What Exactly is Oil Rig Hopping?
The other day I had a reader that is not in the Alex Jeffreys coaching program email me and mentioned that I referred to Oil Rig Hopping in my post about How I Drive Traffic but he did not know what it meant. At that point I realized that I did not explain what oil rig hopping is, so I thought I better create a post to explain exactly what it means.
So, What is Oil Rig Hopping
Sorry but this has nothing to do with the recent oil rig explosion in the Gulf Coast.
Oil Rig Hopping is the process of getting free traffic to your blog and who doesn’t want free traffic, right?
My coach and mentor, Alex Jeffreys, uses this analogy when providing a way to drive traffic to your site.
Here are the basics of the analogy. An oil rig attracts algae, algae attracts clams, clams attract small fish, small fish attract big fish, big fish attract bigger fish, bigger fish attract sharks. Of course you cast your line(s) with you hook and bait to catch the fish. You ultimate goal is to catch the granddaddy of them all the shark.
How will this help drive traffic to my blog?
Your blog is your oil rig. You need to first post content (algae) that will be valuable to your readers.
Oil rig hopping starts by you visiting other blogs within the same niche as yours and leave valuable comments (clams) to help the readers of that blog. These comments (clams) will start to attract readers (fish) to your blog. Some of those fish will be small fish (readers only), some will be big fisher (subscribers), some will be bigger fish (customers) and some will be sharks (Joint Venture partners). Your job is to provide valuable and free ebooks or audio interviews or video guides or whatever (your hook and bait).
This is an easy, organic way to grow your traffic and start getting subscribers, customers and JV partners.
You have to remember to continue to keep posting good content (algae) on your blog to continue attracting fish.
Do you think this process can work for you?
Related posts:
- Traffic Generation Challenge – What’s Been Going On?
- How Am I Driving Traffic To My Blog?
- Great Blogging Resource
- Let the Competition Begin
- Are You Ignoring Your Readers?
Filed under: Blogging • Internet Marketing • List Building • Traffic Building
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Hey Rick,
Well written post about oil rig hopping. You describe it spot on! I’ll use this post as a reference to describe it to other people.
I’m dedicated to trying this method of organic traffic and hope to give an account of the results some time in the near future.
Look forward to more of your posts man.
Bailey
.-= Bailey Ing´s last blog ..Hidden Pitfalls of Blog Commenting and Why You Need a SLAP =-.
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Rick Reply:
May 21st, 2010 at 10:16 pm
@Bailey Ing,
Thanks for stopping by. I think in order to make this technique successful it will take time. So keep at it.
Talk to you soon!
- Rick
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Hey Rick it does work, but it’s really time consuming, I am testing out ways to try and ease the workload of oil rig hopping, if I find out any good ones I will let you know, Sally
.-= Sally Neill´s last blog ..It’s Just Personal It’s Nothing Business =-.
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Rick Reply:
May 21st, 2010 at 10:17 pm
@Sally Neill,
One thing I do is sign up for the RSS feeds and I can check for new posts and read them faster.
Good luck and talk to you soon!
- Rick
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Great Job Rick, Your blog is looking good. You explain Oil Rig Hopping very well.
Thanks for commenting about Yaro. I would post them like any other post. Yaro does have free training it is very good. Maybe he explains that in his training and I just miss it. I downloaded the MP3 and listen and follow along with the PDF that work good for me.
If you are interested here is the link http://stevenkeltsch.com/blog-mastermind
Thanks Steven
.-= Steven Keltsch´s last blog ..Reporter vs Expert – Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck Reporting =-.
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Rick Reply:
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:08 pm
@Steven Keltsch,
Thanks for the link. I will download the audio to my mp3 player.
- Rick
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