If you run a blog or website, you probably have a Feedburner account that you use to manage your site’s RSS feed. Once you’ve signed up and gone through the process to “burn” your own feed, you’ll be given a feed URL to give to potential subscribers. This part is easy, but Feedburner also offers several other services, including the popular feature known as Feedburner E-mail. Basically, this works like FeedBlitz in that your readers can enter an e-mail address to get an entire day of your website’s content delivered to them in one convenient e-mail.

In order to take advantage of this feature, simply go into your Feedburner account and clicking on the Publicize tab, and then click on E-mail Subscriptions, which can be found in the menu down the left side of the page. Once here, it will give you a bunch of code to place a subscribe form on your site. The problem is many bloggers don’t like the form because it is kind of an eyesore on your blog’s sidebar and would prefer to use a link that could be placed in a more convenient spot. I prefer a link, as you can see in the banner of any page on my site. Heck, Feedburner’s blog doesn’t even use the form (they use a link as well).

Setting it up as a link is actually pretty simple. Go in and look at the code you are given in the E-mail Subscriptions field mentioned above. Once located, dig through your code until you locate your Feedburner feed I.D. The line will look something like this:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=401000

In this example, the Feedburner I.D. is 401000. Now, in order to create the link, just drop the I.D. into the code below to make your link:

<a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId={Feedburner I.D.}">Get Updates Via E-mail</a>

Where it says {Feedburner I.D.} above, simply add the I.D. you previously found in your code and copy the code. Now paste the link wherever you want on your website for a small and convenient way for your users to subscribe to your feed via e-mail!

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