Comments on: Tumblr a Web 2.0 Site? I Think Not!

By: gronesy

gronesy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:12:32 +0000

maruxz,

I totally agree that Tumblr seems to support adding noise content if they
get anything from it.

Like yourself, I merely wanted to add another way to reach my readers and
customers and did NOT set up a spam blog.

I'm with you...total waste of time.

I know there are a bunch of people who will swear by it and I'm not knocking
them. I just know if I'm going to spend the time to build a site I don't
want it rejected for some bullcrap policy violation.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving your thoughts. I'll definitely check out
your ehow article.

Jeff

By: maruxz

maruxz — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:15:12 +0000

I was banned and even got an email response from Marc – support manager that I advertised the site with affiliate links (that is agains content policy). Does that mean that if you write a Tumblelog about books, you cannot put the link to a book review which has a link to Amazon, eBay or Barnes&Noble? Ridiculous!

I shared my experience and advice to marketers in eHow article http://www.ehow.com/how_5085784_use-tumblr-not-...

If you read the Content Policy carefully you may have noticed that Tumblr do not tolerate not meaningful content, but still provides tools for importing numerous automatic content from Twitter, Delicious or any RSS feed. Really strange attitude to content I agree with Maria's opinion – Wasteof time!

By: gronesy

gronesy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:12:32 +0000

By: maruxz

maruxz — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:15:12 +0000

I shared my experience and advice to marketers in eHow article http://www.ehow.com/how_5085784_use-tumblr-not-...

By: gronesy

gronesy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:55:18 +0000

Alan,

It seemed like a great setup and system when I was first told about it and
it also seemed to be fairly easy to get up and running.

I wasn't using it for spam either.

You're absolutely correct...you should have some warning that you've
violated a rule before being banned.

Thanks for stopping by and letting us know about your experience.

Jeff

By: Utah Realtor

Utah Realtor — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:37:40 +0000

I signed up for Tumblr a month ago. Thought it was awesome. Created unique content for it, had social bookmarks go to it, tumblr posts went to my twitter page, worked with my iphone, I raved it, but then one day while adding a new tumblr blog, it didn't work. I thought that tumblr was just down, but after two weeks realized its cus they banned me!

No notice, no fun, I wasn't using tumblr to spam in the least bit.

By: gronesy

gronesy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:38:16 +0000

Hi Maria,

I was also very disappointed as you can tell.

What other types of sites have you used successfully?

Jeff

By: maria

maria — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:41:34 +0000

It happened to me also. At first I thought Tumblr would be great but I swear I'll never use it again. It was a waste of time.

By: gronesy

gronesy — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:05:43 +0000

Hi Stefan,

I don't think Tumblr even knows what Tumblr avoids but it is a HUGE
list I'm sure.

I'm glad you stopped by to leave your experience but I'm really sorry
you didn't see my post before you tried Tumblr.

I know I'm not in the majority but my take on a lot of the social
media sites is they ARE great for engaging your audience if you have
the time. However, I still feel it's no coincidence that the people
who seem to have embraced them ALREADY have a large following. It
just gives them another point of contact with their established
audience.

I still do not believe that anybody builds a business using them.

Have you had any success with any of the other web 2.0 sites? I have
a sizeable StumbleUpon profile and I've met some great people but I
can't attribute one sale to it so far. I know the gurus all say
that's not the point but it would be if they were new to internet
marketing and blogging.

Jeff

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:13:04 +0000

I just found your blog after googeling for tumblr suspended to find out wtf was going on with my blog. Now I see it clearly: They try to avoid any blog that could (!) be something like marketing. But like Angry Marketer said who the fuck needs such web2.0 pages if there's no use to build links or drive traffic. I only started a blog about poker, not even with a link to any poker site. Just some news about the industry and guess what. It took 2 hours to get suspended. I don't even bother and won't send them a single email. It's just ridicolous and they are dead for me. Obviously I'll write a blog post about that…

Cheers,
Stefan