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If you look at the source code for your Tumblr site, you'll see a feed auto-discovery link in the head section that'll look like this:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/rss">
Copy that line, and in your text editor, change it to:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://domain.tumblr.com/rss">
...
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You can create 301 redirects in tumblr using the 'Redirect' page type:
Click the settings cog in your tumblr Dashboard.
Click the 'Customize your blog' button.
Click the 'Pages' header.
Choose the 'Add a page' link.
Choose 'Redirect' from the 'Page Type' drop down.
Put your old WordPress URL in the "Page URL" field.
Put the new tumblr URL in the ...
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Unfortunately, you're largely stuck unless you feel like doing a bunch of data mangling.
Tumblr provide no full-fidelity export process, and don't seem terribly interested in doing so anytime soon. Gina Trapani provides a little background here as well as a link to a backup tool they produced in 2009 that's Mac-only, beta, and which no longer works due to ...
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The big advantage is future flexibility. If in 5 years time, Tumblr closes down you lose everything - all the SEO value of your content, your customers' bookmarks, etc. You can migrate the content, but you'll be starting from scratch with marketing.
If you put it on your own domain, and Tumblr closes down, you can switch to Wordpress.com, migrate the ...
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I've read on some blogs that Tumblr blogs have terrible SEO generally, in part because when people reblog your posts, it generates duplicate content on other sites, which Google doesn't like. According to Tumblr’s Biggest Strength is its Biggest Weakness to Google on Soshable:
Somewhere along the lines, Google and
the other search engines realized ...
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Google doesn't just start indexing the moment you publish. First you go into a 'sandbox', while Google figures out whether or not you are spam.
When you are still very small (and remember you are competing with sites who receive in a second the kind of traffic you probably receive in a month) Google does not update it's index very often - once every 2 or 3 ...
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I haven't tried it myself, but this guy offers a solution: http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/06/tumblr-in-a-subdirectory. You need access to to your htaccess file and you need to be able to save a php script. It looks fairly straightforward.
You can draw further inspiration (at least for the redirecting part) from this guide on how to install Wordpress in a ...
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Not all mobile devices can handle JavaScript so the Google Analytics code won't work on every mobile device. Google covers how to handle this with server side code as outlined here:
Activity on websites specially tailored for low-end mobile devices
All the same data that you've come to expect from your Google
Analytics reports is now available for ...
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Because DNS records are systematically cached, it generally takes up to 48 hours for changes to propagate throughout the rest of the system. Flushing your browser's DNS cache may not necessarily resolve the issue right away, due to the various different levels at which this caching happens (your records may be up to date with respect to your ISP, but your ...
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If you have nowhere to host a custom font you may be best off using services like Google Web Fonts, Typekit, or something similar as their fonts can be loaded directly from a CDN.
CSS Tricks has a good run down on the subject and Smashing Magazine has a good review of the sector
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ga.js has no way of checking views on the internal tumblr dashboard.
Allowing such a screening would lead to:
Legal troubles under many (mostly european) privacy laws
[in a worst case scenario]
(i.e. 3rd party unscrutinized scripts like ga.js running on the
dashboard)
Opening the tumblr dashboard site to a brand new daring world of XSS
attacks (tumblr ...
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I googled jonathan wiesel blog and i found that your tumblr site was listed first and after that two links to your custom domain where listed.
The reason for tumblr blog appearing instead of the custom domain is that google may thinks that the both address as different and lists the site with higher ranking.
It may take some two - three weeks for your ...
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I'm running an app on Heroku and I'm having trouble coming up with a similar solution that you gave for http://www.senanyc.com/blog/. What's amazing is that if you go to http://senanyc.tumblr.com (which I guessed was their tumblr subdomain) it links back to http://www.senanyc.com/blog/. They're doing this with some javascript
if (location.host == ...
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Yes.
Yes. Yes. You ask about tumblr.com and the answer is yes for them too. They give detailed instructions, but say:
Our staff isn't able to support many of the issues that may crop up
when setting up a domain name.
(It should be "our staff aren't", but I can't fix that!)
The SEO dangers associated with using Blogger and Tumblr with your own ...
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