How To Add An Opt-In Form To Your Blog

Adding an opt-in form to your blog can be quite easy.

If you know how to get your form code from your autoresponder, then you already have most of what you need.

Here are the Steps:

1. Get your autoresponder form code from your autoresponder.

• In Listwire, click on the Prospects tab and then click on the Subscription Form link.  If you don’t have a subscription form yet then use the button below to create one. After that, use the “get code” link to copy the hmtl for your form.
• In TrafficWave, select your campaign, then mousever Capture Pages/Forms and click on the Capture Forms link.  Scroll to the bottom of that page to copy your HTMl source code.

2. Go to your blog and add an HTML/Javascript box or Text Widget to the sidebar.

• In Blogger, go to Layout, then use the Add a Gadget link to add an “HTML/Javascript” box.
• In self-hosted WordPress, use the Widget facility to add a Text Widget to your sidebar.
• If you are using a WordPress.org blog (hosted by WordPress) then you still need to add the Text Widget, but you will do something different in step 3.

3. Paste your autoresponder form code in the HTML/Javascript box or Text Widget. 

Unfortunately this will not work for blogs hosted at WordPress.org, but you can get around that.  Simply put an image of your incentive and a link to your squeeze page which is hosted elsewhere, in that Text Widget.  It’s not as nice as having the opt-in form right there in your sidebar, but it will do the job.

4. Adjust the width of the form if necessary.  Sometimes the form code will adjust to the width of your sidebar, but if it is too wide, you can adjust it.

• In ListWire, copy your form code to a notepad or wordpad document, and then find “table width=”300″”.  Change the 300 to something less, and update that to your sidebar gadget or widget.  Keep adjusting until you get it right.
• In TrafficWave you can adjust the width of the form before you get your HTML. You will see a link to “modify optional elements”, just below the form preview.  After clicking on this link you wlll be able to adjust the form width. Make sure you click on the Adjust button before you copy your HTML after that.

So there you have it, how to add an opt-in form to your blog in 4 easy steps!

If even this seems too complicated for you,  and you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, you might like to try the free MaxBlogPress Optin Form Adder.

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