MafiaBoss
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Beware when using Tumblr - Do not get yourself banned
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BIGBIGBIGMamas
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LOL...Well, where do i start?
For starters, if you were monetizing with all of those various methods on the same blog you DEFINITELY were asking for trouble and it was only a matter of time before your blog(s) came under the radar, either by Tumblr's occasional sweeps and/or haters ratting you out.
That being said, I have blogs that are approaching a year old and are still monetizing with pop-ups and mobile redirects.
I see alot of blogs and whole networks of adult blogs that are still monetizing with multiple methods all on one blog. This is foolish and risky today IMO. I have always felt this was a bit over kill , but that's just me. I also understand though if one has the abilty to create hundreds of blogs daily then spamming (including going all out with 3 or more methods of monetization on one blog) makes sense, as it becomes just a sheer game of volume.
About a year ago I had blogs that had been up for a year and suddenly ***POOF**!!!! They all got nuked.
Alot of ppl think these changes came when the Yahoo takeover happened.... NOT entirely true.
After having lost well over 100 blogs, I can bare witness that their policies have been shitty for at least the past 2 years prior to the Yahoo acquisition (and not just towards adult blogs contrary to the popular belief)
I said it before and i'll say it again. T$mblr is full of $hit when it comes to their 'TOS'.
They say no affiliate marketing is allowed, but clearly allow Google Adsense on many of the biggest blogs on Tumblr. (WTF is Adsense other than one of the top 3 advertising/publishing networks on the planet???)
The Ban Hammer comes and goes in waves and doesn't always make sense in accordance to their TOS (and quite frankly contradicts the supposed reasons at times...).
Clearly, at times they simply make sweeping random bans just to see if the blogs are actually maintained organically or belong to bot networks just to see if the owners will respond or not.
Without a question Yahoo's corporate a$$e$ are having an effect on the tightening of the noose on marketers and adult content at large.
At the end of the day, it is clear to me they are still weighing their options and have not made any static finite decisions as of yet.
Best advice I suggest is to push the traffic elsewhere and tone down the monetizing on the blogs themselves.
Focus on content and popularity on Tumblr itself and monetize on your money sites.
Because at the time I started, it was much easier to monetize on the actual blog itself, thus it took me a lonnnng time (like an idiot...) before the reality sank in that I needed to focus more on pushing traffic to my own sites where I was more autonomous.
Hopefully you'll find this helpful.
P.S. I'd like to also say to the community I suspect there are a number of T$mblr Agents snooping around here listening for ways to further discover what folks are doing and coming with more ways to shutdown our attempts.
I'm seeing alot more new accounts asking peculiar questions about T$mblr
So... please be careful (but not paranoid
...) even on here about how much you divulge your strategies and tactics openly.
For starters, if you were monetizing with all of those various methods on the same blog you DEFINITELY were asking for trouble and it was only a matter of time before your blog(s) came under the radar, either by Tumblr's occasional sweeps and/or haters ratting you out.
That being said, I have blogs that are approaching a year old and are still monetizing with pop-ups and mobile redirects.
I see alot of blogs and whole networks of adult blogs that are still monetizing with multiple methods all on one blog. This is foolish and risky today IMO. I have always felt this was a bit over kill , but that's just me. I also understand though if one has the abilty to create hundreds of blogs daily then spamming (including going all out with 3 or more methods of monetization on one blog) makes sense, as it becomes just a sheer game of volume.
About a year ago I had blogs that had been up for a year and suddenly ***POOF**!!!! They all got nuked.
Alot of ppl think these changes came when the Yahoo takeover happened.... NOT entirely true.
After having lost well over 100 blogs, I can bare witness that their policies have been shitty for at least the past 2 years prior to the Yahoo acquisition (and not just towards adult blogs contrary to the popular belief)
I said it before and i'll say it again. T$mblr is full of $hit when it comes to their 'TOS'.
They say no affiliate marketing is allowed, but clearly allow Google Adsense on many of the biggest blogs on Tumblr. (WTF is Adsense other than one of the top 3 advertising/publishing networks on the planet???)
The Ban Hammer comes and goes in waves and doesn't always make sense in accordance to their TOS (and quite frankly contradicts the supposed reasons at times...).
Clearly, at times they simply make sweeping random bans just to see if the blogs are actually maintained organically or belong to bot networks just to see if the owners will respond or not.
Without a question Yahoo's corporate a$$e$ are having an effect on the tightening of the noose on marketers and adult content at large.
At the end of the day, it is clear to me they are still weighing their options and have not made any static finite decisions as of yet.
Best advice I suggest is to push the traffic elsewhere and tone down the monetizing on the blogs themselves.
Focus on content and popularity on Tumblr itself and monetize on your money sites.
Because at the time I started, it was much easier to monetize on the actual blog itself, thus it took me a lonnnng time (like an idiot...) before the reality sank in that I needed to focus more on pushing traffic to my own sites where I was more autonomous.
Hopefully you'll find this helpful.
P.S. I'd like to also say to the community I suspect there are a number of T$mblr Agents snooping around here listening for ways to further discover what folks are doing and coming with more ways to shutdown our attempts.
I'm seeing alot more new accounts asking peculiar questions about T$mblr
So... please be careful (but not paranoid
...) even on here about how much you divulge your strategies and tactics openly.
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BIGBIGBIGMamas
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Watermarking is good, however I find mixing it up is best. Don't publish watermarked images on every post on T$mblr.