Comments on: Why I’m kissing Tumblr a sad, sad good-bye

By: Ciprian

Ciprian — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:30:29 +0000

This post made me sad
I have noticed these problems but I thought that was my fault in some way… but it’s not. I love tumblr, It’s like a second home.. a secret one.
But as one can not build anything comercial on a “secret” blog, we must leave.
One day I have inserted a Google Custom Search engine on a tumblr blog, not even 1 result for any search query – that’s just wrong.
Anyways, we still have other options

By: What Is Tumblr? Why Do I Use It?

What Is Tumblr? Why Do I Use It? — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:24:54 +0000

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By: links for 2010-01-13 « Michael B. Duff

links for 2010-01-13 « Michael B. Duff — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:02:23 +0000

[...] Why I’m kissing Tumblr a sad, sad good-bye » 16th letter » Blog Archive "But there is a fundamental problem with Tumblr that I wasn’t aware of before I started using it – the search engines don’t seem to like it." (tags: tumblr livejournal blogging software google search) [...]

By: Online Store

Online Store — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:50:08 +0000

Question now is that will people who use it continue to use it when it has a problem with search engines.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:11:44 +0000

I can’t say for sure, but I think many tumblrs actually like this. In my experience, tumblr is about promoting community, and this inherently contradicts the potential for a “commercial blog.” So I think you are right to switch it up as tumblr is not, nor will it ever be, the place to be if you are looking to attract traffic.

By: John

John — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:03:07 +0000

They have to know that this is an issue. I’m thinking that if they already haven’t addressed this, they will in the near future. Facebook has done with with the Fan pages.

By: kingemilyc

kingemilyc — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:06:37 +0000

I totally agree with this. I’m trying to figure out what blogging software to use, and its visibility to google is important to me. Taking a known tumblr blog, I tried searching what the Title of the blog is, AND direct quotes from the blog’s content. Didn’t come up in the first 5 search results pages!

By: TZN

TZN — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:57:54 +0000

You actually can integrate comments into Tumblr using Disqus. With the official inauguration blog recently being run through Tumblr…I think there’s hope for it yet (at least, I hope so…it’s my publishing platform of choice!) I also hear a lot of rumblings in terms of development, third party widgets, etc.

By: ferrydust

ferrydust — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:19:33 +0000

Google loves Textpattern. I haven’t done it yet with mine, but there’s a way to integrate Tumblr posts right into Textpattern..

By: From Tumblr to Wordpress « Solutious Blog

From Tumblr to Wordpress « Solutious Blog — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:02:44 +0000

[...] excusable: extremely poor search engine performance. This issue was brought up a few months ago by Melissa Chang, a flurry of discussion ensued, and Tumblr made some changes (Erik Dafforn posted a more complete [...]