Please Let Me Reply to Your Comments!

 

 {The winner of the $55 CSN giveaway is #38, Amy!}

I love comments!  I’ve never heard of a blogger who doesn’t love comments.  It kind of validates all the work we do on the blog and makes us feel like someone appreciates it.

If you have been kind enough to leave a heartfelt comment, then I would like to let you know that I’ve read it, particularly if you are a new reader or infrequent commenter.  I usually prefer to do this by emailing you.  As you probably know, Blogger sends an email notification for each comment left.  That makes it really easy; I just hit reply, comment on your comment, and hit send.  Bingo…it then ends up in your inbox.

The problem is, I can’t do this for everyone.  When I hit reply, your name shows up in the “to” box, and if I double click on your name a second box pops up with your email address.  If you don’t have the settings right, then your “address” is no-replycomment@blogger.com and my email just ends up somewhere in cyberspace and you never see my reply.

For a long time I didn’t realize this.  I figured since your name showed up in the “to” box that you were receiving my emails.  I don’t know how many dozens of people never got the replies I sent. 

I know I’m not the first blogger to address this issue, but it’s worth repeating.  Based on the comments I receive, I’d guesstimate that at least 50% of you are not set up to receive emails in this way.  It’s an easy fix.  Please, please fix it!

1.  Go to your Blogger dashboard.  Click on Edit Profile.

2.  Under Privacy, check the box called “show my email address”.

3.  Under Identity, fill in the Email Address box with the address you’d like to use for this purpose.  (It doesn’t have to be the same as your log-in address, and you could set up a separate address just for Blogger email if you want.)

Then go to the bottom of the page and click on the Save Profile button.  That’s it!  Easy peasy!

Hope to be able to email you soon!