you advise buyers that the software does have the potential to have websites deindexed because the software uses could be considered spammy eventually or that there could be too many people who buy the system and with so many people doing the same thing for more traffic or higher rankings or whatever the software is designed to do, it could cause a red-flag with the search engines.

This may inhibit a few buyers short-term from buying but it is more likely to cause those who buy it knowingly to buy your next product again. You will have earned the reputation of an honest operator.

Those pieces of software that I have bought and that have now been closed down have brought me to this conclusion. I have bought other software years ago that is working as well today as it did originally and it has had timely updates over the years.

My suggestion to anyone thinking of buying a piece of software to solve whatever problem you are trying to overcome is to do a good bit of due diligence and make sure the product either has support and updates or how many are going to be sold. In the long run this will save you time, money and a heck-of-a-lot of frustration.