Did You Know: Adding Feedburner E-mail Subscriptions

I like knowing that I give my reader’s options when they come to my blog. If you enjoy what you read, there should be a way for you to subscibe. Whether it’s a reader or via e-mail I’ll figure out how to offer that up to you as a choice. This post is about taking a few steps to adding a Feedburner e-mail subscriber link to your blog here on CrabbysBeach. Actually you can take the steps to add it anywhere, just pay attention to the code you copy and paste into your venue – Feedburner offers up a few choices.

MC over at The Computer Gyspy let me know that these steps worked great when she used them to set up her e-mail subscription link. So here ya go and if you get hung up, have any questions at all please just drop me a note and I’ll help ya out right away.

1. Go to Feedburner.com
2. Sign up and register your blog – just fill in the blanks
3. Once you have done that from your account dashboard go to Publicize
4. Click on e-mail subscriptions – subscription management
5. Choose Preview Subscription link at the bottom of the page (the javascript one will not work on WP)
6. Copy the code – go to your blog dashboard
7. Open a sidebar text widget
8. Paste in the code – click save and view your blog
9. Ta da you should have a subscribe by email link on your side panel

Easy and very powerful tool. Go look around Feedburner once you have subscribed to see all the options you have to play with. Enjoy!

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4 comments for this post

justbon says:

November 28, 2009 at 12:39 am

Hey Correen! Thanks for the great instructions.

Just to let you know there is now a javascript plug-in available called HTML-Javascript Adder. Once you add it, it creates a widget which you can drag to your sidebar. Cool

(Thank our mutual friend, Alex…He eventually got fed up with my whining hehe!)
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Dan says:

November 29, 2009 at 10:11 am

Feedburner is an awesome tool, but if you are going to include AdSense in your feeds, try to make the Adsense feed first! I did it backwards, and ended up with two feeds, one monetized, the other not – What was I thinking?! LOL!

So that was a bit of time wasted, and I deleted the first feed so I wouldn’t get confused! Oh, well!
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Correen (clouda9) says:

November 29, 2009 at 2:35 pm

Dan I actually added after the fact on my Grandma recipe blog and it works.

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