Add A One Time Email Subscription Pop Up Form To Blogger

So many blogs and websites i visit these days have implemented a pop up subscription form for their newsletter.I'm sure you have seen it, you land on a site and after a few seconds a form appears asking for your Email to subscribe.While these can annoy some people they have been proven to have a dramatic effect on the numbers of subscribers.In this post i will show you how to add a similar form to your Blogger blog but with a form to subscribe to your blog via Email Rss provided by feedburner.The form is a one time pop up so if someone visits your blog every day it will remember they visited before and not show the form again.
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Optimize And Personalize Your Feedburner Email Rss - Video Post

Email subscriptions are an option every blogger simply must provide and there is one service that dominates Email Rss.The Google owned feedburner does it better that anyone else.In this post we are looking at how you can get the most from the Email Feed offered on your blog.If you have not got a Feedburner Feed or Email Feed check out How To Create A Feedburner Feed For Your Blog.This is a video post and in the video we will be covering the three main areas of your Email Feed and how you can optimize and personalize them.
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New Subscribe By Email Rss Form For Blogger

In the last post we got a sneak preview of the New Blogger Design coming in 2011, Blogger had also promised lots more new features.And just a day later they have added an Email Rss Form to the Gadget Directory so you can easily provide the option for your readers to get your latest posts delivered to their inbox.By coincidence i also published a post this week about how Google connect their other services with Blogger and the Email Rss Form is connected with the Google owned Feedburner.

Email Rss has been provided by Feedburner for a long time and before you had the option to "Burn A Feed" for your blog, Activate Email Rss, Grab The Code For The Email Form and then paste it into a Html/Javascript gadget on your sidebar.Now this whole process has been cut down to 3 clicks without the need to leave Blogger.

"...The Follow by Email gadget provides blog authors a simple way for their readers to subscribe to the latest hot-off-the-press updates, which are delivered directly to the reader’s inbox. When new blog content is published, all subscribed readers will receive a daily email notification of the new published posts, which includes a copy of the new content as well as links back to the actual posts..."

So lets first look at a screenshot and then how you add the Email Rss form to your blog.

Screenshot Of Email Rss Form

Add The New Email Rss Gadget To Your Blog

Step 1. In your Blogger Dashboard Click Design > Add A Gadget





Step 2. You will see the new option "Follow By Email" at the top of the list, click the plus.




Step 3. You Will now be brought to a Page with options for your feed and the title of the gadget.If you already have a feedburner feed you can enter it were shown below, if you don't have a feed one will automatically generated for you.



Step 4. You can now save the gadget.

Options - I would highly recommend you take advantage of some of the other options available on feedburner.Remember once you add this gadget to your blog a Feedburner account is automatically created for you.You can log into this account with the same Email and Password as you log into Blogger - Log Into Feedburner.

That's your new Email Rss form, i may look at some Css options to Spice It Up a bit so keep an eye out for that.Check out some more Feedburner Tips and Blogger Gadgets on Spice Up Your Blog.

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Get More Feedburner Email Subscribers To Verify Their Subscription

Most Bloggers Have A Subscribe By Email Rss Option On Their Blog Provided By Feedburner.When A Visitor To Your Blog Fills Out The Subscription Form They Must Confirm Or Verify Via An Email.However Often As Many As One In Five People Do Not Verify, Thus They Do Not Become Subscribers And Receive Your Latest Posts.In This Post I Will Share With You Some Methods That Will Help Get More Verified Email Rss Subscribers.

At the time of writing Spice Up Your Blog has just over 500 Rss Subscribers of which just over 300 subscribe by Email.Of that 300 an Amazing 92 have not verified their subscription !This is 92 regular readers lost, almost all of these people just didn't know they needed to verify or did not understand the Verification Email.
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4 Eye Catching Subscribe To Feed Banners For Below Blog Posts

Hi Guys ! When going through an old Photobucket account i came across a few Rss feed banners i have used below posts on different Blogs.Were you place your Feed options on your blog can have a huge effect the number of readers that take up the option to Subscribe.It's also important that the way your feed options are presented grab the attention of readers.So many websites and Blogs use the standard Rss Icon it has become White Noise.So in this post we will cover both placing a Feed option in Prime position and using a Rss Banner that will grab the attention of the reader.

When Readers reach the end of a post they think 'What Next?' and it's your job to make sure the next step they take is of benefit to your blog.This is why the top blogs have Rss options, Share and Bookmark Options, Related Posts and AdSense or other Advertising Directly below posts, of course they also have the option to comment.Click on any of those links to find out how to add each option below your blog posts, you can also add a Subscribe by Email form below your posts by checking out this post - 5 Stylish Feedburner Email Subscription Forms.So lets look at the three banners and see how you can put them below your blog posts.

Subscribe To Feed Banners Below Posts

Banner 1



Banner 1 Code

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Banner 2




Banner 2 Code

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Banner 3



Banner 3 Code

<a href='http://www.spiceupyourblog.com'><img alt='Best Blogger Tips' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaYqm6xBxp5E1rd4O1aT12fj-dLN-q80OAJ6XqEuhA3xy8Z9sq5bB5SLPNsaP6BSHYZWCHG3fizpfJbCqFftz-1evmQcUCbupu_I-TekVKuOM7HEggqFjkT97zU6gkD78Cm0OcDAJuLX6K/s1600/best+blogger+tips.png'/></a><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/spiceupyourblog" title="Subscribe To Our Rss Feed"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgooE8WoAO0XOuymU4xGSBhlc2ege5UEaPzkGnak4NZJ0uRbN804XYnCYB9FD5RkONoQGSvb_rk2qiKCJMBWFD2TuuilBiNAqb2UfWe7M8S2j7h_-4ZcLUlybeVOhWgaV1hHB5n8Sy-cCI4/s320/subscribe_tab.jpg"/></a>

Banner 4.



Banner 4 Code

<a href='http://www.spiceupyourblog.com'><img alt='Best Blogger Tips' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaYqm6xBxp5E1rd4O1aT12fj-dLN-q80OAJ6XqEuhA3xy8Z9sq5bB5SLPNsaP6BSHYZWCHG3fizpfJbCqFftz-1evmQcUCbupu_I-TekVKuOM7HEggqFjkT97zU6gkD78Cm0OcDAJuLX6K/s1600/best+blogger+tips.png'/></a><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/spiceupyourblog" title="Subscribe To Our Rss Feed"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDAUXVE75UnK_SpxxJowicCGZrTAm9hMRtbrnLXBjJ8tjEnGkWPTNUbzu_yl-ZiPU3mJsOiD0V26kfeTZanLe6GiQTlqVx77u45_A57cL1sjLEsgJS01OSuFggENDInZyZqv-CvXV8TnI/s1600/Rss+Sofa.png"/></a>

Note - You must change the URL in red to your Feed URL.

Place The Banner Below Your Posts On Blogger

Step 1. In your Blogger Dashboard click 'Layout/Design' > 'Edit Html' > Tick the 'Expand Widget Templates' box









Step 2. Find The Following Piece Of Code In Your Blogs Html :
(Click 'Ctrl and F' for a search bar to find the code - More Info)

<data:post.body/>

Step 3. Place the code for your Rss Banner Directly Below / Under <data:post.body/>

Extra Note - If your Blog uses the 'Read More' or 'Post Summerys' feature you may want the banner to only be on the posts and not on the home page.If so place this snippet above your banner code : <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> And place this below you banner code : </b:if>

Once you have the banner code in your template Save and your Done !

You can of course use or create your own banner and for future reference remember everything you place below <data:post.body/> appears below your posts after the last line of text, every thing you place Directly Above <data:post.body/> appears at the top of your posts before the first line.Check out some of our other Great posts with Rss Feed Tips And Tricks.

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Change The Number Of Posts Displayed In Your Feedburner Feed

Your Blogs Rss Feed by default displays the latest 25 posts.This is true with the default Blogger feed and the Feedburner feed.Most blogs are using the Feedburner feed provided by Google and if you don't you should (How To Get A Feedburner Feed).You can change the number of posts displayed on your feed page to any number of posts you like and in this post i will show you how it's done and why you should change.

You may think the reason for changing the number of posts displayed in your feedburner would be to increase it, but in fact it's the opposite.Most people that visit your blogs feed have got there from your blog so they have seen your posts and are there to subscribe.You want as many Rss subscribers as possible so you want to make subscribing as easy as possible.

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