Anybody use Tumblr to drive traffic?

That's an entirely different question, and not what anyone's so far discussed in this thread.

That particularly fallacy of misattributed causation is already explained and answered in posts #20 and #23, above (and in many other threads about Squidoo, as well as Tumblr, actually).

As explained in post #20 and #23 above, and in the thread linked to from post #23, it's easy to imagine that they're "gains". Compared with going out for dinner and having your hair cut, they're gains. I accept that it's apparently not the easiest point for everyone to grasp, but compared with how you could do this instead, they're actually net losses.

Eksakto, if you either want to save time and resources by leveraging your existing content and testing it out if it can give you the results you want, or if you want to test out the results you can get from what the content syndication article marketer "experts" here have been repeatedly posting all over the place in a mind-numbing way. And:


Any serious person in business would most likely start out with a traffic generation campaign, via offsite content marketing, by carefully reading, absorbing and clarifying with the appropriate personnel the terms of service and posting guidelines of a third party site that they want to include in their list of third party sites where they will implement their offsite content marketing ventures. So:


By doing this, it'd be quick and easy to determine that Tumblr accepts content already published elsewhere, provided you own full exclusive rights to that content, or have the right to use that content in that manner.


The same principles, according to the content syndication article marketer "experts" here have been saying again and again, are at play when you do this on Tumblr, because these "experts" have been saying that it's "best" to use your existing content and syndicate it in online places (or in offline publications) where your target traffic is already spending time in, and Tumbler is one of those places (especially for some niches). Plus:


Tumblr's terms of service and posting guidelines state that they have the right to distribute your content to their selected third parties for republication, including your byline or links, so that'd most likely be similar to what these content syndication article marketer "experts" here have been saying about EZA and other article directories -- Submitting your content there to have it picked up by other content publishers for syndication. However:


The most important thing to consider is the result you're getting from any of these methods. For instance, test out the following to pinpoint which can give you the best RoI:


1. Post your already published site/blog content on Tumblr. Study the traffic and conversions you get from those Tumblr posts; and


2. Develop unique content and post it on Tumblr, with links to relevant pages in your site that offer even more mind-blowing content. Study the traffic and conversion ysou get from thos Tumblr posts.


Compare the results you get from the two methods above. If you break even with the traffic and conversions you get against your overheads for implementing number 1, then you still get repeat business if your conversions include additional buyer or ready-buyer subscribers. If you earn a significant volume of traffic and conversions worth three times than your overheads, then you can focus more on this method over the other one. Again, for emphasis:


It's way better to do your own tests than to listen to me, to anyone in this thread, to anyone inside and outside the Internet and to any content syndication article marketer "expert". That's why a lot of people who buy "How I Got 1K of Traffic and $2K of Sales in XX Days -- You Can, Too!"-type WSOs fail to make the things in those WSOs work for their businesses. This is especially true with people who lambast a method even when they haven't tried it out for themselves, especially those who make all kinds of claims like certain things have never happened before without any significant proof to substantiate those claims, instead of just advising others to try it out for themselves, because, as seen in this thread, making sense and believing a claim from one person out of many different perspectives from different people with different business models and different RoI projections and different net profit targets won't most likely be better than just testing the method out for yourself, so you can determine if it could give you good ROI.