jenny writes:

Great – Do we get to keep the email addresses as well?

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Howard writes:

Great idea among many!

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Jenny,

Sorry, no.

While the majority of people have honorable intentions, giving our members access to the email addresses that signed up via our site to receive alerts would compromise our ability to ensure each email list member that they would not get spam or their email addresses rented or sold by anyone.

Being an email/ezine company, we adhere to extremely strict guidelines when it comes to how email addresses are handled/respected… and not sharing these with our members is the only way we could deliver this service.

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Doug E Smith writes:

Great idea! I have the same question as previous comment. Do we get to have access to the email addresses as well? If yes, obviously EZ will have a ton more webmaster/writers participating.

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Doug E Smith writes:

Looks like you just answered my first question, but I have another that just came to mind. Can this box be placed at the bottom of an article.

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Doug,

Can this box be placed at the bottom of an article?

If you mean, at the bottom of an article on YOUR website, yes of course.

We don’t have plans to add this box on EzineArticles.com in the “article view” …but we’re considering it.

For now, you can find the box at the top of your expert author URL profile:
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Doug_E_Smith

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jenny writes:

Thanks Chris,

Will get any further info , for example – when someone signs up, geographics, how they found the article ie referral stats, etc thanks.

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scott writes:

need a wordpress plugin

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James du Plessis writes:

Hi.This looks like a great idea. I am busy getting my “articles in a row”to start submitting them for publication

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Maria Umar writes:

This sounds great by the code is not supported by WordPress. :(

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Shirley Bass writes:

Cool!

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Doug E Smith writes:

Thanks Chris,

Dumb question, but how do I unsubscribe from each of these comments from going to my email (I checked the box on my comment) without unsubscribing from any other emails you send out.

Thanks,

Doug

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Suzanne Andrews writes:

I placed one on my web page under my widget which is very convenient. However as a business owner intent on growing my business, I would like a copy of the emails.

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

< begin defensive response >

I didn’t say we just released a Word Press Plugin today… Noooo.. :) I said we released some HTML code that you can add to any website to do yadda yadda…

< /end defensive response >

That said, we’ve added to our project list today to come out with a series of WordPress Plugins in the coming months.

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Doug,

Look at the bottom of the emails you receive each time there is a new comment. It’ll allow you to unsubscribe to all or just some of the threads you no longer want to follow via email.

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Suzanne,

Sorry, I’ve already shared that we won’t be sharing copies of any of these emails for reasons previously stated.

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John Zajaros writes:

I find it very useful. However, I would suggest the name of the author in the box, with status (i.e., expert). Otherwise, a great idea. It compounds the “as seen on” effect, I think.

John

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Harjit Irani writes:

HI John
You can choose a different html for author experts. I use that on my website.

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Chinmay Chakravarty writes:

Thanks Chris. Another innovative and creative feature that help us again.

I have installed on my blog having a torrid time selecting the color!

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Lance Winslow writes:

That’s brilliant, I am going to do it.

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Lisa Angelettie writes:

I think this is another great feature. When I visit other authors whose work I enjoy reading, I always check the bio and would probably subscribe to some. Just another reason why you are the best directory on the web.

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home treadmill writes:

However, I would suggest the name of the author in the box, with status (i.e., expert). Otherwise,

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Dawgelene writes:

LOVE THIS IDEA!!!

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Robbie Foglia writes:

Hip Hooray for Word Press Plugins!!!

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Aaron S. writes:

Excellent idea!!! I iiiiiiike. :)

-AS

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Eugene G Savage writes:

It is a good idea, however, when I paste the HTML in my Yahoo website, it did not reformat into the Alert Sign-up Box as indicated. Is there a problem with Yahoo, or am I doing something wrong?

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

All,

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

It’s made to work in sites that work with raw HTML code.

Some CMS (Content Management System) platforms hide from you what’s really going on… and I suspect that’s why the code doesn’t work when inserted into a site template.

We’ll be watching the adoption of this tool to see how well it performs and if it takes off significantly more than we expected…. we’ll produce a true widget that will work on any platform or site instead of just the raw HTML provided.

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Eugene G Savage writes:

Thanks…I’ll be waiting for that impovement

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Tasha Harris writes:

WOW!!!! I know I am late but I am so excited to do this tomorrow. Thank you for a great new product I can add to my site.

Tasha

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Pam Lipe writes:

I copied the HTML code to my clipboard and pasted it on my website. Now what do I do? It doesn’t look right. It’s just the code and no sign-up box. Did I do something wrong?

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Dawgelene Sangster writes:

Hi Pam,

Usually there is an option to “Insert HTML Code Fragment,” which will insert a box on the page. You would then paste the code you copied in the box, save it and position it where you want it on your website. This should work if you are using publisher or some other website program. I hope this helps.

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Pam Lipe writes:

Thank you for your response. I did find the insert HTML code, which I did. But it just inserted a box with the code in it. I still don’t see the Expert Author Box. I think I have one of those website templates that this doesn’t work on. Thanks for your help anyway. I’ll wait for the updated version.

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Darlene Lancer writes:

Do you have the plug-in by now? Since I don’t have a sidebar, the icon needs to be smaller to place under each article title – like a facebook icon. Hope you get this.

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