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Confirming Your Subscribers

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  1. questionWhat Is Confirmed Opt-In?
    Confirmed Opt-In (sometimes called Verified Opt-In) is a process used to ensure that only people who want to receive your information are subscribed to your list. Here's how it works: Subscriber adds to your list (by filling out a web form, emailing your autoresponder, or being manually importe ...
  2. questionWhy Use Confirmed Opt-In?
    Confirmed Opt-In is used to prevent spam and ensure that only people who specifically request your information are subscribed to your list. It prevents people from subscribing false or malicious addresses to your list A recent study by MarketingSherpa and KnowledgeStorm found that only 68% of u ...
  3. questionHow Do I Enable Confirmed Opt-In?
    Confirmed Opt-In is automatically enabled for all subscribers added to your AWeber account. If you find that it is off for your list but would like to turn it on, follow these steps: Step By Step Instructions Choose the list you want to work with from the "Current List" drop-down menu in the up ...
  4. questionCan I Disable Confirmed Opt-In?
    Confirmed Opt-In is enabled by default for all subscription methods in your AWeber account. It is the best way to ensure that you have both permission and the audit trail necessary for good message deliverability. Confirmed Opt-In is designated by ISPs as the best way to manage your list. It ens ...
  5. questionHow Do I Customize the Confirmation Message?
    While the body of the confirmation message, including the confirmation link itself, cannot be edited, you can customize the surrounding content of the confirmation message, the subject line, and the page subscribers are taken to after clicking the confirmation link. Watch a Video Share This ...
  6. questionHow Do I Send Subscribers to My Website After Confirming?
    You can easily choose a custom confirmation page where subscribers will be sent after they confirm their subscription: Step By Step Instructions Choose the list you want to work with from the Current List drop-down menu. Next, under the My Lists tab, choose List Settings. On the List Settin ...
  7. questionWhy Was My Custom Subject Rejected?
    Custom subjects are submitted to our Customer Solutions Team for review. You must communicate the purpose of the message in the subject, mostly that an action is required. Words like 'Confirm', 'Verify', or a phrase like 'Response Required' need to be included to convey that message. You can r ...
  8. questionCan I Import Subscribers without Confirming Them?
    As you may know, AWeber requires confirmed opt-in for manually imported subscribers. Such a practice is an industry standard. Following it helps us ensure that we get our users' email into their subscribers' inboxes, where it belongs. Using confirmed opt-in helps us build a valid audit trail fo ...
  9. questionWhat Does "Confirmation" Mean in the "Last Message" Column When Listing Subscribers?
    When listing out your subscribers in your account, you may see something that appear like this: When you see "Confirmation" in the "Last Message" column, it means we've sent a confirmation message to that subscriber, while they have yet to click on the link inside of the message to confirm thei ...
  10. questionWhat Should I Write in My Confirmation Message?
    By customizing your confirmation message, you provide your subscribers with a message they recognize and understand, two factors that increase the likelihood that will take that one step to click on the link in the message. We provide the option to customize the subject of the messages, as well ...
  11. questionWhat Makes Confirmed Opt-In an Industry Standard?
    The mutual goal of responsible email marketers, the permission only email service providers who send their messages on their behalf, and the ISPs who ultimately deliver the email is to transmit email messages only to people who have requested to receive information. One of the standards that has ...
  12. questionWhat Can I Do When My Subscriber Can't Find the Confirmation Message?
    If a subscriber reports a missing confirmation message to you, there are two approaches you can take based on the time frame of the subscription: Less Than 12 Hours After Their Subscription Because often times the issue with missing confirmation messages is attributed to ISPs take a little longe ...
  13. questionHow Can I Improve My Confirmation Rate?
    Confirmed opt-in is the single best way to protect your list against against unwarranted SPAM complaints, malicious sign ups to your list, and it helps to keep the unsubscribe rate low on your list. Inevitably, there will be some people who sign up and do not confirm their subscriptions. Conside ...
  14. questionWhat's Double Opt-In? Is it the Same as Confirmed Opt-In?
    "Double Opt-In" is not necessarily the same as Confirmed Opt-In; however, in some discussions people use the two terms to mean the same thing. Confirmed Opt-In This term refers to a situation where someone fills out a web form, requesting information from you, then affirms their request to be on ...
  15. questionCan I Resend the Confirmation Message?
    The confirmation message is sent only once per request by your subscribers. Confirmed Opt-in works by giving subscribers the opportunity to confirm that they want to receive messages from you. They have the option to not confirm by ignoring the message. Any further unrequested messages sent to u ...
  16. questionCan I Delete Unconfirmed Subscribers?
    Unconfirmed subscribers cannot be manually deleted. They will automatically be deleted after remaining unconfirmed for thirty (30) days. Why Can't I Delete Them? Deleting unconfirmed subscribers would make them unable to confirm. It also would enable people to attempt to repeatedly send the con ...
  17. questionAre Some Addresses Always Required to Confirm?
    We take many steps to ensure that addresses are not added fraudulently or maliciously to customer accounts. If an email address at a major domain is submitted to your list, and the "user" part of the email address (the part before the @ symbol) is four characters or fewer, that subscriber will n ...