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.

I have used PDF’s for some time to get my sites indexed across multiple search engines. Today Tim Nash has let the world know his results and they are very interesting if you are creating content sites and wish to get your content indexed.

How long before we have a new company selling reviews in their PDF directory?

So let’s not waste anymore of your time, click on over to his blog and see his results on PDF’s.

Oh and while you are there be sure to subscribe to his RSS feed.

Things are heating up over on the Collective Thoughts blog. We are hosting a Social Media Ninja contest and throwing stars are flying and a Social Media Ninja will soon be selected.

But before contest is completed, we want you to voice you opinion on who really would benefit from wining this contest. It may not be the person that is most popular. It may be the person least known of all. It is up to you to decide.

To learn more about these amazing Social Media Ninjas go to the Collective Thoughts blog and join in on the fun with a comment on who you like the most!

Yesterday I made my first post to Collective-Thoughts.com about how "Social Media Marketing is Similar to a Fishing Tournament."

Today I would like your opinion on what type of bait you would use to gain an edge in the social media sites?

As an example, a type of bait to catch snapper is using whole fresh sardines. But to really drive them up from the deep and get them in the mood for a feeding frenzy, we chop up frozen sardines and toss them out as chum. This creates more of a shotgun approach to attract many to the surface rather than just hoping one or two may swim by and gobble up my bait. The chum has two effects, one is the smell gets them in the mood to eat, the second is the excitement created as other fish as they try to compete with each other to eat what is left.

Let’s look at this from a social media marketers point of view. You can write one post about your niche topic once a week and post to your blog. That is the one bait at a time philosophy. It works but do you really want to wait for the results to come to you?

I would rather look at creating a master post about my niche product or service that is the lead post, then group several follow up posts across many other locations that relate to my master post. This will bring both backlinks to your main post for the search engine spiders to find and also drive traffic from other resources like RSS feed readers as well.

This post is an example of my chum created to drive interest to my post at Collective Thoughts. The post there is my induction post and I would like that one to be noticed by as many people as possible. As I was writing this Brian sent me a message that my post was also picked up at Search Engine Land too!

I will be posting more follow up posts across a network of blogs over the following week. If you have a bait that you use for social media marketing, post it in the comments either at Colletive-Thoughts.com or in the section below.

The Mashable awards are coming up and we at collective thoughts need you to help us nominate sites http: / / collective-thoughts. com/ 2007/ 11/ 29/ open-web-awards-nomi nations/

What’s Collective Thoughts? Its the new Social Media blog I have been involved with if you haven’t already check it out http: / / www. mybloglog. com/ buzz/ community/ collectivethoughts/ and join me and the rest of the team 

"Stop Steampunk SEO, Start Being Friendly to Your Peers" is about sharing and networking with your peers.

Stop by and take a look at some of the other Collective Thoughts team while you are there.

Don’t forget to read SEO 2.0 Tad has more great content on today’s SEO environment.

Have a great weekend!

I have been invited to join an amazing group of social media minds. The name is Collective Thoughts, and we’ll be featuring some of the greatest social media minds, including:

Andy Beard
Brian Wallace (aka nowsourcing)
Glen Allsopp (aka viperchill)
Mark Laymon (aka aglobalwarming)
Marty Weintraub (aka aimclear)
Rose Sylvia (aka flyingrose)
Shana Albert (aka thenanny 612)
Tadeusz Szewczyk (aka tad chef)
Tim Nash

Come check it out, and while you’re there, subscribe to the feed!

Brian was the first to post his story 7 Ways to Own Social Media Before it Owns You and Shana followed with Webmaster, stop being so AntiSocial!! 

I am  looking forward to my review on how social media marketing is similar to a fishing tournament. Hope you have already subscribed to our MyBlogLog community as well.