How to find your email subscription link!

Yesterday I posted about how to upload a RSS button you want to display on your site and how to link it to your feed address. Today I am going to show you how to find your email feed address from Feedburner and link it to a email subscription button.

I am sure a lot of you have seen my subscription buttons I have displayed on the right hand side of my site above the fold. One of them is linked to the “subscribe in a reader” option and the other is linked right to my email subscription service. Finding your feed address for the first option that I talked about yesterday is really kind of simple as I am sure you found out by reading the post. If you have not read it yet just click here to read it.

Now to link a subscribe by email to a email button you need a different address, and yes the address is still for your same feed. Here is what you do!

Log into your Feedburner account.

First thing your going to do is log into your feedburner account and click on the publicize tab. On the left hand side your going to see you “email subscription” option. If you missed the post where I talked about offering your readers the email subscription service you can visit it by clicking here and set it up if you need too. After you click on the email subscription tab your going to want to scroll down the page till you see a few box’s with code in them. One is for a complete email subscription box you place on your site and the other (the lower of the two) is for a simple text ad offering the service. That is the one I am going to display the picture of and where you can copy your feed address for email subscriptions from.

I have underlined the full address you need to copy and paste and link to your email button you want to display. You do not need to include the brackets as part of your link. Once you have selected the code you can paste in into notepad while you follow yesterdays lesson on uploading the icon, then after you have it all uploaded and ready for the link, just copy it out of notepad and paste it into your new email button. Simply eh?

The reason why you want to paste your code into notepad is because you don’t stand a chance of screwing up the link or it getting the code altered like what can happen if you paste it into Word or something like that. Most times what I do when I have to copy and paste some code to my site is I just open a few browsers and do it directly.

I hope you enjoyed this post and consider subscribing to our full feed. Tomorrow’s post, just to give you a heads up I am bitching about some SEO related issues and what I have seen over the past week plastered all over some sites I read.