Okay, exhale, take a deep breath, exhale!

The traffic challenge officially ended June 7th.  Wow, has it been exhausting.

I want to post my results for everyone to see.  I am pleased with the results but of course, I wish I had done better.  The good news is, I will do better.  These results show me that it can be done.

Just because the traffic challenge is over does not mean I am going to stop driving traffic to my blog and my profit pulling platform.  No way, Notta, Not gonna happen.  I am in it to win it…for the long haul.

Before you look at the results, I want to thank everyone that visited the site.  I really have enjoyed get to know each of you and I look forward to more conversation.  I want to thank Alex Jeffreys for his coaching program and for show me the way.  I want to thank all the coaching students that have helped me and gave me great feedback.  Lastly, I want to thank my family for sticking beside me and allowing me the time to get this started and keeping it going.

So lets see the results. Drum roll please…

As I sit here and right this post, I am excited to see how everyone is doing with the traffic challenge.  The anticipation of the end of the challenge is starting to weigh me down.  I am hopeful that I can win the challenge.

The challenge has been a wonderful exercise for me.  It has made me stay motivated to work hard and get traffic to my blog.

As the challenge winds down I hope I can remain as motivated.

Traffic Driving Techniques

This past week I have continued to blog comment.  I have been commenting on current MarketingWithAlex.com 3.0 students but I have also branched out and started commenting on previous students as well as other “big fish”.

I have been making some posts on Twitter but I honestly I do not post enough and I have not gotten much traffic.

I did create one Squidoo lens – http://www.squidoo.com/get-free-traffic.  I have only gotten a few visitors from this lens but I have not done very much promotion for it yet.  I do plan to create some more lenses.

I have continued to do some participation in forums.  Not as much as I would like; I know I can do better.

Only 2 more weeks until the end of the MarketingWithAlex 3.0 student Traffic Generation Challenge.

I can’t believe 2 weeks have alread passed since the competition began.

I have continued to participate in different forums, Tweet and continued to oil rig hop.  I have received a decent amount of traffic from the different forums and from Twitter.  Most of the traffic has been from oil rig hopping.

Last week in the MarketingWithAlex.com 3.0 coaching classes we talked about the different ways to drive free (sometimes called organic) traffic to your blog or website.

Three of those ways to drive free traffic are Forum Marketing, Article Marketing, and Squidoo Marketing.

I am working on a couple of articles but I have not finished them yet.  I hope to finish them in the next couple of days.

To illustrate the use of Squidoo Marketing, I created a Squidoo lens called – 3 Fastest Ways to Getting Free Traffic.

When you get a chance check out the new Free Traffic lens and let me know what you think.  Did I explain Forum  Marketing, Article Marketing, and Squidoo Marketing so you can understand how to implement these free traffic techniques?

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.