Third party service sends your visitors email updates to your site so you don’t have to

If you have an RSS feed on your site, there are a number of ways to let people sign up for email updates. But there’s a potential for spam issues if you handle it yourself. RssFwd is a third party service that lets people sign up on their own. To promote your feed, just go to this page and grab the code you like. Or if you prefer a simple link you could go to their main page, punch in your URL and then get the URL of the subscription page out of your browser’s URL window and create a link on your site to take people there.

If you use their code (I chose the version where they can enter their email address right there on the site), it takes them to a nice little confirmation page that redirects back to your site. It’s a sweet setup.

And don’t forget to track subscriptions to your site, using a link like this:

http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/subscribers_count?url=[your rss url]

Or a bookrmarklet you can download from the publisher page.