Integrating Aweber with your blog

Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 5:13 am

Aweber has a feature that makes it ideal to use with your blog. You can set up Aweber to automatically email your list every time you update your blog or at any time frame you wish to use. (Like a weekly summary.)

The advantage to this is that if you offer something you will have an easy way to remind people to stop back and visit because you added new content.

Now sites like Feed Burner have similar capabilities but by using an autoresponder you can also send out other broadcast messages to the list. This will allow you to deliver other items that can be list specific. For example I could put together a special report just for the subscribers which could be in a pdf or a special video. This allows you to have a stronger relationship with those that have shown they are interested in your content by signing up.

There are two things that usually cause problems for new people when setting these up. They are making the form fit which has been covered extensively in this post – Adding opt in box to your blog and setting up the automation on Aweber.

Once you have created the account for your autoresponder click on the create a blog broadcast button.

Then add your feed url in the box that says RSS Feed URL.

Then choose how often you would like to have them send to your subscribers. You can do it by number of articles or by set time frame.

bb sched options

I like to use automatically but that depends on what you promise people when they sign up.

Get your account set up at Aweber and check out their complete video tutorial

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Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.

After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.

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