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Tip #10 - One Email - Many Tumblr’s
By Mike Mindel | August 17, 2007
Update
Tumblr is currently suspending and banning blogs for unknown reasons. We suggest you use an alternative content platform.
See this post Tip#12 - It’s the Process not the Platform for more details.
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Tumblr is nice, simple, easy to use blog with one big problem.
Each Tumblr Blog Needs a Unique Email Address
This is part of the Tumblr sign up page
Every time you set up a new Tumblr blog you need a unique email address.
You can’t set up two blogs on the same email address.
This a clearly a real pain if you want to set up multiple Tumblr blogs!
The Solution
Use “plus” (+) addressing which GMail supports.
E.g. if you want to create a blog for ’scottish castles’ but you want to use the same unusualproperties@gmail.com email address then type this
That’s unusualproperties+scottishcastles@gmail.com. So the extra +scottishcastles was inserted after unusualproperties and before the @gmail.com.
When an email is sent to unusualproperties+scottishcastles@gmail.com it will still reach you at unusualproperties@gmail.com.
This means you can set up a new Tumblr blog for any number of niche keywords, each pointing to the same email address.
e.g.
- unusualproperties+hauntedmansions@gmail.com
- unusualproperties+lighthouses-by-the-sea@gmail.com
Note: ‘unusual properties’ is my umbrella phrase which leads to my GMail account unusualproperties@gmail.com. See Set Up a Separate GMail Account for more details.
In future, ‘hauntedmansions’, ‘lighthouses-by-the-sea’ will be related niche keywords that will also send traffic to my unusual properties page(s).
More on that later.
Nifty, huh?
-Mike
(P.S. credit where credit is due. This is based on a post by Marc on the Thirty Day Challenge blog).
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August 18th, 2007 at 3:10 am
Hi Mike, thanks for the mention. One thing that I did forget to add in the forum post is that not all sites will accept the + addressing idea. I believe that Netscape might be one, and the last time I checked, Yahoo email accounts didn’t support it at all, ie: mrcool+whatever@yahoo.com wouldn’t work. This may have changed, as it has been a while since I checked, but do be advised.
Sorry about the oversight.
Cheers, Marc
August 18th, 2007 at 5:21 am
Good catch! I stumbled on to Marc Forum content and I started using this technique which you are good at writing up.
I still had a problem with the filter not sorting to the proper label.
For Clean Water Everywhere,
Richard (BlueRunner)
August 18th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Thanks for the update.
Love it! Awesome!
August 19th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I have multiple google accounts and my PC hates it. I also have an adsense account with a totally different password (for obvious reasons) and this makes life very difficult.
Google seems to want you to only have one account - which up to now I have used for trash mails.
August 31st, 2007 at 2:01 am
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