Avoid Duplicate Subscription Error Message in Aweber

January 3, 2007 | By Gobala Krishnan |

Aweber Error

Aweber is one of the best autoresponder and mailing list services out there. But with every great service, there are some gaps that cause problems.

The main one I had was with Aweber’s double-optin procedure.

Once a prospect has already subscribe and verified to a mailing list, if he subscribes via the same form again he’ll get an error message like the one above.
To avoid getting this rather unprofessional message, you need to enter the following code into your optin form via HTML:

< input type=”hidden” value=”http://www.example.com/thank-you-already-onlist.htm” name=”meta_redirect_onlist” />

With that code, you can safely just redirect the user to your sales page without causing confusion. Remember that the same user may have forgotten that he had previously opted in to your website, and may decide to opt-in again.

However, the option above does not put the user back to the first message of your autoresponder, which I think is a feature that the good folks at Aweber need to have a look at.