Your Ad Doesn't Show Up on Tumblr?

Adding an advertisement code to a Tumblr blog could be a little bit tricky. After all, you have to edit the template file to insert the code, you might have to test it a few times to get things working. Sometimes, the ads show up alright in the preview, but not in the live blog, the ad area just goes totally blank. What went wrong?

There are few things that might help to get your ads working on your Tumblr blogs.

Does your blog have a domain name? If you are serious about making blog money using your Tumblr blog, it might worth the money to invest in a domain name. Some ad programs only work with a blog which has its own domain name, a sub domain won't work.

Is your blog content unique? Do you reblog other bloggers' work, or simply copy and paste lots of content from other sources? If most of your content are original and unique, you shouldn't have much problem getting your ad program approved. On the other hand, if you only reblog other people's stuff, you might get your account banned.

Do your blog posts mainly display images and not much text? Actually that's perfectly ok in some cases. A good example I found is a Tumblr theme designer's blog. His Tumblr blog just displays 10+ image thumbnails for people to download his free themes, and his ads have been there for ages. Again, your content has got to be unique!

One final point - Nowadays, many people don't use any ads on Tumblr, they only consider Tumblr as a good traffic source, i.e. it could be more effective if you just direct your Tumblr traffic to your other "money" blogs.