Email Followers

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  thedivinelife7777 · Member · Aug 31, 2018 at 5:28 pm

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  How do people sign up to become email followers of my blog? I have one follower, but I don’t know how to tell people how to sign up.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Aug 31, 2018 at 5:30 pm

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  re: wordpress.com blog subscriptions

  All that’s required to follow any blog hosted by wordpress.COM is exactly what you were required to provide to register here, and that is a valid email address that the published posts can be sent to.

  Here subscribers control their own subscriptions and frequency of receipt of posts from sites they subscribe to. We cannot act on their behalf. More to the point is the fact that when email addresses are submitted for the purpose of receiving blog updates that is the only purpose they can be used for.

  You can set up email subscriptions by using this guide for the follow blog widget > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  Widgets can be configured to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by clicking on the Visibility button.

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  We have a blog subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.

  The mailchimp and aweber pop-up subscription code provided by those source sites will not operate on WordPress.COM hosted sites. Staff have recently added the mailchimp widget for subscriptions and here is the link to the guide you must use https://en.support.wordpress.com/mailchimp

  Read more at https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=following

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  torres126 · Member · Aug 31, 2018 at 6:00 pm

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  Hi there,

  Along with the information @timethief provided, here are some tips to gain more traffic which you are encouraged to use:

  1. https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
  2. https://en.support.wordpress.com/grow-your-community/

  Having more visitors means that you’re more likely to have followers sign up for post updates via email.

  Let us know if you have any further questions or issues. :)