Tumblr Opens New Offices in Richmond, Virginia

Tumblr’s expansion plans are already taking place.  While keeping their headquarters in New York City, the company opened new offices in Richmond,  Virginia.  It seems to be that their mobile developers and community support team are already in the area, so setting up new offices there seems like a good idea.

The specific building Tumblr chose to rooms was the Corrugated Box Building.  The building design is not a novelty for tech companies, seems like a renovated warehouse.

The official inauguration will take place on January 13

Tumblr New Office Pictures.

Post and Update Tumblr from WordPress Automatically

If you own and run your own WordPress blog and were looking to update your Tumblr account automatically each time you published on wordpress, there’s a plugin for that, It’s called Tumblrize, and allows you to automatically publish a post on Tumblr when you update your WordPress blog.  This plugin actually goes beyond and keep your WordPress posts in sync with your Tumblr posts, for instance, if you delete a post on wordpress, it will also be gone on Tumblr (not the other way around), same thing happens when you edit an article.  And there’s more:

• You can use your Tumblr Groups
• Can send your wordpress tags to your tumblr tags
• You can auto link to the original article

Read the following instructions to find out how to connect and integrate WordPress and Tumblr.

How to Send Your WordPress Posts to Tumblr Automatically.

1. Download the plugin Tumblrize
2. Unzip the folder and upload it to wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the plugin
4. Go to your Tumblrize plugin option and enter your Tumblr email and password
5. Configure all the options

That’s it, now you can send all your wordpress posts to your Tumblr account without having to update it manually.  Do not mistake this function with importing posts from wordpress to Tumblr.

Tumblr SEO Guide

This Tumblr SEO guide aims to help your Tumblr blog rank better on search engines, specially google since almost everyone uses it, all this without paying to get visitors. If this is the first time you hear the word SEO, click on the link to find out more.

Is Tumblr SEO friendly?. I’ve seen pages rank very well for keywords that were not included in the url, title or description, probably because they were receiving links from external sources that not only give them importance, but also indicated what the page was all about.  In the end is all about how much information you provide the Search Engine on a particular site, page or post. I will update this Tumblr SEO guide to keep it up-to-date, since Tumblr may decide that the following changes could be made from the customize control panel in the near future.
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Add a Tumblr Share Bookmarklet Button to your Browser

The Tumblr Share Bookmarklet link lets you quickly and easily publish content in your Tumbr blog with anything you found in the web, whether it is photos, videos, or just text.

How To Add the Tumblr Share Button Bookmarklet URL.

1. Once logged in, go to the Goodies Section and the first thing you will see is the Tumblr Share button, now drag it to your toolbar and that’s it, each time you find interesting material in a webpage you don’t need to copy paste, just click on the bookmarklet icon and publish.

Tumblr App for Ipad

If you have an ipad, chances are great that you already have an iphone, so at the same time you sure have the tumblerette app for iphone, which is now called simply Tumblr for Iphone.  Turns out that this same app can be used for the ipad and you download it from the itunes store.

Still there are complaints that not more than 1 photo can be uploaded in photo posts.  And video uploads do not work, seems to be related to Vimeo.

How To Add Disqus Comments To Tumblr

The most popular comment widget for Tumblr is without a doubt, Disqus.  It’s being used not only here but also in platforms like blogspot and free wordpress blogs, the reason for it is that is easy to install and embed in your tumblr theme, nice looking and has tons of customizable features.  It’s works a lot like a micro forum for each of your posts.

Inserting Disqus Comments Box code in your Tumblr Theme.

1. First of all, you need to register the Tumblr you are going to embed the Disqus comments in right Disqus for Tumblr installation instructions. Just make sure to locate the following code in your theme:  {/block:Posts}. Now, the block: posts tag you are looking for is the last one, in case there's more than one.
Also, go to customize >>> Appereance >> and check out if you have a box for a Disqus shortname, if you do, you just have to insert the shortname provided by Disqus and you are ready to go, otherwise, you need to add the code manually.
2. Once you added the code, both for the comments box and the “number of comments” tag save and close.

What Is The Tumblr Train

What is the Tumblr Train?.  Well, I won’t lie you, it’s just a scheme that Tumblr users do once in a while with the only purpose of increasing the followers figure.  So no, the point here is not to follow someone else because you are interested in what he/she says, you just follow or reblog any kind of post type they wrote down and that’s it. This is one of the method that answers the question How Do I Get more Followers on Tumblr?.

Warning: Only Tumblrs that are already popular can start the follow train, otherwise noone will know of it.  And no, it doesn’t matter whether it is a Thursday or Tuesday.