Add a Newsletter Sign Up Box to Your Site

How to Add a Newsletter Sign Up Box to Your Site using Aweber

Depending on your level of expertise with HTML or the newsletter program you use in your business, adding a form for your visitors to fill in in order to sign up to receive your newsletter can be as simple as answering a few questions and copying code into your website.

Aweber is used by many online business owners and is one of the more popular systems for delivery of newsletters, follow up and broadcast emails to their subscribers.

Keep in mind, you must first have an account with Aweber in order to generate and use the code. If you don't already have an account, you can get one at http://www.aweber.com.

Once you've started a membership with Aweber, setting up your newsletter sign up box is fairly easy. You'll find step by step instructions below.

1. Login to your Aweber membership account.
2. Once you've logged in, you'll need to make sure you are on the list that you are wanting to create the sign up box for. You can see which list you are managing at the top left of the page. If the list isn't correct you can change it in the drop down box to the left.
3. After you've navigated to the correct list, you'll need to go to the List Settings tab and choose Web Form.
4. From there you'll see a list of current forms you've created for the list if any. Under those forms is a green Create Web Form button. Click that button to begin creating your sign up box.
5. Type the name of the form you want to create. For instance, if you are creating a sign up box for a blog, you could name it Blog Sign Up.
6. Next choose the type of form you need.
7. Next, type the url of your Thank You page. This is the page your visitors will be directed to once they've signed up for your list.
8. Fill in the remaining fields (Forward Variables, Already Subscribed Page, and Ad Tracking) as necessary.
9. Then let the system know which message you want your subscribers to start on. This is normally the 1st message of your autoresponder series for that list.
10. Click the Next button to proceed to Step 2 of the process. Here you can design your actual sign up box.
11. On the left hand side you'll see fields, such as name, that you can add as well as creating new fields if needed. Simply drag and drop the fields you want into the preview pane on the right.
12. You can also add a headline to your sign up box in the preview pane if you choose to.
13. Once you have the sign up preview just the way you want it, click the save button.
14. You are then directed back to your list of forms. Find the form you want to add to your site and click the Get HTML link. Copy the code and paste into your site where you want the sign up box to be located.

Although this article is specific to Aweber, many newsletter management systems are similar in that you will answer a few questions regarding your newsletter and then the system will automatically generate HTML that can easily be copied into your website code.