Comments on: Blog Tips#2 Increase readership through subscription

By: Kamrul Hassan

Kamrul Hassan — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:31:50 +0000

Sorry for delayed response. Glad to hear that it worked out for you “Plumber Paul”.

If you already upgraded to latest version of WordPress the coding may slightly differ due to some function upgrade.

By: Plumber Paul

Plumber Paul — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:02:33 +0000

Cheers Kamrul it works perfectly, your a lifesaver!

By: Elly Parker

Elly Parker — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:40:56 +0000

Got it now! Since the link and button were beside each other I assumed that the button was just for show and not active - definitely blond!

By: Kamrul

Kamrul — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:33:33 +0000

Just click the Orange button beside name Elly

By: Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:32:10 +0000

@Elly, this demonstrates we need to make it more obvious! Click on the RSS button beside his name.

You can never be too blonde… unless you use lemon juice and then sit in the sun.

By: Elly Parker

Elly Parker — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:29:21 +0000

Hey Paul, not to sound too blond, but how do you subscribe by author? When I click the link for Kamrul’s name under the ‘Subscribe by Author’ section on the top left it just takes me to a list of his posts. I used the google reader subscribe tool on that page, but it brings in the entire feed of all authors? Am i missing somthing obvious?

By: Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:23:33 +0000

Elly, you can also subscribe by author, not just category. Kamrul is very hot when it comes to building blogs and blog networks. He hand codes almost everything to ensure we don’t have compatibility issues when we upgrade WP.

By: Elly Parker

Elly Parker — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:19:25 +0000

Sorry Kamrul - followed Paul’s twitter link so supposed that he wrote the post! Good topic, well explained.

By: Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:56:01 +0000

Great stuff Elly - makes sense

By: Robin Blandford

Robin Blandford — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:53:23 +0000

top screenshot is out of order.

By: Elly Parker

Elly Parker — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:48:43 +0000

Nice one Paul had been meaning to set that up on a per post basis for a while, now implemented.

By: Kamrul

Kamrul — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:22:18 +0000

Amy,
Here is what you have to do-

1. Login to your Feedburner account (if you don’t have one, open one it’s free). Browse through “My Feeds”–>”Publicize” –>”Email Subscriptions”(4th from the top on the left sidebar).

2. Choose “Feedburner” as Feed-via-email service provider than activate.

3. Next select the code (Subscription Form Code) first from the top and copy it (You will need this so don’t close the window yet).

4. Log into your blogger account. Browse through “Template”–>”Page Elements”. Click “Add Page element” link on the side or footer, where you wish to place the email subscription form.

5. You will notice a pop-up window with bunch of stuffs. Select 4th one (”HTML/JavaScript”) from the top on the left column. Now you will have “Configure HTML/JavaScript” window. Just Paste the codes you copied from Feedburner on step 3. Don’t forget to put a Title and Save changes before you close that window.

Here is a demonstration of how it will look like when you done with the process. http://kams-labs.blogspot.com/

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:36:08 +0000

I think this may be kind of what i need…but instead of subscribing to a catagory, i want to post where they can subscribe by email to the entire blog - so whenever i add a new entry, they will receive an email letting them know i updated…is that the same as what you wrote in the subscribe to catagory section above? Sorry if i am pestering…but i am REALLY new to this. the blog is abowlofsupe.blogspot.com not that you need to read it, but if that helps you see what i am talking about–it is just about my dog - so hardly anything earthshattering that will keep you up at night - but i don’t know if it will help you visualize what i am trying to do!! thanks so much!!

By: Kamrul

Kamrul — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:47:01 +0000

Amy,
Sure it’s possible to allow users subscribe directly from your site instead of sending them to feedburner or other third party’s site. Watch out for our blog tips upcoming week, which will be especially for Blogger/Blogspot blogs.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 04 May 2007 00:47:58 +0000

Hi…i’m not great with computers but i have a blog on blogspot…i’d like to put a way in there for my friends to subscribe so that when i update it - it will notify them…is that possible? well…i know it is because it works on myspace, but can you talk someone who is virtually computer illerate how to do it? Can you do it w/out sending people to that feedburner website thing b/c i don’t like the format of that, i like the blogger site better.

Thanks!

By: Kamrul

Kamrul — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:31:27 +0000

Siasy,
Good to know that you found the tip useful. More tips coming soon. Yep on twitter you can track some interesting discussion regarding readership and those stuffs between Paul and others.

By: Siasy Collins

Siasy Collins — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:43:15 +0000

Kamrul, That’s a very useful blog-tip, must check out the other blog-tips,
I’ll be testing these ideas over the next while.
and Bernie Goldbach’s note that there is further discussion on Twitter between Paul Walsh and others.
Must check that too. cheers.

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:29:40 +0000

There’s a very illuminating discussion unfolding on Twitter concerning subscribers, site visitors, readers and reach. It’s part of a disjointed converstion between PaulWalsh, imeallach and topgold that might be useful in its distilled format as a follow-on to this post.