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Dec 13

Quick tip: Enable your Feedburner email subscriptions

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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.