September 24, 2013

Five Reasons Why You Should Use Tumblr Today

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Do you know that Tumblr is one social media and blogging platform that is great for search engine optimization(SEO), content marketing and online promotion?

Early this year (May 2013), Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. At the point of writing this post, there are over 130 million Tumblr blogs with 300 million monthly visitors.

Major international brands like eBay, Walt Disney, GQ, Coca-Cola and Gucci, all are using this popular social network.

Besides having huge followings and popular with the big brands, here are five key reasons why you should use Tumblr today:

1. Promoting Brands
Besides, Facebook and Twitter, Tumblr is a free option and opportunity to build your brand online.

You get to engage with fans and establish relationships with potential customers.

2. Content Marketing
An excellent place to share valuable content with your target audience. Be they memes, images or viral content.

3. As Blogs
Use Timblr for setting up microblogs. Later if you want it use your own domain name, you just go to the settings.

You can use these microblogs to link back to your main sites.

4. Do Follow Links.
This is a big secret. Do you know that links from Tumblr are dofollow? Each time some one reblog, you get a dofollow backlink.

One more "hidden secret" is you can include a link within the post itself. So, when yo do that, both your original post on Tumblr, and the site linked to within the post will receive the backlinks! Wow!

5. Easily Get Discovered With Hastags 
One unique feature of Tumblr is the power of hastags. You don't even need to have a deluge of followers to get discovered and enjoy those dofollow backlinks.

Folks over here, they use hashtags (#) to look for content. So, use relevant and popular tags and get discovered.