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The Follow-by-email gadget uses Feedburner's email-subscription service.   It's very easy to add to your blog, but there are some things that you need to think about if you are using it to deliver blog-posts to your followers by email. The Follow-by-Email gadget is a very simple way to give your readers access to blog-updates by email: it delivers a message in their inbox every day that you post. But to decide if it's a good thing to use, to get good value from it, and to troubleshoot any problems, you need to understand a little more about how it works. And, since it uses Feedburner, this means understanding how Feedburner works, too. What is Feedburner The Follow by Email gadget uses a product called Feedburner to manage the list of people who have followed, ie subscribed to your blog.  Feedburner was originally a tool to enhance the RSS subscriptions that website-owners delivered - see Why RSS / Subscribe to Posts is important for your blog   for info about RSS...

Blogger's mail2Post tool lets authors make blog-posts, without using the Blogger software.   All you need to do is set it up, and write posts using your regular email tools. Mail2Post and Blogger The mail2Post feature, sometimes known as Post-to-profile, is a way of putting content on your blog without using the full Blogger software for writing the post. It's not quite as good as using Blogger itself - there are a few features missing - but it is good enough in many situations. How to set up mail2Post Log in to Blogger with the Google account that you want to have mail2Post rights to your blog:  this account needs to already be set up as an author for the the blog. Go to The Settings tab - if you are logged on with an author account, or The  Settings > Email  tab if you are using an administrator account   Beside  Posting using email , there is a place where you can enter some "secretWords", to make up an email address that you can use to post to your...

Blogger have made it very simple to offer an email-subscription to your blog, with the "Follow by Email" gadget.  This article describes adding it to your blog, and how it works for your readers. Previously, I've explained why RSS is important for your blog , and how to give your blog a subscribe by email option using Feedburner . The Follow by Email gadget that Blogger provide makes this even easier:  you can add an email subscription option to your blog by following these steps: How to add the Follow by Email Gadget Log in to Blogger Use a Google account with admin rights to the blog, and which you want to use to get statistics about your email subscribers. Go to the Design tab Select Add a Gadget in the area where you want to put the email subscription option Choose Follow by Email (it's current at the top of the list) Enter the title that you want displayed on your blog (initially it's "Follow by email") Press Save . This puts the gadget onto y...

This article is about email phishing, and spam-links in emails: how you can recognize them and what to do about them. Understanding Spam vs Phishing Most people know what regular spam is. Phishing is a more sophisticated type of spam, which combines information that the spammer knows (or guesses) with conventional spam techniques. Often phishing emails are addressed directly to you, and offer a "product" or "service" that you might realistically want. For example, they may offer to fix a security problem with your on-line banking (just as soon as you have gone to their website and given them your real on-line banking details). Bloggers are particularly susceptible to phishing emails, because we write websites where we share information about ourselves. For example, anyone who reads Blogger-hints-and-tips should have no trouble guessing that I use both Amazon Associates and Chitika , and that I have a domain hosted with DomainDiscount24 .  It's not...