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I just moved an adult blog off of Tumblr to a self-hosted site. Keeping the Tumblr blog up in some capacity would at least be good for branding, but it could create an issue of duplicate content, both from an SEO and a practical perspective (why would the blog’s Tumblr followers start visit the new page if everything they want to see is already on Tumblr?). I’m thinking of deleting all but the most popular posts to convert the Tumblr into a “Best Of” collection, but that would still mean there would be some duplicate posts.
Any thoughts on how to approach this?
Welcome Pete.
If your Tumblr blog does not get much organic traffic, you can remove that blog from the search engine sites. Here is how to do that:
unwrapping.tumblr.com/post/93373215762/remove-blog-from-search-results
Thanks. I did that a couple of weeks ago. Slowly but surely I see fewer and fewer Tumblr links coming up in search results. Additionally I made the blog only visible to users who were logged into Tumblr. I hope these strategies move organic leads away from Tumblr and onto the new page.
I still don’t like the idea of too much duplicate content even if search engines can’t detect it, so some purging is still in order. Though at this point, maybe it would be better in general to focus on getting new readers over converting the old ones?
I would start promoting your new adult site on your Tumblr blog. Make a picture post with the link to your main site or something like that.
Agreed; have been doing that more or less since the migration. It’s a little hard to do without worrying about coming off as spammy and they aren’t converting all that well. But it’s just a matter of being patient.
Lesson learned: if you you plan on monetizing an adult blog, have a self-hosted site from the beginning.
