Yes ... It Is Shameless Begging
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 05:14PM Hey y'all ... I'm looking for subscribers to my blog. You know ... if you subscribe, you'll get notification in an email or via the reader of your choice whenever a new post appears on I'm Having A Thought Here.
You're getting sleepy ...
To sweeten the deal, if you decide to subscribe and are comfortable sending me your home (or work) address using the "Email Me!" link in my sidebar (of course I would never share that information with anyone), I will send you a special gift! Yes! And you will like it and tell all your friends it was worth it and that they should immediately follow suit!
So go now to the "Please Subscribe" link in my sidebar, click on "The Latest Whatever/RSS" and subscribe! You know you want to!
Then drop me a line and let me know where to send your present.
You won't be sorry.
Honest.
Do it now.
Do not argue with me.
I will win this.
You're getting sleepy ...
Oh and, uhm ... just so you know what you're in for, check this out ...
Jennifer
Reader Comments (22)
Good luck getting subscribers. You should get a lot. Your blog is a joy to read.
Thanks luv! Please tell me you subscribed!
Hi, Jenny! I'll gladly sign up for your feed. (Without a giftie.) But, um, what do I do after I go to your RSS feed page? As you might suspect, I've never done this. :)
Of course.
Yes, I have.
@ Robyn ... thanks darling! I'll give you your present at church!
@ P.L. ... I hope it looks the same when you click it, but when I click "The Latest Whatever/RSS" I get a screen that has a yellow box at the top. At the bottom of the yellow box it says "Subscribe to this feed" and you just click on that and it's done! I hope that works for you!
You have to be logged in on whatever sight it is being subscribed to. For instance, I'm on Yahoo, but if I clicked the subscribe button and that page comes up, I have to be logged into Yahoo for it to subscribe. Otherwise, it makes you think you subscribed and did not.
What present?
Hmmm ... I'm not sure about that. I subscribe to at least seven blogs but I've never logged in on any of them; I just read them! I don't require anyone to log on to my blog for any reason; I'm the only one who logs on. I tested this at TG's computer and it confirmed he had subscribed to me.
Not log into your blog, logged into the site the notifications are sent to.
Earlier I put "sight" and meant "site". I can't believe I did that.
Well, I don't know ... guess I'm not savvy enough. Each time I've subscribed to a blog -- and I subscribe to several -- I don't log onto anything. I just click on the link to their RSS feed, then it lets me pick how I want to receive the updates (via email or through a reader, or even on my Google homepage) and I make one click and it's done, and I am notified every time they post.
Now, I receive mine through Google, but I don't log onto Google; I just open my home page, ya know? Otherwise I wouldn't be on anyone's blog in the first place?
Who IS on first, by the way?
So I wish I could be more helpful but I really didn't think it would be all that difficult. Maybe if someone could succesfully subscribe to my blog (or maybe the ones who have already done so in the past who may be reading this), they'd be good enough to tell us how they did it!
LOL. when you click subscribe it takes you to the site with the yellow box. It says subscribe to this feed using:
theres a drop down menu.
you must be logged in which ever site it is showing on the drop down menu.
If you have email with yahoo, you click on yahoo.
Then click Subscribe Now.
But if you are not logged in on your yahoo site at that time, it does not subscribe even though it tells you it does.
Same with google. It will only subscribe if you are already logged into the site you receive your email at.
It isnt as difficult as I make it sound, but it is hard to explain.
I already subscribe using google reader. Does that count??
You are a darling and of course it counts, Elaine! Send me an email with your address and I'll send your prezzie!
Just subscribed. And you gave me several cool presents already. 1.) I love reading Southern writers, 2.) there are about seven thousand coffee cups staring at me as we speak, and 3.) you're reading my e-book! :-)
LOL! I am humbled! The coffee cups do inspire, do they not? I am indeed reading your most excellent book and enjoyng every last word. Welcome aboard, R.J.
Ah .. the dark side of ambition! But it's a fine goal, to be sure.
Actually, I just added you to my feed before I read this post. It was the Depp quotes that did it. ;)
I prefer to see it as the promise of redemption!
A man versed in Pirates nomenclature frequenting me blog ... be still my heart!
Thanks for subscribing, Jay!
JW - Nothing so exciting, I'm afraid, although they do exist. My husband does a nice line in quotes, and not only Pirates, either. If you pop over to my blog you'll see he's quite capable of scaring waiters in upmarket restaurants with adapted lines from Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Tee hee.
See? You're not the only one who can be shameless!
I shall pop over immediately! But I'll let you shoot the cook ... since your car is parked out back anyway.
Yep, that was the one! LOL!
I read it! GREAT post! Fitting, since Johnny has spent so much time in Vancouver!
I've added The Depp Effect to my blogroll! Excellent blog.
Thank you!!! I've added you to mine, too.
By the way, I notice that link you included about blog verbosity requires you to have the full blog post in your RSS feed. One word of caution - if you do this, your site is vulnerable to 'scrapers' who can steal your content and use it for their own nefarious purposes. This can be anything from outright plagiarism to hosting a dummy site purely for the ad revenue. To avoid this, shorten your feed to provide only a sample of each post.