Increase Your Blog’s Subscribers By Offering Email Subscription

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As there are still many people who do not know what RSS is, offering an Email Subscription form on your blog is a good way to get those people to subscribe. For those who have not done it yet, here’s how to do it:

  • Login to your account
  • Click on your Feed title
  • Click ‘Email Subscription’ on the Publicize Tab

Once there choose Feedburner or FeedBlitz to be your feed-via-email service provider. After activating the service, you will get the HTML code for the subscription form that you should copy and paste to your blog.

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Email Subscription

Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers

Before a reader can get your post delivered to their inbox, they must first click an activation link that Feedburner or FeedBlitz sends them. Some people might forget to activate their subscription and thus they are not counted as a subscriber of your blog.

If you use Feedburner as your feed-via-email service provider, you will be able to find your unconfirmed subscribers easily. To get these unconfirmed subscribers to confirm, all you have to do is send them a friendly email reminding them to confirm their subscription.

If you find too many unconfirmed subscribers, it can be tough to email all of them. This is were Keith’s Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers WordPressPlugin (NUS) comes handy.

The plugin asks you for your FeedBurner username and password and fetches all those unconfirmed subscribers allowing you to send a personalized email to them asking them to verify their subscriptions.

FeedBlitz however don’t seem to show the unconfirmed subscribers. Does anyone know how a FeedBlitz user can find the unconfirmed subscribers?

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15 responses so far, Leave a comment

  1. 1

    Marco Richter

    November 16, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    I activated this option in FeedBurner about 6 months ago. Since then I raised my total subscriber count from 34 to now 101, but only 3 people decided to subscribe using email, though both options are offered prominently on my blog next to each other.

  2. 2

    JohnTP

    November 16, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    Try putting an email subscription form instead of just a link

  3. 3

    David Bradley

    November 16, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    Yep, I think I need to do the subscription form, I tried it a while back but didn’t get anywhere, but it’s probably worth another go as awareness evolves over time.

    db

  4. 4

    Innovations & Interesting Ramblings

    November 16, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    yes the awareness grows as people like john chow and shoemoney share their evil ways.. :)

  5. 5

    Shankar Ganesh

    November 16, 2007 at 6:13 pm

    Yes, I agree with David on that email form thingy. It’s much better to place a simple form rather than just a link. It works, people subscribe instantly :)

  6. 6

    David Bradley

    November 16, 2007 at 7:49 pm

    Well, I added it back in - top right of the sidebar - on http://www.sciencetext.com - did anyone subscribe yet? ;-)

    db

  7. 7

    zParacha

    November 16, 2007 at 11:37 pm

    I actually put an small Email subscription form on my blog. I hope someone will eventually use that service :)

  8. 8

    Bollywood

    November 17, 2007 at 10:33 am

    i still prefer RSS feed over email subscription .
    RSS has worked better for me

  9. 9

    Mark Antony

    November 17, 2007 at 4:33 pm

    Good tip, but after I pasted the code into the sidebar I got the following text on my page above the “enter your e-mail address box”:

    align:center;” action=”http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverify” method=”post” target=”popupwindow” onsubmit=”window.open(’http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1358745′, ‘popupwindow’, ’scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520′);return true”>

    Am I pasting it in the wrong place, or should I try another location, such as footer?

  10. 10

    news bandit

    November 29, 2007 at 7:22 am

    Great tip, I will definitely look into this.

  11. 11

    Mark Antony

    November 29, 2007 at 4:21 pm

    I should mention mine works fine now. Feedburner definitely worth having on site.

  12. 12

    Dave

    November 29, 2007 at 10:28 pm

    I would that this is very encouraging to upcoming bloggers around the globe. Keep the good job moving.

  13. 13

    Scotty

    December 9, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    However much I love sharing my thoughts with readers and forming friends and community around my blog .. I have my doubts about encouraging people to read my posts by email. Isn’t that going to be a sure shot way of reducing my earnings ..? In other words, how will the ads show up in email ?

  14. 14

    Frank

    August 27, 2008 at 3:04 am

    Do you know if there is a way to get email subscribers for a blogger.com blog? I have been searching and can’t seem to find a way to do that. Anyone?

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