How To Get Tumblr Famous!

• Have an interesting URL/username which makes people want to click it. Mine isn't particularly interesting but I haven't changed it because I want to keep all my current backlinks. If you're making a new one though, give it a name which makes people so intreagued they want to click it!
• Literally ask people to follow you. This used to work really well (if you sent them a nice, not too obvious message) but tumblr have now got new spam measures in place meaning that even if you think you're sending loads of messages, they might not even get delivered so this is a waste of time on a large scale now. A couple a day is good though.
• Submit quality pictures/videos/posts to popular tumblr blogs in your niche. If they're good, they'll post them and people do click the link back to your blog.
• When reblogging, change the source to your URL and if it's a picture, set the click through link to your site. Changing the source gives you all the advantages of reblogging as opposed to saving and uploading (not pissing people off, having your link in the notes of people who've previously reblogged it) whilst also having the benefits of being the original uploader (when people reblog it from you, it'll say you're the source).
• Get a nice theme, simple is usually good and make a nice logo. If you look at mine, I made a nice logo and used a theme which allows me to have big pictures which is important for my blog.
• Mass follow people in hope of a follow back. I don't do this personally because I only follow blogs which I actually want to follow and post pictures I might want to reblog but I've tried it on other blogs and it works to an extent.
• Use the queue feature. It means you don't have to spend nearly as long blogging and you can automate it to an extent.

Gain Tumblr Traffic Without Buying a Bot

I've read through all the Tumblr posts about how to gain followers with bots & proxies, but I wasn't ready to spend money on this yet so I have another method that's completely free.

1. Create a Tumblr account & verify your email    address.
2. Design your page to go with the site you're    trying to attract people to. (I made my Tumblr    page look like my Ecommerce store & added a    fixed HelloBar at the top to collect email    addresses)
3. Find relevant hashtags people are using in    your niche
4. Go to iFTTT & create an account.
5. Select the recipe for Instagram to Tumblr    posts.
6. Configure the recipe so every time a photo is    posted to Instagram with your selected hashtag    the image is then posted to your Tumblr Page.
7. Add html to the "photo caption" area of the    recipe that will link people to your site.
8. Select 'Start' & just wait.

There are a few catches with this method:
You will have to manually go back to your posts on Tumblr & add a click-through link for the image. You can only set the click-through as a caption currently with IFTTT
Tumblr will only let you post 100 photos a day on an account.

But if you do this right you can start to get real traffic to your site & quickly build up an audience. I've had this running for about two weeks now & I'm up to 600+ Tumblr Followers, 50+ uniques a day, & plenty of likes & reblogs on Tumblr itself.