I’m going to really shape the thank you page a bit more geared towards what they want and not just getting to confirm the email.

Maybe also mention the benefits again on thank you page so they know its geared towards their needs when they confirm.

Thanks for the great article and ideas on this thread. Love aweber. They bring out value all time!

Unless you deliver the confirmation request quickly and unless they check it quickly, they may never confirm and are therefor lost to you.

But, of course, if they are signing up with such account, they may never read your messages because they don’t pay much attention to anything that they receive in such an email account.

None the less, you can’t be sure when someone is using yahoomail or Gmail or Hotmail as their primary address, so you should try to get all subscribers confirmed.

Explaining to the subscriber how easy it is to unsubscribe may reduce their reluctance to use their primary email address.

Maybe we could produce a script to help walk the subscriber through the process. We know by their email address that they signup with whether or not they are using Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail and could tailor their instructions based on that. This would represent a LOT of subscribers. If they were using their own domain name, they might be using an email client to download email to thier computer and we would not know which client??

Just thinking out loud.

Thanks for the clarification. I’ll look into whether it’s feasible to incorporate something like that into the web form wizard.

First, great to get an answer. I’m positive surprised that you guy’s control all posts. Great.

Perhaps I didn’t express myself well.

It’s not the entire page which I was talking about. This will remain unique for each of us, just like it was.

I’m talking about a link to a small size pop up browser window with all the White-list information’s which I have to put now manually in each and every thank you page I build.

So I thought if you could provide a link where a visitor at MY thank you page can click to get all white-list info’s, in stead of that I have to make a mile long thank you page with all those info’s on it, would simplify the work of all webmaster a lot.

As example take the Google webmaster page, where you click on a link to solve a problem. A new, half page browser window pop’s up with a pre-written explanation and at the end you can quote if this was helpful or not. Get the Info and close the window, that’s it.

This idea could be incorporated as a AWeber client feature.

So again, it’s NOT the thank you page I’m talking about, only the white list info’s which are always the same, time consuming to copy + paste and make my thank you page a mile long page.

Take a look into this, that’s easy to make and would help a lot.

I’m afraid I don’t see the value of a generic "how to confirm" page.

First of all, the:

* "from" address
* confirm message subject
* confirm message body

will be different for each of our customers. So any generic "how to confirm" page would not have your specific from line/subject/body

If you intend to show a subscriber exactly what to look for in his/her inbox to confirm, why would you want to give them generic instructions that don’t tell them those things?

Secondly, wouldn’t you prefer to keep your new subscribers on your website, instead of sending them to a third-party one (ours) to see those instructions?

Seems to me that the increased confirm rate you may see by helping visitors identify your specific confirm email in their inbox is well worth the time it would take you to copy/paste those instructions and insert the specific details of your confirm message.

Why AWeber can’t offer a default page about
"how to verify with following email services"

And give us a link to point to where a small pop up browser window would appear which explains how to do it in all available email services ?

Just like AWeber has their default "thank you" page and "already subscribed" page, this would be a default "How To Verify" page.

Stupid idea ?

I had this idea when I made my last thank you page and copy and past ALL the information form here. Tedious task.

So why not having a link for a default AWeber How To page ? The small browser window could even have as option a affiliate link to AWeber included – How’s about that.

Would make things easier and leave space to offer some at our customized thank you pages.

http://www.musicalspanish.com/download/_confirm

We have one site where we say you have to opt in. You WILL get an email. You MUST click on the verification and ONLY THEN will you get your download. And in that one case we also show them what the sample email will be AND advise them to watch for the verifcation and the address. YES IT IS A PAIN to say that over and over, but our experience showed that we literally cut our "unverified" by 30 percent.