Tumblr Question

lukeidavis01

13 years ago

Up for this one! I also need more information about Tumblr.

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gearmonkey

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Tumblrfollowers

There is an intimate connection between the number of your Tumblr followers and the way you maintain your Tumblr design, for those of you are already using Tumblr, some significant changes can make the customer scenario a lot better for you and will have you get followers on Tumblr!

Agreed. It is good to follow other tumblrs. I find tumblr links very effective plus you get traffic because you can get your page to rank pretty easily.

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iceapplez

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Wade32

This place is as good as any to ask this question:

I have just recently added Tumblr blog to my seo strategy. I try to post 3 times a week with relevant links on Tumblr.

Has anyone had any success through Tumblr with SEO or networking? I am finding out that it seems hard to get followers there. But I am still on it because it looks like a great place to get links. This is a PR6 right?

Hey, Wade. I feel like I may be able to help you here because the way I found warriorforum (I'm so glad I did!) was by googling about Tumblr, and finding a forum post about it here.

I started my tumblr blog about 4-5 months ago - in 2 months, I had 1,000 followers - now I have almost 14,000 followers, page rank 4, and 1,300-1,800 unique visitors per day to my blog. I'd like to share as many tips as I can on how I achieved this and why it might or might not work for you too - I'm only starting to learn about IM but I feel like I'm already succeeding well at Tumblr. I actually was able to rank my "keywords" for my niche as #1 on google (without seo!) and still don't get much traffic from search engines, but all my pages are indexed and so this was really cool to achieve. I'm getting some traffic from random searches that happen to be words included in my content - it's all very cool considering I had never even created a Wordpress/any site before this; and, I didn't expect this blog to turn in to what it has.

First, can I ask you a few things?

What do you want to achieve with your tumblr blog? Do you want your tumblr page to get popular with tumblr users who then visit your site? Or is this tumblr blog going to be kept seperate from your other ventures?

Do you have something to provide to tumblr users so that they want to follow you? If so, do you have enough to provide them with 2-3 items of whatever you are posting per day? Is this information worth sharing not just to your followers, but then to other people by them sharing it too? This is how things "snowballed" for me on tumblr.

Do you know how tags, reblogs, likes, etc work? And how to leverage them?

And lastly, do you know how to set up your tumblr landing page to be visually attractive and pleasing so people want to be there?

These are all important things to think about, let me know your thoughts and hopefully I can help you out some more.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Wade32

This is a PR6 right?

What does that have to do with the price of cheese?!

Or with the value of your backlinks there?!

Tumblr's own home page might be a PR-6, but that has no more to do with the backlink value to you than does the fact that Ezine Articles' own home page is a PR-6, if you submit articles there with backlinks in their resource-boxes. Everyone's articles there are still published on PR-0 pages, just like your page at Tumblr will be a PR-0 page.

Websites don't "have page ranks", Wade: only pages have page ranks.

This thread may help/interest you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6105586

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iceapplez

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Tumblr's own home page might be a PR-6, but that has no more to do with the backlink value to you than does the fact that Ezine Articles' own home page is a PR-6, if you submit articles there with backlinks in their resource-boxes. Everyone's articles there are published on PR-0 pages, just like your page at Tumblr will be a PR-0 page.

My tumblr blog has PR4, does this mean anything as far as backlinks go? For instance, I plan on using this tumblr to promote my site -- will my backlinks to my own site then count as PR4? Or will my "posts" still be PR0?

(or, say I create a backlink on my PR4 main page to my website--will this work as PR4?)

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by iceapplez

My tumblr blog has PR4

It started as PR-0, just like my pages on Tumblr, Wade's pages on Tumblr and everyone else's pages on Tumblr.

You can, of course, acquire page rank for a page on Tumblr's site, just like you can acquire page rank on a site you own and control yourself. (I know which I'd rather do).

There are people unwise and inexperienced enough to build backlinks to their articles on EZA's site as well, and some of those can be PR-4/whatever, but that doesn't make it a sensible thing to do, when compared with the alternatives (and it isn't).

Originally Posted by iceapplez

does this mean anything as far as backlinks go?

Something but quite little - and getting less and less all the time.

Relevance of the overall site to your own site is undeniably a far greater and more significant determinant of linkjuice value, just as Google promised it would be.

Originally Posted by iceapplez

For instance, I plan on using this tumblr to promote my site -- will my backlinks to my own site then count as PR4? Or will my "posts" still be PR0?

They'll count as PR-4 for what that's worth. Which is very little, and not nearly as much as the value of backlinks from a more relevant (site-relevant, not page-relevant) PR-4 page. For myself, I'd rather own the PR-4 page myself than have Tumblr own and control it. I know some people think it's easier to acquire the PR-4 status (for what it's worth) on Tumblr's site than it is on your own, but what can you do? There are graduates of the Urban Myth School of Internet Marketing everywhere, aren't there? Let's just be grateful that our competitors are choosing to do it that way.
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- MatthewOzolins 13 years ago
  
  At the moment I have links on my PR 3 Tumblr. I was using tumblr personally for quite some years before I even started promoting my website with it. There have been 3 or 4 oppotunities for me to add a relevant link to my website and they seem to be pretty effective.
  
  Remember to build up the PR of your Tumblr blog before you even bother posting links. I have over 6000 real followers because I have been posting awesome niche content rather than spamming.
  
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  iceapplez 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MatthewOzolins
  
  I have over 6000 real followers because I have been posting awesome niche content rather than spamming.
  
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iceapplez

13 years ago

Thank-you very much!

I have been considering these questions for awhile now and these are just the help I needed. During the last Page Rank update I was like "PR4? It was all too easy on this blog!"

I then proceeded to check what backlinks I had acquired and found one from a PR-6 site (someone had left my tumblr URL in the comments of a post on that site) and said "that must be why"! (seeing a table someone had made that one PR6 backlink would automatically give PR4 - I don't know if this is even true)

I still haven't figured out if that is indeed the reason, but it was my first page-rank ever achieved so I was stoked!

Also, the site is going to be very similar to the stuff in my tumblr blog, plus way more relevant content - my success there has motivated me to create something way bigger then the tumblr blog would allow (there and then I realized wordpress was the way to go, not a tumblr style site like I first considered) - something I own and control without tumblr's help will be awesome! Also the tumblr blog will be a great compliment for visitors of my site to see too, since it's so related to what I'll be posting.

Thanks again for your response - I've read over your post 4-5 times already to drill this stuff into my head - I don't yet understand a lot of parts of internet marketing/website creation/SEO but it's amazing what I have learned so far here on WF thanks to everyone's knowledge and kindness - I also want to share what success I've had so far to help others, hence my excitement to respond to Wade's post.

Have a great day!

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Vadimarket

13 years ago

For me, it doesn't get any results at all. I've used for only a week though. Out of all of free blog services I use (including WordPress and Weebly) . Blogger is the best so far.

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Kurt

13 years ago

Everything is risk vs. gain. The "risk" wwith Tumblr is that you don't own your page.

However, there's much to "gain" from having a Tumblr account.

Tumblr allows you access to other members' pages via "reblogging" and comments. This makes it easy to gain PageRank for your own Tumblr page by leverging the PR of other pages. And since Tumblr is still "dofollow", you can pass this PR on to other domains.

Tumblr also allows you to get "followers", which means you can leverage Tumblr's internal traffic to get traffic to your own pages. This makes Tumblr great for embedding your own Youtube videos and increasing your views (and reach) in a legit way.

Tumblr also lets you export an RSS pheed, which is another marketing tool which can be exploited in a number of ways.

Because of the above benefits, and more, I find Tumblr to be good because it combines SEO, Social and Youtube marketing.