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  1. December 1st, 2008
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How to Add a bit.ly Info Chicklet to Each of Your Tumblr PostsHere’s a cool little javascript any Tumblr users can add to their blogs that adds a bit.ly Info Chicklet to each post. Add the following line to your Tumblr Custom HTML inside the {BlockPosts} section:
<a href="javascript:var%20Bitly={url:'{Permalink}'},e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('language','javascript');e.setAttribute('src','http://bit.ly/bookmarklet/load.js');document.body.appendChild(e);void(0);">Info for this post by bit.ly</a>
You’ll now have a little button after each post people can click to view a bit.ly overlay about that page. This overlay shows traffic data, referrers (other websites where links to your blog post appeared), and conversations about your post from Twitter and Friendfeed. The overlay will also of course contain a bit.ly URL for your post that your readers can use if they want to tweet about what you wrote. Try clicking the link below this post that says “Info for this post by bit.ly” to see this in action.Wordpress users, this should be trivially easy for you guys to do as well, but you’ll have to use a different placeholder where this code has {Permalink}. We’ll work on packaging this up as a Wordpress plugin soon to make things easier on you.

    Neat

    bitly:

    How to Add a bit.ly Info Chicklet to Each of Your Tumblr Posts

    Here’s a cool little javascript any Tumblr users can add to their blogs that adds a bit.ly Info Chicklet to each post. Add the following line to your Tumblr Custom HTML inside the {BlockPosts} section:

    <a href="javascript:var%20Bitly={url:'{Permalink}'},e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('language','javascript');e.setAttribute('src','http://bit.ly/bookmarklet/load.js');document.body.appendChild(e);void(0);">Info for this post by bit.ly</a>

    You’ll now have a little button after each post people can click to view a bit.ly overlay about that page. This overlay shows traffic data, referrers (other websites where links to your blog post appeared), and conversations about your post from Twitter and Friendfeed. The overlay will also of course contain a bit.ly URL for your post that your readers can use if they want to tweet about what you wrote. Try clicking the link below this post that says “Info for this post by bit.ly” to see this in action.

    Wordpress users, this should be trivially easy for you guys to do as well, but you’ll have to use a different placeholder where this code has {Permalink}. We’ll work on packaging this up as a Wordpress plugin soon to make things easier on you.

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