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By Fernando Alfonso III (/authors/fernando-alfonso-iii/)!! (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Get%20started%20on%20Tumblr%20in%205%20easy%20st
With more than 136 million visitors each month, Tumblr
(https://www.tumblr.com/) has quickly become one of the
most popular blogging networks in the world.
And its done so by focusing on community engagement and
accessibility instead of highly customizable content
management systems.
Tumblr is not just a website, Tumblr Editor-in-Chief Chris
Mohney told the Daily Dot.
Tumblr collects about 100,000 new blogs every day. With that
in mind, the Daily Dot decided to create a simple beginners
guide to help get you started.
1) Pick a Tumblr username
(http://facebook.com/dailydot)
(https://twitter.com/dailydot)
(http://dailydot.tumblr.com/)
(http://facebook.com/dailydot)
(https://twitter.com
Follow 209K fol
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Get started on Tumblrin 5 easy steps
The main attraction is the community aspect.The dashboard experience is unique. A lot ofpeople come to Tumblr just to make a website.But what a lot of people dont understand isonce you get to the community side of things,
you almost never see whats on the actualwebsite.
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Make a post
Along the top of the dashboard are buttons for creating a text,
photo, quote, link, chat, audio, and video blog post. While
each button serves a different purpose depending on the sort
of content you want to blog, each one allows you the option of
scheduling a post or adding tags to identify the sort of content
featured in the post. (Much more on tags later.)
Understand the rundown
In the middle of your Dashboard you see white boxes
featuring blog posts from people you follow. To the left of
each white box is that persons profile image. On the top left
hand corner of the white box will be the name of their blog.
Across from the blog name will be icons identifying the
number of notes that post has received. There also buttonsallowing you to Reply, Reblog (represented by a rectangle
made of two arrows), or Like (represented by a heart) the
post.
Reblogging is an easy way for you to feature other peoples
content on your blog. For example, lets say you want to
repost something from The Frogman
(http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/frogman-tumblr-
gif-benjamin-grelle/) on your rundown. By clicking the reblog
button, you can feature that post on your own blog and add a
comment to it. For every comment, reblog, or like a post
receives, its note count will increase by one. A like doesnt
really do anything other than increase a posts note count. But
depending on the blog theme, a like will allow that post to
appear on your site.
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By Fernando Alfonso
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alfonso-iii/)
June 22, 2012
How to get morefollowers: Tumblr starThe Frogman shares hissecret
Hint: stealing other
peoples' content
isn't the answer.
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orsini/)
April 18, 2012
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Scope Tumblr Radar
The Radar is curated by the Tumblr editorial staff. It is a tool
used to highlight and introduce original and interesting
content to all its users.
Maintain your blog
Next to the word Dashboard near the top of the page is the
name of your blog. By clicking on that, you will see a rundown
of your blog posts and all the notes they have received. You
will also see how many followers your blog has, the number of
private messages youve received, and the total number of
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4) Master the wide world of Tags
In every Tumblr blog post you makewhether it be of a video
or just plain textusers have the option of adding tags. For
example, if you posted a GIF animation of a fat cat jumping
into a small box, some of the tags you may add would be
LOL, dog, and cute. The LOL tag, in particular, is one
of the most popular on the network and called a curated tag.
These tags are moderated by an army of Tumblr volunteers
who help determine what content shows up on the front of
each tag page. You can discover the list of curated tags byclicking Explore on the right side of your Dashboard.
5) Customize your blog
By clicking on your blog name on the Dashboard, you can find
the Customize theme option. There you can select from a
bunch of free themes, choose a name for your blog, add pages
to your site, or add your own custom cascading style sheets
(better known as CSS). You can also tweak the color scheme
for your site and how many blog posts are shown on your
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