OK, so we’re talking only about the software product, a .exe, not about a website. If it’s only a software product, then I wouldn’t really worry about it. Some of those directories are not of high quality, and we might end up taking out or scoring differently those directories, but it wouldn’t hurt your website to have a link from those software directories.
Now, website wise, I would definitely not recommend submitting your website to hundreds of directories, but you’re talking about a software product.
If that’s what you’re confining yourself to, then I guess it doesn’t hurt to go ahead and have your product listed in all those software directories.
If any of them are low quality, then we try not to score them highly, we try not to keep them high in our rankings, or how we crawl the web; but it doesn’t hurt your software listed in that directory.
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