Tip for anyone with an email newsletter: please include a link to the post online, or a link to the newsletter sign-up page somewhere in the email. This makes it easy for people to link to your stuff so they can give you credit for the work you do.
Tip for anyone with an email newsletter: please include a link to the post online, or a link to the newsletter sign-up page somewhere in the email. This makes it easy for people to link to your stuff so they can give you credit for the work you do.
@lmika I recently added a 'browser link to this email' in the signature to my weekly mailers (eg this weeks'). I will enlarge it.
However, I'm not crazy about driving so much traffic to a MailChimp domain I don't own and can't track (given boycott of Google Analytics). Are you aware of any affordable options with custom domain? Buttondown requires £25 prof. plan.
P.s. I think there's an opportunity for a mailer specifically designed with social sharing in mind (e.g. this, and optimised og tags etc.)
@warner Sorry, I actually don't have an email newsletter myself so I'm not sure I can offer any suggestions. I wrote this post as a reaction from wanting to share something from a newsletter I subscribed to, and I wanted to post a via link to the newsletter itself. There was nothing in the email (including the sender) that I could use and I had to do a web search to find the sign-up page.
I understand that it might not be possible in all circumstances, and I get not wanting to share a MailChimp domain. I've seen newsletter include a footer that says something like "if you want to share this newsletter, do this thing". I guess that would work if "this thing" is a link (or even just the URL in plain text) to the newsletter site, even if it's just the sign-up page. The newsletter in question didn't have anything like this, which drove me to write this post.