Here is a quick tip I discovered recently, give the option of email subscriptions to your readers.
I became aware of email subscriptions while being on IM, linking to my blog, and getting a reply: “Nice blog! WTF no email subscription?”
Yeah, embarrasing I know, but hey, I never said I am a good blogger!
So, in order to expand your reach at subscribers on your blog, and to avoid embarassment, enable the option on Feedburner. You are signed up on Feedburner, right? No? Go burn your feed right now! FFS.
Click on your feed name, click “Publicize” (yeah, that word seems wrong to me as well, but it is spelled correctly, I checked). Then on the services column click “email subscriptions” and the enable button at the bottom. That is it, you are done. Couldn’t be easier, yet easily neglected because the default is “off”. Now a link shows up if you click the rss button, that says something like “Get Glowleaf delivered by email“.
It’s free, its easy, and it’s dumb not to provide that option to your readers.
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written by Glowleaf
\\ tags: blog readers, email subscription, feedburner rss
December 13th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Thanks for the tip. I did know about this, but for some reason hadn’t put in on my blog.
Another little thing to watch out for: the “from” email address from Feedburner’s mailing system will be the email you used to setup the account. For me this was my personal email, and I nearly left it on. I can just imagine people putting this on every blog they own and then forgetting to change the “from” email, it’s the sort of thing I’d do.
December 13th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Now that you mention it, I think I have left the default email, which is glowleaf@gmail.com
I personally see no problem with that though. Noted.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Appreciate you setting it up :p a lot easier to keep up
December 15th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
He is the one who made me feel bad on IM! Flame him!
September 28th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Thanks! had to do a lot of Googling because I just couldn’t figure out how to activate the email option on my Feedburner feed. Thanks for the straightforward advice.