character blog.

[JCFarnham]

Err . . . I'm not just parroting people. You should do some research about Tumblrs emerging (well, fully emerged by now) role in social media networking and marketing. It would be a far more effective platform for what Robertbevan is doing than blogger. Creative, short aand visual are the traits for doing well on tumblr, and if your work has those traits, blogger can't compete.

Didn't say you were parroting.

I'm happy to take your word for it, but my point is I've never seen Tumblr do anything "different" you know. More or less just a blog platform with a repost function. Admittedly that could be useful if someone pushed it to Twitter lengths (ie, setting trends amongst interested people - better marketing, I'm sure you'll agree), but really it seems to me that most people use it to dump random stuff on to. More so than most platforms (not pinterest mind you.. that thing is made for dumping stuff on haha).

I orginally asked technology or personal preference, because the way I see it he could achieve an awful lot of the same things which ever medium Robert choose. Blogger is perhaps slightly less customisable than say word press for example, but then again that's nothing to go by (if you have the skills you can compete easily). I'm perfectly happy with it for my purposes... again that's nothing to go by. Hmmm. To be honest, I've seen plenty of awesome things done with most blog platforms. It just a question of spending time on it and getting things right. No reason you can't make a really visual, creative blog off-tumblr. So yeah, the more effort you put into design where ever really the more you'll get out of it See what I'm saying?

[Benjamin Clayborne]

I'm happy to take your word for it, but my point is I've never seen Tumblr do anything "different" you know. More or less just a blog platform with a repost function.

Man, I still don't grok Tumblr. It's just a convenient blog platform, right?

[Devor]

How to (Properly) Use Tumblr to Market Your Brand | Search Engine Journal

Here's an article. The tech difference is minor, but it has a major impact on the type of content people post and the audience it attracts. Tumblr lets you see all your posts at once - completely useless if they're all blocks of text - and the result is that creative, young artistic types - understandably, not authors so much - have flocked to it. People go to tumblr for quick jokes, the kind that robertbevan is creating. Hence, he should go there, and it will be more likely to be picked up by people there.

[robertbevan]

thank you devor. i read the article in the link. one of the things it said is to use tumblr in combination with other social media.

i'm thinking i'll keep making regular blog posts, then putting the same posts up on tumblr, linking back to the original blog. i've never used tumblr before, so i'm going to hold off on doing this until someone here tells me it's not a stupid idea.

thanks everyone for your input.

[Ankari]

Alright, I've created a tumblr page. You can check it out here. It just makes too much sense. Especially since you can link you facebook and twitter account through tumblr. I'm still going to create a regular blog, but the importance of claiming your tumblr url compelled me to open up a tumblr account.

Thanks for the article, Devor.

[robertbevan]

did you draw those, ankari? that's a great looking page.

[Ankari]

did you draw those, ankari? that's a great looking page.

Nope. I hired an artist. If you need his contact info, let me know. He is a great resource and modest in pricing.

[Devor]

i'm thinking i'll keep making regular blog posts, then putting the same posts up on tumblr, linking back to the original blog.

Duplicating content is going to get you punished in search engines, so I think you have to pick one.

[robertbevan]

Duplicating content is going to get you punished in search engines, so I think you have to pick one.

i'm going to assume you're talking about something to do with not getting as high up on the list, rather than that i'm proposing doing something illegal/unethical. (but please tell me if i am!)


and i'd like to pick your brain a bit more. let's say that it hurts me on the search engines. for this project, are search engines really so important in this case? i mean, if people are searching for my stuff, then that means they already know about me, right? and how many people are out there searching for a half-orc advice column anyway?

i thought i was just looking for random people to stumble upon my stuff, think it's funny, and show it to their friends.

i'm sorry if i'm coming off as an idiot. i'm honestly just really ignorant about how all this stuff works.

[Devor]

i thought i was just looking for random people to stumble upon my stuff, think it's funny, and show it to their friends.

It will hurt the "random people" part. If you expect people to search "robert bevan blog" then you should be fine. But if someone searches "testicle jokes," you won't come up if you're duplicating content across two platforms. And if you ever decide to do more with your blog, like attach it to a full website, then it won't have any value.

I would highly suggest deleting the content on blogger and switching over wholly to tumblr for what you're doing. You'll have a lot more luck there because 90% of the people there are people you want to appeal to. On blogger, it's probably more like 5%.