The following came via an ask reply from photolies, with whom I’ve been exchanging messages…
The following came via an ask reply from photolies, with whom I’ve been exchanging messages lately about (you guessed it) the ‘lies’ Tumblr URL:
Ah, I see you don’t understand, or rather you’re confused on what trading followers or URLs is all about? Basically, the people that covet your URL are willing to do promotions in exchange for your URL. Basically, they would make links to your new url telling their followers to follow you on your new blog. There are some blogs with thousands of followers that can get you hundreds of followers. So when they say they’ll give you followers, trade followers, or promo you, any of these means simply that they’ll get you more followers through links on their blogs. In addition, some popular blogs on Tumblr have previously sold their URLs for money via Paypal, so I’m sure people have requested to buy your URL.
As you have previously said, there is a subculture, if you will, of people who trade URLs like baseball cards. The primary reason they covet your URL is that it is one word. Many one word URLs are saved by people hoarding them and in many cases have never even been used! So to find this URL in use by you is really amazing. In fact, people covet one word url’s so much that they look them up in hopes of finding a good vacant URL. The reason behind this is that these one word URLs generate more traffic to their blogs which leads to potential followers. In fact, it can be seen across Tumblr that people with one word URLs have thousands of followers despite what they posts simply because of the massive amounts of traffic generated by their URLs that attract people to their blog.
So to summarize all of this, people want your URL for one reason only, and that is to gain followers. They promise you promotions that will gain you a few hundred followers so that they can make “profits”, if you will, of thousands of followers.
I personally want the URL because it’s a clean URL, I’m really quite fond of it and would be proud to have such a clean URL. I feel that the URL would go with the photography that I reblog and post on on my blog, Photolies. I have the word in my URL but I would like a shorter more memorable way of describing the blog that I express myself in daily.
I want to thank you for even considering me, all I can say is whoever finally acquires your URL will be a very lucky and very happy blogger. Have an excellent day and if you have any more questions for me on any subject matter concerning anything at all, please feel free to inbox me (ask or fanmail). Once again thank you for your consideration of my request and good day to you. :)
Thanks! I’ve been curious about this for a while now, and your explanation helped straighten me out. I’m still enjoying using the lies URL, but if and when I move on your name will certainly be in the hat for the big drawing.
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/53380468384.
Tags: lies tumblr url, photolies.
