Why don't you listen to the (strange-looking) man...
Tell me you found an easy and quick link building technique, and you’ll have my full attention.
Tell me that technique will generate high PR, Dofollow links back to my blog for FREE, and I’ll get to work right there and then.
That’s pretty much what happened when I heard of this link building strategy using Tumblr.
But first things first.
What is Tumblr?
Tumblr is a free micro-blogging platform that allows you to post video or audio files and images in addition to text.
If it’s too long to tweet, but too short to write a substantial blog post about, it’s perfect for Tumblr.com.
It’s similar to Posterous, but simpler to use. Some might say it’s even more powerful than Posterous.
So what?
Great, you say, yet another thing to add to my to-do list, Ana.
Allow me to explain what makes Tumblr such a good addition to your link building strategy.
Tumblr Is…
1. PR8 website.
Which means that it has a lot of authority to pass to your blog and other web properties.
2. Dofollow.
All the links you post to Tumblr are Dofollow.
If you are not sure what Dofollow means, take a look at this post.
3. Self-publishing platform.
You can pretty much publish whatever you want to Tumblr, as long as you don’t violate their Terms of Service, of course.
Let’s compare that to any article directory, say EzineArticles.com.
With EzineArticles, you submit an article, then wait and hope that it passes the moderator’s “inspection”. Additionally, they have strict backlinking rules that limit you as to where to add your links, how many, how many keywords in your anchor text you can use, etc.
No such problem with Tumblr.
So you can pretty much treat it as your personal article directory that gives you just as much, if not more, link juice as any traditional article directory – without the hassle.
4. SEO-friendly.
I’ve seen many Tumblr blogs rank very highly on Google for some very competitive keywords.
How I Use Tumblr for Link Building
These are some very simple, effective, and quick techniques I can implement within minutes.
1. Publish summaries of my blog posts.
Just a few sentences will do with a keyword-rich link or two back to my post.
2. Use OnlyWire.com or Ping.fm
Both of these free services allow you to bookmark your posts to several social media/micro-blogging platforms at the same time.
Tumblr is one of them.
3. Import your RSS feeds.
Tumblr used to have an import RSS function, which allowed you to connect your Tumblr blog with your WP blog, Twitter account, etc.
A couple of months ago they quietly did away with that feature.
However, where there’s a will, there’s a way, right?
There are some WP plugins you can use to connect Tumblr with your WordPress blog, but most of them are not very well suited for the job. For instance, Tumblrize will cross-publish your entire posts, which will create duplicate content issues and render your backlinks worthless.
The best solution I found is TumblRSSApp.com.
It allows you to add several RSS feeds and is entirely free.
Notice the last drop-down box in the image above that says “select post type“.
You’ll have 2 choices here: text or link. I suggest you choose “link” for your blog RSS feed and “text” for your Twitter link. I had to experiment to learn this essential piece of information.
How to Get High PR Dofollow Backlinks from Tumblr
Of course, I saved the best for last.
In this video, I’ll show you how to get dofollow links from high PR pages on Tumblr within minutes and with minimal effort.
Brief video summary:
- Create an account at Tumblr.com
- In URL field enter your main keywords with dashes between them.
- Confirm your email address.
- Click on “Untitled” ==> “Customize Appearance”. Choose a free theme.
- Go under “Settings”.
- Check “Use custom domain box”. Add your domain name without http or “/”.
- Enable SEOQuake. Do a Google search with this command site:tumblr.com “liked this”
- Find high PR pages. Click on them one by one.
- Once on a page, click on “Reblog” in the upper right corner.
- Refresh the page to make sure your keywords show up as the last name in “Notes”.
Originally, I learned this tactic from SEO Experts Academy – the best course on how to generate a flood of SEO traffic I’ve ever seen.
This Tumblr link building strategy is only one of many they teach you in the course. If you are finally ready to get a grip on your search engine traffic, SEO Experts Academy is definitely the way to go:
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I origianlly watched this Matt carter Vid when delivered to my email and thought it was a great trick. I tried it and it worked great BUT with one big downside. Once you find a great tumblr page with good PR rank you might be published but once your comment gets pushed back from the 1st page to the second it no longer will hold any page rank…. I found this out the hard way…
Actually, that’s not correct, Anthony.
Even though you can’t see all the reblogs, they are still located on the same page – there are no page breaks on Tumblr.
This is such a great tip. Google was quick to pick up these backlinks. I see wordpress.com also has a Reblog feature. Is there any way to get a backlink with their reblog button? Thanks.
So far I haven’t found a way to do the same with WP.com – I don’t see a way to add a custom domain name that would redirect to your actual site.
Of course, you CAN build links that way to your wp.com blog and then link to your main site from there…
Wow. I had been using Digg, reddit & Tumblr.
I posted a few small articles, but this is amazing. This is really great.
Thanks Ana. A traffic source with a backlink is always gr8.
It really is, Aniket.
This is cool, building links from Tumblr… never thought about it, thanks for sharing
You are welcome, Sagar.
Hey Anna, another great post and idea. I had setup tumbler and began using it before your post came out. Wondering if can change my setup if it is already an established account. Will be checking that out. Thanks for all you share.
You should be able to change it without a problem, Paul.
Very interesting post, and thanks for having added the summary of the video for those like me, and you, who are not native English speakers.
Now, before heading to tumblr I was reading your last blog post and at a certain point pippity entered in and I’m not able to close it and come back to the post. It might be it’s my pc which has a little screen but it might also be pippity isn’t working as it should so I thought you should be informed.
Have a great day!
Thanks for letting me know, Andrea – I’ll check into it.
Very useful Information Ana.Thanks for sharing this method .Now going to try it
You are welcome, Hamza.
Ana,
After reading this post again, I am wondering whether or not you are indicating that we should post a summary of each blog article on Tumblr in addition to the main article itself which would be posted via Onlywire or if you just need to do one or the other. I have been using Onlywire for about two years so most of my blog posts have gone to Tumblr via that route. I need to go in and optimize these as you have outlined now that Christmas and the Seattle area snow storm have passed. That snow storm was an economic killer–we had to cancel 4 days of patients. I love snow, but up in the mountains for skiing.
If your OnlyWire account publishes to Tumblr, Cynthia, then you don’t need to publish it there manually.
I am with you: love snow, but on my terms!
I knew Tumbler was a good source to get a high PR backlink but was not aware of those extra couple of tips.
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Im starting out to create my user name in Tumblr and I am so excited to use this link so I could make my backlinks and blogging easier and more feasible. A better way to start up the year using this unbeatable high PR site and Ill be using this marketing tool in the niche of social networking . I’ll be able to make my online job more useful, feasible and knowledgeable to other users through Tumblr. Thank you so much for that video on how I can use Tumblr, its the easiest procedure and very detailed that’s why any user can get used to it , a user-friendly indeed and a nice strategy for every freelancer!
Keep posting links and I’m looking forward to catch up more updates with this site Miss Anna!
You are very welcome, Zellin.
I tried out the method, and i got “invalid tumblr log” on my blog. I wrote to tumblr support and this is what they says”Hello Zac,We’ve suspended your blog for spam or affiliate marketing. Per the policies you agreed to when creating your account, Tumblr prohibits such activity.
Best,
Kristin
Any body got similar situations as well? Seriously, does this trick really works? seems like it got my tumblr banned!
I don’t think it had anything to do with reblogging the content, Zac – it’s within Tumblr guidelines.
precisely, which is why i thought it is strange that they blacklist my tumblr. I did every step in your guide and nothing else. Do you think it is possible that they claim that my reblog is spam or affiliate marketing because i change the url to my website in the settings portion? or could it be that i reblog quite a bit when i first created this account. I think your reader Przemek too raised this query.
I have created an account just now, on tumblr. That post is perfect to start with. I am on blogger so very much worried my blog’s SEO. So, Let’s start making backlinks to my sites.
Thank you.
Search engine traffic is great!
I shall start tumblr-ing immediately
Would you recommend using tumblr to create a few backlinks each day to spread them out, or is it irrelevant and I can simply go on a backlinking spree?
Thanks
It depends on whether your site is brand new or established, Przemek.
For the most part, this shouldn’t be a problem.
The dust has barely settled on this one, it’s about 6 months old. I’ll wait for a spike in robot traffic before I plant any more. Great site btw., added to my bookmarks.
By the way, I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED your photos…
Aww, thanks Ana, I really appreciate the support
This is a nice strategy Anna. Ill surely be picking this so I could look for high PR do follow sites. I watched the video and its so informative. I’m now excited to generate traffic and blogging using this newly find venue for high PR suggested sites. Now ‘I’m heading to my next step to explore tumblr and sign up. Its absolutely nice and thanks for sharing this tip. Keep it up!
You are welcome, Zellin.
Hi,
I tried out your method. I could detect the backlink (using the linkchecker as per your advice) but when i use seo spyglass to check did i get that backlink, i couldn’t find it. What could have gone wrong?
Many times, it takes a while for Google to actually discover your links, Zac. It’s possible also that some of the links you drop around the web will never be found by Google.
ok got it
Thanks.
btw how do you check that after doing this you are getting the backlinks to your website ?
If you have the URL of the page where you left the link, then the simplest thing to do is to run it through scrapebox. com/free-link-checker – it’ll tell you if the page links to you or not.
If not, check out my latest post: http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/yahoo-site-explorer-alternatives/
I tried the part on “add custom domain” in the setting and i got stucked. Do you need to point your domain A record to 72.32.231.8? If i did that, say i set up a tumbler called iphoneaccessories. tumblr. com, after i add custome domain name (Say www. verigoodstore. com), everytime i key in iphoneaccessories. tumblr. com it will be directed to www. verigoodstore. com, or it is the other way round, that means when i type www. verigoodstore. com it will be directed to iphoneaccessories. tumblr. com?
Zac – you don’t need to change any records to do this; just follow the directions in the video.
That is truly an ingenious link building technique and to be sincere, I had no idea how powerful Tumblr can be as a link building tool. I opened an account in 2009 and I have never since revisited it until you mentioned it in this post. Thanks.
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Now is a good time to start using it, Kevin!
I tried it to day- I guess that tumbler was so busy that I kept getting the next message:
We’re sorry
Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We’re working quickly to resolve the issue.
will try again- maybe without the key words ‘liked it’ and more relevant key word first.
Yes, sounds like a server overload, Ofer.
Hi Ana,
thanks for the great tip to get solid dofollow backlinks
Cheers
You are welcome, Mohideen.
What a nice tip, thanks. I hadn’t heard of seo quake before either that’s nice as well. It didn’t seem to work for me in chrome though had to switch to firefox.
It certainly has some glitches, Melanie, but it’s free, so we have to bear with them. lol
Nice tips Anna !
I’ve just created it and I found it out to be real worth it. But do you have any search code to look for blogs which are related to a particular niche?
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I am sure you can add “your keyword” in quotation marks to the end of the query, Argie, but I wouldn’t worry about it too much; from everything, I’ve seen Google doesn’t pay as much attention as the relevancy of originating link sites.
Oh I see. Well, thanks a lot for the additional info Anna
Cheers.. Merry Christmas anyway.
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I have an account on Tumblr but I never thought that it could be a perfect platform for SEO
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My domain contains dashes can I still use this? When I go to settings and use the custom domain it doesn’t allow dashes and when I check the domain it comes up with this……”This domain’s A-record is not pointing to Tumblr.”
I am not an expert on this, Todd – sounds like Tumblr doesn’t like dashes in domain.
Great tips about using Tumblr for getting dofollow backlinks. I am working on my backlinking strategy for my new website, and I have been told to make plenty of free blogs on web 2.0 properties but I do not know which ones are dofollow or nofollow. So it is refreshing to find out how to use Tumblr for traffic generation.
You are very welcome, Mark.
Hi Ana, I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this before, but I just wanted to add a tip.
I found Tumblr blogs for popular sites like Fast Company and The Next Web and all of their posts have high PR. So I just look for posts that don’t have a lot of “notes” and reblogged those. It’s also a quick way to find some other “Tumblrs” that have also reblogged or liked these posts and then I can check to see if they have high PR’s too.
I’m using this to build some links for my lonely podcasting blog that needs some help. Thanks for sharing!
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That’s a great tip, Ileane – might be a bit more time-consuming, but also better quality. I need to try it sometime.
Thanks for a great article, Ana. Indeed, Web 2.0 like Tumblr sites are an easier and more effective way to get quality backlinks (compared to article submission sites). And of course, the content should we post always be unique, well-written and interesting.
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Yes, Tina, Tumblr is very easy that way. It’s more like a bookmarking service and a big time-savor in that respect.
Hi Ana,
I have a tumblr account, but never known if the site can be used to get dofollow backlink. Before, I only use tumblr to share with my friends. I’ll try this trick.
Thanks Ana.
You are very welcome, Clara.
I have a doubt here Ana … After we reblog a particular high PR article, we get a dofollow link back to our tumblr blog !! My question here is how would the juice flow to our blog ?
You need to watch the video, Salman.
I did … watch it !! So the doubt arises .. After I reblog a particular post, I get a link to my tumblr blog, but how would it benefit my own blog in terms of ranking ? :s
No, it doesn’t, Salman.
If you follow the steps in the video, your Tumblr blog will redirect right to YOUR blog, so you’ll get direct links.
Oh I see … Lemme practically check it !!
Anyways thanks for your kind support Ana
Great Video! Thanks Anna, i didnt know you can rearrange PR in SEOQuake.
Nice voice too
You are welcome, Erica.
What do you do when tumblr keeps saying “you domain is not pointing to tumblr” when I check it and then when I reblog I am not seeing my link keyword anywhere. What would the problem be?
I am at a loss as to why it would do that, Sylviane.
The best I can suggest is to double-check the way you added your domain name to Tumblr.
Ana!
Two-thumbs up!
Just wanna say that I love your voice! Haha!
Great video and tips for Tumblr Linkbuilding
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Thanks, Sean.
This is invaluable information, however these Do follow links discussed here have now become No follow links. This does not mean that they are ineffective, they carry no link juice to your site, but they do provide relevancy.
No, they haven’t, Helen.
I believe what Helen is talking about is that the likes are nofollow and the reblogs are follow, but I am sure with the abuse the reblogs will turn to nofollow soon too.
That’s why I made a distinction between the two in my video, Greg.
Will they become nofollow? Eventually they might. But even if they do, a link is still a link.
Ana, this is one of the brilliant post providing huge information for getting high PR backlinks from Tumblr. I have used tumbler earlier for getting backlinks but I was not aware about this technique and I thanks you from bottom of my heart for this useful post.
You are very welcome, Lalit.
Hi Ana,
Your post is awesome. However, I certainly have doubts about the link value you get from these. Getting these type of “do follow” and “high PR” backlinks satisfies only the psychology of the person seeking the backlink from these sites but certainly not Google.
I am sure Google algorithm is much more smarter ….I am pretty certain that it devalues those links which are not contextual and non niche related and especially from these unmoderated social sites.
Well, do you have a case study to substantiate the effect of these links? It will be very useful if you can.
Why I ask this? If you can prove me this works as a link building strategy, I can create an automated tool to create accounts and post to these tumblr blogs, like and reblog.
Thanks
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A couple of things, Saikat:
-Tumblr is not a social media platform, rather a blogging platform, so placing links like that equates to making comments.
-Of course, contextual links are much more valuable, but can we get 10-15 of those within minutes? Certainly not. Quantity matters too.
-Relevancy is overrated.
And no, I don’t have the time or desire to do any research into how valuable these links really are. LOL
Hi Ana,
I don’t know why you haven’t approved my comment regarding http vs https. I had been waiting to see the answers. I think i have used a different name last time. Could you pls explain the logic behind using secure https websites on Tumblr?
Sometimes comments slip through the crack; sorry one of yours did.
I am not sure I understand the question though. There’s been a lot of talk about implementing SSL Google search, but I am not sure how it relates to Tumblr.
Excellent Post Ana,
Thanks for the Great Tips in the Video Summery Section.
cheers
Sayed
You are welcome, Sayed.
Hi Ana,
I have had an account with Tumblr for some time but would never have thought to do this. I will give it a try and see what happens. Thanks for the info.
I promise you’ll live through it, Neil. LOL
Wow, I never thought of using Tumblr this way! Always such great, creative advice, Ana.
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Really a great idea to build high PR links …. Gonna try and implement this for sure !! Thank you very much for this tute
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Hi Ana! Marvelous idea and such a creative way to use Tumblr. I’m using Scoop.it to feed some content there, but your technique rocks! Thanks for sharing the link to the RSS app too. Sweet!!
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Hi Ana, thanks for this excellent tip. I originally found your article on Zite an app on my iPad and was quick to check out to see what the fuss was all about with Tumblr. Ok do you continue doing this or do you just stop with one link? Some additional advice on doing this would be excellent. Thanks in advance.
Never heard of Zite, Sebastian, but as long as all roads lead to Rome (my blog), who cares where they start, right? LOL
I suggest to build as many links as possible overtime.
Let’s say you build 10-20 links now. Then you do the same search for high PR Tumblr blogs after the next PR update and do some more link building. Link building never stops and one link is never going to do it.
Towards more backlinks to our blogs?
Tips and tricks from Ana’s blog,
Tumblr is our answer!
Thanks,Ana.
Towards more backlinks to our blog?
Tips and tricks from Ana’s blog,
Tumbler is our answer.
Thanks, Ana!
Previously i created few posts on tumblr. But i haven’t heard about this re-blogging strategy. Looking forward to learn several tricks from seo experts academy. Thanks Ana
Ana,
Thanks for the great tip and process on getting a PR 7 link. I have gone through the process steps you presented and was able to get the free PR link. In my case the page I found for my link was only a PR 4 page.
Larry
That’s still progress, Larry. Well done!
I tried to go and register on Tumblr but always getting this message ;
“We’re sorry
Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We’re working quickly to resolve the issue.”
Has to be a temporary overload, Alden – just check back later.
It’s unfortunate this technique has now become public because I see Tumblr high PR posts getting spammed. The one Matt showed in his video had about 160 “likes” and now has thousands. Two problems with this – the link juice is considerably diluted and it’s only a matter of time that Tumblr will stop this feature if it gets abused.
It is what it is, Kate…
Well, Ana, I thought I was the only one in this space that is not big into social media. Email is social… I like that. . . and god know I get plenty of it!
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Outstanding article… I’m creating my Tumblr account now!
Nail on the head, Larry – whether we like social media or not, it drives traffic, so we better pay attention to it.
Have heard of that tool before but, never had the time to look at it closely. Thanks for this nice review. I definitely have to check it out.
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I know this method some time longer, but now as it’s getting famous, it’s started to getting worthless.
It’s a big difference between a PR 6 Link with 10 OBL and 100.
Like 10.000€ and 100.000€
Definitely, DJ.
However, considering how little effort it takes, it’s still worth doing it.
Hi Ana,
I love this post and I have actually been using Tumblr for awhile (via OnlyWire) to create links for articles and blog posts. I’m a little confused about something though. If I add my blog url (as in step 6 under the video) doesn’t that make it so that when people go to my tumblr blog it gets redirected to my main blog and wouldn’t that make posting my blog posts and such on the tumbr blog kind of pointless? I’m not sure if I’m missing something or what. LOL
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That’s what happens, Danielle, but it is not pointless as you receive backlinks from a PR7 blog, which helps your own blog’s ranking.
Wow Ana, great tips. I actually have a question for you though.
Say the URL you want is taken. I understand you have to put dashes, but say you wanted to target, Ana-Hoffman-is-the-greatest-blogger but it was taken, could you just add another dash and an x or do you have to completely think of a new keyword phrase; what-is-blogging (say it had several thousand searches and what you were personally targeting), how could you still target that keyword, without deviating too much?
Thanks!
Good question, Dan.
You could definitely add a simple word at the end like “tools” or “tips” or, as you said, just a simple “x”.
I think that would be a better solution to diluting your links with less targeted keywords.
Speaking of Ana-Hoffman-is-the-greatest-blogger… Better go see if it’s taken… LOL
Thanks Ana again, for the great advice. After a little fumbling around, I found a PR5 site to reblog. It took about two more minutes, but my link came through. This almost seems too good to be true. Wonder if there are more sites like that out there?
That’s great, Gustav. We should do a list on these kinds of sites.
Very nice tip Ana. It works perfectly.
Like you said it only works once per account.
I got dofollow links from 2 different posts (PR4 and PR5).
Thanks.
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Hey Ana,
Thanks for a great post,you made it an easy and quick setup. Is there a certain amount of post’s i should “reblog” or is one enough?Sorry for the question,im new to all this and trying to learn everything i can.
Thanks,
James
The more links, the better, James – one might not be all that powerful on its own.
Thanks for the reply Ana,now its time to do some reblogging.
Great suggestion.
I was wondering if using about.me might work in a similar fashion for profiles.
Oh my, Thank you Ana for this nice tutorial. Your video breaks this down so well and then some. I recently read about link building with tumblr but when I got to the tumblr site, it confused the hell out of me and I was like, “where’s the backlink?” Now, I am not even adding this to a list, I am going straight to tumblr to do it
You always make it so easy.
Thanks, Flo – this literally shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes or so.
Yes Ana, that’s about how long it took to create the blog, set it up and reblog a few “nice” posts. Thank you!
I was beginning to notice that there were some really cool blogs coming from Tumblr and was considering the idea of starting one of my own. Well, this settles it. I created one last night following your video instructions. Ana, I have to tell you that I am in the process of reading every one of your posts here because I am learning so much and I consider myself an SEO idiot. Thanks for all that you do!!
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You are so very welcome, Renee, and I am honored you consider my posts of help.
We all have to start somewhere, right?
Hi Anna,
What are you using to implement the “Strikethrough NOFOLLOW and NO INDEX” option. (plugin? SEOQUAKE?, etc.)
Thank you.
Eric
I use either SEOQuake or SEOMoz toolbar, Eric.
Hi Ana
Great post. Actually I have just linked to it from my Tumblr blog. I have not been using Tumblr very long but I think it is a nice however I think the navigation and customization is very tricky to figure out. However it is a nice addition to my normal blog. I had not thought much about using it in my link building strategy, but I can see why that is very smart and simple to do.
Thanks for the tips Ana.
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Great advice Ana!
But I noticed that “liking” the post also gets your name to appear in the notes, isn’t that enough instead of reblogging the post?
If you simply like it, Bilal, then your link will be Nofollow. If you reblog it, it’ll be Dofollow.
Ana,
As usual some great information. I have had a Tumblr account for quite a while, but have pointed out some very good things that I was not aware of. I had no idea it was a PR7, even though I have 72 articles posted on Tumblr. I need to go back and re-read your entire article and watch the video again. I don’t think I am optimized correctly at this point, because I am listed as Open Untitled at bellevuedentist.tumblr.com. I don’t have any keywords listed either, so I have some refreshing to do after I go over your information again. Thanks as always for great information.
That’s great. Dr. Pauley. Just go over the info again, as I am sure you’ll be to optimize it in no time!
Tech Crunch just reported that Tumblr changed all of their links to be no-follow to combat their spam problem.
I just checked, Hollie, and all the links that I talked about in the video are still dofollow.
Well that’s a cool trick Ana. I had no idea that Tumblr was do-follow. I will definitely give this a try. I am a big SEOQuake user…;)
I am not a huge social media guy…I tend to automate anything social which is the exact opposite of what SMO is all about..I know…I know.
Great tip and great video. That is the first time I have ever heard you speak…took me a while to place that Russian accent…:)
Mark
I know – my accent is very well hidden behind my blog posts. LOL
I strongly dislike social media and do the very least I can get away with while still generating traffic.
Actually wrote a post for the next week about Twitter automation; I am sure it’ll raise some eyebrows.
Wow great tips. I’ve been using tumblr for a while and didn’t know this.
I thought the only way to get good backlinks was if many people reblogged something of mine.
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Good to know that this link building strategy is entirely under our control, Nicko.
Beautiful, Ana!!!
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Always adding so much value in your posts.
Yours is the go-to site for internet Marketing!
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You are so welcome, Fernando.
By the way, just added your blog to my CommenLuv enabled list!
Thanks
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Nice! Great advice, thanks. I read this blog post halfway, then hurried over to tumblr, published my first post and came back to finish reading this.
Thanks for sharing!
You are very welcome, Lannon.
Hi Ana,
Really great tip, I have heard about tumbler many a times but never think that it could be so much useful.
Going to create my own account over there. 
Hey Ana,
I watched Matt Carter’s video last week and have been meaning to write a post on this backlinking strategy. You beat me to the punch
Serves me right for procrastinating.
As usual, you have over-delivered on a post. Excellent info Ana!
This is one of my favorite backlinking strategies, due to how easy it is and how powerful the links are. Matt Carter is a genius, everyone should get his SEO Experts Academy, (through Ana’s Link
wink, wink)
Ian
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Thanks, Ian – I’ve loved the course so far; now I just need to find the time to finish it. LOL
Wow, good information again Ana, thanks.
I have been sending my posts to Tumblr for quite a while now with OnlyWire which works perfectly, and at the same time it posts to Posterous and a bunch of other bookmarking services.
Thanks for sharing OnlyWire with us. Will check it out.
Thank you Ana for your great tips!
I love your Blog!
I set up a Tumblr account about a year ago when I set up Posterous, but they’re certainly weren’t any great guiding tips like this around then.
My Tumblr name is not hyphenated in the tumblr url, but just 2 words joined as one, while on the dashboard it appears as 2 words without hyphen.
I would like to start again, or redo if I can, or cancel that account and set up new account. But as you say, I probably won’t be able to do that because my blog url is already taken in their system.
I’ve tried to backtrack and add hyphen to my name (since it said in set up new blog that you can change it any time), but it freezes on “saving…” and doesn’t take. Same when I choose the Minimalist theme, it just freezes on “saving…” and doesn’t take.
Any suggestions?
Thanks again for the wonderful info you share so freely.
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If you go under “Settings”, Kathy, you can unlink your site URL and then create a new account.
Let me know if this works.
Thanks Ana
I guess because of the way I set up my first Tumblr account via Posterous network, the emphasis was on short posts using anchor text links pointing back to my blog in the blog post content.
Because of that I discovered that my blog domain was not entered as a custom domain. While I could access Settings, having selected Minimalist free theme just was not saving…
So, I just moved on and set up my new account – success-how-to with my blog’s url entered as custom domain, and it all worked, and I’ve reblogged 1 PR5 and 2 PR4s.
Thanks again Ana for your help
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That’s great, Kathy – you are most welcome. Glad you got it sorted out.
Hi Ana,
What a great way to get PR 7 just within minutes in starting this is not looking possible but i am sure if we will follow these rules then definitely we can achieve that PR for our site/blog.
All the best, Sam. Let us know how it goes.
Ana,
Great tip as I always. I have been using this method for a while. However, I just want to warn new users; Lately it seems like tumbler is catching up to this trick and is banning accounts left and right. So, if you do use this method, be careful not to go over board with it.
And Steve is absolutely correct in that they do ban your IP for life. I have been hearing about similar case a lot on a few online forums I participate in.
You’re welcome, Satrap. Thanks to you and Steve we’ll be extra careful!
Hey Ana, when I first got on Tumblr, I enjoyed it so much but I abandoned it for the past few months. Maybe it’d be worth it to revive it for link building purposes. I think I tried something similar to what you listed with the RSS feed with the last company I worked at. Hopefully it can work again.
Hopefully it does. Keep me posted.
Thats true Anna..
Tunblr is one of the most effective way to building quality backlinks as I personally experience it and it works.
Thanks a lot fot this useful post and for video too..
Ana, good post building backlinks from sites like Tumblr. Even links built from WordPress.com is very good. You can see ranking changes almost instantly. I do have tumblr blog and post there from time to time.
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That’s right, Eddie. Sure worth a try!
I have watched your video and seems easy to do.. I’ll try to sign up and follow your step by step instructions and will see whether the links work for my blog.. thanks for your clear instructions Ana..
Hi Ana,
Oh you always have the best tips! This took me a bit longer as I had to install SEOQuake.
How many times should or do you need to reblog posts?
Any worries about being penalised for this technique?
I’ve tried it and done a few reblogs linking to each of my real blogs.
Thank you:) Off to tweet and share now!
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You can reblog as many times as you’d like, Annabel – all depends how many links you’d like.
There’s absolutely no penalty for this – this is a Tumblr function and we are not doing anything black hat by using it.
Congratulations for the article on Tumblr live in Brazil and already I’ve been reading many things about Tumblr but nothing like these tips and opened a vision that I had not and did not find useful.
Thank you and success.
Thanks for the post Ana.
I knew the technique already as I’m a subscriber to Matt Carter’s blog. But I clicked on the video just because I was curious about your voice. Lol, you have a great one really
And yes, a PR7 link for FREE is awesome! Have a nice day.
Thanks, Duy – many of my readers don’t realize English is not my first language. LOL
Yeah, I remembered it from a comment you made before. And btw, just a way to find the high PR page you want when SEOQuake refuses to work (it’s acting weird these days).
1) Do the search with the search phrase you mentioned normally. But change the search settings to 100 results per page. And uncheck the “Google instant” option (as it won’t work with this option turned on).
2) Turn on SEOQuake and hit the “PR” button to show the actual PR of those pages.
3) Press “Ctrl + F” to open the search box of your browser.
4) Type in “PR: ?” and hit enter. With the “?” is the value you want to find. For example, PR: 7 will find all PR7 pages out there (if there is any). And you can do the same with other numbers.
That’s it, a little time saving tip
All the best Ana!
Great tip, thank you Duy! It is acting a bit strange indeed at times.
Just tried it and found 5 PR: 5 sites to reblog. Seems to take awhile to show up but great tip!
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Yes, it could, but it’s great.
Not only that, but if your post gets reblogged, it appears on another Tumblr blog, resulting in another backlink.
Plus Tumblr blogs (being connected to the powerful main domain) aren’t really at risk of the sandbox.
Two great points, Gregory.
I need to start paying more attention to Tumblr – beyond link building.
Tumblr can be a great opportunity, but it relies mostly on image blogs rather than quality writing in order to get noticed (because images are reblogged far more often).
Also, one problem with Tumblr is that they do not allow affiliate marketing, although I do believe they allow advertising (no idea why the divide, but oh well).
Largely though, if you pic a humorous or unique niche and focus on images, Tumblr can become a way to create really popular blogs quickly, but it’s hard to build a list and monetize there.
Thanks for sharing this technique! Instead of looking for high PR pages I am more focusing on relevance. Seems like this could get abused. Not to mention most of the really high PR tumblr pages have tons of activity and other links to force yours out.
I know of many SEO’s who debate the importance of relevance, Michael.
Also, all Tumblr links, no matter how many, always stay on the same page as far as Google is concerned. So if you can’t see them all, Google can.
Nice Video, Ana..
You had the same(Actually similar) problems as I had with SEO Quake.
When they did recent upgrades(Update) a number of parameters in the Seoquake bar would either not work, or only do so on occasion.
I only just read a post by a reasonably successful Blogger, who stated that Stumblr had in some ways saved his site. He said this not just in relation to the Links made available or Traffic to site possibilities, though more in regards to the social interaction with others through the Stumblr service.
I do love SEOQuake, but it never really works as well as it should for me, Daniel.
I don’t use StumleUpon myself (just no time), but from everything I read, it doesn’t generate very well-converting traffic.
As far as social interaction is concerned, I can definitely see the value in that.
I think tumblr might have changed their settings. What you described above is no longer visible. For instance, there’s no settings page.
I’ll keep looking, but I’ve been on the site (just joined) for an hour now and can’t get passed number 5. Help anyone?
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I went over this issue in the video, Anne – you need to set your theme to any free theme; THEN you’ll see the settings button.
I see! I didn’t have my earphones and couldn’t listen to the video at the time I read the article. Have done it now. Amazing
I hadn’t heard of this strategy, Ana. It sounds very promising. My only concern is any extra time it would take as I feel so busy already. Went over to SEO Experts and it looked very appealing. But I did have a bit of sticker price shock over it. How quickly did you find them to pay off?
It literally took me about 10 min, including creating a new Tumblr blog, to implement this strategy, Thomas.
I am still going through the course myself, but so far I found it to be one of the best SEO, and particularly link building, courses out there.
Wow! This is great. I’m off to do it straight away.
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Shouldn’t take you long, Anne!
Nice post, Ana. I’ve been familiar with Tumblr for awhile. It’s also pretty easy to use Tumblr a bit like Twitter to gain traffic.
BTW, what program did you use to make the screencast?
Now I need to start working on my traffic generation from Tumblr.
Any advice on that, Darren?
I use ScreenFlow for my videos.
Ana, it’s very similar to Twitter. Follow and Reblog instead of Follow and Like. Build a large list of followers and hope for the best.
Thanks for the info about ScreenFlow. I’ll check it out
Darren
Just one word of warning to all who use tumblr. They are really serious about affiliate links. Before I knew what I was doing I wrote a couple of articles on Tumblr and had an affiliate link in one, I guess. I didn’t pay attention to it for months later, and wen to check on day, and now my whole IP is banned. I can’t even get to Tumblr to open a new account.
Just a word of warning a Tumblr ban seems pretty final so play by their rules.
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Oh no! Sorry to hear that. Did you try using a VPN?
This is a very good SEO tip. I never thought that it could be a huge advantage.
and it was a success on first attempt.
I did the instructions while I play the video
It is barely 2 weeks since I found this site and I already learnt a lot of stuffs.
Good Job Ana!
That’s great to know! Thanks for telling us your results.
Great tip Ana, so glad I found your blog! (you are wrong btw………..we would like to see you dance!!!)
Thanks again
That’s because you never saw me dance, Jay… LOL
Ana, you never cease to amaze me… your tips and insights are priceless… I had thought about using Tumblr a while back and put it on my “to do” list when I have time… little did I realize how much I could benefit from using it… Once again you have opened my eyes to a new strategy, which I will implement! Video was great, and I “hate” having to sit and watch videos… would rather have documentation but when it comes to yours, I definitely watch… God forbid I should miss something…
Thanx again for such great info! Happy Dance! =}
Linda =}
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You are so kind!
LOL! Then I am glad you watched the video. I know we tend to put things on the “one day” list and never get around to it.
LOL!
Awesome tip, I had not heard this before. I tried it and it worked like a champ. Thank you again for all your tips. – Matt
Glad you tried it, Matt.
Had been hearing rumors about Tumblr being valuable, but had no idea how to use it. Ana, your experimentation and results reporting are remarkably helpful for bloggers who want to earn money by generating traffic. A few minutes reading one of your posts is the best investment a blogger can make.
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Thank you for your kind words. Glad you found it helpful.
This is probably one of the best posts I’ve read in a very long time. I’m going to re-read it in detail and see how it works.
Thanks Anna!
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Just got back from your blog, Cristina – impressive start to what appears to be a very new blog!
Thanks Anna!
Awesome tip! I could always use more high PR backlinks. (They are, of course, the most challenging to find.)
I haven’t looked at Tumblr for ages, but I’ve always admired the simplicity and elegance of their platform.
Regards,
- Steve
High PR links are not always easy to find…
Awesome post and video Ana!
Though I do have an account on Tumblr but have never used it at all- in-fact it does remain out of sight out of mind! I just saw the amazing video that explains everything so well in detail and am just heading to my Tumblr account to get things sorted out!
Thanks once again for putting up such informative posts and reminding us about things.
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I suppose with so many great tools we tend to sign up for things and then forget to use it. It’s a pity really…
I hope you enjoy it now.
Hey, great info Ana, I will head over to tumblr at once doing this for all my sites
Hey Ana,
Totally love this cool strategy by Matt Carter. It is the easiest technique that I have seen to get high PR Do Follow backlinks.
Thanks for sharing this
Cheers,
Ming
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