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Subscribe to my Blog via Email

by David Lee King on June 10, 2008

I’m slow to some things, believe it or not. I am just getting to testing out Feedburner’s Subscribe by Email option on RSS feeds. What’s that mean? It means that you can now subscribe to my blog using your email account rather than using RSS feeds and feed readers, if you so desire.

Of course, I’ve subscribed to myself doing this, so we’ll see what I get once I hit the publish button on this post. Eventually, my idea is to offer this service on my library’s website. Let’s see what happens!

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  • Andrew
    really?
  • Brooke, hope this is not late, but go to your blog Dashboard and click 'Settings', under this click 'Site Feeds'. here you will find an option, 'Allow Blog Feeds' how much do you wish to send Full / Short . Click Short

    desmond
  • Hi. I'm having a large problem learning how to do the "subscribe to my blog via e-mail" on feedburner...can you help? zapatita@gmail.com
  • Mike
    I was robbed on ebay by some jerkwad hiding behind a pager number. Asswipe was stunned when I got his addy info and paid a visit lol!

    Phone Search
  • davidleeking
    Hi Brooke. There isn't a way to do that using Feedburner. Feedburner is more of an on/off service - it only sends the whole post.

    I think some bloggers might use electronic newsletter services to send just parts of a blog post, with a link to the whole thing. Hope that helps!
  • Feedburner's email service works with your RSS settings. If you only want to email an exerpt then you will need to change your RSS settings in your wordpress admin.
  • hi,

    i've got feedburner for my blog, but can't figure out how to change how much text is sent in an email. i don't want my whole blog post emailed, only part of it. do you know how to change this?

    thanks!

    brooke
  • I use Feedburner email subscriptions on my blog and have had good success with it. I'd say about 1/3 of my readers are subscribed via email. Let's face it, some people don't use Bloglines, Google Reader, etc.... some people prefer to get blog subscriptions via email. The only problem I had was for about 3 days when Feedburner dropped all my email subscriptions. But then they came back a few days later - some glitch with their system I think.

    -Talking Books Librarian at http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com
  • davidleeking
    Andrew - I'm thinking we'll set up a library feedburner account, then dump our 30 feeds into it and then embed the email code on the appropriate pages.

    John - what a cool idea - I hadn't even thought about using it that way!
  • Self-subscribing by email gives me a backup copy of my posts, just in case, you know.
  • Andrew
    David,
    I've set up this feature on all of the blogs I manage and it seems to work really well. How would you set up your library's website to do this as well?
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