May 14

Tumblr SEO Request 

In reviewing how poor my SEO has been through tumblr I found a ton of posts pointing to the things it does wrong for search engines. Luckily I also found posts like the one below, of Tumblr fans who have put time into helping improve the themes as much as possible for improved SEO. Hopefully the Tumblr Staff are doing what they can on their end as well. But for anyone who cares about this kinda thing, read through Kortina’s posts below.

kortina:

When subscribers consume a tumblr blog via RSS, they end up with the SEO unfriendly versions of links to blog posts (so, if they link to you, the links aren’t as juiced as they could be). It’d be an easy SEO win to syndicate the titleized links via RSS.

Dear Tumblr,

Please make the links in tumblr rss the seo friendly versions! Eg,
http://blog.kortina.net/rss
links to:
http://blog.kortina.net/post/78910981
It would be better to link to:
http://blog.kortina.net/post/78910981/add-the-tumblr-mp3-player-asyncronously

This shouldn’t be hard to change. Thanks dudes!

(Please reblog if you want your RSS links SEO-ed.)

More Tumblr SEO Tips:
Tumblr SEO 1 - Better Page Titles
Tumblr SEO 2 - Better Heading Tags
Tumblr SEO 3 - Order of Copy in Page Title
Tumblr SEO 4 - Meta Descriptions
Tumblr SEO - Part 5, Tags as Meta Keywords

UPDATE: David responded like lightening:

The only problem we’ve run into is that the slugs can change, and fuck up

That’s a good point. Anyone have ideas around this?