Good morning, Tumblr

[Elli]

What the living ARRRGGGG

http://www.zdnet.com/adult-tumblr-bl...le-7000018295/

"When Yahoo bought Tumblr, it suggested that its adult and porn blogs would be left alone.

Users found out this wasn't true when a new adult blog search policy went public on Thursday, capping Tumblr's quarantine on adult content, which now also includes excluding adult blogs from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines.

The changes render an estimated 10% of Tumblr's userbase invisible and unfindable.

Now, around 12 million Tumblr blogs marked "adult" have been removed from Tumblr's internal search; this follows the revelation two months ago that adult blogs were no longer indexed by Google, and the pre-sale removal of Tumblr's "Erotica" category from its category index.

Tumblr's "Erotica" category had been launched in January 2010 with much sex-positive fanfare - it would appear that the days of Tumblr's tolerance are long gone."

[Jel]

just read this a few minutes ago, and: that's an awful opinion piece.

"Topic: Censorship" lol, righto.

Sucks for affs monetizing tumblr, and I feel sorry for anyone losing $ over it, but to talk solely about the piece, it is a piece alright, a piece of irrational shit.

I can't use your free service to put all my porn on! Censorship! etc

[evy97]

who cares? tumblr is a social networking website...

[Elli]

Originally Posted by evy97

who cares? tumblr is a social networking website...

It's tougher to network when the blog is not searchable by anyone who isn't already a follower of the blog.

[Jel]

this thread is like me moaning my spam mail ends up in spam boxes...

how is selling porn 'social networking'?

[Babaganoosh]

Why the fuck do people keep using free services and then whining when shit doesn't turn out well? Use your own hosting and your own domains and then you're in control.

[Dankasaur]

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Why the fuck do people keep using free services and then whining when shit doesn't turn out well? Use your own hosting and your own domains and then you're in control.

[Tofu]

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Why the fuck do people keep using free services and then whining when shit doesn't turn out well? Use your own hosting and your own domains and then you're in control.

It's not entirely free. Plus, I don't think I need to explain the benefits of a heavily populated social networking site vs. a stand alone, hosted blog. Or do I....?

[evy97]

Originally Posted by Elli

It's tougher to network when the blog is not searchable by anyone who isn't already a follower of the blog.

If you want to blame someone, blame the spammers. It's all because of them

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Why the fuck do people keep using free services and then whining when shit doesn't turn out well? Use your own hosting and your own domains and then you're in control.

Yeah.... I was thinking the same thing.

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by Tofu

It's not entirely free. Plus, I don't think I need to explain the benefits of a heavily populated social networking site vs. a stand alone, hosted blog. Or do I....?

[fris]

Originally Posted by Elli

What the living ARRRGGGG

http://www.zdnet.com/adult-tumblr-bl...le-7000018295/

"When Yahoo bought Tumblr, it suggested that its adult and porn blogs would be left alone.

Users found out this wasn't true when a new adult blog search policy went public on Thursday, capping Tumblr's quarantine on adult content, which now also includes excluding adult blogs from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines.

The changes render an estimated 10% of Tumblr's userbase invisible and unfindable.

Now, around 12 million Tumblr blogs marked "adult" have been removed from Tumblr's internal search; this follows the revelation two months ago that adult blogs were no longer indexed by Google, and the pre-sale removal of Tumblr's "Erotica" category from its category index.

Tumblr's "Erotica" category had been launched in January 2010 with much sex-positive fanfare - it would appear that the days of Tumblr's tolerance are long gone."

the good tumblr blogs people have bookmarked, and have the links sent around, so that will still have no effect on the policies.

[Azlord]

Originally Posted by Tofu

It's not entirely free. Plus, I don't think I need to explain the benefits of a heavily populated social networking site vs. a stand alone, hosted blog. Or do I....?

Amen to that.

[signupdamnit]

Originally Posted by Jel

this thread is like me moaning my spam mail ends up in spam boxes...

how is selling porn 'social networking'?

Not everyone hit by it is selling porn. In fact with the other policy changes including banning almost every blog with ads there isn't a traditional direct (or non blackhat) way to sell porn on Tumblr. You can't regularly put up affiliate links or you'll get banned soon. Even if you are promoting your own paysite you are at risk of getting banned if you link to your site all the time. You can only be subtle and market indirectly if you expect to stay around for more than a month or two.

I have a few Tumblr blogs that while they have a link or two to some of my adult sites as the legitimate source of the content and for more information aren't so much about milking profit from it as much as they are about an interest. Not everyone affected are blackhats putting out 500 new tumblr splogs a day using 100 rotated proxies so they can sell dating and cams. Not all of us are spammers.

It's their right to do it but it really is censorship in that it prevents the content from being seen by anyone who is not logged in to a tumblr account with safe mode disabled as explained here http://www.ghacks.net/2013/07/19/how...nts-on-tumblr/ Yahoo did the same thing with Adult Yahoo Groups many years ago. That decision probably cost me $500,000+.

[Tom_PM]

These sites are just in it for the free content you provide them. They'll monetize it later if they're not already, plus use / sell personal, browsing and tracking information if they're not already. I'm not alleging anything, I'm just saying what seems to be obvious so.. let time tell.

[signupdamnit]

Originally Posted by fris

the good tumblr blogs people have bookmarked, and have the links sent around, so that will still have no effect on the policies.

They aren't necessarily good. It's just that they are older and were able to gather up followers before the policy change. I think many of the older blogs are still in the Google too but the spider isn't able to access them due to robots.txt so I would think eventually those rankings will be gone soon.

[Zeiss]

My tumblr account and blogs are still live and running...

Originally Posted by Tofu

It's not entirely free. Plus, I don't think I need to explain the benefits of a heavily populated social networking site vs. a stand alone, hosted blog. Or do I....?

[georgeyw]

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Why the fuck do people keep using free services and then whining when shit doesn't turn out well? Use your own hosting and your own domains and then you're in control.

I wish more adult affiliates thought like you, then Tumblr would never have done this.

[Dankasaur]

Just a heads up if anyone in here runs Tumblr blogs and is worried about them being deleted, I have a service you can sign up for, add a meta tag to your blog, and it'll keep track of them and let you know if any of them have been deleted or not.

http://www.mftscripts.com/tools/servmonitr

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by Dankasaur

Just a heads up if anyone in here runs Tumblr blogs and is worried about them being deleted, I have a service you can sign up for, add a meta tag to your blog, and it'll keep track of them and let you know if any of them have been deleted or not.

http://www.mftscripts.com/tools/servmonitr

[georgeyw]

Originally Posted by Dankasaur

Just a heads up if anyone in here runs Tumblr blogs and is worried about them being deleted, I have a service you can sign up for, add a meta tag to your blog, and it'll keep track of them and let you know if any of them have been deleted or not.

http://www.mftscripts.com/tools/servmonitr

They send you an email

[Dankasaur]

Originally Posted by georgeyw

They send you an email

It's for more than just Tumblr.

[Sly]

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Why the fuck do people keep using free services and then whining when shit doesn't turn out well? Use your own hosting and your own domains and then you're in control.

It has its benefits. Like drug dealing. Reap the rewards while you can, but don't cry when it's all over.

[Creatine]

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Why the fuck do people keep using free services and then whining when shit doesn't turn out well? Use your own hosting and your own domains and then you're in control.

But then you won't get the amazing tumblr traffic. The reason why people use tumblr is for the traffic.

If anything people can use blogger.com or pornblogspace.com however they don't because those websites are shit.

Tumblr on the other hand is a traffic machine.

[Creatine]

Originally Posted by Dankasaur

Just a heads up if anyone in here runs Tumblr blogs and is worried about them being deleted, I have a service you can sign up for, add a meta tag to your blog, and it'll keep track of them and let you know if any of them have been deleted or not.

http://www.mftscripts.com/tools/servmonitr

Thank you for this.

Using it.

[slapass]

All good things come to an end. Next.

[Dankasaur]

Originally Posted by Creatine

Thank you for this.

Using it.

Don't hesitate to contact me about any feature ideas or other services you'd like to see. I've got a few things coming down the pipeline for it and webmasters in general.

[JosephFM]

Yahoo fucked up another of its properties.

[Dankasaur]

Originally Posted by Dankasaur

Just a heads up if anyone in here runs Tumblr blogs and is worried about them being deleted, I have a service you can sign up for, add a meta tag to your blog, and it'll keep track of them and let you know if any of them have been deleted or not.

http://www.mftscripts.com/tools/servmonitr

Just a heads up anybody who uses this, the system only scans for removal once a day as of right now, so once you add your blog, it'll scan it tomorrow morning. I am working to change the scan times and add the ability to scan them manually individually and in bulk.

[Itchy]

Originally Posted by Dankasaur

Just a heads up anybody who uses this, the system only scans for removal once a day as of right now, so once you add your blog, it'll scan it tomorrow morning. I am working to change the scan times and add the ability to scan them manually individually and in bulk.

[CamTraffic]

Originally Posted by Elli

What the living ARRRGGGGha

http://www.zdnet.com/adult-tumblr-bl...le-7000018295/

"When Yahoo bought Tumblr, it suggested that its adult and porn blogs would be left alone.

Users found out this wasn't true when a new adult blog search policy went public on Thursday, capping Tumblr's quarantine on adult content, which now also includes excluding adult blogs from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines.

The changes render an estimated 10% of Tumblr's userbase invisible and unfindable.

Now, around 12 million Tumblr blogs marked "adult" have been removed from Tumblr's internal search; this follows the revelation two months ago that adult blogs were no longer indexed by Google, and the pre-sale removal of Tumblr's "Erotica" category from its category index.

Tumblr's "Erotica" category had been launched in January 2010 with much sex-positive fanfare - it would appear that the days of Tumblr's tolerance are long gone."

I am surprised they haven't banned some of the tumblr's that are still out there to be Honest ... they are infested with CCbill affiliate links.... on image post, text, links, side bars...

I checked my GA stats and my search traffic is still going strong on my Tumblr blogs, so it's still coming in for sure...

Nice video btw Elli ... http://www.youporn.com/watch/7911213/elli-ellinude-com/

[Babaganoosh]

Originally Posted by Tofu

It's not entirely free. Plus, I don't think I need to explain the benefits of a heavily populated social networking site vs. a stand alone, hosted blog. Or do I....?

Yes, please explain it to me. Explain it to the person who is not and has never needed to be an affiliate rep. Explain it to someone who KNOWS how to make money. Convince me. I'm waiting.

[Tofu]

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Yes, please explain it to me. Explain it to the person who is not and has never needed to be an affiliate rep. Explain it to someone who KNOWS how to make money. Convince me. I'm waiting.

Whoa, whoa...slow down there, player. I was highlighting the fact that I didn't need to explain. Surely - being a seasoned affiliate - you already understand the benefits of a "free" social network that already has it's own traffic and why it is advantageous to traffic boys/girls. No need to swing our dicks in each others faces....

[RyuLion]

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Why the fuck do people keep using free services and then whining when shit doesn't turn out well? Use your own hosting and your own domains and then you're in control.

[halfpint]

The day will arrive when google and other search engines will delist porn sites alltogether, and the day is comming when ISP's will start to block porn as a default. The minority do not want porn on the internet and they always shout the loudest and win

[Creatine]

Originally Posted by halfpint

The day will arrive when google and other search engines will delist porn sites alltogether, and the day is comming when ISP's will start to block porn as a default. The minority do not want porn on the internet and they always shout the loudest and win

The minority can go back to block buster videos where they came from.

[halfpint]

Originally Posted by Creatine

The minority can go back to block buster videos where they came from.

Dont matter what you think its allready happening over here in the UK

Less porn for you: UK ISPs will enact auto-filtering of adult content by the end of 2013

Relax, you can still watch porn in the United Kingdom, but it’s about to become a bit harder. As reported in Wired, Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country will “make filtering a standard option across industry.” If you don’t act, parental filters will come “pre-ticked.”

Therefore, if you don’t want your Internet connection to be quite so vanilla, you’ll need to opt-out. ISPs are implementing the filtering system without a legal requirement, so we will not see a law enforcing the new policy.

The kicker to this is that the system will not only be put in place for new accounts, but for existing accounts as well. This is pervasive. Claire Perry, a Member of Parliament, described how one might opt-out of the system: “We will have automatic put on, so if you turn the filter off at 9pm, it turns on again at 7am.”

Thus, even if you turn the damn thing off, it will come back on before your first cuppa.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/0...e-end-of-2013/

[Creatine]

Originally Posted by halfpint

Dont matter what you think its allready happening over here in the UK

Less porn for you: UK ISPs will enact auto-filtering of adult content by the end of 2013

Relax, you can still watch porn in the United Kingdom, but it?s about to become a bit harder. As reported in Wired, Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country will ?make filtering a standard option across industry.? If you don?t act, parental filters will come ?pre-ticked.?

Therefore, if you don?t want your Internet connection to be quite so vanilla, you?ll need to opt-out. ISPs are implementing the filtering system without a legal requirement, so we will not see a law enforcing the new policy.

The kicker to this is that the system will not only be put in place for new accounts, but for existing accounts as well. This is pervasive. Claire Perry, a Member of Parliament, described how one might opt-out of the system: ?We will have automatic put on, so if you turn the filter off at 9pm, it turns on again at 7am.?

Thus, even if you turn the damn thing off, it will come back on before your first cuppa.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/0...e-end-of-2013/

This fucking sucks. I need to jump into mainstream ASAP.

Going to go start a file locker.

jk.

Seriously though, this is BS.

[Dankasaur]

Originally Posted by Dankasaur

Just a heads up if anyone in here runs Tumblr blogs and is worried about them being deleted, I have a service you can sign up for, add a meta tag to your blog, and it'll keep track of them and let you know if any of them have been deleted or not.

http://www.mftscripts.com/tools/servmonitr

Originally Posted by Dankasaur

Just a heads up anybody who uses this, the system only scans for removal once a day as of right now, so once you add your blog, it'll scan it tomorrow morning. I am working to change the scan times and add the ability to scan them manually individually and in bulk.

Alright, you can now scan all sites individually, retrieve the meta tag again if you need it, and also scan all sites, on top of the system scanning it daily.

Thank Itchy for these suggestions and helping me test them.

[signupdamnit]

Originally Posted by halfpint

Dont matter what you think its allready happening over here in the UK

Less porn for you: UK ISPs will enact auto-filtering of adult content by the end of 2013

Relax, you can still watch porn in the United Kingdom, but it?s about to become a bit harder. As reported in Wired, Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country will ?make filtering a standard option across industry.? If you don?t act, parental filters will come ?pre-ticked.?

Therefore, if you don?t want your Internet connection to be quite so vanilla, you?ll need to opt-out. ISPs are implementing the filtering system without a legal requirement, so we will not see a law enforcing the new policy.

The kicker to this is that the system will not only be put in place for new accounts, but for existing accounts as well. This is pervasive. Claire Perry, a Member of Parliament, described how one might opt-out of the system: ?We will have automatic put on, so if you turn the filter off at 9pm, it turns on again at 7am.?

Thus, even if you turn the damn thing off, it will come back on before your first cuppa.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/0...e-end-of-2013/

If this ever happened in America the scumbag ISPs would be charging a $30-$50 a month "adult content fee" in order to opt out.

It's total bullshit of course. It should be OPT IN.

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Yahoo did the same thing with Adult Yahoo Groups many years ago. That decision probably cost me $500,000+.

I still remember that.

We had 30,000+ members in our adult Yahoo group back in the day with over 1 million views. I recall going through the Yahoo Clubs to groups switchover.

[signupdamnit]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

I still remember that.

We had 30,000+ members in our adult Yahoo group back in the day with over 1 million views. I recall going through the Yahoo Clubs to groups switchover.

Man those were the days. I wish I would have hit them about five years before I did. If you knew the tricks it was a gold mine. Like for instance how putting spaces or some funny ASCII character before your site title in the links would put you at the top of the links list or how the calendar feature could be used to automatically post a message once every couple days automatically (forever!) after setting it up. I must have been personally responsible for over 1,000,000 links and messages there. But don't judge me too harshly I kept it in the adult groups and tried to stay relevant to the group.

Yahoo really fucked that up and they clearly don't know what they are doing. It's a shame. To this day it's a sitting duck for spam. It still could be useful for people if they got the spam under control but they either don't have a clue or they don't know how to do it so everyone left.

[Creatine]

Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Man those were the days. I wish I would have hit them about five years before I did. If you knew the tricks it was a gold mine. Like for instance how putting spaces or some funny ASCII character before your site title in the links would put you at the top of the links list or how the calendar feature could be used to automatically post a message once every couple days automatically (forever!) after setting it up. I must have been personally responsible for over 1,000,000 links and messages there. But don't judge me too harshly I kept it in the adult groups and tried to stay relevant to the group.

Yahoo really fucked that up and they clearly don't know what they are doing. It's a shame. To this day it's a sitting duck for spam. It still could be useful for people if they got the spam under control but they either don't have a clue or they don't know how to do it so everyone left.

Yahoo screwed up every website they purchased. Honestly I don't know Wtf happend. Maybe the CEO found god or something.

[ls101]

We need to learn that there is a place for adult per se. And there is a place for non-adult. We should also consider the difference of both.

[baggg]

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Why the fuck do people keep using free services and then whining when shit doesn't turn out well? Use your own hosting and your own domains and then you're in control.

tumblr is alexa 27,most people using it as a proxy to their hosted sites not because it is a free host.
Do you know any alternative where you can get INSTANT targeted traffic for free?(easy 10-20k+/day)
im sure you doing great with tgps,welcome to 2013