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Add FeedBurner to Tumblr

You have all the reason to add FeedBurner to your tumbleblog. First to track the stats on your RSS readers, but also to better promote, obtimize and even monetize (via AdSense) your RSS Feed.

To replace your current Tumblr RSS feed by a FeedBurner RSS feed follow the steps below:

  1. Just get the your original RSS feed URI from your tumbleblog. It can be accessed at yoursite.tumblr.com/rss.
  2. Open or login to your FeedBurner account.
  3. Enter the RSS feed your want to track. Just copy the URI from step 1.
  4. Choose a name for your FeedBurner feed. You will probably want to use the name of your tumbleblog. Your new FeedBurner RSS Feed should be something like this http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite.
  5. Now it’s time to paste that link in your Tumblr Theme source. Login to your Tumblr Dashboard. Under Account > Preferences, click on the Customize your tumbleblog link. In the tab Theme, press the Enable Custom HTML.
  6. You can edit the source in the current textarea, but I suggest you copy the source code and paste it under TextEdit, Notepad or a friendly text editor. Before editing the source code, make sure you save a copy in any case something goes wrong.
  7. Below the Meta tags, look for title=”RSS” href=”{ RSS }” replace the { RSS }  with your current FeedBurner RSS feed. It should looks like this now title=”RSS” href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite”.
  8. You also want to change any other references to your current RSS feed for the new FeedBurner Feed. Look for any links that look like this a href=”/rss” and replace the /rss with your new FeedBurner feed.
  9. Copy the new code in your Theme textarea and save it. Your should be good by now.
  10. [OPTIONAL] If you want to FeedBurner to also track the visits to your tumbleblog, just activate the FeedBurnerStats service. It cans be accessed in left column under the tabs Analyze. In the drop down box, choose Others to get your HTML code. Take the javascript code at the bottom of the page under the title StandardStats only. In your Tumblr Theme source code, paste it near the end of it just over the closing BODY tag. That’s it. Enjoy!

UPDATE

You no longer need to do this procedure anymore. The Tumblr team have added a simplier way. Just enter your Feedburner URL under the Services tab in the Customize section fo your tumbleblog. Tumblr will transfert your RSS link to it.

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