What To Do With Unverified Email Subscribers On FeedBurner?
If you are using FeedBurner to manage and promote your blog’s feed and allow e-mail subscriptions, chances are that you have number of “unverified” subscribers in your list. It is probably due to unfamiliarity with “signing up” process in place, or that those who have subscribed to your feed with e-mail have forgotten to confirm their subscription, a step required to activate their subscription.
Darren at Problogger wrote how to handle the unverified email subscribers- I used his tips on several occasions on few of my blogs, with one exception. I have never send more than one e-mails to advise unverified subscribers to complete the subscription process. If my first reminder went unanswered I would just delete the unverified e-mails from the list.
How do you handle the unverified e-mail subscriptions on FeedBurner?
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By Phil Hollows, June 19, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
FYI FeedBlitz automates this – after 3 days an “unverified” subscriber is sent a reminder (just the once). No need to for publishers to intervene at all.
By Vlad Zablotskyy, June 19, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
I did not know that. Thanks! I also always presumed that FeedBlitz was not a free service.
By Wonkie, April 29, 2011 @ 7:23 am
I currently have a few thousand unverified subscribers on feedburner – do you know of any way I can send them each a reminder automatically before I clear the list out? Is feedblitz a feeburner feature or separate application?
Thanks
By Phil Hollows, May 5, 2011 @ 9:04 am
FeedBlitz automatically reminds unverifieds after three days; there’s no extra work for you.
FeedBlitz is a premium service, true, but for that you get more features, technical support and things like automatic verification to save you time.
Here’s a post describing some of the differences between FeedBurner and FeedBlitz:
http://kb.feedblitz.com/article/AA-00444