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Switched Aweber list to single opt-in but still requires confirmaiton

by Robby Rob
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Hey guys, I was losing most of my subscribers because they never confirmed their subscription to my newsletter, so I changed my list settings to single opt-in.

Then I saw that my Adwords account stats showed that I was getting conversions, but I was still not getting any more subscribers, or even any "confirmation pending" subscribers. It was like they were opting-in, getting sent to my OTO page and Aweber was just ignoring them . . .

So I tried to opt-in to my own list with two different emails from other sites that I own, was sent both times to the OTO page, but was not shown in Aweber as new subscribers. I looked in my Aweber stats for "added today" and saw that both emails were still listed as "confirmation pending", even though I had changed the settings to single opt-in . . .

WTF?!?!?!?!?

WTF is the point of paying Aweber if you have to double opt-in, even though you changed the settings to single opt-in?

Or, I heard that you cannot change your settings after you have one subscriber or more, so should I just create a new list (which means of course, I will have to re-upload all of my follow-up emails, list settings, etc. . . .

So, my question is, is it at all possible to use single opt-in with Aweber, even if I create a new list?
#aweber #confirmaiton #list #optin #requires #single #switched
  • Profile picture of the author barbling
    Were you using the same IP?

    aWeber did that to me as well long ago. I was told that too many access times with the single IP kicked in double optin (but only for me).

    Perhaps ask others if they see the same thing?
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  • Profile picture of the author XponentSYS
    Yeah, once you set it up as double optin and get a sub, you cannot change to SINGLE optin. You need to make a new list.

    Sucks - lesson learned. Next time, start with single opt in.
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    • Profile picture of the author Robby Rob
      @Barbling -- Yeah, I think you're right about that, I was using the same ISP

      @XponentSYS -- I am making a new list right now, but another question: I have also heard that Aweber will ALWAYS CONFIRM OPT-INS from other web forms. Does that mean that subscribers will always have to confirm if I use an optimize press opt-in box? I like my OP squeeze page and personally think that the Aweber boxes look like $h@t . . .
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