Trying to build your website? Then you’ve probably already heard of WordPress.
As the most popular content management system to date, WordPress powers over 76.5 million websites, be it personal blogs, industry news portals, online stores, or business websites. With its smooth learning curve and versatility, even beginners can get a fully-functional site up and run within minutes.
11 Great Blogging Platforms Not Named WordPress Click To TweetFor years, Tumblr’s user base has been growing steadily. With Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr in 2013, the micro-blogging site became part of the Yahoo brand. Near the end of 2014, Tumblr had at least 420 million users — that’s huge for a website with a bit of an identity crisis. Tumblr’s gigantic user base is really enticing for many bloggers, but it may not be worth your time. Is Tumblr for bloggers? Real bloggers?
Blogging is so easy, a caveman could do it! Okay, that might not be entirely true. There’s a certain amount of talent and drive needed to create a successful blog, and not everyone has it. However, it is true that starting a blog is extremely easy. So much so, that you can do it right from your personal tablet. [Read more…]
Whether you are a fan of the current White House Administration or not, there is little debate that the White House blog has done a great job when it comes to their online presence and strategy. There are several things the White House blog is doing right that other bloggers can emulate, which will hopefully translate into more traffic and better engagement.
The White House blog has a lot of great written content, but it also ties that in with a variety of media mediums that help illustrate its point. This includes embedding YouTube videos and SoundClouds (like the one below that they did of one of President Obama’s speeches), as well as including a lot of photos.
Screenshot taken 12/12/2013 [Read more…]
Founded in 2007, Tumblr quickly gained momentum and continues to serve a whole array of purposes. Its user base is huge and varied – from personal bloggers to fandom bloggers to companies geared at marketing. Some people may think that Tumblr is no longer a major player today, but even earlier this year, Tumblr boasted 102 million blogs with 6.6 billion pageviews in March 2013. If that is not relevant, then I don’t know what is!
One of the things Tumblr has got going for itself is the way it presents information. Sure, it still is blogging in a way, but it caters to the generation of short attention spans. With its themes usually highlighting visual aspects more than plain text, the attraction is çertainly there.
And, just like most other blogging platforms, Tumblr’s appearance can be customized to suit your personal preferences. Tumblr Blog Themes are not hard to find – free or otherwise. If you’re looking for something different, here are some of the best premium Tumblr Themes you can find from ThemeForest, one of the leading sources of themes out there. [Read more…]
Tumblr, recently bought by Yahoo, is one of the most popular micro-blogging platforms. The NBA has one, celebrities have them, and most importantly, your target audience more than likely has them. But would your blog and business specifically benefit from a Tumblr?
If you are already regularly sharing different types of media, like photos, videos, and audio, then Tumblr would be an easy transition. You can set up auto-posting of your blog’s RSS feed and can post several different types of media, quickly and easily:
Tumblr on Monday began sending promoted posts to users of mobile devices alongside its desktop users.
On its official company blog a Tumblr employee writes:
“It works very simply: Every now and then you’ll see posts from our partners as you scroll through your mobile Dashboard.”
Tumblr began offering and testing promoted posts to desktop users one year ago via the post highlighting Radar feature.
The blogging platform has not revealed its successes with promoted tweets but a shift to mobile devices appears to speak volumes for the programs success.
According to Tumblr:
“Our fashion, entertainment, and brand partners have created some truly delightful blogs and racked up tens of millions notes on their posts.”
The Radar platform currently receives 120 million pageviews per day.
Tumblr, a privately owned company earned $13 million in revenue through 2012. Tumblr is still seeking to become profitable.
The real question at hand will be whether or not Tumblr users, a younger and more tech savvy crowd, will continue to embrace the network if its ads give the appearance of a corporate culture. Many younger users turned away from MySpace and Facebook as those networks moved towards mainstream success.
Are you okay with Tumblr Promoted Posts showing up in your mobile dashboard?
With Posterous officially shutting down on April 30 the team at 3Crumbs has launched JustMigrate.com. The platform makes it simple for Posterous account holders to move their posts over to a new or existing Tumblr page.
JustMigrate is a simple program, just type in your Posterous URL, authorize the URL with Tumblr and allow JustMigrate.com to work its magic.
Users with multiple Tumblr accounts will be asked ahead of time to choose the proper Tumblr location for the new migration. [Read more…]
Tumblr has announced panaromic photo support for all blogs located on its network. The new feature allows Tumblr users to share larger, more vibrant photos with very little additional work.
Now live on Tumblr.com the new panoramic photos appear in a specialized lightbox.
The panoramic shots fill the entire width of each blog post, as opposed to regular photos which typically occupy only the left-hand side. Users on desktop web browsers can also scroll through a pictures panoramic view from side to side once it is enlarged.
Smartphone users should turn their phone sideways to take full advantage of the new Tumblr support for panoramic photos. [Read more…]
Tumblr CEO David Karp jumped the gun a little bit on Monday when he announced that his uber-popular blogging platform had reached top 10 US website status. Karp made his announcement after numbers were revealed by third-party analytics firm Quantcast.
In a Tumblr post Karp revealed that the website now boasts 170 million users. Karp then linked to the Quancast page for Tumblr which shows 202,637,856 visits to Tumblr per month in the US alone, and 616,776,768 visits worldwide. Quantcast numbers also showed users per month was 60,803,592 in the US and 168,243,984 worldwide.
While Tumblr is not ranked within the top 10 worldwide websites it is still ranked a very impressive 15th. Tumblr is also ranked as the #9 network. [Read more…]
