Describing the Pleasure of Squishing Dandelions Between Your Fingers as Linkbait?
Posted on | March 1, 2008 | 51 Comments
Several days ago I wrote a post about how Dandelions bring back memories of my childhood long past. The inspiration was contributing to my angst of knowing I had another birthday coming up and was not looking forward to it. Birthdays are something that I have not looked forward to as the years pass and this one was one that need to be pushed out of my mind. I wanted an escape from the everyday emotions of life that always seem to unravel right before our eyes.
This brought me to the inspiration of how could I create an emotional linkbait that would still motivate active users of social media to create a return of emotional investment by way of social recognition.
The experiment was a success in my opinion. It helped me to get to know several readers of the Collective-Thoughts blog much better than I would have if I were to have written a white paper about the intricacies of linkbait instead of showing the over all results. It also helped me, or should I say it pulled me out of one roll many have seen me in and placed me into an entire new position in their mind. By letting my guard down and describing a moment in my life I connected with a few more readers!
I am not going to discuss the over all numbers, the unique views, or how long each reader stayed. I will say I have been very surprised at the turnout and the results I have accumulated.
To sum things up for today. If you posted a review of my last post on Collective-Thoughts, check your StumbleUpon email in the coming days as I will follow up with the reviews of your sites very soon.
Thank you again for making my day that much more interesting.
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51 Responses to “Describing the Pleasure of Squishing Dandelions Between Your Fingers as Linkbait?”
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March 6th, 2008 @ 10:07 am
Linkbait is a brand new term to me. I’ve never though about creating an emotional state of mind for my users. Thanks for this post
March 10th, 2008 @ 5:46 pm
Link baiting is new to me as well. Where can I find out more about link baiting? I hear alot of bloggers talk about it but im not familiar with it myself.
March 19th, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
hahaha….i used a wedding video i made for my cousin as linkbait. it’s driving a-lot more traffic to my site. it will be interesting to see if any of it is lasting…. thanks for the tip.
April 1st, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
So, basically we want to lure people in with some personal stuff, not just the technical stuff.
April 21st, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
How personal can we get before we endanger ourselves? I don’t mind posting personal things, but don’t want to put myself or my family in any danger. How far can we go and what precautions do we need to take before posting personal things on the internet?
April 27th, 2008 @ 1:01 am
One of the more interesting posts that I have read this year… I just wanted to say thanks… How refreshing!
May 8th, 2008 @ 8:04 am
It is sometimes nice to read a more personal blog like this than the usual blogs about link baiting.
May 18th, 2008 @ 12:59 am
Link baiting is very new to me, trying to familiarise myself with all new terms now..
May 20th, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
It does seem like more personal stuff are more effective at linkbait than pure information.
May 27th, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
I like more personal. It helps me relate to the person, and I can then contribute back. Thanks for sharing this.
May 30th, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
I wonder if you could make a site that features linkbait for people to use, i.e. a site that offers up linkbait content for people to try and use. if it’s somehow watermarked that could work(images or videos)…anyone?
Aaron / Digital Vegetarian RockstarSEO
May 31st, 2008 @ 12:31 am
I created a “Dream Home Builder” on my website to get alot of people to link to it and post it on their blogs. It was more fun than anything but it worked.
June 15th, 2008 @ 1:18 am
I think this is a good way to do link baiting. I have known many bloggers, webmasters using unique way to do link baiting.
Quite interesting article though!
Chris
June 17th, 2008 @ 9:21 am
Personalized blogs are always better for me. I have to admit, term Linkbait is new for me too. But I feel that’s really great tool to get more traffic.
June 25th, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
I have to admit that this term “linkbait” is new to me too. But I guess, if you want to drive more traffic to your website, this could be one of the strategies that you can try. Thanks for sharing@
June 25th, 2008 @ 9:48 pm
Interesting post. Thanks for sharing your story.
June 27th, 2008 @ 12:40 pm
Great post please continue to share your knoledge.
June 27th, 2008 @ 9:17 pm
Refreshing fresh post…Nice way to attract traffic..
June 28th, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
wow, that was another great post.. thanks for sharing the same… Hope you start blogging again!
July 2nd, 2008 @ 3:43 am
well written post
with great ideas and back-up links
thanks
July 7th, 2008 @ 1:49 am
Link baiting is very new to me. I will try to find out this.
July 30th, 2008 @ 7:46 pm
link baiting has always been one of the regular tasks which a webmaster would perform and try to become an expert in as this is the best way to increase your social presence and make some new friends in the same niche.
Along with this you get a couple of back links that helps to increase your rankings in SERPs
August 18th, 2008 @ 4:10 am
I think it was a great inspiration that made you to create an emotional linkbait that would still motivate active users of social media. Interesting.
August 28th, 2008 @ 5:23 pm
first off, well its sad that you felt that way about birthdays… for me its always a cause for a celebration… anyway, i think that it’s a great idea to incorporate ‘emotions’ with linkbaiting… it becomes more personal, people will find you sincere and will connect with you more easily, at least that’s what i think..
September 2nd, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
Its a great strategy, write as much content relative to what people are searching, while ensuring that there are as little competitors as possible. 100 additional visitors per month optimised is far better then paying for those 100 visitors on the PPC model each month. great post.
September 7th, 2008 @ 10:27 pm
As far as i suggest Your Web site acts a great role in providing information to targeted visitors. I recognize or rated it as excellent.
September 18th, 2008 @ 5:50 am
Thanks a lot, Interesting post
September 18th, 2008 @ 9:20 am
Good to see your going for something original instead of contest-bait or list bait:P
September 26th, 2008 @ 6:08 am
Linkbait is really new to me, now i got to know i still have to familiarize with lot more new terms.
October 1st, 2008 @ 2:17 am
I keep hearing the term ‘linkbait’ more and more these days. I have never actually given the technique a go, but plan to in the near future since its one of the few remaining quality white-hat techniques out there. Is it best to DIY or pay someone to complete the process? Thanks
October 16th, 2008 @ 3:59 am
Linkbait is upcoming strategy among the webmasters.
This will surely help your site to improve its position in serp.
October 19th, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
These analogies that are being used are quite effective, as it is hard to forget what it is like to squish a dandelion, and now it is connected to the concept of link bait for readers of this message. Mental images have quite a bit of longevity.
November 1st, 2008 @ 7:00 pm
Maybe it is because English is not my native language – but the term "link bait" seems to be negative? Used in a constructive way it is positive because it makes the webmasters try to actually put some relevant content on their sites… At least that’s my strategy, even though it is very time consuming
November 8th, 2008 @ 3:03 am
Thanks for the information it’s a good way to do linkbaiting it’s a new thing for me but I’ll try it
November 14th, 2008 @ 12:07 am
Link baiting is one of the most important for interenet marketing so that we can improve our serp and ketyword position in google its way of natural linking
November 19th, 2008 @ 5:17 am
I do agree business and personal lives aren’t totally two separate things. Its after all one person in two situations. Doesn’t mean that there is no difference between the two; but there should be a good balance.
December 1st, 2008 @ 2:03 am
I agree with Mover on this one. There are times when personal/business lives can cross paths. But, it can also be a scary thing when they do so. I had an incident with facebook a while back that was not too cool. Taught me to be a little less cavalier with personal info. Have a good one!
December 8th, 2008 @ 1:25 am
Childhood is the most memorable days in everyone’s life.Remembering those things when we grew up is not a joke and its very interesting to recollect the past days…
January 5th, 2009 @ 6:05 am
Using conventional search engine Google is fun, simple appearance, relevant search results, the high-speed search, but there are something missing from Google.
January 6th, 2009 @ 10:15 am
I still have loads to learn about link-baiting, since I’m pretty new to link-building, I’m still involved in the struggle. After one failed attempt of link-bait, I almost lost heart. Nice article!
February 11th, 2009 @ 6:44 am
It was a motivating story that has been get successful. But after watched this post I’m thinking to create a new look on nature.
March 4th, 2009 @ 11:20 pm
Yes linkbait become new way to attract to readers as you describe here and i read your that post also, your idea unique link bait always need brilliant idea or thought as given here, in future i tried to follow your path.
March 19th, 2009 @ 5:42 am
I am agree with business and personal life.Personalized blogs are always better for me.Link baiting is very important for online business.Thanks for sharing.
March 21st, 2009 @ 1:29 pm
When it comes to dandelions, the fact stated is absolutely true. I haven been so close to these flowers though, but it does remind of childhood
March 23rd, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
So, basically we want to lure people in with some personal stuff, not just the technical stuff.
I think it was a great inspiration that made you to create an emotional linkbait that would still motivate active users of social media. Interesting.
March 24th, 2009 @ 10:45 am
Too good…emotional linkbait. I think that you should trademark this term. It’s actually a unique intriguing concept. –Mary
April 28th, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
I think it’s great that sharing something personal paid off for you. I mean, sure it’s great sharing technical information and things that you are an expert on, but people like other real people. Everyone has emotions and personal experiences, so why not share them along with the regular content? I think that was a great idea.
May 2nd, 2009 @ 4:26 am
Link baiting is practised by most website owners and blogs. As web designers and SEO experts explore new ways to attract links, so are search engine algorithms to discount such efforts. Effective websites try to use unique, innovative approaches for link bait, Unfortunately any new technique that proves to be effective, is soon followed by millions of other sites and blogs and looses its value to some extent.
May 17th, 2009 @ 9:51 am
Personalizing the links. It’s less technical and might bring some more visitors. Maybe I’ll give it a try!
May 19th, 2009 @ 4:26 am
the way to buil link baiting is nice, thanks for sharing
May 20th, 2009 @ 6:21 am
I can feel that you have put in hard efforts. Good job!!