{"id":73,"date":"2008-02-06T02:21:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T10:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theedublogger.edublogs.org\/2008\/02\/06\/how-to-add-an-email-subscription-to-your-blog\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T03:14:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T11:14:35","slug":"how-to-add-an-email-subscription-to-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/how-to-add-an-email-subscription-to-your-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Add an Email Subscription to Your Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our last post we showed how to add a RSS feed from Feedburner to your blog<\/a> to make it easier for your readers to subscribe to your blog and so that you could analyse your blog subscriptions e.g. number of subscribers, Feed Readers they use. This post will show how you can add an email subscription to your blog.<\/p>\n

Reason For Adding Email Subscription to Your Blog<\/h3>\n

However not every reader likes to use RSS, some readers prefer to receive latest posts from blogs using email subscription<\/a>. This is why you will often see both email subscription and RSS feed options on blogs; bloggers are doing this to cater to the different preferences of their readers.<\/p>\n

Readers simply enter their email address and then click on “Subscribe”. They then receive an email notifying when new posts or information have been added to the blog.<\/p>\n

There are two main options you can use to add an email subscription to your Eublogs<\/a> blog:<\/p>\n

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  1. Drag Email Subscription Widget<\/strong> onto your sidebar (here is more information about using Widgets<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  2. Create and add an email subscription using Feedburner<\/a><\/strong> for your blog.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These two options work very differently:<\/p>\n