If you’re already on
Tumblr, there are ways to make your Tumblr experience more enjoyable. I’ve
listed down some of them below:
Choosing a theme and name
Before you engage in any
activity, choosing a Tumblr theme or template is the first thing you need to
do. Well, of course after the Tumblr sign up process. Upon registering for the site,
you will be presented with Tumblr templates you can choose from. You may also
search the web for other choices. Whatever you pick, make sure it exemplifies
your personality and embodies the type of Tumblr character you wish to portray,
i.e. positive, dark, etc. You may also add Tumblr widgets to make it more
exciting and inviting.
The rules above apply to
your blog name as well. Good names should be catchy, easy to
remember, can be spelled without difficulty, and of course describes what the
Tumblr blog is all about.
The theme I’ve chosen is
simple and minimalistic. The name describes me being lazy or busy sometimes.
The site banner features grey colors with neon blue highlights and the background turns red when
you hover through it with your mouse.
Tumblr tutorial
You will enjoy your Tumblr
experience more if you know how it works. In relation to that, you may want to
read a short Tumblr tutorial just to have an overview of the site. You can find
these by searching through search engines like Google.
Blog and reblog
Blogging is one the
reasons behind joining Tumblr. We all want to share interesting posts, photos,
videos, and more. But aside from posting your own Tumblr blog posts, your Tumblr
experience is more enjoyable when you reblog other people’s post. In fact, some
Tumblr blog exists solely for reblogging. If you can’t reblog a post though,
then you should at least click that heart button on the upper right side of the
post to show that you like or appreciate it or even leave comments too.
What’s great with this
site is that, random posts will be suggested for your viewing through
your dashboard that are not limited to the people you are following. Posts from
users the world over will be queued up for you to see. This way, you will
discover more posts and people than you can ever do in most social networking
sites which limit access only to members you have befriended or followed.
As of the moment, I have
over 400 posts and liked more than 400 posts as well. In fact, the number of posts
I’ve liked are even greater than the actual number of posts I’ve posted over
Tumblr. My posts were not anything people would notice until recently (the past
few months) when I started to gain followers and began blogging more often. I posted
mostly photos from various sources over the web.
Queue up and schedule posts
Did you know you can queue
up to 300 posts over Tumblr? I only discovered that after I continued queuing
up posts from various sources, particularly Facebook pages who are rich with
interesting images and photos. Most of these were also borrowed from other sites
and they don’t have any specific copyright guidelines so don’t worry.
When you queue up your posts, you can also schedule when they are automatically posted on the site.
You can specifically choose a date or simply pick the queue up posts option.
The latter will routinely post the items on queue according to your preferred
duration. You can opt to have one post regularly posted daily and so on.
What posts sell
Apparently, the posts
which sell over the site are vivid pictures that are full of life. Tumblr users
also love quotations presented in postcard type of images. Popular personalities
on movies, television, music, sports, and etc. are also well loved over Tumblr.
But for whatever reasons, this is the most successful Tumblr post I’ve posted
so far with 100 notes. Click this link for the actual post –
BusyLazy.Tumblr.com.
Follow and follow back
Acquiring followers is also
one of the reasons why people are on Tumblr. This makes your experience on the site more enjoyable. If they follow you back, it’s twice the fun.
When I started, I followed
popular Tumblr blogs recommended by articles I’ve read over the web. For these
types of Tumblr blogs, you can’t expect them to follow you back as they don’t
seem to have the need to do so. Simple people from all over the world are
normally the ones who follow back when you follow them first. Sometimes, there’s
not even a need to initiate following as Tumblr users may automatically follow
you after seeing a very interesting or entertaining post. When you do follow
Tumblr bloggers, make sure to genuinely do so. Check out their profile or posts
to show you are really following them.
My Tumblr blog has only a little over 100 followers but I’m following almost 400 users.
Haha.
Blog purpose
Some Tumblr blog types you
can create include cute, funny, food, hipster,
photography, video, art, and so much more.
As for me, in the
beginning, I simply wanted to have a Tumblr blog because many are on the site.
I also wanted a microblog (yes, Tumblr is a microblogging platform) to post
shorter posts to. My Blogger blog is intended for longer and more elaborate posts
just like this entry. Although Tumblr is supposedly a microblogging platform, you’d
still see lengthy posts from time to time.
My Tumblr blog’s purpose
had then evolved into greater things (really?! :). Aside from posting short
posts, I can use it for back linking purposes and as another revenue source. I also
would like to attain the same success that some popular Tumblr blogs have achieved
in terms of follower and visitors count. Soon I hope and I’m currently working on
it.
So to have a purpose for
your Tumblr blog makes the whole experience more pleasurable. You won’t get
bored doing the same thing over and over again if you enjoy it.
Take time to have fun
Lastly, you need to spend
at least a decent amount of time to really enjoy blogging, reblogging, liking, commenting
following, and engaging with any other activity in Tumblr. When I say decent,
of course, I don’t mean addictive to the point that you have nothing else to do
other than drop by Tumblr all day. Just enough time like 30 minutes or an hour when
available to do so will do.
With these 7 ways, your
Tumblr experience will surely become more enjoyable.
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