Describing the Pleasure of Squishing Dandelions Between Your Fingers as Linkbait?

Mark Laymon — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:31:13 +0000

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.

Give Me All of Your Stumbles or I Delete Your StumbleUpon Account!

Mark Laymon — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:47:34 +0000

Deletion of your StumbleUpon account from my Friends list is harsh. Maybe I will not delete you, but I will not promote you in future posts.

Of course I am not deleting you from my friends list for not friending me. It is just a title to catch your attention. But I am deleting friends that are not currently posting new content.

StumbleUpon has been my home for a few months. When I come home from a long day I can always find a good Stumble. But today I am cleaning house!

Yesterday I wrote a post that just did not seem to go anywhere. It was the worst post I wrote so far. I admit I should not write at 4 am. But Rose over at PPC Think was able to salvage my disaster, in turn Rose helped me bring a new post into focus. Next some twisted linkbaiter, (Lyndon) was able to really get this party started with his post "Stop stumbling in the dark and let the Power List turn the light on." Now I am going to take this post to a new level.

Yesterday I asked for a list of your profiles. That was to much to ask for in a lazy crowd. So today I am narrowing the participation factor down. If you do not see yourself on this list be sure to "friend’ me on StumbleUpon and post a comment below with your StumbleUpon profile url. When I see your comment I will add your profile below. If I see your profile below without you being a friend, you will have till next Friday to add me or I will delete it. This way when you have some important news I know who is active and would like to know what you have to say.

Popular StumbleUpon Stumblers on my A-list. As the week progresses, I will add all of your names next to your url.

You may start with my StumbleUpon profile at http://aglobalwarming.stumbleupon.com

Please do not take this as a "I will vote for you if you vote for me" web-ring, it is not and if you treat it as such, I will delete you immediately!

I am visiting each profile several times over the following week. If you are not posting on a regular occurrence, I will delete you from this list.

Why am I doing this?

By knowing who are the active Stumblers, I can narrow down who will benefit the most from an individual review from this blog.

If you would like to be removed from this list and do not wish to receive free advertising of your account, post a comment and I will remove it ASAP.

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Describing the Pleasure of Squishing Dandelions Between Your Fingers as Linkbait?

Give Me All of Your Stumbles or I Delete Your StumbleUpon Account!

Deletion of your StumbleUpon account from my Friends list is harsh. Maybe I will not delete you, but I will not promote you in future posts.

Popular StumbleUpon Stumblers on my A-list. As the week progresses, I will add all of your names next to your url.

Why am I doing this?