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Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

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Post by dasil003 »

mvkel wrote: post #10
bravura wrote: post #3

Hosting your blog on blog.startup.com is also broken, because you derive no SEO benefit from it. It's more likely that you drive traffic from SEO than from Tumblr 'reblogs'. Hence, you shouldn't even use tumblr for your main corporate blog.

This is completely false. SEO benefit to subdomains absolutely applies to the root domain. Google's algorithm has changed a bit since 2005.

And beside that, traffic to your blog is valuable too.

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#34

Post by jandy »

kirillzubovsky wrote: post #24
spinchange wrote: post #9

I clicked on the author's face and name and it took me to a Medium page. Luckily, I can see he's the founder of a twitter profile called "Scoutzie" which clears-up what his business is. /sarcasm

I don't get your sarcasm. Where would you suppose clicking on my face should have led you? It's the Medium blogging engine and it is in their interest to have you follow from one of my posts to others, then to my collections, then to collections of others. Pretty obvious flow of things.

This implies that the reader should understand the behaviour of whatever particular blogging engine/platform the author is using.

How is understanding that clicking on a face in medium does one thing any different than understanding that clicking on the header in a tumblr does something else?

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#35

Post by guptaneil »

I agree with the problem, but disagree with the solution. When I come across an interesting blog post, I also want an obvious way to the blog's homepage to see more posts. It would be equally frustrating if I want to see more posts, and instead end up on some landing page.

While designing my startup's blog[1], I looked at a lot of other startups' blogs and noticed that most of them had the same problem the author describes. My solution was to just put a 2 line description of what we do with a link in the blog header, so it is very easy to get to either location.

1: http://blog.tabuleapp.com

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#36

Post by canibanoglu »

I agree with your point and find it quite disturbing myself. What punched me in my face in your article was that you asked people to comment on HN if they agreed. I quite honestly don't understand the reasoning behind this. Granted, I'm a new member on HN but asking for comments just for the sake of comments seems like broken Facebook "like"s.

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#37

Post by walkon »

With this approach, visitors that are viewing a blog post's dedicated (permalink) page may not find an obvious way to get back to the root of the blog as the logo links to the associated company site. To me, this can be just as annoying, since I don't want to get into manual-address-bar-truncation mode. Explicit links for each (blog root and company) in the footer are nice, but often not to be found.

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#38

Post by rdl »

mvkel wrote: post #10
bravura wrote: post #3

Hosting your blog on blog.startup.com is also broken, because you derive no SEO benefit from it. It's more likely that you drive traffic from SEO than from Tumblr 'reblogs'. Hence, you shouldn't even use tumblr for your main corporate blog.

This is completely false. SEO benefit to subdomains absolutely applies to the root domain. Google's algorithm has changed a bit since 2005.

Is this 100%? I need to do some crap for RSA next week and I'd strongly prefer to throw it on another host with a subdomain vs. some redirect magic, but would like maximal SEO value.

Re: Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

#39

Post by WadeF »

rdl wrote: post #38
mvkel wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is completely false. SEO benefit to subdomains absolutely applies to the root domain. Google's algorithm has changed a bit since 2005.

Is this 100%? I need to do some crap for RSA next week and I'd strongly prefer to throw it on another host with a subdomain vs. some redirect magic, but would like maximal SEO value.

Sub directories are still considered best for maximal SEO value. [1]

[1]: http://www.seomoz.org/q/blog-on-subdomain-vs-subdirectory-be...

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