WARNING: Use Tumblr with Caution - Day 14

[alexander13]

If you're new you may not be aware of the Tumblrgate of 2007 30dc. The Tumblr slap was painful and caught many people in its destructive wake.

I was one of the unfortunate tens of thousands whose blog account got shutdown and I had good content (over 500 word article) on there. Apparently, some challengers put up junk blogs and so Tumblr "threw the baby out with the bathwater" and laid the smack down on all new accounts.

Follow what Dan said to do on his video. Link to your main money blog on WPDirect or your own hosted domain whatever you chose. Don't go getting cute and putting multiple links or links right to your affiliate product page.

That's the kind of thing which raises Tumblr's eyes and can bring us all down.

Tumblr is a very powerful domain which is the reason the gang brought it back for this year.

Respect the technique, follow Dan's instructions to the letter, and keep the ranking power of this awesome domain alive so we can all prosper from its authority and ranking boost.

[HendryLee]

500-word article, got shutdown?

Scary.... thanks for the heads up!

[Kursal]

Only 500 words

Do I write too much?

[Lindiop]

Everyone got shut down, even people with no links in their articles. It was mad. I'm really wary of us all arriving there again. My email address that I used last year is still banned but I used a new one especially created for the niche.
I had a bit of trouble using flock so I ended using Safari.
One piece of advice - keep a copy of everything. If you do get closed down you won't lose your work. You can then post it somewhere else.

[Kursal]

Originally Posted by Lindiop

One piece of advice - keep a copy of everything. If you do get closed down you won't lose your work. You can then post it somewhere else.

Great advice, thanks. I really should keep a copy of everything that I write from now on.

[dmartin69]

I just got shut down....

I had good content dont know why I got slapped?

[cmiddlebrook]

The problem with Tumblr is that it is not really a blogging platform like WordPress or Blogger, it is more like Twitter - it was designed for micro-blogging, at least that was the case last year.

When the TumblrGate happened last year the guy behind the site got really mad and deleted ANY site related to the 30DC, the actual content / links became irrelevant so if he knew it was 30DC related he deleted it.

I haven't watched todays video yet so can't comment but I'll be treating Tumblr with extreme caution.

[Michael Carlson]

I may go even one step further and wait for a few days before I do anything with tumblr. This way I'll see if it survives longer than last year without having much invested in it.
Tumblr really ranks well, I just hope people actually listen this year and put up quality content this year...

[alexander13]

I agree wholeheartedly with Lindiop. Never write content in some kind of web-based editor. I always use wordpad but use whatever text editor on your own hard drive you prefer. And save often.

That way if your browser freezes or crashes you can just copy and paste from your text editor and you've only lost a few seconds instead of hour or more of work. Doing things twice is never the way to go.

Caroline makes a good point to and knows her stuff about blogging. With all these services you want to respect the community and the spirit of what those sites were designed and intended to do.

Michael, that maybe a good strategy. However, they may see any blog started within the next 7-10 days and nuke it. ONly time will tell that's why saving your content to your hard drive or google notebook is of paramount importance.

[SteveTallamy]

Originally Posted by Kursal

Great advice, thanks. I really should keep a copy of everything that I write from now on.

Probably deserves a new Thread but YES keep a copy of everything you write, possible content for an ebook later!

Steve