Getting traffic through ezine Article submission is probably the only idea on which may be 90% SEOs of the world agree upon. It indeed does require some pain. The methodology is quite simple. Write good content article (at least 450 words) for the specific niche of your site, submit article to different article sites, put link to your web-site in footer of article. That’s all. Enjoy free traffic from Article sites and enjoy some link juice through backlinks.

Again as most of you by now know that we go by experiment and here is another experiment. We did write articles for many of out sites, but never tracked direct revenue generated by these articles. To us, writing a good article and submitting articles to 25 Article sites cost 10$ (we charge 25$ to our client for this service). So here goes the experiment.

We just launched a mortgage site. I have setup my content writer to write five articles a day specific to Mortgage. Then our link team will submit these articles to 25 article sites. This activity will go on for 2 weeks that is fifty articles. Overall cost to us is 500$. It will be interesting to observe how much money is made in direct revenues. I will keep you all posted about it. Also here goes list of article sites.

http://www.1888articles.com
http://www.articlegeek.com
http://www.articlewise.com
http://www.articleblotter.com
http://www.articleselections.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.article-hut.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.webpronews.com/submit
http://www.articlehub.net
http://www.articlepile.com
http://www.submityourarticle.com
http://www.articlegear.com
http://www.articleshowroom.com
http://www.articlenetworks.com
http://www.articless.net
http://www.promotearticles.com
http://www.articlerich.com
http://www.articleblender.com
http://www.article-hangout.com
http://www.article99.com
http://www.articles4free.com
http://www.articlewiz.com
http://www.articleuniversity.com
http://www.ezinesarticle.com

Nitin Tripathi

One of the most confusing decisions that IT policy makers of companies come across is which way to go .NET or PHP. Both have their merits and limitations. Deciding one is entirely dependant upon your budget, technical skills, requirements and your overall corporate methodology.

PHP is the most popular open source programming language used to build web-sites that rely upon dynamic content. PHP is free and so are almost all of its supporting tools, platforms, databases and even OS. Being Open Source it got good support, code snippets and helps at various on-line open source forums. It even got Zend optimizer which compiles the code and makes code much faster and hence making it almost equivalent to other compiled web programming options. It is fairly easy to get a PHP programmer and many of the times if you have budget constraints, you can get freelancers with excellent skills in PHP.

.NET is really a framework, that consist of a framework with support of various programming languages e.g. C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET etc. Like many good things except air, water, sun nothing is free in the world and so is .NET However it does come up with excellent support from Microsoft, provides excellent help documentation, has excellent professionals (though none of them are cheap - Sure you know one of the resource is outsourcing it to us:)) to sort out any issues. Also since it is a complete framework it is used for things way above than building simple web-sites.

So, in summary if you have limited IT budget and your requirement is to build a site or some other similar web based applications, then PHP may be a better choice. However if you have some budget and your requirement goes further beyond a simple web-site, and you are looking for some great dedicated support and dependency upon more solid programmers, .NET is the way to go.

Nitin Tripathi

I started doing freelancing five years back when I was in Houston, Texas. Later when I saw a great demand of our service as well as I had enough sites that I can handle alone with help of my wife, I moved back to India and incorporated Om Solutions. We incorporated the company on 1st October year 2003. Initially we focused upon providing programming support to our US clients. One of our clients Barry Tubwell eventually became my partner, owner of Om Solutions LLC and Managing Partner of our US operations.

During second year of our existence we relied too heavily on our content sites and cut down almost all the programming business that we used to do for our clients. Wrong move. One day we woke up to see our entire business collapsed to ground zero.

We restarted from scratch, started diversifying the company and currently we are more or less stable at least in terms of operations. Currently we have three major divisions in our company.
1)    Programming for client as well as for our own sites, products and tools (PHP, PERL, MYSQL, .NET etc)
2)    Call Center Services (Mostly used to generate Mortgage, Debt and other financial Leads)
3)    Low Tech Services for our clients as well as for our own products (e.g. Content writing, Link Building etc).

We started with just me and my wife and now we have employee strength of forty (including non technical staff e.g. security, clerks etc). Not too bad. The year 2008 is going to be a very crucial year for us. I actually have made a presentation ( Om Solutions plan for 5th year ) that I gave to all employees on our annual day. Attached is a copy of presentation for those of you keen enough to look into our future vision. We intend to cross 1 M revenue this fiscal year.

We had a wild party at a resort. I will upload a few pics and may be a video at youtube shortly (excuse me for my laziness).

Nitin Tripathi (http://blog.omsolutions.net)

Finally started making pennies. This week with 10 sites made 2$. Lol I am not excited, but its good to see sites started getting some traffic.

Now is the time to really move on to adding content in all fifty sites of alpha-1. Also for initial ten sites, the coming weeks will see lot of back links and lot of direct traffic through Web 2.0 link strategies. As said earlier the mission is to make $50 a day by end of October.

One thing that I would like to clear at this point of time, all the link building will be as ethical as it is possible. I understand a school of thought where in all type of link building is spam and all type of link request is considered spam; I can’t argue with those people. For them whole web is spam. Other than that all our sites are going to get links through link requests, article submissions, blog writing etc.

So far in initial 2 weeks, we got close to twenty links for our initial pool of ten sites. For now all traffic that we get is direct traffic from links as most of the sites have very less content (may be 5-10 page each) and they don’t have lot many back links to rank for each and every term. Right now traffic from Search Engines is zero. Overall the top traffic site is getting fifteen visitors a day. Please don’t preach about good content sites getting tens thousands of visitors a day. We have a few sites that get traffic in thousands, however specifically for this project, we are focusing on building 5000 content niche sites.

Indeed one of the biggest problems we are facing is erasing the footprints.  To erase the footprints, you can never have one fixed strategy. If you have a fixed strategy, then you are leaving footprints again. I will write a separate blog on erasing footprints once we have 500 plus successful running sites.

Nitin Tripathi (http://blog.omsolutions.net)