Lately I have been expanding my social media horizons to include Tumblr. Tumblr has been gaining momentum in the social media sharing circles for a while now. In fact you are starting to see its icon alongside the Big 3, Facebook, Twitter and You Tube.
How Popular Is Tumblr
Think about it. Of all of the gazillions of different social media platforms created over the past five or six years there are only a few in the mainstream. Some of them were in the mainstream for a minute and then got washed away like Myspace. Now as the social media element of the internet has entered its grade school years there are only a couple on top. I have started to see tumblr icons showing up in this lineup all over the internet. Very impressive I think and for good reason. In fact, overall I believe Tumblr has the most versatile platform. You can mini blog, easily share other blog posts, pop up videos, pictures and actually turn it into a full tilt blog site. Look at where GaryVaynerchuk.com is hosted. That's right, on Tumblr. I was amazed when I found that out but why not, it's FREE.
Free Domain Hosting With Tumblr
Yep, FREE to host your domain on tumblr. Some of you may already be on tumblr and be rocking away on it, I have just started so I am still learning all the in ant to send people to when they they click the picture. You can't do that with Facebook.
Step By Step Instructions On How To Host Your Domain On Tumblr
When I started messing around with tumblr and found out it was possible to host a domain for free I thought there must be a catch or it won't really work. When I saw Gary Vaynerchuk's site hosted on tumblr I started thinking, "there might be something to this". I was on a mission after that.
I was bound and determined to figure out how to host my domain for FREE and you better believe, "I Got Er Did".
Here is a quick little video to show you exactly how I did it. If you don't have a host, I suggest Blue Host. Why you might ask. Because they are inexpensive, secure and easy to use. Customer service is outstanding and they literally have a video tutorial for anything you could possibly want to know or have questions about. If the videos don't answer the questions, get on a live chat and you will have the answer —- NOW.
This video shows me working in Cpanel of my Blue Host account but if you have a different host you will just have to find out how to point the A-record of your domain to tumblr.
Just watch the video, it shows you all of this. Please leave comments below. Enjoy your FREE hosting and see you in tumblr.
. Gary talks about the importance of branding yourself in the New Economy and suggests securing domain names for not only yourself but your children as well. I did a search over the last week and discovered my daughters name was available in a .com so I thought now would be the time to get her up and running with her own site. You can go here and check out domain names for your kids.
