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  • wehateporn
    Promoting Debate on GFY
    • Apr 2007
    • 27176

    #1

    Is Tumblr Still Worth It?

    While I know there's still money to be made there, it used to be one of the best uses of my time, however now things have changed and I'm finding other techniques more rewarding.

    What about you?
  • mopek1
    Confirmed User
    • Jun 2004
    • 3193

    #2
    I agree.

    I used to get much more out of them than I currently do so the efforts are proving less and less worth my time.

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    • michael.kickass
      Too lazy to set a custom title
      • Mar 2009
      • 11039

      #3
      It's definitely going down. Still worth it, don't know for how long it will be tho.
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      • wehateporn
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        • Apr 2007
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        #4
        Originally posted by michael.kickass
        It's definitely going down. Still worth it, don't know for how long it will be tho.
        Do you think it's because there are more webmasters competing or is it now that they don't rank so well in Google, or something else/combination?

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        • wehateporn
          Promoting Debate on GFY
          • Apr 2007
          • 27176

          #5
          I was down to less than 5 minutes per day with them, but I'll switch to something else now

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          • mopek1
            Confirmed User
            • Jun 2004
            • 3193

            #6
            Originally posted by wehateporn
            I was down to less than 5 minutes per day with them, but I'll switch to something else now
            Another social media platform?

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            • rockeru
              Confirmed User
              • May 2013
              • 293

              #7
              If you want to make money monetizing directly through Tumblr no it's not worth it. You'll get banned before you can earn anything worth the time.

              The traffic isn't there anymore either, I barely get traffic from tags anymore and the blogs don't seem to rank as high as they used to in Google

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              • oppoten
                NAME THE JEW
                • Nov 2007
                • 4793

                #8
                I'm using it less now than I did. I still post but with barely any effort.

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                • wehateporn
                  Promoting Debate on GFY
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 27176

                  #9
                  Originally posted by mopek1
                  Another social media platform?
                  I'll need to think do a bit of research on that

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                  • wehateporn
                    Promoting Debate on GFY
                    • Apr 2007
                    • 27176

                    #10
                    Originally posted by rockeru
                    If you want to make money monetizing directly through Tumblr no it's not worth it. You'll get banned before you can earn anything worth the time.

                    The traffic isn't there anymore either, I barely get traffic from tags anymore and the blogs don't seem to rank as high as they used to in Google
                    I just checked recent traffic from there, was even lower than I ever imagined

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                    • wehateporn
                      Promoting Debate on GFY
                      • Apr 2007
                      • 27176

                      #11
                      Originally posted by oppoten
                      I'm using it less now than I did. I still post but with barely any effort.
                      That was what I was down to, then they banned me today, figured it's not worth starting up again

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                      • MrTrollkien
                        So Fucking Banned
                        • Mar 2014
                        • 2360

                        #12
                        Originally posted by wehateporn
                        That was what I was down to, then they banned me today, figured it's not worth starting up again
                        Why? I mean, why they banned you.

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                        • wehateporn
                          Promoting Debate on GFY
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 27176

                          #13
                          Originally posted by MrTrollkien
                          Why? I mean, why they banned you.
                          I didn't check, but I assume for linking to sites which make money from affiliate marketing

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                          • deltav
                            Confirmed User
                            • May 2010
                            • 1243

                            #14
                            Traffic from Tumblr has declined a bit, but I use it more as a branding tool for my paysite than a traffic source. My main Tumblr has 2300+ mostly non-spam followers and customers regularly sign up saying they found my stuff there.

                            It would be nice if adult Tumblrs still got some Google love, but those times are over.
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                            • mopek1
                              Confirmed User
                              • Jun 2004
                              • 3193

                              #15
                              Originally posted by deltav
                              Traffic from Tumblr has declined a bit, but I use it more as a branding tool for my paysite than a traffic source. My main Tumblr has 2300+ mostly non-spam followers and customers regularly sign up saying they found my stuff there.

                              It would be nice if adult Tumblrs still got some Google love, but those times are over.
                              How do you brand your main site with it?

                              I have had blogs deleted simply because I had the name of my site in the sidebar and no other link whatsoever (at least I think that's why).

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                              • misspandora
                                Registered User
                                • Jan 2011
                                • 51

                                #16
                                Yahoo owns it, now, don't they??

                                And everything Yahoo touches, seems to turn to SUCK.
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                                • mopek1
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Jun 2004
                                  • 3193

                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by wehateporn
                                  I'll need to think do a bit of research on that
                                  No I meant is one of the other techniques you found rewarding, a different social media site?

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                                  • wehateporn
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                                    • Apr 2007
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                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by mopek1
                                    No I meant is one of the other techniques you found rewarding, a different social media site?
                                    Actually I don't seem to make many of my sales from social media these days, seems to be more on odd techniques which will probably stop working at some point just like Tumblr did

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                                    • mopek1
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Jun 2004
                                      • 3193

                                      #19
                                      Yep ... it's like squeezing water from a rock these days. Meaning getting new traffic generating ideas.

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                                      • wehateporn
                                        Promoting Debate on GFY
                                        • Apr 2007
                                        • 27176

                                        #20
                                        Originally posted by mopek1
                                        Yep ... it's like squeezing water from a rock these days. Meaning getting new traffic generating ideas.
                                        Yeah it would be easy to go out of business if one didn't keep quickly evolving

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                                        • malakadabra
                                          Registered User
                                          • Apr 2014
                                          • 38

                                          #21
                                          I guess that daily/ hourly updade becomes hard to do because its mannualy. I dont have my thousands visitors anymore.
                                          I thought that was just me, but they dont like to make easy for us to earn some money.
                                          Still have tumblr sites and they generate few cents with popups and about 90 visitors to my sites.
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                                          • mopek1
                                            Confirmed User
                                            • Jun 2004
                                            • 3193

                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by malakadabra
                                            I guess that daily/ hourly updade becomes hard to do because its mannualy. I dont have my thousands visitors anymore.
                                            I thought that was just me, but they dont like to make easy for us to earn some money.
                                            Still have tumblr sites and they generate few cents with popups and about 90 visitors to my sites.
                                            Yes they can detect bots (I sometimes lurk in blackhat forums) and so you must do it manually but can only do 250 posts per day.

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                                            • wehateporn
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                                              • Apr 2007
                                              • 27176

                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by mopek1
                                              Yes they can detect bots (I sometimes lurk in blackhat forums) and so you must do it manually but can only do 250 posts per day.
                                              I was doing 1 manual per day, so probably just the affiliate marketing in my case

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                                              • mopek1
                                                Confirmed User
                                                • Jun 2004
                                                • 3193

                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by wehateporn
                                                I was doing 1 manual per day, so probably just the affiliate marketing in my case
                                                Yeah likely ... everyone hates an affiliate ...

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                                                • CyberHustler
                                                  Masterbaiter
                                                  • Feb 2006
                                                  • 28735

                                                  #25
                                                  Some traffic sources I rocks with

                                                  “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

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                                                  • mopek1
                                                    Confirmed User
                                                    • Jun 2004
                                                    • 3193

                                                    #26
                                                    Originally posted by CyberHustler
                                                    Some traffic sources I rocks with

                                                    How do you get traffic from FB, Pinterest and Google plus. None of them allow adult content?

                                                    ***And why no Tumblr there?
                                                    Last edited by mopek1; 04-09-2014, 04:12 PM. Reason: One more question.

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                                                    • MrX99
                                                      Registered User
                                                      • Mar 2012
                                                      • 7

                                                      #27
                                                      Originally posted by CyberHustler
                                                      Some traffic sources I rocks with
                                                      The distribution in your bar graph looks like my own, except for youtube, instagram and digg (haven't put time into these). Facebook traffic has gone down lately due to facebook burying Pages which don't buy advertising.

                                                      Porn sites can get social traffic through creativity and discrete rule-breaking. For instance, specify a non-nude thumbnail in the og:image meta tag of your video pages for sharing to google+ and facebook. Likewise, share non-nude photos on pinterest. Write accurate but non-vulgar titles and descriptions.

                                                      Still, these sites will eventually erase one or all of your accounts. Even if you don't share explicit content, they don't like linking to hardcore porn sites. Their policy can be very inconsistent, and accounts with 1000s of friends/followers may disappear suddenly after existing without problems for years (in my experience).

                                                      Wish I was more successful in the SERPs and didn't have to fuck around with this stuff. But for now, social is an important traffic source.

                                                      Always interested to hear others' thoughts on this topic.
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                                                      • Dave DSC
                                                        Confirmed User
                                                        • Jul 2013
                                                        • 139

                                                        #28
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                                                        • TrashyGirl
                                                          Confirmed User
                                                          • Apr 2010
                                                          • 1401

                                                          #29
                                                          I use Tumblr in different ways.

                                                          I send Tumblr traffic to blogs. The blogs are set up for affiliate sales. I haven't had any Tumblrs get banned yet, but I did have to make them conform to the new rules after the Yahoo takeover.

                                                          I use them as backlink sources to my blogs. Google's every changing algo likes social media backlinks, even tho the Tumblrs themselves no longer get mucho love from Google.

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                                                          • CurrentlySober
                                                            Too lazy to wipe my ass
                                                            • Aug 2002
                                                            • 38944

                                                            #30
                                                            Is ANYTHING still worth it?

                                                            Like bothering to take that first breath when you awake in the morning to another shitty day of abject nothingness?

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                                                            • CurrentlySober
                                                              Too lazy to wipe my ass
                                                              • Aug 2002
                                                              • 38944

                                                              #31
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                                                              • Mediamix
                                                                Dutch Webmaster!
                                                                • Sep 2013
                                                                • 3228

                                                                #32
                                                                I still get a lot of traffic from Tumblr, but that doesn't really bring any sales.
                                                                Sig too big

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                                                                • sobecash
                                                                  Confirmed User
                                                                  • Jul 2012
                                                                  • 285

                                                                  #33
                                                                  Originally posted by TrashyGirl
                                                                  I use Tumblr in different ways.

                                                                  I send Tumblr traffic to blogs. The blogs are set up for affiliate sales. I haven't had any Tumblrs get banned yet, but I did have to make them conform to the new rules after the Yahoo takeover.

                                                                  I use them as backlink sources to my blogs. Google's every changing algo likes social media backlinks, even tho the Tumblrs themselves no longer get mucho love from Google.
                                                                  it seems that's all Tumblr is good for nowadays. It's growing fast, it allows porn, but it does not allow for affiliate networking or ads to porn. Yahoo only allows porn if it's a free site, and no monetization. Oh well, at least it's still good for the backlinks.
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                                                                  • mopek1
                                                                    Confirmed User
                                                                    • Jun 2004
                                                                    • 3193

                                                                    #34
                                                                    Originally posted by MrX99
                                                                    The distribution in your bar graph looks like my own, except for youtube, instagram and digg (haven't put time into these). Facebook traffic has gone down lately due to facebook burying Pages which don't buy advertising.

                                                                    Porn sites can get social traffic through creativity and discrete rule-breaking. For instance, specify a non-nude thumbnail in the og:image meta tag of your video pages for sharing to google+ and facebook. Likewise, share non-nude photos on pinterest. Write accurate but non-vulgar titles and descriptions.

                                                                    Still, these sites will eventually erase one or all of your accounts. Even if you don't share explicit content, they don't like linking to hardcore porn sites. Their policy can be very inconsistent, and accounts with 1000s of friends/followers may disappear suddenly after existing without problems for years (in my experience).

                                                                    Wish I was more successful in the SERPs and didn't have to fuck around with this stuff. But for now, social is an important traffic source.

                                                                    Always interested to hear others' thoughts on this topic.
                                                                    That's what I was afraid of hearing.

                                                                    Even if you use non-nude pics and non vulgar descriptions some employee on a power trip or who's a teacher's pet may just hit the delete button because your blog/presence is ASSOCIATED with porn somehow, and all your hours of work are gone.

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                                                                    • mopek1
                                                                      Confirmed User
                                                                      • Jun 2004
                                                                      • 3193

                                                                      #35
                                                                      Originally posted by TrashyGirl
                                                                      I haven't had any Tumblrs get banned yet, but I did have to make them conform to the new rules after the Yahoo takeover.
                                                                      How long have you been using Tumblr? - To not have had anything banned yet is pretty good.

                                                                      Also, what were the new rules you are referring to?

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                                                                      • TrashyGirl
                                                                        Confirmed User
                                                                        • Apr 2010
                                                                        • 1401

                                                                        #36
                                                                        Originally posted by mopek1
                                                                        How long have you been using Tumblr? - To not have had anything banned yet is pretty good.

                                                                        Also, what were the new rules you are referring to?
                                                                        When Yahoo took over, you had to delete any direct affiliate links or links to "porn" sites from Tumblrs.

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                                                                        • CyberHustler
                                                                          Masterbaiter
                                                                          • Feb 2006
                                                                          • 28735

                                                                          #37
                                                                          Originally posted by mopek1
                                                                          How do you get traffic from FB, Pinterest and Google plus. None of them allow adult content
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                                                                          • xxxjay
                                                                            Tube groupie.
                                                                            • Aug 2002
                                                                            • 13482

                                                                            #38
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                                                                            • magusdaex
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                                                                              • May 2012
                                                                              • 365

                                                                              #39
                                                                              i did good money with this, but now i just forgot that i have a blog there.
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                                                                                • Dec 2011
                                                                                • 7230

                                                                                #40
                                                                                Originally posted by CyberHustler


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                                                                                • oppoten
                                                                                  NAME THE JEW
                                                                                  • Nov 2007
                                                                                  • 4793

                                                                                  #41
                                                                                  Originally posted by TrashyGirl
                                                                                  When Yahoo took over, you had to delete any direct affiliate links or links to "porn" sites from Tumblrs.
                                                                                  So essentially, you can't link out to your own sites, even if they're *free* sites?

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                                                                                  • xpimp
                                                                                    Confirmed User
                                                                                    • Oct 2013
                                                                                    • 824

                                                                                    #42
                                                                                    exactly like blogger, i mean who the fuck is crazy to make a blog about porn, to put all his material, his fucking hard work, write unique content and so on just to be asked at the end - don t monetize it - just work for us for free, otherwise we will fuck you, what crazy shit is that? those fucking idiots

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                                                                                    • signupdamnit
                                                                                      Confirmed User
                                                                                      • Aug 2007
                                                                                      • 6697

                                                                                      #43
                                                                                      There are ways to monetize even without outbound links but the whole uncertainty thing is the killer for doing anything other than mass blackhat type stuff. Who wants to spend hours, days or months on a project only to have it all deleted at the whim of the Yahoo staff?

                                                                                      You don't like my posts? Put me on ignore or fuck right off. I'll say what I want.

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                                                                                      • rockeru
                                                                                        Confirmed User
                                                                                        • May 2013
                                                                                        • 293

                                                                                        #44
                                                                                        Originally posted by xpimp
                                                                                        exactly like blogger, i mean who the fuck is crazy to make a blog about porn, to put all his material, his fucking hard work, write unique content and so on just to be asked at the end - don t monetize it - just work for us for free, otherwise we will fuck you, what crazy shit is that? those fucking idiots
                                                                                        They just don't want us, we are wasting their bandwidth. Make free blogs with stolen content without any kind of monetization or be banned...

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                                                                                        • mopek1
                                                                                          Confirmed User
                                                                                          • Jun 2004
                                                                                          • 3193

                                                                                          #45
                                                                                          Originally posted by signupdamnit
                                                                                          There are ways to monetize even without outbound links but the whole uncertainty thing is the killer for doing anything other than mass blackhat type stuff. Who wants to spend hours, days or months on a project only to have it all deleted at the whim of the Yahoo staff?
                                                                                          Agreed. I would be happy if they laid out some hard ground rules for affiliates. Tell us not to have any outbound links (meaning branding only) etc... but like you said one's work could disappear with a trigger happy employee.

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                                                                                          • mopek1
                                                                                            Confirmed User
                                                                                            • Jun 2004
                                                                                            • 3193

                                                                                            #46
                                                                                            Originally posted by rockeru
                                                                                            Make free blogs with stolen content without any kind of monetization or be banned...
                                                                                            Pretty much. Their motto is, "We encourage our users to make blogs by stealing content to our benefit. If anyone else posts their own (not stolen) content for our benefit but they ALSO benefit then they will be banned."

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                                                                                            • rogueteens
                                                                                              So fucking bland
                                                                                              • Jul 2006
                                                                                              • 8005

                                                                                              #47
                                                                                              hmm, am I the only one to think that they really slacked off with the banning thing after yahoo took over?
                                                                                              The only one of mine to be banned since then was, bizarrely enough, the only one updated by hand!
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                                                                                              • mopek1
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                                                                                                • 3193

                                                                                                #48
                                                                                                Originally posted by rogueteens
                                                                                                hmm, am I the only one to think that they really slacked off with the banning thing after yahoo took over?
                                                                                                The only one of mine to be banned since then was, bizarrely enough, the only one updated by hand!
                                                                                                Do you use a bot to update the others?

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                                                                                                • rogueteens
                                                                                                  So fucking bland
                                                                                                  • Jul 2006
                                                                                                  • 8005

                                                                                                  #49
                                                                                                  Originally posted by mopek1
                                                                                                  Do you use a bot to update the others?
                                                                                                  a couple of different bots, yeah.
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                                                                                                  • deltav
                                                                                                    Confirmed User
                                                                                                    • May 2010
                                                                                                    • 1243

                                                                                                    #50
                                                                                                    I just have one lovingly curated blog updated by hand and approaching 3k followers, it's been active for over a year with no issues (knock on wood). Once the staff did write to tell me not to upload porn to their own video hosting - they deleted the vid and just said to embed it elsewhere, but no other action.

                                                                                                    I've got links in most of the posts too, but try to make the entries actually vaguely interesting - it's a vintage porn blog so I sometimes give a little context and historical info about the piece. Makes me think they're more worried about how blatantly spammy it is rather than just the links themselves. Or maybe I've just dodged the banhammer somehow. I'd be bummed if they axed it at this point.
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