Tumblr wants bloggers to tag their posts, while giving users the ability to find those tags in an easy to navigate setup, that’s why today they announced their new Explore Page.
The page uses a writers tags to show posts in a more “democratic” method, literally any tag can appear on the company’s explore page, bringing more readers to a bloggers Tumblr pages. The tags are met with images for those tags which provides a nice Web 2.0 appearance.
Tumblr visitors will also see the “Tumblr Wire” at the top of the page which shows the top tagged topics.
For users looking for constant information on a certain Tag they can also setup alerts via their Dashboard which means a YouTube news blogger would do well to always use the YouTube tag in their posts to reach their core audience.
The tagged feature only helps users already inside the Tumblr community of course Tags help with SEO so if you aren’t using them already you should be.
Now if we could just get Tumblr to add top posts to their front page, rather than providing a simple “Sign Up” option perhaps the site could bring in more traffic for people looking for top curated posts from the popular blogging platform.
Take a look at the Tumblr Explore page and let us know what you think. In the meantime here’s a quick look at the new offering:
