Link Building with Tumblr

October 11, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

Tumblr is a free blogging platform that takes about 5 seconds to setup. You enter your email, a password, and your subdomain, and your blog is instantly created. You can then build links to your new Tumblr blog and write content with anchor dofollow links back to your site.

I have a live Tumblr blog example for my Super Nintendo Console case study. You can see my Tumblr blog at super-nintendo-console.tumblr.com.

A good strategy to use with these free blog engines is to create a subdomain with the keyword you are getting, and then after you have added a good amount of content and a few links, use a few greyhat link building strategies to quickly index your new page which will help you get your actual site indexed quickly as well and without the risk of penalization.

If you really want to get into advanced link building with Tumblr, you could even search around for existing Tumblr blogs in your niche that blog frequently and have a strong pagerank. You could easily email them asking to buy links (although I do NOT recommend you ever buy/sell links unless you are experienced in it), and generally the majority of the people will be glad to accept your money since they are not webmasters for a living and they are blogging on a free platform.

Like always, I like providing the straight-to-the-point groundwork for how to build links, and leave the rest of the creativity up to you.

Comments

21 Comments on Link Building with Tumblr

  1. Zurpit on Sat, 11th Oct 2008 9:27 pm

    2. Thanks for sharing, I never heard of Tumblr before but Im sure its a great way to build links

  2. Andrew Green on Sat, 11th Oct 2008 11:54 pm

    3. I just used it and its very easy to get the back links …

    Good stuff collin

  3. asmaliana on Sun, 12th Oct 2008 6:33 am

    4. This link building strategy supposed to get higher pagerank in google rite? I’am still don’t understand, my friend site just 3 month old and just 30 post have 1 page rank and I rank higher than her in Alexa and have 2 years old blog with 300 post still no page rank in Google…

  4. Sacramento Weddings on Sun, 12th Oct 2008 10:38 am

    5. Thanks again for yet another great suggestion!

  5. GO Zone on Sun, 12th Oct 2008 1:10 pm

    6. Loving it…keep um coming

  6. Hillel on Sun, 12th Oct 2008 2:49 pm

    7. Tumblr is great for creating quality backlinks to a website.

  7. Link Exchange on Sun, 12th Oct 2008 4:14 pm

    8. Just the way I like it, simple and easy :P

  8. Dennis Edell on Mon, 13th Oct 2008 1:40 am

    9. 2nd or 3rd time I’ve heard of it so I need to get there, thanks Collin. :)

  9. CoolProducts on Mon, 13th Oct 2008 10:04 am

    10. Haven’t heard too much from ya lately, Collin! Glad to see a new post!

  10. Content Writing Jobs on Tue, 14th Oct 2008 8:13 am

    11. The pagerank depends on the page ranks of the site from where you get the link. If you get all the links from PR0 pages then you wont get any PR. It also depends on the outgoing links from the page too. If you have link from a PR1-2 page but if it has hundreds of outgoing links then its of no use.

  11. Marketing Hamilton on Tue, 14th Oct 2008 10:48 am

    12. It seems like a nice blogging platform but can you get your own template?

  12. liu yang on Wed, 15th Oct 2008 2:25 am

    13. Thanks for sharing, looks Lovly , 10 seconds to sign up

  13. woon on Sat, 18th Oct 2008 7:19 pm

    14. I think your Super Nintendo Console look nice. What is the Ebay script that you use in your web?

  14. eMarketing on Mon, 20th Oct 2008 11:59 am

    15. Some great info Collin!

  15. Armen Shirvanian on Fri, 24th Oct 2008 12:40 pm

    16. Names like Tumblr and Flickr are becoming the standard for new websites with short names that have active representations. The “r” at the end gives the site more life than it would have if the name was just “Tumble”. Maybe after names ending with “r” are exhausted, another type of name will start to become popular.

  16. Busby SEO Test on Sat, 25th Oct 2008 3:05 pm

    17. its a great way to build links, and I have tumblr account too

  17. Collin LaHay on Sun, 26th Oct 2008 9:16 am

    18. BANS:
    http://raithe.nichestore.hop.clickbank.net/

  18. Alex chong on Mon, 27th Oct 2008 12:24 am

    19. Thanks collin to suggest Tumbir blog. It very easy to use compared to other blog and easy to build a link back to my site too.

  19. work at home ideas on Tue, 23rd Dec 2008 6:26 am

    20. I’ve heard of this before but never understood how it works. Now I do and I’m going start one. I’ve one question. Is this do-follow.

    Peter Lee

  20. Neil on Tue, 20th Jan 2009 8:13 am

    21. Thankyou for your tips on Stumblr. Is it best to create a new account for every site you are promoting?

  21. shutters on Sun, 8th Nov 2009 2:29 pm

    22. Thanks for the tips I am off to set up an account now

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