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…

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.

I posted the other day about the Traffic Generation competition among the Marketing With Alex 3.0 coaching students.  If you haven’t read it yet, you can check it out at MarketingWithRick.com/TrafficCompetition.

One of the requirements is to blog about what we are doing to drive traffic to our blog.

I have been doing several different things to drive traffic over the past few days.

1. Posting valuable comments on others blog posts aka. Oil Rig Hopping.
2. Started adding followers on Twitter.  I am playing around with Twello.com to help accomplish this.
3. I used a couple of plugins to post my blog posts on Twitter and Facebook.
4. Actively participating in several different forums.

There are other techniques I plan to do to start driving traffic and I will blog about those once I implement them.

Do you have other suggestions or tips for driving traffic?