News!! Customising Feedburner's Electronic Mail Subscription Messages

You tin command the email-messages that Feedburner sends to people who convey signed upwards for your blog's "subscribe yesteryear email" option.

Previously I've described how to construct a Feedburner feed together with how to add the subscribe yesteryear e-mail selection to your blog.

If yous convey added a subscribe-by-email feature, together with a reader (who's non already subscribed to the e-mail feed) enters their e-mail address, together with thus Feedburner volition demonstrate a catpcha-text concealment (to cheque that you're non a computer, maliciously submitting other people's addresses), together with sent an e-mail to the address, quest the recipient to confirm that they genuinely create desire to subscribe to your blog.

The 2d e-mail stops other people from signing yous upwards every bit a subscriber to blogs that you're non interested in.

But it agency that simply about people who are interested inwards subscribing to your feed don't genuinely consummate the process, because they don't empathise what's going on, or missy the e-mail (eg it goes to their spam folder).

You tin bargain amongst this by

• Telling novel subscribers that they are going to instruct an email, together with what to create amongst it
  (see the "subscribe yesteryear email" selection on this site for ane way to create this), AND

• Configuring the details of the e-mail that is sent:  sender-address together with message-text are both of import for maintaining your blog's image, together with ensuring that people click the link together with consummate their subscription.

The remainder of this article is close the configuration options that are available.

Customising the subscription-link e-mail message

Log in to Google account that owns the feed yous desire to customise (remember, may non endure the same Google concern human relationship that owns the blog, peculiarly if yous are using AdSense to monetize your feed.)

Choose the Publicize tab

Choose Email Subscriptions from the carte du jour on the left.

Choose the Communication Preferences option.   This opens options inwards the nous window where yous tin edit:

The sender-address

• The default value is the e-mail address associated amongst the Google concern human relationship that owns the feed.  But yous tin alter it to whatever valid e-mail address (and I suspect an invalid ane too, if yous similar - I haven't tested this). 

• It may endure tricky to pick out what e-mail address to use:  the same ane is used for both the subscription-activation e-mail together with for every other post-notification email that is sent yesteryear your feed.   An address that looks similar a existent individual (eg mary@gmail.com) is less probable to terminate upwards inwards your potential subscribers junk folder.   But yous may non desire your personal e-mail address to appear to your email-subscribers every fourth dimension yous post, peculiarly if the spider web log is written yesteryear a squad or belongs to a social club or business.

• If yous change the sender-address sometime subsequently your email-feed is laid up, together with thus simply about of your subscribers may halt getting messages because they alone convey the previous address, non the novel one, on their friends listing (whitelist).  If you're going to create this, endure for certain that the create goodness of changing is worth losing a few subscribers over.

The text for the confirmation email.   

• Google (or perchance Feedburners master owners) convey provided simply about criterion text, which is used unless yous alter it.   

• The musical note of this is real informal, eg starting with"hello there" together with (IMHO) irritating "we can't hold off to ship yous updates".  You may desire to alter it to gibe the mode together with musical note of your blog.

Press Save inwards the bottom left corner of the screen to relieve your changes.

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Important:  Don't forget to press Save.   Currently yous are not warned that changes volition endure lost if yous navigate away (even simply to the e-mail branding sub-option) - but they are.

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fyi, the Email Branding together with Delivery Options links Pb to other controls, which command the e-mail messages that Feedburner sends when yous ship an items to your blog's feed.  They volition endure discussed inwards simply about other article, because they're likewise complicated to instruct into here.

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