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Saturday, September 1, 2007

Subscription List--Google Groups

How Others Subscribe To Your Blog
  1. Go to Create Google Group

    2. Create the group for your blog.
  2. Once created, click Visit Your Group and at the Home page click "Group Settings", located on the right side of the screen.

  3. Find "Get a promotion box for your website" and click it.

  4. It will show some code (probably 2 sets) for you to copy. Select the second.

  5. Return to your blog.

  6. Paste the copied text into an html/javascript page element.

  7. Go to your Dashboard.

  8. Go to Settings.

  9. Click Email tab.

  10. Enter the email for your Google Group in Blogsend Address.

  11. Click Save Settings.

  12. The blog will email the group and the group will email everyone on the list.

Everyone who subscribes will be sent an email copy of each new post, but there are options so you (or other individual subscribers) may select various forms of abridgement instead of the full post.

See Change Email Options In Subscription List

Of course, Blogger already has a "Subscribe to Posts" link at the bottom of the blog. Many people use that.
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2007 at 7:29 PM

    Does this really work? Has it been tested?

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2007 at 2:48 AM

    it works - i just tried it.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2007 at 1:02 PM

    Its not working for me. I keeping trying to add it to my Blogger and it gives me various errors about the syntax. What am I doing wrong?

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2007 at 4:52 PM

    I can't be sure what you're doing, but when I keep getting something wrong, I am usually skipping a step or misunderstanding a step. But I think only you can review that. If you wish, though, review every step and tell where the "error" is occuring in an email to me so that we can thrash it out (maybe!).

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  5. AnonymousOctober 8, 2007 at 7:12 PM

    Will it work for members with hotmail accounts or only gmail

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  6. AnonymousOctober 9, 2007 at 9:04 AM

    You'll have to use a gmail to create/join the Google Group, but I doubt you'd have to change to a gmail at your blog. I've always used a gmail account in all this, so I may not know everything, but I think that's true. Try it and see.

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  7. AnonymousOctober 11, 2007 at 12:15 PM

    hello,
    thank you for posting this. I am trying to figure out how to make the google groups box appear on my sidebar rather than at the bottom left corner of my blog, which is what happens when I paste it at the end of the template html. Can you please let me know?
    Thanks!
    Paulina

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