Alex’s Traffic Challenge Day 12 & 13: 29th & 30th Dec

December 31st, 2008 · 25 Comments

My report for day 12 & 13 the traffic competition
My Google Analytic Stats can be viewed here for the 29th & 30th Dec
http://kotobot.com/gastats/gastats2930.pdf

Oil Rig Hopping
Visiting other people’s blogs and leaving comments as taught to us by Alex Jeffreys.
In the last 2 weeks I have had an addiction to this, visited 785 blogs and left comments.
It took long hours and patience but with the kotobot mindset I succeeded.

At first I googled searches like top 100 blogs, internet market blogs etc…
Unfortunately I could not get a rhythm going in my mind.
Then I took a different approach
http://www.icerocket.com/
Ice Rocket is a blog search engine.
The difference is when you make a search you get the latest blog posts on the
keyword you searched for; so if we search affiliate marketing
we will get the latest blog posts relevant to that keyword or phrase.
It gives a snippet of the content of the post.

Here we have two advantages;

Firstly:
We know the posts are recent, so their should be some life at that blog

Secondly:
When we see the content of the blog post on ice rocket, you should know
if you could make a valuable comment to that blog.

This was how I managed to visit and post on 785 blogs.

Two days ago I checked my Google analytics and put Alex’s 80/20 rule into operation.
And it showed that from my efforts; approximately I was getting results from 30% of it.
I did what Alex said; I put the 70% on the back boiler and started looking for new traffic sources.
At the start of the challenge I set my self a goal to reach 5,000 visits to my blog a day
by New Years Eve and yesterday I broke that target with 5,470 visitors for the day

All this is thanks to Alex and his easy to follow guidance.

Now it is New Years Eve here in Ireland and I am going to go and have a few beers,
happy in the knowledge that 2009 for me and my Fortunate 500 friends will indeed
be a prosperous and meaningful year.

A special word of thanks to Thomas Northrop who set up the
Fortunate 500 social media site; it has been a great service.

If you haven’t joined it yet; take a trip over there now
http://fortunate500.ning.com

And a massive thanks to Alex, the Jedi of internet marketing

To all
Keep well & prosper
Jim Gallagher & Des Barry

Tags: Blogging · Kotobot Success · Website Traffic

25 responses so far ↓

1 Mark Austin // Dec 31, 2008 at 3:45 pm

Hi Jim

Hope everything is going well over here

You may already know this but myself and Mark Call are in the process of setting up a website called Studentsofalex.com.

We are hoping to interview as many students as possible about Alex’s coaching, your progress, success and future plans.

It’s going to be a great opportunity to promote yourself, website and current/future
products.

If you have already signed up, great!

If not, please visit the link below for more details and to sign up.

http://missioninternetmarketing.com/blog/have-you-signed-up-to-be-interviewed-for-studentsofalexcom/

Happy New Year and Mark and I hope to be interviewing you soon!:)

All the best
Mark
http://missioninternetmarketing.com
2 Your Publicity To You » Blog Archive » Alex’s Traffic Challenge Day 12 & 13: 29th & 30th Dec | Kotobot … // Dec 31, 2008 at 4:15 pm

[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onAlexâ??s Traffic Challenge Day 12 & 13: 29th & 30th Dec | Kotobot …Here’s a quick excerptThen I took a different approach http://www.icerocket.com/ Ice Rocket is a blog search engine. The difference is when you make a search you get the latest blog posts on the keyword you searched for; so if we search affiliate marketing … [...]
3 Mark Call // Dec 31, 2008 at 4:20 pm

Jim & Des,

Great post.

I will add IceRocket to my tools.

Great job, mates!

Mark Call
http://www.MarkCall.com
4 Dan Kitson // Dec 31, 2008 at 7:01 pm

Hello Jim

I have been following your blog for two weeks now
Your advice has doubled my traffic

When are you starting your next course?
I want to sign up
Could you let me know the date and costs

Dan
5 Valerie Davies // Jan 1, 2009 at 3:28 am

Hi Jim and Des,

It’s taking me for ever to get round everyone just to say hi, so I don’t want you to think I am being rude, but I’m turbo hopping to get round as many of the F500 that I can. If I wait for you to come to me, it might never happen. Thanks to all who have already visited Planet Valz.

This means I have a standard message for everyone, and I’m leaving it as a comment to the latest post. I hope this does not offend you as communication and generosity is what is driving this.

Firstly, my wishes to you for a Happy, Healthy and very Prosperous Year 2009.

Secondly, I want to give you a New Year present, but you need to go to http://daybydaymarketing.com/2008/12/choose-your-new-year-present/

I would appreciate being added to your blogroll if I am not already on it. I am happy to add you to mine when you come over.

Valerie
http://daybydaymarketing.com
6 Stephen Bray // Jan 1, 2009 at 1:38 pm

Hey Jim,

Good tip to use IceRocket.com I hadn’t heard of that one, but I have used http://blogsearch.google.com/ which is in Beta.

That’s how I make my recent posts from Alex Jeffreys articles, if I’m stuck for something to write, which isn’t often

Great work you’re doing here.

Stephen
http://www.stephenbray.com

PS Are you really leaving the Fortunate 500, or were you only joking?
7 jeffrey dibble // Jan 1, 2009 at 2:46 pm

Hi Jim,

Great to hear from you. I have added you to my blogroll.

Nice blog you got here.Wow, you got over 5000 visitors. I don’t think any one of Alex Jeffreys student can break your record.

Well done, man. Keep up the good work.

I will check on your progress.

Anyway, i took your advice and join the fortunate 500 today. Just post a question to Warner and will pick up from there. I will interact more with the students there.

Check out my tweets and my blog. I will be posting a post tomorrow.

Keep in touch, bro.

Once again, Keep up the good work.

Wish you a happy and prosperous New Year 2009.

Jeffrey
http://jeffreyblogonline.com
http://twitter.com/listbuildingjef
http://www.squidoo.com/listbuildingjeffrey
8 Derrick Siu // Jan 1, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Wow!!! Wow!!! Wow!!!
Jim, I’m really impressed with your results. Incredible. Thanks for the tip - You’ve given me extra motivation to go out there and do the oil rig hop :). . by the way, i’m curious, how long did it take for you to visit 785 blogs?

Happy New Year!

Derrick
9 Derrick Siu // Jan 1, 2009 at 10:14 pm

Hi Jim,

was just checking out your other pages, and when I click on your archive and about me pages from the top menu, they don’t seem to be working? (getting a 404 error).

. anyways just a heads up

Best,

Derrick
http://www.TheNetExperiment.com
10 Increase on-line traffic: I Made A Mistake! | www.StephenBray.com // Jan 2, 2009 at 6:53 am

[...] websites, or even that of one or two more popular Internet marketing websites. It was Jim Gallagher of Kotobot.com who opened my eyes. You see if you go to Jim’s site and download his Google Analytics [...]
11 Doug Stewart // Jan 2, 2009 at 4:34 pm

Hi Jim & Des

As a fellow Alex Jeffreys student I’m just introducing myself and catching up with visiting everyone’s blog now the holidays are over.
I am totally blown away by your GA stats…Well done!

Best wishes for 2009

Doug
http://dougstewartonline.com
12 Paull Hamilton // Jan 2, 2009 at 4:41 pm

Quite astounding stats Jim !!

I am struggling a the moment to get comments on the top 100 blogs, I think I´m up to 60 at the moment.

Thanks for posting the link to icerocket.

I feel a very late night coming on =O)

Best wishes,

Paull

http://paullhamilton.com
13 Ken Acton // Jan 2, 2009 at 6:40 pm

Hey Jim,

Glad to see you are doing so well. You have certainly been applying yourself. Power to your elbow mate.

Best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Ken Acton
14 Dave Dunn // Jan 3, 2009 at 1:56 am

Jim and Des!

You two have killed me for traffic. I’m where you where when this thing started. At least I have seen some methods that actually work. Thanks for sharing all this with us. It’s actually given me a bit of hope that I can push this a bit further.

Dave

http://www.davedunnonline.com
15 Paul // Jan 3, 2009 at 2:13 am

Jim,

thanks for posting such great insights into what I see as creative shortcuts to successly building a list.

I have you site bookmarked to check back daily.

Thanks
Paul

http://www.paulhutchins.com
16 Debbie // Jan 3, 2009 at 4:14 pm

Hi Jim,

Great post with the new cool tool ice rocket. I’m going to check it out and add it to my Cool Tools page with a contributor link back to you.

Thanks!

Debbie
http://debbiefoster.net
17 Garry Parkes // Jan 4, 2009 at 3:23 pm

Hi Jim,

Truly awesome stats. Almost too good to be true – In fact, we should focus on what you are doing and forget Alex Jeffreys as you can teach him a trick or two, LOL!

Have you analysed your breakdown of your traffic sources in Google? In fact, would you mind revealing your top 10-20 sources? For anyone reading out there it is easy to generate 5, 10, 20,000 hits in the next 24-hours by using Hit Booster type programs that are available all over the place on the Internet. Quantity isn’t the problem for traffic generation using these types of techniques but quality is.

Just wondering with the techniques you have used have you tried to analyse your traffic sources to work out which technique has generated the traffic and thus separate the good from the bad. It would certainly be a useful exercise for you (and everyone) so you can find those techniques that are truly the ones to focus on.

Also regarding the nearly 800 posts on blogs over the last 2 weeks. Now you say you are adding a valuable comment and hence I guess not just a one-liner. Now it takes me an age to type comments on blogs, as like you, I like to add value rather than just one liners of no value. For me, using a very, very conservative estimate of just 10 minutes a comment doing it manually would take me nearly 10 hours a day for 14 days. I just haven’t got that time so would appreciate any feedback on what tools you are doing. Or are you really spending that amount of time blogging and keeping going drinking loads of “Red Bull”, LOL.

I’d like to know as I am on a ‘world tour’ as mentioned on my own site and whatever you are using for ‘oil-rig hopping’ I’d like to do the same!!

Garry Parkes
http://garryparkes.com/
Garry Parkes’ Official Alex Jeffreys
Student Tour Passport stamp #007 of 500
18 Warner // Jan 5, 2009 at 12:22 am

Jim:

Wich traffic builders were in the top 30%? The offline ads and the commenting? Have to take a lesson in doing enough commenting from you. Impressive numbers all around.

If you haven’t joined web prosperity yet there is still time http://affluence.webprosperity.com
19 Lesley Morgan // Jan 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Hi Jim,

My, oh, my! Quite impressive results! You are an inspiration to us all, and generous with some inside tips.

Thanks for popping in over at my site… have added you to the blogroll.

I have been away, and now working on a series of blogs to be up very soon. And, very much looking forward to coaching classes this week .

I would like to hear more about the upcoming JV you and Des are putting together. This group certainly has a number of talented and motivated individuals that are rising to the top, and truly believe will be the Internet Rockstars for 2009!

Lesley “UNPACKAGEABLE SPIRIT”

http://www.lesleymorgan.com
20 Lori James // Jan 9, 2009 at 11:48 pm

Congratulations Jim on winning the traffic driving contest!! Way to go!

Lori
http://www.everythinghomebiz.com
21 Bobby Winchell // Jan 10, 2009 at 7:35 pm

Nice Job Jim!
I wanted to thank you for the tweets, I wasn’t being rude just taking a bit of time to figure twitter out!

I would be very interested in what your 30% was?

I ‘ve surfed around your blog and have found mention of the 30-70 rule but no break down. I’m sure many more students would really appreciate getting clued in.
See you in the forum.
Thanks For any Help!
Bobby
http://www.bobbywinchell.com/blog
22 Scott Thrall // Jan 12, 2009 at 9:07 pm

Excellant, are you still tracking the responses you recieve from blogging other Fortune 500’s?
Or did you even break your campaing down to do that?

Scott
http://ScottThrall.com
23 Ross // Jan 14, 2009 at 12:37 am

Saw you mentioned Alex Jeffreys in your post. Im looking for his coaching students. Email me back if youre in the group. Thanks, Ross The Boss
24 rob bish // Jan 14, 2009 at 5:11 am

just got your site from module 4 from Alex. can’t wait to review all your great content. i need to somehow focus and stop looking at all these hype internet programs and stick with some kind of plan.

great to see your success.

Rob Bish
25 Cliff // Feb 9, 2009 at 5:27 am

Hi Jim and Des,

What a great blog. I am a struggling student of Alex jeffries, and am anly just getting to module5. So I have just dicovered you have won the traffic competition. Well done! I am absorbing all your traffic generation tips and will start as many as I can immediately. How do I get on to the blog roll?
One of my goals is to get back to ireland again, love the place.
Cheers from Australia!

Cliff