Mailchimp eepurl directed to information page
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Hi guys,
The last days I’ve been working on setting up a mailcampaign with Mailchimp. I want to add a sign-up form on my wordpress site.
Mailchimp let’s you set up the form, and generates an eepurl, which you can include in a TEXT-widget in your sidebar. This all seems to work fine. Until you click on the subscribe link which is generated by the href-link. It redirects you to an information page on Mailchimp, saying something about eepurl’s being blacklisted. Why does Mailchimp offer you en eepurl, if that is the case. Isn’t there an alternative URL?
Has anybody else encountered this problem? Maybe another work around? I noticed a message about Shaun URL’s. An alternative way to shorten your URL, but what’s the use shortening an eepurl, if it redirects to the eepurl informationpage, and not to your form?
All the information I have found on the internet seems to be outdated. Mailchimp doesn’t offer a good alternative on how to get your form working on wordpress.
Great to hear some advice!
^KB
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If you want to use MailChimp with your WordPress.com site right now you can do so by creating a link to the signup form on MailChimp and providing it to your visitors. Here’s the info from MailChimp Support http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-add-a-mailchimp-signup-form-to-your-wordpress-blog
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Hi Timethief, thanks for this article. Unfortunately, it still doesn’t explain why eepurl doesnt work and is redirected to a general page about Mailchimp having problems with eepurls. I also alternatively tried the embedded code thingy in html, but that doesn’t work either.
^KB
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Are you experiencing this error when you copy and paste the Mailchimp URL directly into your browser? I use Mailchimp as well, but the URL is working correctly for me both linked within a WordPress.com page and when entered directly into the browser.
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Perhaps it was something temporary, but I can confirm that in Chrome 43, when I click on this link, eepurl.com/boQ7Ar I am taken to the newsletter signup page on MailChimp.
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Thanks Jeremy and Jennifer, strangely it does work now! Thanks for the help! I’m happy again!
^KB
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