RSS and Email Signups

Thursday, August 19th, 2010 at 5:23 am

Very good topic today as getting people to subscribe to your feed or email list are extremely important. Often it can be hard to do and there are plugins that will help you although they are not always the best solution.

Remember that you can ask your questions in the comments below and we will cover most of them in future blog posts.

Are there plugins your recommend that work with WP for placing the RSS and e-mail sign up on or near the top of the page? Your recommendations would be welcomed. THANKS!

There are a few plugins that you can use for your RSS feed. Two that I use regularly on my blogs are Subscribe Me and What Would Seth Godin Do.

Subscribe Me allows you to add a feed button in your sidebar and only needs to be used if you doÂ not have a subscribe to feed button incorporated in your theme design. The vast majority of new themes now incorporate that feature.

What Would Seth Godin Do is a plugin that will allow you to add a subscribe message at the beginning or end of your posts but to only show it at specific times. Following Sethâ€™s adage that you treat different visitors differently depending on how they have interacted in the past. This way new people can see the request but the regular readers do not get the interruption.

Autoresponder plugins that I have tried are usually more trouble than they are worth at least the ones I have tested. With widgetized sidebars it is easy to just drop in the code to your autoresponder inside a widget.

Now there are some paid plugins that claim to help but not having tested them I canâ€™t comment as to their effectiveness.

My personal favorite and what has been most effective for me is to use a slide in or light box pop up that can be delayed which is easy with Aweber my autoresponder of choice for my blogs.

Your comments and questions are welcomed.

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