Tumblr is an extremely powerful marketing tool because its uses include the ability to drive lots of visitors to a related website, both directly through linking and back-linking, and indirectly through the search engine net this casts. It also provides a means of driving viewers and subscribers to related YouTube channels.
For adult marketers using the popular Tumblr.com service to promote their offerings, the site’s recent acquisition by Yahoo! and subsequent policy shifts have proven to be as unsettling as Google’s constant algorithm updates — hampering traffic flow and causing uncertainty over the platform’s future viability for porn promoters.
Dr. Mireille Miller-Young, UCSB assistant professor of Feminist Studies, extends her educational practices beyond the classroom with her explicit Tumblr blog Brown Sugar, a " a “race, porn and sex image collection.”
Porn stars can continue to rely on Tumblr — or can they? Founder David Karp decided to quell rampant speculation, anger and Steven Colbert's accusations by clarifying Tumblr’s position on porn in a blog post published last week.
Tumblr founder David Karp said he’s not interested in censoring the microblogging and social media website even if some of the content’s considered to be porn.
