This has got to be one of the best ways of building a constent flow of organic traffic to your blog,and to keep it building twenty four hours a day.After listening to Alex Jeffreys explain how this system works,which he calls oil rig hopping,I could see straight away how much potential it would have in building a steady flow of traffic to anyone’s blog.
First of all ,set up your blog and get it up and running, this is your oil rig. When you start to put content on to your blog that is the algae which will grow all round the oil rig legs .This in turn will entice all of the shell fish clams etc, which are the people who have started to comment about the content on your blog.
Now when you go oil rig hopping which means you are visiting other peoples blogs and leaving your comments you are just starting to attract fish to your oil rig, and this is where you start to fish by using free ebooks as your bait to attract even more fish.
So by now the algae [content] is growing at a steady rate the clams [people looking at your content] attracting fish [prospects] around, which in turn are going to attract the bigger fish [customers] around with the help of your free ebook [hook].
Now you are beginning to really start catching the big fish [customers] so you are nearing the ultimate goal, and that is to catch a shark [Joint Venture Partner], and this is all possible because you started a natural food chain [organic traffic] and let it take it’s natural course.
This to me was one of the most important things that I have learnt about getting natural organic traffic to your blog and keeping it evergreen, and without doubt letting your blog flourish.
As long as you keep a steady flow of good content [algae] going on to your blog and keep doing an occasional bit of oil rig hopping your free organic traffic will grow and grow and your blog will flourish without doubt.You should then find that your customers should start to come at first slowly but eventually at a steady rate.Happy Blogging!
August 11th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Interesting analogy here, very creative.
I just wanna add emphasis the vital role of GOOD quality algae (content) in the continuation of the chain. It’s for us to decide whatever topic we are going to share but we should remember that the content will decide weather the organic traffic will be stable or even rise up; unless, you already had built partnership to certain individuals. On the other hand, oil rig hoping, I mean, blog commenting will do some indirect promotion of blog but it is a must to do it on the proper manner, not the spammer way.
August 11th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Cheers Alex ,very constuctive criticism.
Love your style man.
August 12th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Wow Derek you said that well. I read your blog three times and got something out of it every time. Made me remember what Alex said.
Cheers
Faye
August 12th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Derek,
You described the oil rig hopping better than I could of.
Great explanation. I’ve got to focus more on this stuff.
Cheers,
Rob
P.S Many of the students are branding their pictures all across the
blogsphere. Its free, its easy and its automatic. Here is a blog post I wrote to show you exactly what everyone’s doing.
http://escapetoprosperity.com/adding-your-picture-to-other-peoples-wordpress-blogs
hope that helps
August 12th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
oooops I see your gravatar is on my blog but not yours.
All you need to do is set up another with the email address you are using on your blog if that’s what you want.
my bad,
Cheers,
Rob
August 18th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Just to show how effective it is,
I commented on 1 blog post from Johnchow.com
and got a few views, plus 1 optin.. so it works well
September 10th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
What a great analogy Derek..
Back links are so important for seo. But I agree very strongly with Alex’s comment, any posts you make on someone elses blog should be relevent to the topic and worth the butting in..lol.
You have somegreat posts here, just hope I can find the time to read them all and catch up..lol.
Have fun and keep smiling,
Nick
September 10th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Derek
What a great blog full off great content,
People think Internet marketing just takes off over night and they will become rich straight away.
It takes time and alot of effort thats why many people give up and the start.
keep up the good work
Speak Soon
Dean
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February 21st, 2010 at 4:16 pm
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