Today the proverbial rubber hit the road. All the work with phrases and mini-article writing will be put to work on a tumblr social site. Before today, I’d never heard of tumblr and honestly, I was a bit miffed. I even posted on the forums asking the “why” behind using something like tumblr.

In my mind, I was already thinking “keyword empire” and I didn’t see how using something as trivial as tumblr was going to further my cause. After reading some of the responses and giving it more thought, I’m more comfortable about it. I’m thinking that if anything comes from the tumblr pages, I’ll just move in with something substantial on my own domain and blog site.

In the back of my mind, I think that if you applied the same tactics to your own domain/blog, you’ll get the same rankings.

I spent a good chunk of time setting up two tumblr sites. I would post them but I don’t want Google to index my blog back to those sites. Following the instructions, I set them up with the keywords in the site name, title, and in a post. For one site I’m affiliate linking to Amazon and the other I’m using Clickbank.

After getting stuff set-up, I let the challenge team members know about it and hope to get some web 2.0 assistance. My first site made it into Google within six hours. Not bad. I’m not seeing any organic traffic yet, so the jury is still out. I’ll be monitoring things closely and give updates in later posts.