Following, Liking, and Reblogging - Tumblr - page 65

Fortunately, the folks at Tumblr have already thought about this for you and have de-
vised a way to help you promote your non-Tumblr website content to everyone on
Tumblr. All you need to do to make those pages Tumblr-friendly is to add a few stra-
tegically placed custom Tumblr buttons.
It's pretty easy to grab the button code to add a variety of Tumblr share buttons to your
non-Tumblr site. Just follow these steps:
1. Open the Tumblr Button page at www.tumblr.com/docs/en/share_button , as
shown in Figure 6-7.
This is where you can get a copy of the code you'll need.
Figure 6-7: Add Tumblr share buttons to your non-Tumblr websites.
2. Select and copy the line of <script> code in the gray area and paste it into your
pages right before the closing </body> tag.
If you're familiar with HTML and have access to all the code, you could place this
script code before the closing </head> tag instead.
3. Build a custom Tumblr button for your page by selecting either the Basic or Ad-
vanced option and then selecting the button you want to add to your site.
Use the Basic option to grab the code for a simple share button. The Advanced op-
tion, by contrast, lets you embed the Tumblr button inside a link, pull quote, photo,
or video, as well as choose the programming language: PHP, Ruby on Rails, or
JavaScript.