Feedburner Unverified Email Subscriber Tool
Author: David18 Feb
If you have email subscribers with Feedburner, you might have users who have not completely finished the verification process to subscribe to your newsletter. I originally discovered this concept from Daniel Scocco at Daily Blog Tips. However, it was a hard process to manually copy and paste each unverified email address. Therefore I’ve written a tool that solves this issue!
The script is written in JavaScript using the Firefox plugin GreaseMonkey. In a nutshell, GreaseMonkey allows you to run JavaScripts on a web page that you don’t own.
So I’ve written a tool that will generate you a copy and paste list of email subscribers that have not completed the verification process on Feedburner. You can then email those users (without revealing their email addresses to others, so use BCC) and explain to them how they can complete the subscription process. Basically it should increase the number of your readers.
To use it, install GreaseMonkey in Firefox and restart. Then download the script below. You’ll see it working as shown in the screenshot when you go to Feedburner, click on one of your feeds, then Publicize -> Email Subscriptions -> Subscription Management.
The script only works with feeds moved over to Google, which should be everyone by the end of Feb 2009. Please let me know about any bugs, comments and praise!
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- Tags: email subscriptions, feedburner, GreaseMonkey, RSS, RSS feeds
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12 Responses for "Feedburner Unverified Email Subscriber Tool"
all i needed was the grease monkey thanks alot for the post. it really helped me out
It is a good idea to keep an eye on this and there are a few plugins you can get to email your unverified subscribers..
We have a lot of people who are unverified on our site. Need to get a plugin to do this.. where can i find a plugin?
I use the feedburner email subscription and I wish it had more powerful tools like a true list manager.
That being said it is an easy way to get digest of feeds each day.
I have everything installed. How do I actually run it? Never ran a grease monkey script before.
Hi Dennis (love the Favicon btw). You just need to follow the simple instructions above.
What a dink am I lol. It works great!
I just reread Daniels post and apparently the only option for those that deleted the verification email (99.9999%?) is to have them physically resubscribe or reply to the email and have us ,manually do it for them.
I’m a little surprised Feedburner execs never devised a method to resend the verification email….perhaps Google will?
Thanks Dan for the download link, I was losing my subscribers, I hope this tools will help me getting them back.
@Dennis - no worries. Let me know how you get on! I imagine some kind of reminder system will be set up at some point in the future.
@oma - if you are losing subscribers, Feedburner would not be the reason, perhaps just the symptom. I suggest you analyse your site to try and work out why you are losing subscribers. Perhaps low article quality or frequency.
Thanks for your wonderful infos, right now I’m really working on my subscriber, I’m working on my content to be really interesting. And the frequency I think is enough since I used to blog daily.
greasemonkey is just amazing! it lets you add so many scripts in firefox so easily! i tried it when i installed a script to redirect to gmail old standard version automatically.
Thanks for the greasemonkey. BTW I am developing a tool for this and will release it soon on my blog.Using that you can re-send verification mail to your subscribers
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