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By Fernando Alfonso III (/authors/fernando-alfonso-iii/)!! (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Get%20started%20on%20Tumblr%20in%205%20easy%20st

With more than 136 million visitors each month, Tumblr

(https://www.tumblr.com/) has quickly become one of the

most popular blogging networks in the world.

And its done so by focusing on community engagement and

accessibility instead of highly customizable content

management systems.

Tumblr is not just a website, Tumblr Editor-in-Chief Chris

Mohney told the Daily Dot.

Tumblr collects about 100,000 new blogs every day. With that

in mind, the Daily Dot decided to create a simple beginners

guide to help get you started.

1) Pick a Tumblr username

(http://facebook.com/dailydot)

(https://twitter.com/dailydot)

(http://dailydot.tumblr.com/)

Facebook

(http://facebook.com/dailydot)

Twitter

(https://twitter.com

Follow 209K fol

Tumblr

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on TumblrSta!

Get started on Tumblrin 5 easy steps

The main attraction is the community aspect.The dashboard experience is unique. A lot ofpeople come to Tumblr just to make a website.But what a lot of people dont understand isonce you get to the community side of things,

you almost never see whats on the actualwebsite.

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Make a post

Along the top of the dashboard are buttons for creating a text,

photo, quote, link, chat, audio, and video blog post. While

each button serves a different purpose depending on the sort

of content you want to blog, each one allows you the option of

scheduling a post or adding tags to identify the sort of content

featured in the post. (Much more on tags later.)

Understand the rundown

In the middle of your Dashboard you see white boxes

featuring blog posts from people you follow. To the left of

each white box is that persons profile image. On the top left

hand corner of the white box will be the name of their blog.

Across from the blog name will be icons identifying the

number of notes that post has received. There also buttonsallowing you to Reply, Reblog (represented by a rectangle

made of two arrows), or Like (represented by a heart) the

post.

Reblogging is an easy way for you to feature other peoples

content on your blog. For example, lets say you want to

repost something from The Frogman

(http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/frogman-tumblr-

gif-benjamin-grelle/) on your rundown. By clicking the reblog

button, you can feature that post on your own blog and add a

comment to it. For every comment, reblog, or like a post

receives, its note count will increase by one. A like doesnt

really do anything other than increase a posts note count. But

depending on the blog theme, a like will allow that post to

appear on your site.

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By Fernando Alfonso

III (/authors/fernando-

alfonso-iii/)

June 22, 2012

How to get morefollowers: Tumblr starThe Frogman shares hissecret

Hint: stealing other

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orsini/)

April 18, 2012

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Scope Tumblr Radar

The Radar is curated by the Tumblr editorial staff. It is a tool

used to highlight and introduce original and interesting

content to all its users.

Maintain your blog

Next to the word Dashboard near the top of the page is the

name of your blog. By clicking on that, you will see a rundown

of your blog posts and all the notes they have received. You

will also see how many followers your blog has, the number of

private messages youve received, and the total number of

posts youve made to date.

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4) Master the wide world of Tags

In every Tumblr blog post you makewhether it be of a video

or just plain textusers have the option of adding tags. For

example, if you posted a GIF animation of a fat cat jumping

into a small box, some of the tags you may add would be

LOL, dog, and cute. The LOL tag, in particular, is one

of the most popular on the network and called a curated tag.

These tags are moderated by an army of Tumblr volunteers

who help determine what content shows up on the front of

each tag page. You can discover the list of curated tags byclicking Explore on the right side of your Dashboard.

5) Customize your blog

By clicking on your blog name on the Dashboard, you can find

the Customize theme option. There you can select from a

bunch of free themes, choose a name for your blog, add pages

to your site, or add your own custom cascading style sheets

(better known as CSS). You can also tweak the color scheme

for your site and how many blog posts are shown on your

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