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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 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...