Most of the time readers who subscribe to your blog through Email subscriptions, forget to verify the email ID, resulting in feeds not getting delivered and the feed count remaining the same. Keith from Techie-Buzz has developed an useful plugin to notify unverified readers about this fact and remind them to verify their email address.
This plugin is called Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers Plugin. After installing, this plugin will ask your Feedburner User ID and password and logs in to your account to get the email address of all the unverified email subscribers. After that it gives an option to compose a mail to all the pending readers.
When I checked my feed burner statistics, I found that there were around 38 email subscriptions which were not verified and this accounted to around 40% of total email subscriptions. So I decided to install the plugin and email all the readers who had not confirmed. By the time I write this post I could see an increase in feed count of 25.
This plugin is really useful if you have a big list of unverified readers and its really painful to send a mail to them individually.
You can download and try this plugin and see an increase in your feed count.
I use FeedBlitz, is there any options for guys like me?
Great post Nirmal, very useful! I’m bookmarking this… i’ll need it later.
Nirmal – great plugin. We’ll put a link up to this on our site to let users know about it. Thanks for taking the time!
–Rick Klau
Google (FeedBurner)
This is quite useful plugin, thanx for the info. I have only 10% unverified subscribers, i will try this plugin
Keith really have a great skill and innovative Idea to develop a great plugin. Hope to see more from him. 🙂
good info…and Keith deserves kudos for the plugin….
Gr8 Plugin
Thanks for the info Nirmal 🙂
That’s great for WP. But Blogspot users do manually 🙂 ?
@Ashwin,
I think you can tell Keith, he will be ready to create a plugin for Feedblitz. 🙂
@Rick,
Thanks for the visit and the consideration.
@Ken Xu,
Keith really has great ideas! 🙂
@Myo Kyaw Htun,
This is were hosted wordpress scores over blogger, the support for plugins. 🙂
Yeah! great plugin. just dont have words to describe it, downloading it right now
Great plugin, Nirmal.
How come I never heard of this before? 😛 Anyways, thanks.
See I knew I was forgetting something. Thanks for reminding me to install this plugin buddy! 😀
Nice plugin . Will install this right now .
Certainly a plugin which I must checkout. My unverified subscription count is too high. Thanks for the info
If you have been successful with this plugin, please let me know. 🙂
Nirmal: Actually, I’m pretty scared to try this. Currently, I’m facing some issues which mail my readers (for instance: plugins like Subscribe to comments, Comment relish are having some troubles)
I’ll fix it when I come back from Chennai