Is Your BLOG Having Low Opt-in rates?

By Andrew Rondeau

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A few weeks ago I was invited by Pawan of MaxBlogPress to test his brand new plugin called ‘Subscribers Magnet‘ which improves your blog’s customer opt-in rates.

Here’s my opinion about it. Check out the video. The video transcription is below.

The live date is soon so if you want to get in early and gain by being one of the ones who gets the early discount Pawan is going to offer, sign up now – just click on the link in the video or here:

Subscribers Magnet

First of all, ‘Subscribers Magnet‘ is a wordpress plugin which claims will rapidly build your email list.

With the plugin, you have the option to add your opt-in form all over your blog.

Sidebar

Top, bottom, within the blog posts.

Comment area

It also has the footer pop-up and pop-over functions

You can SEND “automatic” and highly-personalized ‘thank you messages’ by email, on the first occasion someone comments on your blog? In that message you can invite them to join your newsletter or rss feed.

You have unique tracking available for each subscription method – you will know for sure which forms perform better than others; with this new found knowledge, you’ll be able to boost your sign-up rate like never before!

All in one plugin.

The great thing about this little plugin is that you have full control over the look, feel, location and functionality of your forms; the plugin works with AWeber, GetResponse, and all the other major autoresponders out there.

Between now and the live date, I shall be testing it out to see what impact it has on my subscription numbers.

The live date is soon so if you want to get in early and gain by being one of the ones who gets the early discount Pawan is going to offer, sign up now – just click on the link in the video or here:

Subscribers Magnet

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Categories : blogging guide

13 Comments

Aaron
July 7th, 2010 at 4:00 pm

Twitter: blogreaction
Not a bad idea. I’ve used similar plugins but most of them only email the commenter with a link to the feed and thank them for commenting. I have found that even sending a thank you email goes a long way toward subscription rates.
Aaron´s last blog ..Free Blogs

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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
July 7th, 2010 at 5:20 pm

Twitter: andrewrondeau
Aaron,

I will be checking my stats to see if it makes a difference!

Andrew
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Vipin from Romantic SMS
July 7th, 2010 at 4:28 pm

Appreciating the comments of users by sending emails to them works like a charm i think, and in turn it increases the chances of subscribing. Gonna check that plugin, thanks for sharing this Andrew.
Vipin@Romantic SMS´s last blog ..Romantic SMS 29-6-2010

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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
July 7th, 2010 at 5:21 pm

Twitter: andrewrondeau
Thanks, Vipin. As I said to Aaron above, I shall see if it makes a difference.

Andrew
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Kristi
July 8th, 2010 at 1:45 am

Twitter: kikolani
What do you think is a good opt-in rate, as far as the ratio between new visitors to your site and number of signups per day?
Kristi´s last blog ..Article Marketing Promotion with Blog Commenting

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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
July 8th, 2010 at 7:46 am

Twitter: andrewrondeau
Kristi,

Great question!

On a blog the opt-in conversion rate is much, much lower than a squeeze page.

The blog normally has a lot of other distractions and ‘blindness’ can cause people to miss the opt-in.

Hence the reason for adding the opt-in in different areas of your blog and using different techniques like the automatic email when a visitor first comments.

For new visitors, a good opt-in rate would be 10%.

Squeeze pages have a much higher opt-in rate as they have no distractions.

Mine, gets over 60% conversion:

http://www.incomebloggingguide.com/

Andrew
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Jason from Affiliate Marketing Forum
July 8th, 2010 at 4:44 am

Twitter: kaiserthesage
I think your approach is good enough to convince new visitors to sign up for your free blogging guide, seeing as it’s placed after the content and on the comment sections. It looks more natural and more likely to convert and I can also say that it’s not annoying, unlike with other websites that it look too forceful. Just noticed it.

Regards,
Jason

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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
July 8th, 2010 at 7:47 am

Twitter: andrewrondeau
Thanks, Jason – for the feedback. Hopefully the new techniques will help with conversion.

Andrew
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Dennis Edell from Direct Sales Marketing
July 8th, 2010 at 2:25 pm

Twitter: DennisEdell
Just be sure the comment thanks is set to ONLY the first comment made.

There are other plugins that do the same thing and there is nothing more annoying then getting the generic thanks after every comment.
Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing´s last blog ..Have You Written Any WordPress 30 Feature Posts