Comments on: More Tips on Getting Unverified Email Subscribers to Confirm their Subscription

By: Marf

Marf — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:25:27 +0000

Good idea.

I just did a Google search for what to do about all of the unverified addresses. I’ll try emailing them with a modified version of your email.

By: Mysapce

Mysapce — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:02:50 +0000

good tips!

By: veresh

veresh — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:24:36 +0000

Same here we have some 75% unverified accounts ..so this should help in solving the problem.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:07:50 +0000

Very useful tip, I had 100+ unconfirmed email subscribers, they’ve all now been sent a reminder and even if just 50% come back that will be a blog boost.

By: scott

scott — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:59:54 +0000

We are actually having similar problems with our website. I think our real subscription count is around 2100 when only 1500 are verified. It is funny because today I was looking into mailing them all, however I am having a hard time figuring out how to get so many names on the BCC column, neither e-mail system will allow me to do it (probably because they think I am SPAM). Any Ideas? Also have you noticed that certain days Feedburner messes up and temporarily deletes all of our subscribers. While it normally comes back up in a day or so, when it happens our subscription list drops from 1500 to about 30. We are really starting to notice the detriment it has on our website… Anyways I know your not Feedburner support or anything. Thanks for your advice and nice blog!

-Scott
http://www.sampleaday.com

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:42:47 +0000

Darren,

I think this might be your most helpful post of all time.

By: Myo Kyaw Htun

Myo Kyaw Htun — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:43:57 +0000

Thanks, Darren. I’ve been looking for the solution for this problem for a while. Now I got it!

By: Rian Brooklyn

Rian Brooklyn — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:21:02 +0000

any noticeable changes in feedcount since Google bought them? I read something about needing to change feed addresses and have each subscriber be readded? That’s sounds like trouble to me and an easy way to loose a ton of people.

By: Vijeesh

Vijeesh — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:30:02 +0000

After reading this stuff, I’m gonna do it! Surely. About 65% of my total subscribers are email ones. A good 30% of them unverified; and that is reason enough for me to alert them. I have been thinking of emailing them since some months now; but didn’t, as I was afraid my unverified subscribers would take it as ’spamming’.

By: Artur

Artur — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:56:49 +0000

I’ll do this, thanks a lot.

By: Gurpreet

Gurpreet — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:21:56 +0000

its better to confirm the e-mails than to be marked as a spammer…

By: Mr.Money

Mr.Money — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:58:16 +0000

It’s very good tips confirm unverified subscriber. I just never wanted to do for spam label, Thanks.

By: BloggingMix.com

BloggingMix.com — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:33:34 +0000

This post is helpful but if I may add, when you write an email to your subscriber who didn’t verify subscription you should make your heading good or catchy. Something that would not sound like a spam. Most subscribers who failed to verify their subscriptions mistaken ’subscription verification’ emails sent to them as spam so they delete it instead. I’ve experienced this a couple of times when I subscribe to other blogs.

By: Felipe Cerda Barra

Felipe Cerda Barra — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:17:05 +0000

I’ll try this ;)

Hope it works. Thanks.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:53:44 +0000

I’ve just e-mailed the 40 unverified users on my list. I immediately saw one benefit, two of the addresses instantly came back as rejected, so I removed them from the list. Something to consider is how you send the message to this list. I wouldn’t just copy the 40 addresses and paste them into your To: field. I personally wouldn’t want to have my address distributed to others that way. Instead, be sure to put it into your BCC field, so no one else sees the entire list. It also will come off more personalized that way.

By: Terra Andersen

Terra Andersen — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:20:03 +0000

I have definitely noticed more subscribers in the last few days..

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:57:59 +0000

Are you sure you’re not breaking spam laws by doing this? Until that person has verified their subscription, you don’t really have permission to contact them do you?

By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:15:27 +0000

An important way to increase subscribers is by rewarding them (with an ebook, tips, etc.) for subscribing. This is very easy to do for email subscribers, but for RSS is very tricky.

Some sites use Feedvertising to achieve this, but I noticed that you can get the prize without subscribing.

I found a little programing trick that allows me to give the prize only to RSS readers. It involves a custom FeedFlare and a few PHP hacks. I plan to use on next Monday post to help me increase my RSS subscribers. Wish me luck!

By: Yee Piao

Yee Piao — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:53:20 +0000

Great! Although I don’t have much subcribers with me now, I do hope that one day my feeds base will grow big and I’ll get the chance to use this tips.

By: Steve's Tech Blog

Steve's Tech Blog — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:49:36 +0000

The email was well written and FeedBurner should take it as an example.
Also, making a post about it, will remind them is they read this blog too. ;)

the How-To Geek :
Checking your Alexa, I saw a spike at the beginning of June. Did you wrote something that attracted even more people? They may have subscribed because they like your content.