Tumblr and/or Wordpress?

I'll be sure to keep you posted on that. We're going to be testing out just how powerful Tumblr is by creating link wheels with it. I'll be sure to keep you posted on the results.

you should share your posts on any place they are welcome.

Yes, it is better to share them or part of them with link back to your website.

You will benefit in 3 ways:

1) You can build backlinks when you link back to your site (for better Search Engine Optimization)
2) You can get direct traffic if your content is enough engaging.
3) Establishing yourself through content marketing

If you have any other questions feel free to PM me

Don't just share it on Tumblr, the best is write another similar meaning of the article related to your initial one and pointing it back to your main blog.

That wouldn't be duplicate content, though, Alexander. It would be syndicated content.

And as Google keeps going to such great lengths to clarify, that's a completely different thing.

The differences between the two are briefly explained in this post and this little article.

Indeed not: that would involve Tommy giving another site previously unpublished ("unique") content, rather than publishing it and having it indexed on his own site first. Not very sensible at all!

Hi Tommy - unfortunately it's not going to be easy for you to get helpful answers to this question. It'll be easy to get "answers" but they may not be particularly well-informed ones.

I saw your post as soon as you made it, thought it was going to be "very tricky" and I'm already wincing at some of the replies above.

I think there are two main reasons it's very difficult for people to advise you. First, there's enormously widespread misunderstanding (some of which is already on display here) about "duplicate content". Secondly, you're in the very unusual position, in this forum, of having your own main, non-monetized site on wordpress.com. (This isn't something that marketers are very familiar with, of course, because of wordpress.com's terms of service prohibiting all monetization!).

I don't confidently know the answer to the question you're asking.

I'm posting simply to suggest that in these unusual circumstances, it may be wise to envisage that the same might actually be true of others trying to give you an answer, some of whom (as we've already seen) will undoubtedly have wrong the underlying assumptions/beliefs on which their opinions are formed.

In your unusual position, personally, I wouldn't do what you suggest. Rightly or wrongly, I would simply put my time and effort into adding further content to my own site. This isn't a confident answer ... but certainly don't start submitting "unique" content elsewhere as suggested above, rather than publishing it yourself first and waiting for it to be indexed (and that part is confident advice!).

Good luck and good wishes,

Lexy

I personally prefer to have my main blog software separate from my webhost so that I can move it around in case of something happening with my host.

I would definitely look at moving off of Wordpress.com to either Tumblr or ideally your own installation of Wordpress from .org

That said, having a "sister/brother" blog on Tumblr is not a bad idea mainly because of it's social network properties. As you may have noticed, it is quite a powerful platform because every "like" or "comment" you make on related Tumblr blogs includes a link back to your Tumblr page which can be quite viral if you really work the platform bringing you significant traffic.

For example, customer X visits Blog X and likes the content, see's that you like it too and clicks on your link bringing them to your blog immediately.

You can get the same effect with blog commenting on WP, but the concept of "liking" is faster and more powerful from linking perspective within Tumblr.

Another consideration is the platform itself and ease of use...Tumblr is a very intuitive, simple blogging platform that many people prefer over WP which can be a real pain in the butt to keep updated with its widgets and plugins (which tends to drive people to all-in-one theme/plugin type packages such as Thesis, Genesis, etc...)

There are some very big names that have used Tumblr (think Gary Vaynerchuck for one who operates his personal blog and multi-million dollar Wine Library blogs off of Tumblr) - but I am noticing his sites are now moving to his own WP implementation, so that may tell you something as well.

Jeff

Now Tumblr is on fire for growing. This can generate traffic from itself. I vote it. You need to regularly update posts on this.

Great info guys. I have been considering making tumblr accounts for a couple of my sites but was a little worried about the duplicate content angle. Think i will give it a try.

Instead of placing your entire post or article on Tumblr, you'd likely be better off posting an interesting picture related to what the article on your site is about and a few sentences about your article, along with a link back to it. It will only take a few minutes to create a Tumblr post and people will be forced to go to your Wordpress.com blog if they want to read the whole article.

One warning about Tumblr. It isn't going to provide instant traffic. You're still going to have to work to build up your following by posting a constant stream of interesting and engaging pictures and content. If one of your posts goes viral, then you'll see a big, albeit temporary, boost in traffic to your site. If not, you'll likely only get a trickle of people making the jump until you've built up a decent-sized following.