Moving email subscribers away from feedburner
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I would like to use the WordPress.com feature for Email blog subscription. However, I would not like to have to still go to Google and Feedburner to manage my current subscribers (several hundreds of them). Therefore my question is: after installing the widget on my blog, is there a way to ensure that the previous subscribers now receive their updates through wp.com, or will I have two groups of subscribers : one through Feedburner and one through wp.com, who will therefore receive different emails, depending on which service they have used to sign up?
If they are going to be separate anyway, or if people have to RE-register through the new sign-up, then I cannot see any point in that feature for me, as it would just force me to look into two different places for one information (total number of subscribers to my blog). I know I can export the data of the subscribers on a .csv file. It would be so cool if there was a way to just enter that list somewhere in wp.com to make sure all subscribers are gathered in one place and all is accessible through the dashboard.
If you have any suggestion to help me achieve that, I’d be really interested, thanks a lot. -
Feedburner and wordpress.COM are not in anyway linked. You will either have to send an email to all those subscribers on Feedburner with a link so they can sign up again through wordpress, or continue on with things they way they are and just allow the new subscribers to use the wordpress system.
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One thing I’ll note is that with the subscribers at feedburner, if or when you move to a self-hosted blog, you can edit the URL of the feed and point it to your new blog, and all your subscribers will immediately get the email notices. If you use the wordpress feature and move, all those subscribers will then have to resubscribe.
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Thank you so much, I was worried about that and you’ve just confirmed my worries. I will not install the widget and will keep things as they are with Feedburner, especially with the new tip you have just mentioned.
Thanks again! -
You’re very welcome.
I set my blog here to use the wordpress subscribe feature, but I had never set it up with feedburner, and since it is sort of a hobby blog rather than my main blog, I didn’t care.
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