How not to Spam your Blog Subscribers

You must be thinking "after blasting me with 10 emails, why would I listen to him talk about not spamming your blog subscribers!?". Well the reason is simple.. It was unintentional, and I found the mistake, and want to show you how to prevent it from happening to your subsribers!

It really was a simple mistake. You see I was using FeedBurner to send out emails when blog updates were made. I then switched to Aweber to use the Blog Broadcast. With Feedburner you simply set the time you wanted it to send, and presto it would send an email once a day with all the updates.

With Aweber it's slightly more advanced! As you can see below there are more settings available!

If you want to have one email sent out per day with all the updates in one email then use the settings above. Select your time, select On a specific day or days of the month and choose Every Day. Then check the Send Automatically button.

If you want a seperate emails sent out daily with individual updates then you'd select When number of new items is at least and select 1.

If you want an email sent out right away whenever you update then again you'd select When number of new items is at least and select 1, but also change Send broadcast to Immediately.

With these 3 scenarios you should be able to figure out any other methods you'd want to use. But the final word of caution is before you change feed settings uncheck Send Automatically! The reason Aweber thought it had new emails to send was my fault. I changed a setting on FeedBurner which changed all the URLs in the feed. To Aweber, those new URLs meant new emails! If I had unchecked Send Automatically, changed the feed, and waited till Aweber found the new URLs to re-check it, I could have deleted the duplicates and not sent them out!

PS. If you don't have Aweber yet, you can try it risk free for 30 days. I know you'll see how awesome it is and realize it's waay worth the money!