{"id":141,"date":"2008-10-20T01:45:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2008-10-20T01:45:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T20:15:52","slug":"blogging-tradition-subscription-notification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/blogging-tradition-subscription-notification\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Blogging Tradition &#8211; Subscription Notification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/handshake.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Handshake\" width=\"363\" height=\"330\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142 intro\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">For the last week, I have been following a new tradition &#8211; <strong class=\"highlight\">whenever I subscribe to a site, I send off an email to the sites author letting him\/her know that I have subscribed<\/strong>. The main benefit of doing this is networking. Also, you can send the link to your blog in that mail.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I subscribed to a few new blogs &#8211; and I send them an email notifying them that I subscribed &#8211; along with my link. Here is a list of those blogs&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wftlbytes.com\/\">WFTL Bytes!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amit-agarwal.co.in\/wordpress\/\">Amit Agarwal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/anantshri.info\/\">Anant Shrivastava<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.komodomedia.com\/\">Komodomedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/albertux.ayalasoft.com\/\">Albertux Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the basic template of the email I send &#8211; feel free to modify it and use it if you want to do this as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi [Name],<\/p>\n<p>I am Binny V A(<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.binnyva.com\">http:\/\/blog.binnyva.com<\/a>). I wrote this to let you know that I just subscribed to your site. I really enjoyed the [name of an article you really enjoyed] article.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I have a blog in this field &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/lindesk.com\/\">http:\/\/lindesk.com\/<\/a> &#8211; check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks &#8211; and keep up the good work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nBinny V A<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/binnyva.com\/\">http:\/\/binnyva.com\/<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes, I also ask them to consider switching to full feeds(if they are using partial feeds). Or if I find a bug in their site(like a broken link or something), I let them know in this mail.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases I could not send these &#8211; because I can&#8217;t find the email of the admin. In such cases, I am thinking about leaving a comment to let them know &#8211; but I am not sure about it.<\/p>\n<h2>Advantages of Subscription Notification<\/h2>\n<dl>\n<dt>Networking<\/dt>\n<dd>You can contact someone else in the same field as you &#8211; this relation can later lead to backlinks, guest blogging opportunities, etc.<\/dd>\n<dt>A Possible New Reader<\/dt>\n<dd>You are sending your link to another blogger in the same field as you &#8211; chances are, he will subscribe to your blog as well.<\/dd>\n<dt>World Peace<\/dt>\n<dd>When someone sends you an email telling you how much they loved your blog and so on, you get a warm fuzzy feeling. The sender also gets a bit of this &#8216;<abbr title=\"Warm Fuzzy Feeling\">WFF<\/abbr>&#8216; by sending it.<\/dd>\n<dt>And More<\/dt>\n<dd>I have only started doing this for a week &#8211; I&#8217;ll find out its hidden advantages later on.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h2>What do you think?<\/h2>\n<p>This is the part I want your help in &#8211; <strong class=\"highlight\">what do you think<\/strong> of the idea? Some points I would like your feedback on&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will these emails be <strong class=\"highlight\">considered spammy?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong class=\"highlight\">How will you respond if you get an email like this<\/strong>? Will you think someone is pushing you their site &#8211; or will you be glad to put a face on one of your feedburner stats?<\/li>\n<li>Will you <strong class=\"highlight\">consider doing this?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"footnote\">Image Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ooohoooh\/1350774613\/\">oooh.oooh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>For the last week, I have been following a new tradition &#8211; <strong class=\"highlight\">whenever I subscribe to a site, I send off an email to the sites author letting him\/her know that I have subscribed<\/strong>. The main benefit of doing this is networking. Also, you can send the link to your blog in that mail.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[64,101,190,191,269,284],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-opinion","tag-blogging","tag-email","tag-network","tag-networking","tag-subscribe","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}