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  • merrick · 1 year ago
    Awesome job Tumblr, you are now SEO friendly when it comes to URL's.

    Kudos for using a 301 redirect to preserve search rankings. More on what this means and how you can tell its SEO friendly here:

    http://blog.merricklozano.com/post/35818832/tum...
  • Anthony · 1 year ago
    Will there be a way to set preferences for permalinks? I like that keword urls are there for people who want it even though I don't think Tumblr had a search engine indexability problem before (the person who sparked this yesterday, her tumblr powered blog had no incoming links which was the real cause for her lack of Google traffic) but for the people like me who use tumblr as a personal blog/scrapbook who aren't concerned or don't want their with post being on frontpage of Goog this is kind of annoying.
  • Jill · 1 year ago
    I also hope there will be a way to choose which permalink style we prefer. I'm not sure I like this new system as some of my posts now have incredibly awkward URLs.
  • otiswolf · 1 year ago
    I just noticed this a second a go. I thought it was just my blog at first but then noticed it was on others. It's another great addition to Tumblr. And I'm glad the links also work without the summary text because I often like the shortness of the links when I send the url to family and friends. Keep up the good work.
  • Dave Ambrose · 1 year ago
    Many thanks for this David. Appreciate you jumping into the conversation today.
  • hannes · 1 year ago
    Yay! I believe it's been at least a couple of months since I suggested making post titles unique. Thanks for adding this :) This will also help when bookmarking posts - you get a better idea of what the post is about right away.

    Cool stuff. Looks like you're busy adding new features - keep up the good job :)
  • john ratcliffe-lee · 1 year ago
    You guys are pumping, it's great. I had noticed Chris' post about SEO in WP & Tumblr before and it gave me pause about something I hadn't thought of before switching. Like I said, this is a great addition.
  • Tumblr Staff · 1 year ago
    Great to hear, John :)

    Tumblr has always been very search-engine friendly, and we're always thrilled to do more.
  • hannes · 1 year ago
    Another thing I would suggest - better support of internationalization in the permalinks. For example - turn é into e (instead of just skipping that letter), ð to d, þ to th, á to a, etc...
  • christianroy · 9 months ago
    Yes! +1 for that!
  • faildogs · 1 year ago
    This messes up any success sites may have had with services like Digg and Stumble Upon because it divides the new viewers from the old - essentially starting everything over.

    It would have been really great to have known about this in advance, or been able to opt out. It's creating all sorts of problems, in addition to the Disqus hang ups. Obviously it's a great idea but not without consequences to the people that depend on Tumblr.
  • Hendrik Mans · 1 year ago
    The old URLs will still work (and forward to the new URLs).
  • faildogs · 1 year ago
    Of course, but the change makes an entry into two separate submissions to StumbleUpon - which essentially kills ALL the success my site has had in social media to date. New reader votes on the new URL, not the one that delivered them. That leaves it stillborn.

    For example:
    http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/faildogs.com/pos...
    http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/faildogs.com/pos...

    This might seem like nothing, but it is a big deal and it is really frustrating to see from a service I have been totally impressed with until now.

    How could you make such a major change with no announcement whatsoever or even considering something as fundamental as the major sources of traffic (digg, stumbleupon, etc)?

    It's disappointing.
  • Hendrik Mans · 1 year ago
    You're trying to make money (ads on your site, obvious SMO activity) off a service that has been free during its entire existence and will probably remain free for quite some time to come, or at least offer a free basic service, and you complain when a deployed improvement messes up your SMO shenanigans?

    User FAIL.
  • Tumblr Staff · 1 year ago
    Hello,

    The folks at Disqus are currently porting comments to the new URL scheme. Sorry for the interruption. This was entirely our oversight. It should be wrapped up tonight.

    As for the bookmarking services, they'll scan our permanent redirect headers when they sweep for dead links. If it's important to maintain legacy permalinks for a particular widget (like Digg), you can explicitly use the old URL structure in your theme like:

    <script type="text/javascript">
    digg_url = 'http://www.davidslog.com/post/{PostID}';
    </script>
    <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    Very sorry again for the confusion.
  • Jon Elsas · 1 year ago
    I, too, like the feature, but Disqus comments are hosed on some of my posts -- not showing up at all, and double posts showing up at my Disqus "community page"
  • Jason · 1 year ago
    We've finished the clean-up process. E-mail us at help@disqus.com if you are still having issues.
  • Jon Elsas · 1 year ago
    Thanks - seems to have cleared up the problems.
  • Geoffrey · 1 year ago
    // Thank's for tumblr services // ~ a french guy // graphic.tumblr.com //
  • bijan · 1 year ago
    you guys are on a roll. love this new update.
  • K M · 1 year ago
    Can someone tell me how to stop images from resizing when they're from a URL source?
  • drewolanoff · 1 year ago
    great work, love the permalinks.
  • mo · 1 year ago
    Great Job!

    it would also be nice if the page numbers would always refer to the same posts if that was possible.
  • Dave Rigotti · 1 year ago
    Permalink URLs should be:
    http://www.davidslog.com/dont-laugh-at-us
    and if another post is made on the same url with the same title (permalink), it should be:
    http://www.davidslog.com/dont-laugh-at-us-1

    Why all the extras?
  • scantron · 10 months ago
    is there a way to add titles to photo and video posts?
  • IHATEVIDEOGAMES · 1 year ago
    I dont really see anywhere else to make a request so i'll make it here

    You should enable commenting, i dont want to use this disqus thing. People should be able to comment on other peoples tumblrs using their own tumblr accounts
  • Hendrik Mans · 1 year ago
    +1. Disqus is *great*, but I would much prefer to use a built-in (and possibly optional) commenting solution. I don't care about "don't fight the format"; people want to comment. Twitter staff, please read this.
  • Kurt · 1 year ago
    If you want comments go to Blogger.

    Lets not make Tumblr a Blogger with less features.

    Blogs are blogs, tumblelogs are tumblelogs.
  • IHATEVIDEOGAMES · 1 year ago
    which is why commenting should be an optional and INTEGRATED feature that should be available to users. if you want to cling to the petty differences of all your stupid little bullshit web 2.0 niche websites then go ahead, but don't let it get in the way of progress desired by other users
  • Samuel Farnesworthe · 1 year ago
    You, sir, are an immense retard of the highest order. Please kindly GTFO and go back to WordPress or Blogger or wherever you came from.
  • IHATEVIDEOGAMES · 1 year ago
    wow calling someone a "retard" because of their differing viewpoint, you're clearly the bastion of maturity we should all be modeling our lives after
  • nik · 1 year ago
    this is why comments are failure.